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Viktor & Rolf Go Zen

Calm Couture

For their return to couture after 13 years, designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren offered a minimal collection that represented their current state of being ‘happy with what we do.’

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For their much-anticipated return to couture, Viktor & Rolf went zen.

As the crowd entered their Fall 2013 Couture show, held on Wednesday in Paris, they were greeted by a floor covered with a raked sand beds—a key element in Zen gardens—with stone arrangements.

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