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Black Hat Chic

Today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
November 09, 2011

A new retrospective of Jean-Paul Gaultier’s 40 years of fashion work provides an occasion today in Tablet Magazine for Amanda Walgrove to praise the haute-couture designer’s famous 1993 “Chic Rabbis” collection, in which he visually alluded to ultra-Orthodox attire, perhaps pointing the way for how fashion can continue to take on sacred influences.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.