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Elsa Schiaparelli and the Birth of Shocking Pink
Before the colour had a Pantone number, it had a bottle. The surrealist couturier who tinted the twentieth century.
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Profiles of the makers who shaped the silhouette.
02designers
Christian Dior's New Look: Femininity Reimagined
February 12, 1947. A gallery on the Avenue Montaigne. A wasp waist, a calf-length skirt, and a continent of rationed fabric—undone in a single collection.
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Coco Chanel and the Liberation of the Modern Silhouette
She dressed the twentieth century in jersey, cropped its hair, and freed its waist. The story of how a milliner from Saumur became the architect of modern style.
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