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Your Foolproof Recipe for Holiday-Dressing Success? Red Velvet

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    Photographed by Mikael Jansson, Vogue, November 2018
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    Imaan Hammam in a crushed-velvet slip dress by Jonathan Simkhai and dangle earrings by Irene Neuwirth.

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    Photographed by Arthur Elgort, Vogue, September 1993
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    Nadja Auermann in Isaac Mizrahi’s evening dress, “simply shaped and stripped of all detailing except for what’s built in—the lavish floral-flocked velvet fabric and the trailing train.”

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    Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, September 15, 1952
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    “Flattery, in the form of dark red velvet. A coat that’s a slim, wrapped shape might appear at five o’clock or anytime after. Designed by Ben Zuckerman.”

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    Photographed by Peter Lindbergh, Vogue, August 2012
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    Marion Cotillard in Ralph Lauren Collection.

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    Photographed by David Sims, Vogue, May 2011
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    Sasha Pivovarova in Alexander McQueen’s lamb-fur-trimmed embroidered maharaja’s jacket and a gold medallion belt over a silk tulle dress.

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