Couture Fashion Week recently finished, when the industry’s heavyweights – Chanel and Dior among them – are given the chance to throw commercialism to the wind and forget about wearability.
This is fashion at its most exquisite, theatrical and, lest we forget, its most expensive. Most of us won’t have couture budgets, but we can dream, so we’ve found the most dramatic, frothy and fairytale-like gowns to gaze over.
From bejewelled capes to layers of tulle and chiffon, see fashion’s most ostentatious, show-stopping gowns – fit for princesses (and brides!).
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