What Place Does Couture Have in a World in Crisis? Vogue Runway's Editors Discuss

Sarah Mower, Vogue.com Chief Critic Watching haute couture shows sweep up and down runways while seismic political events shake the world has been surreal, to say the least. Many's the time when the demise of couture has been prognosticated because of war and financial crashes, and the rise of generations who don't care about it, yet it never has. In fact, when I come to compare what used to happen in Paris in the early '90s, with a few fusty shows and only Christian Lacroix, Chanel, and Yves Sa...