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...“In fashion, it’s imperative to keep moving with the changing demands of the industry,” says long-term collaborator, stylist Katie Grand....
...Partly inspired by images of Kate Bush in movement, Vogue’s Sarah Mower described it as “freestyle haute couture”....
...As de Givenchy comes to terms with herself, that has also influenced her style. “I went through a period of buying because I saw something new in a magazine or because that was the trend....
...The Couture O’Clock automaton, featuring a little Coco Chanel marionette that springs to life at the touch of a button, is an example of how fun can be had with haute horlogerie....
...SG: There is probably no more used term than “style” in this world… The problem is that style is often confused with fashion....
...He then moved to Paris to study fashion at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne....
...Campbell is perennially poised to trot out his opinions on everything from selfie culture to haute couture....
...The deal — the terms of which were not disclosed — was made by OTB’s production arm, Staff International, and is part of a long-term strategy for improving the product development of its brands, which include...
...“One of the things we’ve been looking at in terms of inspiration is slime moulds [a single cell protist] and how they grow....
...“Exhibiting at Couture in the early days, we heard retailers say, ‘I could never carry coral....
...Puig’s chair suggested that in the long term his rivals would realise that doing it themselves was a safer bet....
...In Paris last summer for the couture shows, I made time for a brief shopping pilgrimage....
...Or the peppy practically of Bonnie Cashin’s sportswear to the overblown glamour of the French haute couture?...
...Meanwhile, Browne was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” and simplified couture techniques for ready-to-wear, focusing on the different weights of materials such as tweed, cashmere and wool....
...They both adore haute couture – “I’ve always been flirting with haute couture, wanting to taste it,” Ackermann says – in terms of modern technique, and also its histories....
...As a teenager at secondary school, I spent a whole term trying to add a zip to the denim skirt I was making. I was hopeless at sewing machines; I couldn’t manage them....
...Olivia Le Andersen, as Aga, combines the careful charm of someone working on precarious terms (as a hotel cleaner) with a steelier purpose that sometimes flashes to the surface....
...The place was crawling with fine-boned infants in near-couture romper wear. All beautifully polite, impeccably educated and gnawing on thick, herbed wedges like they’d been forbidden carbs at home....
...“At that size, every year they create the equivalent of a new company” in terms of growth, said Roberto Costa, head of global luxury investment banking at Citi....
...In the mid-20th century, Maria Callas, the Liz Taylor of the opera world, adored her French haute couture and diamonds....
...My own cardigan collection is tightly edited but similarly broad in terms of design....
...The original 19th-century dandy, Beau Brummell — famous, incidentally, for his fastidiousness in dress rather than the flamboyance the term has come to be associated with — declared that if John Bull turns...
...The use of “x” to mark the supposedly fecund (often very short-term) conjunction of brands or people is now ubiquitous; the likes of Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, Loewe and Fendi have all bear-hugged Japanese...
...“She on my terms now! And I find a lot of peace, joy and healing inside practising my art.” Might Porter’s couture outfits also be a form of protective armour from the world?...
...“But other than bridal couture, there haven’t been any cool ready-to-wear brands coming out of India for a really long time....
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