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...The Tove show, which had echoes of 1990s Donna Karan, reflected the neutral staples that a large swath of fashion show guests and influencers like to wear....
...Those tenets have typically held up the pillars of American fashion and the designers we know on a first-name basis: Donna, Calvin, Ralph....
...“Yellow vests”: roundabout revolt....
...His thinking had been inspired by “A Cyborg Manifesto” by Donna J Haraway, a 1984 essay in which she described a cyborg unfettered by the boundaries separating “human” from “animal” and “human” from “machine...
...Over the top is a kind of warehouse foreman’s zip-up vest — sleeveless, loose, blue, synthetic. His hair is pure white, his skin a creased reddy-brown....
...An excellent trouser suit saw the trousers cropped mid-calf and worn with a sleeveless, fringed vest that hit the knee. It was simple and unfussy and grown-up. There were frilly dresses....
...Its current line professes to “mix sexy plaid dresses with borrowed-from-the-boys vests and cardigans”....
...The first tranche will vest on June 1 2014 and is worth $9.8m at Monday’s closing price of $600.96....
...The same when I think of Givenchy’s designs for Breakfast at Tiffany’s, or Donna Karan’s for Great Expectations in 1998. If it’s done in a meaningful way, it adds to the film.”...
...Biker vests and jackets came reimagined in neon python patchwork, pleated skirts and T-shirts were done in perforated leather, and simple sleeveless dresses of double-face satin were printed with digital...
...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 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...
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