How Alaia , the great brand handbag designer that changed the world
How Alaia , the great brand handbag designer that changed the world
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Amazonian models in skintight dresses and high heeled shoes embody the slick sex appeal of the fashion handbag 1980s.
Each wears an outfit from Azzdine Alaia’s 1987 spring/summer collection. The base of all beauty is the body, says Alaia, who, inspired by Madeleine Vionnet, states there is nothing more beautiful than a healthy fashion body handbag in wonderful
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The King of Cling is an expert manipulator of the female form, having studied sculpture when he was younger.
He moved to Paris and worked briefly for Dior and Guy Laroche, and by the end of the 1960s had his own couture business on the Left Bank. In the earl 1980s, his stretchy dresses and bodysuits, constructed from thick knotted panels, came to define the Lycra revolution.
In 2008 he was made a Chevalier of the Legion d’honneur, and presented his autumn/winter 2011 haute couture collection in Paris after a long absence from the catwalk.