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...Miyake studied graphic design in Tokyo, and moved to Paris two years after his graduation in 1963, where he worked as an assistant to Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy....
...The cast — from PR mogul Edward L Bernays to dictator Carlos Castillo Armas — are mostly historical but in Vargas Llosa’s expert hands, they are alive and kicking....
...I actually read the French version, which has a prettier title, Le Charme Discret de l’Intestin....
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...Along with L’Immensité, Orage, Au Hasard and Sur La Route, it’s their first collection for men, and is — in line with the brand’s heritage — inspired by travel....
...He recalls how last summer, on behalf of the museum, he tried to buy a short-sleeved Balenciaga evening gown embroidered with pale-pink feathers once owned by midcentury socialite Francine Weisweiller....
...L’Art et l’enfant, the Musée Marmottan’s superb and original exhibition, tells through scores of masterworks both familiar and rare how a century of refined French painters unpacked that call to regression...
...Gaston Richard’s impression of Sarkozy’s verbal tics is uncanny, and Francine Bergé, by turns whimsical and frail, is a powerful presence as Bettencourt....
...His career began in the 1960s with spells working at Guy Laroche and Givenchy in Paris and with Geoffrey Beene in New York. “I was a foreigner, trying to represent myself,” he says....
...This library’s four glazed, L-shaped towers rapidly roasted the valuable books and papers housed in them and proved barely usable until modified with an expensive shutter system....
...After it passed through a number of owners, Shaw-Lan Wang bought the business from L’Oréal....
...It is no surprise that the most successful pieces are the least letter-like - A.L....
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