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Loewe’s Spring Show Has Us Saying, Yabba Dabba Do!

Undone never looked so good. “Raw” was howJ.W. Anderson described his debut runway outing for Loewe, the Spanish leather-goods house. Though flaps of hide were attached to dresses, tops, and bags seemingly willy-nilly, there was an elevated artfulness to the method, a certain urban sophistication better suited to Gotham than Bedrock. (Sorry, Wilma.) Here, a look at fashion in the raw, from The Flintstones to Raquel Welch, Christian Dior to Loewe, then and now.

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    The Man Called Flintstone (1966)

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    Johnny Sheffield, Maureen O Sullivan, and Johnny Weissmuller in
    Tarzan s Secret Treasure (1941)

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    Raquel Welch in One Million Years, B.C. (1966)

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    Sonny and Cher in Good Times (1967)

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    Christian Dior Couture, spring 2001.

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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