There is a sense of timeless elegance - even Galliano’s boldly coloured kneepads and Chiuri’s sci-fi-style ‘mystic masks’ sit happily alongside Bohan’s delicate costume jewellery and the more classic millinery of early collections.
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Feminine Design Icon, or Symbol of Female Oppression?
Just as an online photograph today might show an attractive woman beaming behind a bowl of salad, an advertisement in the 1940s or ‘50s may have depicted a pretty, apron-clad woman smiling alongside a packet of soap powder.
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Phantom Thread unpicked
In this era of slow fashion, couture clothing was quotidian for the upper and upper middle classes. The world at large does not intrude upon this perfectly ordered microcosm of fashion, style and predetermined taste.
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