Word: appliqués
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...Stitch in Time ... The handcrafted look has trickled down from high-fashion runways to the kids' clothing business, turning up in catalogs like Mini Boden (boden.co.uk), where appliqu?d sweaters ($54) and cords ($45) have a hippie vibe. At Garnet Hill (garnethill.com), T shirts and shoes get the appliqu? treatment, and stitched slippers resemble animals...
...leather - as one fashion editor said, it was "like the model walked through the studio and everything stuck to her." But there was discipline to the decoration, and the result was a show to out-haute the best of them. Like Lacroix, Gaultier mixes age-old techniques - embroidery, appliqu?, draping - with New-Age ideas. His client needs a sense of humor to wear his dress with printed pearls, his feather harness top or his short crocodile jacket, with tail. Indeed, humor might be the salvation of haute couture. After all, if you can afford a $20,000 dress these days...
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