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The Women, and Man, Who Brought CDG to Life at the 2017 Met Gala

By Laird Borrelli-Persson
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    Comme des Garçons, “18th-Century Punk,” Fall 2016; Rihanna

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    Comme des Garçons, “18th-Century Punk,” Fall 2016; Michele Lamy

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    Comme des Garçons, “The Future of Silhouette,” Fall 2017; Helen Lasichanh, with Pharrell Williams in CDG Jeans

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    Comme des Garçons, “18th-Century Punk,” Fall 2016; Caroline Kennedy

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    Comme des Garçons, “Blue Witch,” Spring 2016; Tracee Ellis Ross

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    Comme des Garçons, “Invisible Clothes,” Spring 2017; Julie Macklowe

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    Comme des Garçons, “Ceremony of Separation,” Fall 2015; Anna Cleveland

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    Comme des Garçons, “Blue Witch,” Spring 2016; Stella Tennant

Christian Lacroix is Laird Borrelli-Persson’s fashion raison d’etre; the way he combined romance and historicism set her on the path she is following today. Borrelli-Persson studied literature at Boston College, spending her junior year abroad at Oxford, where she added some art history. After graduation she moved to New York to intern ... Read More
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