HAUTE COUTURE, WITH ITS ACCENT ON BRAVER, BOLDER SHAPES, IS MAKING US DREAM BIG. AND
ISN’T THAT THE POINT OF THIS ULTIMATE CELEBRATION OF FASHION? FOR AUTUMN 2019, DESIGNERS
AND THEIR PREMIER D'ATELIERS – WIZARDS OF TECHNIQUE AND IMAGINATION – HAVE MAGICKED
EVERYTHING FROM SERENE, PAINTERLY BALLGOWNS TO BALLOONING PINK PUFFS OF SILK; OTHERS
BESTOW HYPERKINETIC SPRAYS OF FEATHERS, OR BOAST THE MOST PRECISE PLEATING WE’VE EVER
SEEN, IN SHEER, SHIMMERY GOLD. EVERY CREATION, A BURST OF PURE JOY. OF COURSE, FEW OF
US WILL EVER STEP FOOT INTO THIS RAREFIED WORLD – OR INTO ONE OF THESE GOWNS – BUT,
REGARDLESS, DOESN’T THE SIGHT MAKE YOU FEEL INVIGORATED? PHOTOGRAPH BY NICK KNIGHTA HIGHER PLANEWinnie Harlow
wears jacquard
and gauze dress,
and headdress
embroidered with
rhinestones and
sequins, both to
order, Valentino
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