‘Azzedine Alaïa couldn’t give a damn what other people said was the new mood’

Ahead of the first UK solo exhibition of the couturier’s work, former colleague Sophie Hicks remembers his exacting pursuit of fashion perfection

How Azzedine Alaïa changed the way we see women’s bodies

The Tunisian designer died in November, but with his first London boutique opening ahead of a major UK exhibition in May, his work has long proved to be far ahead of its time

London to host self-curated Azzedine Alaïa exhibition next spring

Design Museum to launch retrospective on late Tunisian couturier ‘who expressed timeless beauty of the female form’