Alaïa shoe

Home was important to Azzedine Alaïa – the late, great Tunisian-born, Paris-based, but globally influential fashion designer, who passed away in November. His couture maison in Paris’ Marais encompassed both interpretations of that word – it was the basis of his fashion operation, the Maison Alaïa in the terminology of the trade; but it was also where Azzedine himself lived. It was a house, and a home. The same sense has been true of Alaïa’s retail outposts, few though they are.