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...The German-born designer first studied economics before switching to fashion, completing a bachelor of fine arts in fashion design at Parson’s in New York, honing her skills at Narciso Rodriguez and Diane...
...That’s why I did the marketing side and spent a year in the industry, predominantly in the US [she worked at Giorgio Armani, Proenza Schouler, Narciso Rodriguez and American Vogue]....
...In the first camp were Donna Karan and Diane von Furstenberg, who leveraged anniversaries to make shows into scenes, the latter celebrating 40 years of her wrap dress by – well, wrapping: print tunics over...
...It takes finesse and great self-control to make these sorts of minor alchemical changes, which were also seen, albeit in a different sartorial vernacular, at Narciso Rodriguez, who expanded the confines...
...Indeed, it’s hard not to think that the “show” imperative has had the creeping effect of upping the colour and print ante of many designers, as Diane von Furstenberg returned to her 1970s heyday with a riot...
...Some choice examples: $45 T-shirts from Marc Jacobs, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez (otherwise known as Proenza Schouler), Rachel Roy and Narciso Rodriguez, who has made my personal favourite, a white...
...Rodriguez’s puzzle pieces) presenting it as more of a challenge....
...Diane von Furstenberg just told me she had learned from the folks at Harrods and Selfridges that the Duchess of Cambridge had bought two of her dresses to take with her on her North American tour, which...
...And Narciso Rodriguez drew an ode out of geometry, using mathematical rigour to piece fabrics and colours together in trousers and vest tops that may or may not have been attached, slip dresses and jackets...
...“I want to go first,” cried Diane Kruger as she tossed her boule on to the playing field....
...This downtown crowd is matched by uptown equivalents: Diane von Furstenberg, who took Nefertiti and married her to Aphrodite (imagine the prints!)...
...von Furstenberg and Robert Rodriguez....
...In hundreds of sweatshops around the world, underpaid workers will be soon be slaving to recreate the flapper flounces of Diane von Furstenberg and the severe suits of Narciso Rodriguez – all for a fraction...
...boots with skirts; for the third, do dresses (Lanvin and Louis Vuitton); and for the last, polo necks (think Diane Keaton in As Good as It Gets )....
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