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...Their efforts were rewarded when the demigod sculpture — also priced in seven figures — sold to a tech entrepreneur, according to gallery founder Costas Paraskevaides....
...One of a number of gentle seductions, Costa also nailed the trend for straps, seen trailing down catwalks everywhere from Michael Kors to Public School, and offered an interesting proposition to the much...
...Why do fans accept the high admission and TV charges to view ridiculously overpaid prima donnas? Should below-average players be paid half a million pounds a year?...
...At Calvin Klein designer Francisco Costa was inspired by menswear to present a pared-down tricolour of marine blue, white and red-lacquered papyrus rib-knit tanks, tunics and sheer fluted skirts, cinched...
...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...
...Indeed, change for the sake of change can be a problem, as was clear at Donna Karan, where the woman who solved the problems of a professional wardrobe went in search of an ethnic scarf, and found instead...
...… 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....
...At Calvin Klein, for example, Francisco Costa pushed his own tailoring boundaries with highly structured but unconstricting jackets and skirts, the seams marked out by real brass hinges, while at Joseph...
...The Goldfinch , by Donna Tartt, Little, Brown, RRP£20/$30 Tartt’s last book was published in 2002, so a new novel is an event....
...The Infatuations, by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99, 352 pages The celebrated Spanish author’s latest novel tells the story of María Dolz, whose interest in...
...Likewise, Donna Karan, who tends to veer between belief systems (sometimes she’s all about on-the-level professional dress; sometimes the dream of Zen) this season turned to slick body-conscious fabrics...
...Once, three names were all you needed to know to understand American style: Ralph, Calvin and Donna (they didn’t need surnames)....
...And second, when Donna Karan (she of the Woman-for-President ads) eschewed her podium-perfect suiting for a parade of draped, slit, cowled and otherwise startlingly sexy dresses that would look great on...
...At Calvin Klein, for example, Francisco Costa swapped last season’s bleached-out flat-pack vibe for a darker collection of stripped-down silhouettes, complicated fabric combinations (wool plus nylon twill...
...And perhaps that is why designers who have always eschewed the edge, such as Ralph Lauren, with his clichéd vision of utopian England, Donna Karan and her spiritual working woman, and Calvin Klein, with...
...Both Rodriguez and Francisco Costa of Calvin Klein, whose show was a masterpiece of pale restraint leavened only by the half-moon seams of a jersey dress or the barely perceptible floral print on a trench...
...Calvin Klein’s Francisco Costa says: “I loved [the 80s] because I lived it and experienced it. But though we can be influenced by prior decades, fashion should look forward.”...
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