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...Among Louvet’s priorities is attracting a new generation of consumers. In addition to its fashion shows, the brand sponsors the US Olympic and Paralympic teams, Wimbledon and the US Open....
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...Then, the next season, the Queen attended his show — her first and only time on the front row — and presented the young designer with the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for Design....
...Apfel, who has died aged 102, was born as Iris Barrel in Queens, New York, in 1921. Her father owned a glass and mirror shop and her Russian-born mother ran a boutique selling fashion and accessories....
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...But despite the blue-blood credentials, Queen Camilla remains quite grounded. She embodies the “frazzled English woman” archetype that has lately become a fashion meme....
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...Dara arrived in New York in 2016 hoping to find work in the industry, a journalism graduate whose fashion obsession had been cultivated online....
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...On entering the world of fashion as an illustrator, however, she found more of the same....
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