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...abundance of opulent textiles that dress the interior of this grandest of English country houses....
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...In the palazzo’s attic, he started the textile company that still bears his name and which celebrated 100 years of trading in 2022....
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...Hoping to share Biba’s history with a new generation comes The Biba Story, 1964-1975, an exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London — the brand’s most substantial show to date....
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...Sir Titus Salt, a splendidly bewhiskered Victorian textile magnate, created Saltaire, a model community near Bradford, in the 1850s....
...It is one of the reasons Berkshire has survived: the company’s name comes from the struggling textile mill Buffett took control of in 1965 that he ultimately shut down....
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...He formed his law firm in 1962, the same year that Buffett started buying stock in the textile maker Berkshire Hathaway....
...Over more than four decades on Berkshire’s board, his work alongside chief executive Warren Buffett helped transform a struggling textile maker into one of the world’s most valuable companies....
...Prosecutors allege that Lee, who was vice-chair of Samsung Electronics in 2015, was among a group of executives who inflated the stock price of Cheil Industries, a textile company, and devalued Samsung C...
...The Omaha native helped transform the company, once a struggling textile maker, into an industrials and insurance behemoth....
...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....
...But then you notice the discreet pedestals at each end of the installation, created by Los Angeles based PlayLab, Inc. Each showcases four “historiated sculptures” encased in glass....
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...Rather than clothes, it is those formative memories of women’s figures in colourful textiles that Ackermann recalls, in both conversation and through his own clothing design....
...Using his 25 years of experience in Italian haute couture, he reimagined the fabric as clothing. This collection became the starting point for a personal journey into Spanish craft....
...There’s also a store I love called Recess, and Timeless Vixen by Lauren Lapire has some cool things such as rare Bob Mackie or Givenchy couture. You never know what that garage sale might hold....
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