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...It all started in 2009, when the alumnus of luxury fashion brands Donna Karan and Chloé visited an exhibition at the Shanghai Museum featuring bejewelled ethnic costumes from the Miao and Dong minorities...
...The 39-year-old, hailed by Abloh as “the Anna Wintour of club music”, wants to banish the cliché of the Donna Summer fashion show soundtrack....
...Iovine’s knack for spotting winners was evident again a couple of years later in 1981, when he produced Bella Donna, Stevie Nicks’ first solo album outside Fleetwood Mac....
...That show’s hair stylist, Guido, combed through the front with a wide-tooth comb after applying hairspray. “I imagined a boy who gets those great lines when he combs over his hair,” he explained....
...Brands ranging from Paul Smith and Matthew Williamson have sent high-end woollen couture pieces down fashion week runways – and now the material is finding its way back into our homes....
...… Lucy Kellaway FT columnist Literary people can be snooty about Donna Tartt’s third novel, The Goldfinch (Abacus), yet this is a book written for the reader’s sheer pleasure....
...Louboutin has 3,000 women on his customer books who each own 500 pairs, and one who owns more than 6,000 pairs, according to Donna Loveday, the Design Museum’s head of curatorial....
...Gareth Davies, principal flute for the past 13 years, combs archive material to tell the story of that visit, setting his account alongside impressions of the LSO’s touring schedule today – a gentle dip...
...If you are Calvin Klein or Donna Karan, you have a distribution line already in place so that helps you enormously....
...In the evenings, when we would go out for dinners or barbecue parties, I had my favourite Matthew Williamson neon-pink prom frock, Donna Karan’s simple black shifts or a crimson draped Vivienne Westwood...
...Long-time sequin devotees Julien Macdonald and Matthew Williamson also kept the sparkle factor high, as did Frida Giannini at Gucci....
...Tommy Hilfiger stuck to his preppy guns and Matthew Williamson to his boho deluxe, all of them creating lovely, but ultimately familiar, clothes. Which was both their success and their failure....
...But the only names most people outside of fashion may have heard of are Sean Combs, Zac Posen, Derek Lam and Proenza Schouler....
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