Haute couture week in Paris has come and gone in a flash; it doesn't take long to show just 20 main schedule collections. This is the first season without the beloved couturier Christian Lacroix, and while we knew it was coming after the Sheikh's massive licensing deal fell through in December -...
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This Tuesday in Paris, French fashion designer Eric Tibusch took the art of makeup to a new level during his haute couture presentation. Now, I may not be the sort of woman who hangs around at the country club in the latest haute couture (in part because I don't belong to a country club, but mostly ...
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A stunner of a jacket floats down the runway of an haute couture show in Paris. No ordinary garment, this adeptly tailored piece has been invested with an exquisite patch of embroidery, applied with an inspired and skillful hand, and all eyes are upon it. It's this very kind of adornment – the...
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Haute couture begins with an extraordinary design, but it is nothing without the skilled artisans to employ their centuries-old techniques to create an object of spectacular beauty. And as the number of couture houses have shrunk over the decades, so have the rarefied talents on whom the desig...
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