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Pierpaolo Piccioli, the Colourist Who Brought Couture Back to Valentino
Two decades inside one house, sole direction from 2016, a couture revival built on colour and craft — and a 2024 departure that reset one of Italy's biggest names.
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Designers profiles the people making the collections: their training, their studios, their material habits and the constraints they work under. Coverage spans debut labels and established houses changing hands. Suited to readers who follow careers across seasons and want the background before the reviews arrive.
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Grace Wales Bonner Made Scholarship a Fashion Signature
A Central Saint Martins graduate who won the LVMH Prize within two years of her first show built a house where research, music and tailoring carry equal weight.
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Cristóbal Balenciaga, the Architect Whose House Refuses to Sit Still
The Basque couturier who closed his house in 1968 left construction standards every later designer measures against — and a name the market keeps reinventing.
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Vivienne Westwood: From King's Road Punk to the Corset That Outargued It
The schoolteacher who dressed punk ran for four decades on one proposition — that clothes carry political arguments — and built a house that still runs on it.
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Dries Van Noten, the Antwerp Designer Who Let the Clothes Speak Last
A third-generation tailor's son turned independent house founder, Van Noten ran his own company for nearly four decades before stepping back in 2024.
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Miuccia Prada Made Thinking a Fashion Signature
A political-science graduate who took over a family leather-goods house in 1978 built fashion's most consistent intellectual voice — and one of its largest groups.