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When Designers Play Cupid: 18 of Our Favorite “Couple” Moments on the Runway

By Laird Borrelli-Persson
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    Sweethearts at Chanel Couture, Spring 2013.

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    Lovebirds at Yohji Yamamoto, Spring 1999.

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    Double the pleasure at Betsey Johnson, Spring 2015.

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    Aisle be there. An elegant couple on the runway at Dior Couture, Fall 2000.

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    Young love. Lucky Blue Smith and Stormi Bree at Dolce & Gabbana, Fall 2017.

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    Say you, say me. Angela Lindvall and André Leon Talley strut their stuff at Yohji Yamamoto, Spring 1999.

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    Say it with flowers. Andreas Kronthaler and Vivienne Westwood embrace after the Spring 2019 show.

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    Carmen Kass and Matt Damhave playact at Imitation of Christ’s night at the movies show for Fall 2001.

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    You know what they say, it takes two to tango. Here, some dance-floor action at Alexander McQueen’s Spring 2004 show.

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    Love lifts you higher. Ryan McGinley and Marc Armitano Domingo for Opening Ceremony, Resort 2018.

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    Family values. Yanii Gough, George Okeny, and baby Zola Adu walk chez Ralph Lauren, Fall 2018 show.

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    Everybody needs a shoulder to lean on. If you’re lucky you get matching plaids, too. Here, some from Sandy Liang’s Fall 2018 collectsion.

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    Teenage romance at Jun Takahashi, Spring 2018 Men’s.

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    The look of love. Models strike a post at Opening Ceremony Spring 2019.

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    At Lacoste, tennis is for lovers—and so is soccer. Here, looks from the Spring 2019 collectsion.

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    You give me fever . . . hay fever that is. Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2006 show.

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    Better together: Norma Kamali hired a real-life couple for the debut of her made-for-everyone collectsion, Spring 2019.

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    Bénédicte Loyen and Zach Siegel escaping the heart-shaped box at Anna Sui’s grunge-inspired Spring 1993 show.

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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