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...Each look was styled with shiny white dance tights, from tweed skirt suits in white, pistachio and shell pink to long tulle ballerina skirts....
...Chanel creative director Virginie Viard transported us to the French seaside resort of Deauville, presenting tweed suits in sunset and sorbet colours, long overcoats and pretty dresses — some paired with...
...Fitted masculine overcoats and neat suits with skirts or slim trousers in dark tweed all radiated timeless chic, but looks aiming for a whiff of bohemianism, such as a flounced silk blouse worn with a tweed...
...The book opens in 1917 with John, a young Yorkshireman, lying wounded on a battlefield at Cambrai in northern France....
...These were the male equivalents, dressed in neon brights, jewelled embroideries and specially woven bouclé tweed (which has emerged in Paris as something of an odd trend for men)....
...There the house camellia took centre stage — literally so — blown up in red in the middle of the show set, around which models walked in tweed jackets, long dresses and coats knit and embroidered with the...
...I’m taken with the practicalities of the all-leather clog by Dear Frances (£290 on sale, dearfrances.com), which look sleek enough for a work meeting....
...Driven red grouse shooting is unique to the British Isles, making it a popular sport for tourists who race to the uplands in their tweed and galoshes....
...Chanel offered monochromatic crochet: a mix of uptown polish and Left Bank bohemia that felt younger than its typical tweeds....
...Anthony recalls a man who was never less than impeccable: “When most guys are wearing jeans, my dad was wearing grey flannel trousers and a Huntsman tweed.”...
...This wasn’t going to be easy at all but I reminded myself that, since Anne-Marie was wearing rubber shoes at least two sizes two large and a narrow tweed skirt that she repeatedly hitched up in order to...
...It was fashion show as Gesamtkunstwerk, where an audience watched Chanel tweed coats while sitting on Chanel tweed stools clutching invites decorated with — you guess it — Chanel tweed....
...dressed her models as court jesters in towering wigs and clown masks, Slimane dressed his youthful army in raiments of rock-chic, and Browne tomfooled campily in a gilded salon, with models dressed in tweed...
...In France, an archaic law banning female trousers was lifted in 2013 (not that people followed the rule much)....
...One pointed to the crystal embroidery on an exceptional blue tweed jacket a client was wearing: “We made that here,” she said....
...Konig has used wallpapers from Soane, lamps from Antoinette Poisson and tweed carpet by Tim Page, and no two bedrooms are the same....
...You will never catch me in lime-green tweed, even if it comes with Chanel buttons.)...
...I had a menu fixe of parsnip soup (very hard to find in France, my friend who joined me exclaimed in delight), a vegetarian bruschetta and coffee....
...Protected products: Brussels is widening the number of European goods with protected status, from food and drink — including the likes of parmesan cheese and Parma ham — to products such as Donegal tweed...
...Her collection was backdropped by a hand-embroidered installation by the French artist Eva Jospin, and filled with minuscule Grecian-style hand pleating, microscopic fabric chains and multiple hand-woven tweeds...
...It was elegant but unexciting, devoid of the irony and wit that once enlivened the house’s signature gold chains and tweed jackets under the late Karl Lagerfeld....
...Dagdeviren arrives at lunchtime, wearing wire spectacles, a thick plaid shirt and a tweed waistcoat. Like the nearby roasters, Çiya’s chestnuts come from the Black Sea region....
...“It is an enormous event,” says Pierre Mothes, vice-president of Sotheby’s, France, who is running the sale. “He was a world icon....
.../ From Ian Robertson, Grézels, France...
...These were accompanied by 1980s power-dressing jackets with moulded (though not padded) shoulders in black leather and tweed; narrow above-the-knee skirts and Bermuda shorts; and high-waisted, pleated jeans...
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