Hints and tips:
...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....
...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....
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