This beautiful couture collection, nearly a year in the making, is deservedly everywhere, a moment of cultural domination not seen in fashion in recent memory, if ever monoculture is dead, except for this. We are all waxing rhapsodically about Pat McGrath's makeup and Pat choreography and the decadent set and the clothes-the jaw dropping clothes, which invented several new techniques to construct. The clear points of inspiration-Brassai, the photographer who documented seedy Parisian...