Hints and tips:
...The reason people wear cerulean sweaters bought at cheap stores is because I decide. I am in charge. I have power....
...“When I say ‘Julie’ to the costume designers, I know what kind of person it is.”...
...Kim Jones, men’s artistic director of Dior The best souvenir I’ve brought home is a set of hill-tribe costumes from southeast Asia....
...“But Judy was difficult because you couldn’t just go into a store and get the perfect dress for someone who is four foot 11, with long legs and arms and a short little body.”...
...Paul is funny and clever and kind, and I’m proud to be mistaken for him....
...Ghost is perhaps the wrong term – Monsieur Lacroix is very much alive, still creating costumes, which were always his first love....
...“London’s going through a funny time at the minute,” says Rose. “It needs a bit of love.” The show confirmed Rose’s status as London’s most important outsider....
...Skelton currently sells to five stores, hopes to expand to ten. Why give so much attention to a designer of such small scale?...
...It is laugh-out-loud funny. A recent “find” is De Maria, chef Camille Becerra’s new bistro in Nolita, Manhattan....
...Which is what he did, along with a third collaborator, who also happened to have a speech problem (he could not pronounce the letter “R” — “his name was Rinaldo: super-funny”)....
...Running retail stores is expensive: cost of sales were 60 per cent of revenues last year. And funny hats and balloons are low-margin items....
...“I looked in the mirror and saw some funny-looking guy reflected back at me and wondered, ‘How can I live here, as one of the few Japanese men in France?’”...
...She packed her costumes, many of them scooped from discount vintage clothing stores in New York, and equipped herself with a new telephoto lens....
...Maxine Groucutt, head of visual identity at London department store Liberty, believes displays help create a strong store brand – and are about not being afraid to have a little fun: “We did a display of...
...The macho costume is pint-sized, though, and the ornamentation even more diminutive....
...The funny thing is, I just saw Peter Marino [the store architect] at a dinner the art dealer Larry Gagosian gave for Richard Prince, and people were asking if I chose him for Vuitton, and I said I had nothing...
...Odd bits of costume – tight trunks, a Hannibal Lecter mask, a long silk robe thrown open to reveal a marmoreal torso – come together in two portraits of these athletes/showmen, both of which are as funny...
...Have you ever wondered what lies inside those gift-wrapped boxes that adorn department store windows in the run-up to Christmas?...
...It was just a few funny places he missed.” They looked at one another, but neither spoke now as the noise of the work went on all around them. Frances could say nothing....
...(The spectacular costumes alone by Japanese designer Masatomo Ota would make most fashionable men want to consider wearing a kimono.)...
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