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...In February 1962, fresh from her European triumph, Bumbry was invited by Jacqueline Kennedy to sing at a White House state dinner....
...When Jacqueline Bouvier married John F Kennedy in 1953, every detail of her ivory wedding gown was pored over by journalists. But one critical fact was overlooked....
...Those tenets have typically held up the pillars of American fashion and the designers we know on a first-name basis: Donna, Calvin, Ralph....
...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...
...“Restaurants are a very capital-intensive business,” Mr Kennedy added....
...But my main travelling companion in life and work has been my fellow critic and longtime partner Harlan Kennedy....
...Kennedy’s advocacy for mental health stems from his own struggles with addiction and bipolar disorder....
...The Whitney’s blowout, masterfully curated by Donna De Salvo, proves that Warhol deserves a lot more minutes of fame....
...A new appointment at the Kennedy Center in Washington sees her as artistic adviser with a mission to expand the arts in society....
...Democracy, by Alecos Papadatos, Abraham Kawa & Annie Di Donna Bloomsbury £18.99/$27, 240 pages...
...… Diane von Furstenberg The late Jackie Kennedy looked amazing travelling. You want to be glamorous but also effortless....
...… All the Rage, by AL Kennedy, Jonathan Cape, RRP£16.99/ New Harvest, RRP$24 Billed as a set of love stories, Kennedy’s sparely written collection is more a study of the alienation, dismay and misery...
...As designer Donna Karan, a pioneer of the cross-body messenger bag who is rarely, if ever, seen with a hand-held, says: “I love anything that keeps my hands free.”...
...Kennedy had set for the Apollo project in 1961, of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth” within ten years....
...Once, three names were all you needed to know to understand American style: Ralph, Calvin and Donna (they didn’t need surnames)....
...There were two Kennedy weddings, of Caroline and JFK Jr, one Kennedy funeral, of Jacqueline Onassis, another wedding of a Kennedy relative, Maria Shriver, to Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a White House Christmas...
...Ditto Donna Karan’s 1980s invention, the Seven Easy Pieces....
...fail to envy his ornate yet precise writing, such as the closing sentences of his article about Marilyn Monroe’s drug overdose in 1962: “She never could learn to acquire the lacquered shell of the prima donna...
...Baseball caps aside, male headgear has been on the wane since John F Kennedy declined to wear one for his 1962 presidential inauguration....
...He was brought up in New York, Paris and Italy and married Italian aristocrat Donna Lavinia Borromeo in 2004....
...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...
...Barbara Bush had her signature pearls, and Bill Clinton his Donna Karan suits. Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton have both had Oscar de la Renta....
...That’s not to say that Dove thinks commercial perfumes cannot hit the mark – he mentions a couple he admires by Helmut Lang and Donna Karan as having reintroduced the “style called the leather chypre, warm...
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