A Worthwhile Revolution: How One Man Defined Couture

 “It is not a little singular that Worth… should take the lead in what is supposed to be a peculiarily French art.” The  Times, London Imagine arriving at an opulent ball, the opera, or ballet in a horse-drawn carriage. Or, arriving at a palace to dine with European royalty at a table set with gleaming crystal […]

A Journey in Gold: Guo Pei’s Fantastical World of Myth, Nature and Couture

“Beauty attracts us men, but if it is pointed, besides, with gold or silver, it attracts with ten fold power” Jean Paul Gaultier Gold, found worldwide for millennia, has always been treasured for its gleaming luster, soft malleability, its rarity and permanence – it does not corrode or tarnish. Fashioned into idols, jewelry, coins, utensils and all […]

Topped with Imagination: Stephen Jones at the Palais Galliera

“You can wear a hat and be yourself, or you can wear a hat and be a version of yourself” John Galliano Stephan Jones is a British couture hat designer (“modiste”) whose Exposition at the Palais Galleriera ended March 16, 2025. The first hat exposition at the Galleriera in forty years, it celebrates the cross […]