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      <title>Jonathan Anderson Takes Dior, Closing the Loewe Chapter After 11 Years</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:52:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sylvie Marchand</dc:creator>
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      <title>At Prada, the Dual-Creative Model With Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons Turns Five</title>
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      <title>How the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Actually Picks Its Winner</title>
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      <dc:creator>Emily Carter</dc:creator>
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      <title>Why Resort and Pre-Fall Exist Between the Two Main Runway Seasons</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:38:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sylvie Marchand</dc:creator>
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      <title>Hussein Chalayan, the Designer Who Buries Dresses and Calls It Research</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Telfar Clemens, the Designer Who Priced Democracy In</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Founded in 2005, crowned by CFDA awards: how Telfar Clemens built 'not for you, for everyone' into fashion's clearest argument against scarcity.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Pierpaolo Piccioli, the Colourist Who Brought Couture Back to Valentino</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[25 years at one house, sole direction from 2016: how Pierpaolo Piccioli made colour and couture craft the measure of Valentino — and left in 2024.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Grace Wales Bonner Made Scholarship a Fashion Signature</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[LVMH Prize 2016, museum commissions, sportswear scale: how Grace Wales Bonner built a fashion house that runs as a research practice.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Emily Carter</dc:creator>
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      <title>Cristóbal Balenciaga, the Architect Whose House Refuses to Sit Still</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cristóbal Balenciaga set couture's construction standard, closed at his peak in 1968 and left a name the market keeps reinventing — the archive rules.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sylvie Marchand</dc:creator>
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      <title>Vivienne Westwood: From King&apos;s Road Punk to the Corset That Outargued It</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dries Van Noten, the Antwerp Designer Who Let the Clothes Speak Last</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[From the Antwerp Six to the 2024 step-back: how Dries Van Noten built fashion's quietest major house on print, tailoring and independence.]]></description>
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      <title>Miuccia Prada Made Thinking a Fashion Signature</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miuccia Prada took the family house in 1978, founded Miu Miu in 1993 and built 'ugly chic' into a group with revenues above €5 billion.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rei Kawakubo Built a Career on the Answer &apos;Why Not&apos;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rei Kawakubo founded Comme des Garçons in 1969 and showed in Paris in 1981 — how refusal became a five-decade design language and business.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Azzedine Alaïa, the Cutter Who Refused the Calendar</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Azzedine Alaïa built his Paris house on cut and independence: no fixed calendar, no licensing sprawl, and a Richemont stake held since 2007.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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