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Thierry Mugler’s 1995 couture anniversary show at Paris’s Cirque d’Hiver brought sculptural tailoring, the cyborg silhouette and theatrical performance together.

At Paris Fashion Week in 2006, Alexander McQueen used The Widows of Culloden to revisit Scottish history and his own family heritage. Rather than recreate a period costume, the designer built a collection that made mourning, identity and the romance of traditional dress inseparable from contemporary couture.

For Autumn/Winter 2009, Alexander McQueen transformed Paris Fashion Week into an unruly reckoning with fashion’s own appetite for novelty. The Horn of Plenty, subtitled Everything But the Kitchen Sink, staged luxury against the waste and visual excess that its industry can generate.

An archival look at Carol Hungria’s 2019 Iconic New Arrivals bridal presentation at JK Iguatemi in São Paulo.

Carolina Herrera's Fall/Winter 2014 ready-to-wear collection, shown at New York Fashion Week in February 2014, approached volume and geometry with a controlled sense of theatricality. It is particularly interesting when read against the house's reputation for refined, traditional elegance: this was a wardrobe willing to change the dimensions of familiar garments.

Shown in New York in September 2013, Michael Kors Collection Spring/Summer 2014 offered a remarkably assured meeting between American sportswear and romance. The designer built a wardrobe for city mornings, weekend travel and warm-weather evenings without treating these lives as separate worlds. Tailoring remained important, but was eased through movement, natural colours and uncomplicated styling.

Revisit Diane von Furstenberg’s Spring/Summer 2014 Oasis show at New York Fashion Week with ten Creative Commons archival runway images, original analysis and a historical show film.

Sarah Burton’s Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 2018 explores soft armour, butterflies, insects and the power of metamorphosis, with ten Creative Commons runway photographs.

Discover the Dior by Raf Simons debut collection and how the designer reimagined Christian Dior’s heritage with modern minimalism and contemporary couture.

Karl Lagerfeld staged CHANEL’s Fall/Winter 2014–15 ready-to-wear show inside a supermarket at Paris’s Grand Palais. Explore the runway images and official show film.

Explore Rihanna’s yellow Guo Pei gown at the 2015 Met Gala, its design, craftsmanship and lasting impact on red-carpet fashion.

Discover the story behind Gianni Versace’s iconic safety pin dress, famously worn by Elizabeth Hurley in 1994. Learn how this bold creation reshaped red carpet fashion forever.