Ahhhhhh-Alaïa. On the runway, off the runway, how we covet the Paris-based, Tunisian-born fashion designer's laser cut leathers and ballerina dresses that hug us in all the right places.
This May, the Los Angeles Philharmonic presents the 70(ish) year old designer's costumes for Mozart's Le Nozze, sets by architect Jean Nouvel. Not since the Prada/Herzog and de Meuron/Muti Attila have we been so excited for an opera/fashion fusion. Gustavo Dudamel conducts, Christopher Maltman is the Count and Dorothea Röschmann the Countess.