Smith studied tailoring on Savile Row and he credits his wife, who is trained as a couture ... Designer Paul Smith walks down the runway at the Fall 2004 Paul Smith show in London.

Below, Paul Smith explains, in his own words ... who eventually became my wife. She had studied couture at the Royal College of Art. She came to live with me and basically taught me my trade.

The show was criticised by some ... between creative director and Jean Paul Gaultier’s team on the ground. In a TikTok entitled, “Should couture be produced as fast fashion?” ...