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The high-profile commission follows Deacon’s shift from ready-to-wear to couture 18 months ago. Here, he tells Tim Blanks about the joy in making ‘extraordinary, original, different things.’ LONDON, United Kingdom — So the cat was, in fact, out of the bag before … Continue reading
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A huge terrace with a fireplace-it has always been in Karl Lagerfild’s mind as a beautiful idea, ever since he saw photos of the visionary architect Le Corbusier’s long-Gone Paris apartment. “I just never found a place to do it,” … Continue reading
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Nothing said “new Couture customer” like Giambattista Valli’s collection tonight. Imagine the Alhambra Gardens. A girl wakes, maybe she’s still dressed from the night before, maybe she swathes herself in a striped sheet or slips into her beau’s pj’s. It’s … Continue reading
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Given that he’s famous for greige and navy, Giorgio Armani sure knows his way around red. Through the entirety of his new Armani Privé show, there was a soft-focus back projection of a dancing lady in red, and the catwalk … Continue reading
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One of the highlights of this week’s Couture schedule is sure to be the opening of the Musée Galliera’s new show, Les Années 50, La Mode en France 1947-1957, curated by the fashion savant Olivier Saillard. In a timely coincidence, … Continue reading
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Raf Simons is not a designer obsessed with the past. He leaves the decade-hopping to his peers, preferring instead to look ahead. And yet his latest Couture collection for Dior—his most completely realized to date, as beautiful as his debut … Continue reading
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. Rarely at Couture has that seemed truer than it did this week. Donatella Versace channeled the fifties, Raf Simons leaped centuries, and Karl Lagerfeld merged baroque and brutalism. Capping it all … Continue reading
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Beirut has been undergoing an architectural renaissance, with Herzog & de Meuron, Norman Foster, Steven Holl, and Zaha Hadid among the starchitects making their mark on the Lebanese capital. Zuhair Murad, who is based there, saw the potential for … Continue reading
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“I looked at the black-and-white photos of Man Ray and Horst from the thirties, and I wanted to make a twenty-first-century version of that precision and perfection,” said Donatella Versace.“You know—just impeccable clothes.” Haughty, otherworldly chic isn’t exactly the way … Continue reading
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“Flowers and colors are what women want from me,”Giambattista Valli said before his couture show—his fifth, the program notes reminded us. “That’s what I give them, but every time I get inspired by something different.” The something different tonight was … Continue reading
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