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Haute Couture
The architecture of fabric. Where engineering meets artistry, and clothing transcends function to become sculpture. Explorations in fashion history, construction techniques, and the philosophy of dressing.
Balenciaga: The Architect of Fashion
Cristóbal Balenciaga didn't design clothes—he engineered them. His innovations in pattern cutting and sculptural silhouettes created a new vocabulary for fashion that designers still reference today. An examination of his most radical constructions.
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The New Look: Dior's Revolutionary Silhouette
February 12, 1947. Christian Dior unveils a collection that would change fashion forever. The mathematics of the nipped waist and full skirt.
The Art of Draping
Madeleine Vionnet's bias cut, Madame Grès's pleating, the geometry of fabric on the human form. How masters manipulate grain and gravity.
Yves Saint Laurent and the Tuxedo
Le Smoking, 1966. When a man's suit became a woman's liberation. The politics of androgynous dressing and fashion as social statement.
Margiela's Deconstruction
Martin Margiela showed the seams, exposed the linings, deconstructed the very idea of luxury fashion. Conceptual fashion's most influential figure.
"A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed."
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