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...12 years, including Belgian designer Dries Van Noten, British make-up maven Charlotte Tilbury and German skincare brand Dr Barbara Sturm....
...Yet this was also a time of rapid industrial and technical innovation that saw the establishment of the haute couture industry in Paris, the increased availability of affordable ready-made clothing, and...
...Top-end haute couture or watches can cost several thousand euros, putting them out of reach for many consumers, but high-end perfumes remain more affordable....
...Dr Valerie Steele, fashion historian and director of the FIT Museum in New York, recalls being “young in the ’70s when exposed nipples were nothing....
...“Global African creatives build their collections in a more artistic way and they evolve,” says Dr Checinska. “They aren’t bound to seasons and are more considered....
...In 2016, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Glasgow for her contribution to fashion — a massive vindication — and in 2018 held Dr Hogg’s Divine Disorder, her biggest solo survey exhibition...
...I thought of Louella when I went to Kim Jones’s Fendi haute couture show last season. It brought me to tears. That’s the true haute couture I remember hearing about from grandma Louella....
...Dr Nadia Danhash of Innovation RCA singles out one company, Amphitex, which is developing a 100 per cent recyclable waterproof breathable textile....
...Their work is akin to couture tailoring for the mouth....
...Dr Barbara Sturm’s is one of the best vitamin C formulations on the market....
...In 2004, Wek became the first black model to play the prestigious role of Chanel bride (the closing look of the maison’s couture shows)....
...For somewhere gorgeous, there’s the Ritz in Paris for couture in July – nothing better. And I’d love to get back to the Amangiri hotel, set right in the Utah desert’s canyons and gorges....
...At the time of the acquisition, Fosun pledged to invest more than €100m in Lanvin, the longest continuously running couture house in France and one of the few legacy European luxury brands under Chinese...
...“To have this loose, comfortable and chic jacket emerge in that period was a huge sensation with women,” says Dr Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York....
...Many of the looks drew on classical couture silhouettes — full skirts, nipped waists and powerfully big shoulders — but mixed in modern fabrications....
...Santa Monica’s Dr Karyn Grossman is a little more discreet and popular with middle-aged male celebrities....
...But there is haute couture and there are cheap, shoddy knock-offs....
...Stefano Pilati left Ermenegildo Zegna Couture in February....
...Off-duty, she dresses down her designer cachet with stonewashed denims and Dr Martens, not unlike her mother (who also loves the stonewash and was cast in her first Chanel ad at much the same age)....
...Mr Rogers, a tattooed 43-year-old, was part of a team that joined Apple last year when the tech company spent $3bn to acquire Beats, the audio group started by Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine....
...Fashion’s hall and fall The Couture Council of the Museum at FIT honours Carolina Herrera with their Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion in New York City....
...Theirs was a very modish Little Mermaid, big on couture-level craftsmanship capturing the independent spirit of their LA home....
...Goldwyn — avid collector of antique lingerie and one of the most acquisitive couture clients in the world — writes with a candid imagination about a time when “vice ran the city”....
...When it comes to feathers, Charles-Donatien is considered a master artisan by the world’s most prestigious couture houses....
...The speakers will include Dr Nigel Wilson, Legal & General group chief executive, and the explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes....
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