The Africa Azzedine Alaïa Carried

Azzedine Alaïa, special creation, 1996. Bodice and belt in printed foal hide and horsehair, installation view at the Azzedine Alaïa and Africa exhibition, Paris

Azzedine Alaïa left Tunis as a young man and built his life in Paris, but the leaving was never really finished. “Azzedine Alaïa and Africa,” Olivier Saillard’s exhibition at the couturier’s foundation in the Marais, takes that unfinished departure as its subject. There are around fifty pieces, most of them from the collections Alaïa made […]