Hints and tips:
...If we can’t be sure whether Rebecca is lust object or role model to Eileen, neither, we sense, is Eileen herself. Can Dr Miss St John be all that she seems? Then again, who is?...
...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....
...Meanwhile, Browne was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” and simplified couture techniques for ready-to-wear, focusing on the different weights of materials such as tweed, cashmere and wool....
...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....
...They’ve all been fully assessed so you know you’re getting a reliable service — many of the tailors on their books are ex-couture. As to that “flatters all” style, this is tricky to answer....
...She cites ground-breaking Czech animator Jan Švankmajer as an influence, as well as female surrealist artists including Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Remedios Varo, Hannah Höch, and Eileen Agar....
...Dr Nadia Danhash of Innovation RCA singles out one company, Amphitex, which is developing a 100 per cent recyclable waterproof breathable textile....
...In late 2020, Eileen Burbidge, the UK Treasury’s special envoy for fintech, declared that more British companies should follow Silicon Valley’s lead....
...Their work is akin to couture tailoring for the mouth....
...Others, like myself, will instead be tuning in for a nostalgic halftime show performance featuring 90s hip hop stars Dr Dre and Mary J Blige....
...“Many brands still focus solely on using or increasing recycled content,” says Dr Raab....
...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)....
...The most famous examples include the house in rural Illinois that the former Bauhaus master Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built, in 1951, as a country escape for Chicago kidney specialist Dr Edith Farnsworth....
...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...
...However, if successful, it would be a remarkable turn of events for Dr Holman who worked for a division of SAC Capital between 2003 and 2006. He was never accused of wrongdoing....
...“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....
...Research led by Dr Daisy Fancourt of UCL discovered that frequent engagement in cultural activities could mean a lower risk of dying....
...Surrounded by the Christmas trappings brightening the sterility of Yeovil District Hospital in Somerset, Eileen Johnstone is engaged in the less-than-festive process of receiving intravenous antibiotics...
...There are also her monthly appointments with Dr Tuttle, and Reva’s occasional visits. But even this meagre social contact proves too much....
...I particularly liked this throwaway gem about Henry Moore and Eileen Agar: “They became close friends though he never forgot that she had beaten him at tennis.”...
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