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One Garment, Two Ideas: The LVMH Prize's Most Wearable Contender

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Petra Fagerström earned a spot among this year's LVMH Prize finalists with a Spring 2027 collection built on a simple premise: let one garment hold two contrasting ideas at once. Rather than treating that contrast as a runway flourish, she constructed the pieces with enough restraint that they could move straight from the show to a retail rack. It's a rare finalist showing that prizes wearability as highly as invention.

With reporting from WWD Fashion.

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