Fashion is having a not-so-quiet moment with luxury

Fashion is having a not-so-quiet moment with luxury
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Models wear creations for Fendi as part of the Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2024 collection presented in Paris, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024.

Synopsis

Couture speaks to customers, albeit the select few who can afford five- and even six-figure dresses. And for that, the clothes need to have something to say about the wealthy condition. At least something beyond just "look at me."

The night of the wolf moon - the first full moon of the new year - also happened to be the last night of the couture, when John Galliano re-created a decaying Paris nightclub in the vaulted caverns beneath Paris' Pont Alexandre III bridge across the Seine. Crepe paper streamers the colour of Madeira wine were draped across walls and dangled from the ceiling amid banged-up wooden bistro chairs and scratched-up tables. Then a shirtless chanteur

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