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Fashion's Unsung Designers; Bowie's Freddie Burretti

Sometimes shocking, often game-changing, always visionary, certain designers become the name on everyone’s lips for a millisecond. Then they’re gone, no longer part of contemporary conversation, and barely even a footnote in the fashion history tomes that threaten the slender legs of the chicest coffee tables. If we stumble upon their names, we...

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Inside Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the V&A

“Homecoming”, is how Martin Roth, director of the V&A described the opening of the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition, adding “the V&A is its natural home” due in part to the love McQueen shared for the museum, he found the collections both intriguing and inspiring, as well as the retrospective being staged in the late designer’s home...