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Sophie Theallet invents a whole new dress category: the LGD
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You almost feel like you should have your passport on you when you attend a Sophie Theallet runway show. Surely there’s some sort of customs checkpoint, where cold but impeccably dressed officials should survey your papers, and a front-row seat requires a visa. Because as soon as the lights go down, the music pumps in and the models start down the runway, well, it’s clear we’re not in...
Read more »Sophie Theallet: Dragonfly dreams
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French fashion designer Sophie Theallet has a remarkable ability to craft truly special pieces that appear both bohemian and classic in one swoop of her needle and thread. And this collection proves it. Playful, strong, diaphanous, all-out sexy — she juggles a lot of style elements and somehow comes up with a cohesive whole. (And a slew of must-have frocks for women of any age.)
She kicked...
Read more »Sophie Theallet colors your world
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French-born designer Sophie Theallet has been making a name for herself on the American fashion scene ever since she moved to New York, launched her own label (in 2007) and soon after won the coveted CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award.
Celebs—and a certain First Lady with a penchant for colorful prints—quickly fell in as regular customers. Michelle Obama, in particular, seems drawn to Theallet’s...
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