American designer and Council of Fashion Designers of America chairman Thom Browne debuted his first haute couture collection in Paris
On Monday evening in Paris, American designer and Council of Fashion Designers of America chairman Thom Browne debuted his first haute couture collection in front of an audience of 2,300. But only 300 of them were real people. In a CNN exclusive backstage visit to the Palais Garnier — the historic 19th century Baroque opera house in Paris’ 9th arrondissement — hours before the show, a sea of near-identical grayscale 2D faces stared out from the velvet seats.
” And, he says, designing this collection made him realize how close his practice already was to couture. For the 2022 Met Gala, Browne dressed singer Lizzo in a hand-embroidered gold bullion coat that took 22,000 hours to make. “I’m a chairman of the CFDA,” he told CNN. “I feel like I have a responsibility to make sure that people see American fashion in a very elevated way and at the highest level.
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