Alice Temperley’s Wily Coquettes
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Alice Temperley’s fall collection, called “L’Apache Parisienne,” was inspired by the Apache gangs of Paris – a network of criminals and street fighters who hovered in and around the cabarets throughout the first decades of the 1900s. The Apache often used their jackets, scarves, and hats to rob passersby in rather cruel, if slapstick, assaults.
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