Images from Gareth Pugh's recent ready-to-wear show in Paris for Fall 2013.
Many fashion journalists gave this relative newcomer (English, born in 1981) the same kind of acknowledgment they reserved until recently for the much-missed Alexander McQueen.
One of the more significant scales for the increasing intensity of Pugh's chic may be inferred from the fact that Cher herself was at the Paris show, in person (lighted with cruelty and scrunched onto a hard bench).