Vanessa Friedman, revered fashion critic and fashion director of The New York Times, recounts legendary fashion moments. Selecting the show where Hussein Chalayan made furniture into wearable fashion for A/W 00, Yohji Yamamoto's metamorphic S/S 99 wedding collection, and a sit down dinner for 500, courtesy of Dries Van Noten’s 50th anniversary show, Friedman takes us hurtling back in time to rediscover how the catwalk was revolutionised as a space for performance, marking a new era for the runway show as we once knew it. View the full interview exclusively on SHOWstudio.com

Looking back to an age before social media gave the world access to the fashion show, SHOWstudio's 'Narrated Catwalk' series invites revered fashion journalists to give their front account of three memorable runway moments.

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0:00​ 0:21​ Introduction
0:21​ 9:07​ Yohji Yamamoto S/S 99
9:08​ 17:00​ Chalayan A/W 00
17:01 25:05​ Dries van Noten S/S 05

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