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Giorgio Armani already entered into the history of fashion during his lifetime, turning a boring office lady’s suit into synonymous of elegance and Italian, a little more liberated than French, chic. His new couture collection Armani Privé designer opened exactly with suits, almost everyday casual, with the only difference being that this is an “everyday”…
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A beautiful pearl with a flaw. It is perfect in its splendor, but its shape is far from rounded perfection. Baroque is flawed pearl. It is unlike everything around, but it is beautiful. At the Paris Haute Couture fashion week Karl Lagerfeld turned to Baroque and chose Grand Palais – the ideal venue for show…
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American writer and filmmaker Susan Sontag, having lived the second half of her life with a famous photographer Annie Leibovitz, once said: «what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine». It was this quote Alexis Mabille chose as a starting point to create his fall-winter haute couture collection. His ideas about feminine masculinity…
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“Back to the fifties” marked the opening of the Paris Haute Couture fashion week with the collection of Atelier Versace, which critics have already described as the most sophisticated of all ever created by Gianni’s sister. Donatella succeeded in something almost impossible: to link Dior’s exaggerated elegance of the “new look” silhouette with inherent ultra-feminine…