during haute couture fashion week, is a dream that not very many designers get to live. Especially showing work made under their own name. Imane Ayissi poses behind mannequins wearing his designs.

The Ukrainian designer lit up the runway with a stunning haute couture collection of sixteen ... winner of the Nancy Mak award for emerging designers. Award-winning Taipei designer Jean Hsia ...

When you look at that, and the birth of haute couture, and how collecting allowed all these designers to consolidate their social status, there are deep cultural, societal, sociological reasons ...