"Anglomania" by Matthew Callahan
In the fall season of 2004, the fashion world was hit with the proposition that haute couture was coming towards the end of a losing battle with designers like Emanuel Ungaro and Donatella Versace folding under the pressure and discontinuing their atelier lines. John Galliano’s response to such a rumor was needless to say an extravagant refutation when ...
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"The Ghosts That Haunt Us" by Matthew Callahan
Despite the superficial veneer of the modern contemporary fashion industry, designer Alexander McQueen stands out as an avant-garde tailor of a strong social consciousness. Given McQueen’s autobiographical vocabulary and perennial love for nostalgia, he has consistently used memory and the phenomenon of haunting in his shows as bases fo...
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