Cate Brown likes to believe exterior the box about trend. As an alternative of scouring flea markets, thrift stores and consignment stores for sweet outfits, the designer queries for couture-high quality clothes that she can change into a person-of-a-type toss pillows. “I’m motivated by previous-earth glamour and amazing fashion materials […]
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What Couture Week Dresses Will Oscar Attendees Wear?
Couture is for the very few, which means the fervor around the shows and the “trends” they might inspire can feel like a headscratcher. (How can a dress that will exist in just one or two copies become a trend?! Well, I’m sure the fast fashion villains are cooking up […]
Dressing Dakar: a fashion city from artisan tailoring to haute couture | Global development
Jackets are hung on one wall of Bada Seck’s single-room atelier in the Ngor arrondissement of Dakar in Senegal, dresses are arranged along another. Half-made garments lie on top of an unused sewing machine and bags of fabric cover the floor. Seck’s workshop, in this former fishing village on the […]
Chanel Fall 2022 Couture Collection
As this 7 days has by now shown, and with some influential names still to existing, haute couture can indicate extremely diverse things to distinctive designers. A platform for a soaring creativity or a response to the zeitgeist potentially, or a showcase for the technical artistry of the ateliers and […]