AnOther Intellectual Fashion: Azzedine Alaïa

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Azzedine Alaïa is an anomaly in the world of fashion: while at the head of a brand that bears his name, he has engaged in an ongoing dialogue with costume history, developing and articulating a language that is uniquely his own. Alaïa’s designs are part of fashion’s lexicon – from his Bandelettes body-con dress of S/S90, to the sinuous, zipped black dress of S/S03 (his tribute to a costume worn by the French actress Arletty in the…