Category: Fashion

In the hands of Tunisian designer Azzedine Alaïa, fabrics and women’s bodies are shaped like origami. His clothes resemble “soft sculptures” and can easily be placed next to those of stone, bronze or marble. As a teenager he was lying about his age to go to a local art school and study the human body and learn how to sculpt. He defines himself as a “builder” of clothing and knows the architecture of the female body to the boiling point....

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening” - says Coco Chanel. Coco doesn’t do a fashion, she is a fashion. One of her lovers, Arthur Capel once said: “You introduced the little black dress and pearls. What wonderful progress for a little peasant girl from the province”. Coco purses her narrow lips and goes on. Her bony hands, covered in a veiny web grip the scissors even harder....