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...Amor’s inspiration for the Rare bottle was Vigée Le Brun’s Marie Antoinette with a Rose – a nod to the fact that Florens-Louis Heidsieck, the founder of what became Piper-Heidsieck, which today owns Rare...
...According to Deborah Sugg Ryan, professor of design history at the University of Portsmouth, it began to emerge four or five years ago, so is more a happy coincidence than a result of the pandemic....
...An exhibition of works drawn from the Vuitton Foundation at the Hong Kong Museum of Art in 2009 included works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cao-Fei, Ryan Trecartin and Cyprien Gaillard....
...But if every jewel Marie-Antoinette had ever worn was “cursed”, owners of beautiful gems would have been dropping like flies ever since....
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