Once again at the vanguard of change, the world is revisiting the 60s - its most Daedalian decade - with renewed appreciation. Fashion photography, indeed photography in toto, owes much to the seminal and groundbreaking work of Jerry Schatzberg who was there, camera in hand, as a fashion star was born.
"Bridal wear has long been regarded as fashion's slightly tacky sidekick", writes Shine Anthony-Dharan in his Paris review of Lanvin's Alber Elbaz wedding collection.
"As talk of recession, global warming and terrorism buzzed around the front rows, the fashion pack were expecting more than usual from the designers this season", writes Shine Anthony-Dharan from Paris and London.
Was fashionable Paris too busy tut-tutting over President Nicolas Sarkozy’s somewhat thrifty $20,000 Dior engagement ring for supermodel Carla Bruni to notice that the A-list had decided to give the collections a miss this time around?
Cooper-Hewitt show includes dresses by Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, Elsa Schiaparelli, Emilio Pucci, Cristobal Balenciaga, Viktor & Rolf, along with late 18th-century gowns and late 19th-century bustle-style dresses.
Fashion show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art brings the pages of fashion’s premier magazines to life with clothing from Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake, Dolce & Gabbana, and fifty more of the top designers of our time.
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