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CLIQUE COUTURE
V AL E NT I NO’ S
S A C R E D S A C R E D
S AS ANNC T UC T UMM
Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Pierpaolo Piccioli’s
embroidered embroidered
robes resembled robes resembled
liturgical cassocks, liturgical cassocks,
sending up a sending up a
hallowed hallelujah hallowed hallelujah
to an age-old art, to an age-old art,
a comment on a comment on
the near-religious the near-religious
levels of devotion levels of devotion
needed to create needed to create
a 640-hour gown.a 640-hour gown.HAUTE COUTURE AUTUMN/WINTER ’17/’18 BROUGHT BANDS OF DREAM WOMEN IN CREATIONS THAT LINGERED LONG AFTER THE GOWNS WAFTED PAST. ALL THAT’S LEFT TO CHOOSE? WHICH GANG TO JOIN. BY ALICE BIRRELL. ILLUSTRATED BY BLAIR BREITENSTEIN.