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...Forty years later, Badinter was instrumental in securing Barbie’s expulsion from Bolivia to France, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity....
...Think of the way tastes in jeans and T-shirts change season to season: colour, fit, construction, and so on. A clothing company has to get all that right; it has to mind read....
...Robert Armstrong’s piece on fashion chooses the wrong fish to fry (“Gap needs to be like McDonald’s not Barbie”, Opinion, Life & Arts, August 12)....
...Pale pink and an ultra feminine aesthetic were seen through a different prism at Simone Rocha’s guest collection for Jean Paul Gaultier....
...Even in the recent haute couture shows in Paris we see all this, with Chanel, Giambattista Valli and Rocha again for Jean Paul Gaultier revelling in the theme....
...“When I joined the company five years ago, I was always having people saying Panerai was too big for them,” says Panerai CEO Jean-Marc Pontroué. “And it was true....
...Barcelona-based Puig, whose holdings mainly span fashion and fragrance, and include Carolina Herrera, Jean Paul Gaultier and Nina Ricci, has been on a growth tear since the pandemic, doubling revenues from...
...Barbie. Maybe it’s so ironic that it will banish the social anxiety that weighs down our girl-children. Or will it be the techies?...
...Or the Undressing jeans, which are designed to be worn with the waistband open, to allow for an expanding belly....
...I drive home on the country roads I pedalled over as a child behind my father, when Forte was still a real-life Barbie land to me....
...The most iconic images of very slender women in minis — from Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy in the ’60s, to the supermodels in pastel metallic Versace styles in the ’90s, to Christina Aguilera and Britney in...
...In the audience, the avant-garde designer Rick Owens sat front row, echoing a 1993 Westwood show where John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier and Azzedine Alaïa applauded side by side....
...“She used to come in wearing a jeans jacket and a little cap, straight from helping her ex-husband out on his chicken farm,” he says....
...“These attacks began an unprecedented cycle of violence in France and Europe,” said Jean-Charles Brisard, chairman of the Centre for the Analysis of Terrorism, a think-tank, calling it a “historic trial”...
...My father started selling homemade Barbie dresses on the black market and painting nesting dolls for tourists on Red Square. We hardly saw him....
...Barbie has had her own YouTube channel since 2005 and an Instagram account since 2014, and KFC recently animated the Colonel....
...If you are reading this in a casual urban uniform of a fisherman’s sweater, jeans, maybe a waxed jacket, your look is an artifice. Your look is camp....
...But Ferragni’s Barbie-like demeanour is deceptive. She’s very much focused on business....
...And the best one I’ve received recently was a Moschino Barbie for my birthday. Barbie is a style icon and I love Jeremy Scott, who designed this one, so it’s the perfect combo....
...Instead, many of the studio dummies veer more towards Leigh Bowery than Barbie....
...Jean Rhys and Kate Bush....
...Some are innovating for the market as a whole, like Mar Alarcón, who set up Social Car, a peer-to-peer car-sharing service in Spain. Others are mobilising mothers to create social change....
...Perhaps best of all, though, are Argentinian conductor Leonardo García Alarcón and his Cappella Mediterranea....
...This year’s highlights include, from the Spanish gallery Manuel Barbié, Jean Arp’s original plaster model for the sculpture “Coquille Crystal”, which was subsequently realised by his assistants; a 1944 india...
...The ultra-successful Hannah Montana seems more wholesome, since she does at least wear jeans, but she also lives like a pampered princess in a saccharine suburban dream....
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