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In Search of Modern Couture

Tradition coursed through the veins of Paris couture week with few outliers, reports Angelo Flaccavento.
A look from Jean Paul Gaultier's Autumn/Winter 2022 Haute Couture collection.
A look from Jean Paul Gaultier's Autumn/Winter 2022 Haute Couture collection. (Getty Images)

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Further Reading

Couture’s Brave New World

Balenciaga and Dior may offer radically different visions, but haute couture is always about an emotional response, writes Tim Blanks.

At Couture, the Murmuring 30s

The first days of the Paris couture shows offered subliminal reflections of other times and places when things were just as bad as they are now, writes Tim Blanks.

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