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...Introduced in 1934, it was inspired by couture innovations of the time – a gold mesh bracelet designed as if a belt, with a buckle-like clasp. By the 1940s, that bracelet had become a watch....
...Blackstone sells a haute couture building Big real estate deals are a rare bird these days....
...“I quickly realised it was the best decision I ever made because I learnt about couture....
...Yet the director, David Frankel, never directs our attention to the fashion and the clothes’ particular properties never figure in the story....
...(David Hockney wore a green one to Celia Birtwell and Ossie Clark’s wedding in 1969.)...
...Nagoya-based Gurtwein, co-founded by Central Saint Martins graduates and Givenchy alums Teruhiro Hasegawa and Wing Lai, blends couture-level quality with Japanese materials and techniques....
...This season, however, the couture mood was nailed early on by Anthony Vaccarello’s sleek, chic Saint Laurent show. Pick the reference you saw within: David Bowie’s Thin White Duke?...
...Inspiration comes from Tom Ford, Lenny Kravitz, David Bowie and Studio 54. “I’d like to think that I live a very glamorous life,” says Smith....
...David Sturzaker, as John, hovers just the right side of pastiche, his body language carries the relaxed assurance of someone used to getting what he wants....
...Perelman’s daughter, Debra, will stay on as chief executive of the company, which also owns Elizabeth Arden, Juicy Couture and Almay, saw its market capitalisation reach as high as $2bn in 2015....
...On a Venn diagram of art and fashion, David Hockney and Miuccia Prada would meet at the point marked cardigan....
...But David Bhagat at Alpine Property Search says most of the buyers he deals with “don’t care about the architecture....
...It rightly gives kids access to “serious” original artworks, by the likes of Bridget Riley and David Hockney (the latter accompanied by aquatic soundscapes)....
...“You know when they did that [David] Bowie show at the V&A? For a long time I’ve thought, Pam could do that,” says Lucas. “So in a way, this is a small step towards Pam’s big retrospective.”...
...crepe maxi dress, £2,175 Louis Vuitton preowned leather sandals, £250, reluxefashion.com Blancpain red-gold Villeret Quantième Annuel GMT watch, £34,100 Fferrone Boyd medium glass set, $210 Atu Body couture...
...Downstairs has been built as a space to host exhibitions and experiences – David Sims’s black-and-white campaign image for SS23 is currently on display....
...For her wedding to Torretta, in 2018, she wore high-necked Valentino haute couture....
...I thought of Louella when I went to Kim Jones’s Fendi haute couture show last season. It brought me to tears. That’s the true haute couture I remember hearing about from grandma Louella....
...The online auctions run 27 January to 16-17 February, with a live auction at Christie’s New York on 15 February; christies.com Hockney’s Dog Wall David Hockney’s love of his dogs is well-known: in 1995...
...Leased in 1916 by Vanessa Bell and her friend and lover Duncan Grant, and Grant’s partner David Garnett, Charleston was a small farm a few miles outside Lewes that was quickly reconvened as a progressive...
...The interiors and insouciant outfits in David Lynch’s 1990 TV series Twin Peaks inspired the show’s “slapped-on” lipstick, lumberjack-check jackets and crushed satin dresses, she said....
...One of a growing number of “haute couture”-style whisky collections, which are hand-sold to collectors through private client programmes round the world. 51.3 per cent abv, RRP £17,000 Gordon & MacPhail...
...The house values her custom so much, she claims, it flew her to Paris for its latest couture show. She loves its creative director Demna, whom she considers a good friend, and she loves his aesthetic....
...Kateryna Vakrhameyeva, both centre Iaroslava Strikha, 34, literary translatorStrikha is currently translating Susan Sontag’s On Photography, but she is also the Ukrainian voice for the likes of Henry David...
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