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...Digital operator, Alicia Dubuis. Stylist’s assistants, Aylin Bayhan and Elsa Durousseau. Production, Silvia Nicoletti at Town....
...He’s delivered boxing shorts with 18th-century-style frock coats, and vast tiered dresses that look like chandeliers with gender-fluid suiting....
...To my mind, black or navy rollnecks with big coats and brunette locks telegraphed French girl chic. Another stereotype, yes — but one that was smart, sophisticated....
...It was an impressive affair, and the audience — which included actors Alicia Vikander, Lupita Nyong’o and Léa Seydoux — applauded before the first models even stepped out....
...But it was the other stuff — a tiered, ruffled skirt in black leather with a button fastening down the front, a sequin top with chinoiserie-style flowers, the coat, the coat, the coat that got my heart racing...
...On the high street, Jaeger Boutique’s 1950s-style white lace Alicia dress (£220; www.jaeger.co.uk) offers some commitment-free sweetness and light....
...The number depends on when the viewer visits, for by the show’s close at the end of January, there will be just one dress left, next to an empty wire coat hanger floating in a pool of water – the other one...
...“Nakht Shifl Ken Kayro” turns out to be a kicking Yiddish-language version of Madness’s “Night Boat To Cairo”, sinuous with trombone and a violin solo from the klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals....
...15• Dame Alicia Markova, the British ballerina who died this year aged 94, worked with almost every significant figure in 20th-century ballet – which one did she call “Serjypop”?...
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