Azzedine Alaia Vintage Bustier Cutout Back Bodysuit Swimsuit

All Eyes on Alaïa

For the last half-century, the world’s most fashionable and adventuresome women have turned to Azzedine Alaïa for body-enhancing clothes that give them beauty, sensuality, and confidence, thanks to the meticulous craftsman’s peerless adulation of the female form. Amy Fine Collins unravels the evolution of the fabled Parisian couturier: from anonymity to the uppermost echelon of international design.