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Lamine Badian Kouyaté’s well-known wizardry with pantyhose—once part of many women’s dress codes—dates to the ’90s. Now, just weeks after the U.S. Senate decided to get rid of its fashion rules, the designer revived the signature…

Rather than stage a show, presentation, or protest (as last season), Lamine Badian Kouyaté and his business partner Rodrigo Martinez invited everyone to their new atelier to prend une verre while looking at the new collection on racks.…

“It was a protest,” Lamine Badian Kouyaté half-jokingly said on a call about his spring 2023 show, presented on a sidewalk near the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. This was the third guerilla show of the Malian-born designer’s career. His 1992…