Tag: extent
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Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel couture show pays tribute to the house’s ‘petites mains’
Haute couture has come to epitomize the pinnacle of glamour, to the extent that it can be easy to forget that the mythical creations seen on the world's red carpets once begun life as something as ordinary as a piece of fabric in the hands of a talented tailor. Karl Lagerfeld used the Chanel Fall/Winter…
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A brief history of underwear exposed at London’s V&A
“Fashion and underwear are inextricably linked,” Susanna Cordner, research assistant on the “Underwear” exhibition, told AFP. One of the exhibition's centre-pieces — a hand-made corset fashioned by an Englishwoman of modest means — shows that such complex items were not confined to high-society, but had to be worn by all women for fear of upsetting…