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Communist Couture

A striking new fashion exhibition in Berlin chronicles how style continued to thrive in East Germany, even under the harsh constraints of the Soviet Bloc.

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What good is fashion photography and haute couture where there are no clothes worth buying and ostentatious luxury is a political faux pas? Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an exhibit featuring the fashion of former Communist East Germany addresses this question.

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