What’s the Point of Couture?
I questioned as I watched Pier Paolo Piccioli’s debut for Balenciaga and Duran Lantink’s at Jean Paul Gaultier.
By
Cathy Horyn,
The Cut’s fashion critic-at-large since 2015.
I questioned as I watched Pier Paolo Piccioli’s debut for Balenciaga and Duran Lantink’s at Jean Paul Gaultier.
What’s the Point of Couture?
I questioned as I watched Pier Paolo Piccioli’s debut for Balenciaga and Duran Lantink’s at Jean Paul Gaultier.
By
Cathy Horyn,
The Cut’s fashion critic-at-large since 2015.

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