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Haute Dentelle is revealing high-end lace and its use in haute couture today

  HAUTE COUTURE AT THE MUSEUM OF LACE AND FASHION The Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode in Calais is holding a new exhibition, “Haute Dentelle,” devoted to high-end lace and its use in haute couture today. Haute Dentelle is laid out in the 656 m² temporary exhibition gallery. The exhibition pathway is … Read more

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News that British fashion label destroyed £28m of clothes and cosmetics has raised questions

Meet Chris Moore, the 84-year-old pioneer of catwalk photography

From his first assignments in Yves Saint Laurent’s Rive Gauche in the 1960s, the photographer has had a first-hand view of 60 years of the fashion industry