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...This season, menswear has embraced the gimlet-tinged mood of Cecil Beaton’s diaries, the roman à clefs of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford, and the posturing of their 1920s peers....
...The first person who was ready to invest in me at an institutional level was the late Donna Lynas, a visionary curator and director....
...The Tove show, which had echoes of 1990s Donna Karan, reflected the neutral staples that a large swath of fashion show guests and influencers like to wear....
...A host of designers fuelled this — first Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren, who gave an insouciant feel to the suit, followed by Donna Karan, Thierry Mugler, Bob Mackie and Calvin Klein, then Bill Blass and...
...Modern minimalists So much of what is referred to today as “quiet luxury” — the buzzy term for expensive yet understated clothing — borrows from the minimalist mood proposed by Calvin Klein, Donna Karan...
...Gabriela Hearst leather Moya reversible belt, £880 Louis Vuitton silk midi-dress (just seen), £4,350, cotton and coated-fabric Donna High boots, £2,170, and stainless-steel, diamond and mother-of-pearl...
...Lee interned with Martin Margiela and Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga before taking up his first proper job with Donna Karan in New York....
...The Gen Z literary trend turned fashion aesthetic was led by a resurgence in popularity of Donna Tartt’s 1992 university thriller The Secret History and other more contemporary novels such as If We Were...
...“At that point, you get the critics and poets cementing this idea of the diva as an exceptional opera star, a prima donna,” says Bailey....
...Someone would wear head-to-toe Comme des Garçons or Donna Karan. It’s not that way any more. Now people don’t care; they mix it up.”...
...I arrive at Brideshead, the stately home of Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel, with its wide staircases, marble pillars and unlimited wine cellar....
...Pan-European mums in flowing woollen coats and cowboy boots, having dropped the kids at nearby Morna International College, sip on wheatgrass juice with their friends....
...Her meticulous embellished accessories have been taken up by brands such as Paul Smith and Donna Karan. “I am 56, and independent Nairobi is 58 years young,” she tells me....
...He also showed shredded “I Love NYC” T-shirts and an inside-out trench coat by Burberry, who threatened a lawsuit....
...But I also meet YEnS, a seemingly cheerful man from Germany whose digital persona is wearing dark glasses and a long white coat with pink dragons on it....
...The collection reads as an autobiography in clothing: a hooded jacket, inspired by one she wore as a teenager, nods to her time in the UK, as does a beige trench coat....
...“This is the first time I can remember in my life that upcycling is actually a desirable trend,” says Caroline Brown, a former chief executive of Donna Karan and DKNY who is now managing director of sustainability-focused...
...She is not releasing her autumn/winter 2021 collection until next week, which she says is heavy on jersey dresses and bodysuits (of the 1980s/1990s Donna Karan, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy variety) starting...
...Originally marketed as duster coats, her simple, one-size button-downs – created in small quantities from off-cut fabrics – were part of her s/s ’20 collection....
...The Prince and the Snake both sport full-skirted coats that amplify every turn....
...This was Peter Coats (or “Major Coats”, as he reminded me on a near-weekly basis). I would pass him The Times; he would pass me, without looking up, his letters to post....
...the rest of the world took salads into crazy flights of creativity — Bahamian conch salad, the phenomenal slaws of south-east Asia, the glorious Russian shuba (aka cеледка под шубой, “herring in a fur coat...
...His thinking had been inspired by “A Cyborg Manifesto” by Donna J Haraway, a 1984 essay in which she described a cyborg unfettered by the boundaries separating “human” from “animal” and “human” from “machine...
...Wexner ended up perusing the accounts and discovered something his parents didn’t know: they were making no money on sales of big-ticket coats and dresses; all their profit came from low-priced items such...
...Solid ash pintail longboard by Nudie, from £350, nudieboards.com; tartan Harris tweed dog’s coat by LoveMyDog, from £139, and collar, from £56, lovemydog.co.uk 2....
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