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Widescreen Escapism at Haute Couture

Tim Blanks reports on an all-digital couture season that transported him from the bleak London lockdown as designers stretched their creativity showcasing fashion’s highest craft.
A still from the Christian Dior Haute Couture x Matteo Garrone video.
A still from the Christian Dior Haute Couture x Matteo Garrone video. Christian Dior.

Is a year too long to spend indoors staring at a screen? If the virus steals your sense of taste and smell, does it also dim your appreciation of fashion IRL? After three days of virtual haute couture, I’m thinking NO! The exact opposite, in fact. I’m high on extravagance, giddy with gilt. I can’t touch fashion, but I can

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