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...As well as over-the-knee boots, and belts with Chloé spelt out in gold handwriting, there were heeled clogs best suited to those with a car-to-bar lifestyle....
...In the absence of other US heavy hitters such as Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Tom Ford, Tory Burch, Gabriela Hearst and Thom Browne fly the flag as the city’s modern-day highflyers, with sizeable businesses...
...It’s reminiscent of many other restaurants that I love, like Estela in New York, or what San Francisco’s Bar Tartine used to be, because Mikey was a cook there....
...That generally means a Brooks Brothers shirt, a loose or cropped trouser (“I think I have every Stella McCartney pant”), and a smart tailored jacket (Maje and Gabriela Hearst are favourites)....
...“Pubs, bars or restaurants that are card-only . . . reinforce the false assumption that everyone can live their lives that way.”...
...Jet-setters bound for Capri or Formentera are packing Gabriela Hearst’s crocheted dresses, Valentino’s rainbow-chevron-striped skirts, Taller Marmo’s fringed or feathered kaftans, and Chloé’s oversized Larry...
...You think about the pathways through the object, and what size of hand can grip onto a bar.”...
...The Mondeghili, his signature bar snack — tiny fried meatballs with a saffron mayonnaise — are worth the indulgence, though your arteries won’t forgive you any time soon....
...They are now dispensed as standard at rooftop bars and restaurant terraces. But you’ll be so much chicer when you bring your own....
...Chloe’s Gabriela Hearst said in a preview she had wrestled with “the awkwardness of doing a show when there is a full-on war three hours away by plane . . . then I realised this is not about you....
...If the 1990s set the bar for clean-cut minimalism, then knitwear – cool, elegant and understated – was surely the decade’s crowning jewel....
...“I will never put a screen in my store,” says New York-based fashion designer Gabriela Hearst....
...In the town of Vicuña, retro bars and cafés were full of old photographs and coffee machines that looked like they had come from Naples in the 1920s....
...Gabriela Hearst was also thinking about “optimism” as well as “courage”....
...On one of those visits, the hairdresser had explained that her niece was trapped in a villa in the Middle East where she worked as a domestic help, half starved and tied to the window bars....
...Among them is Gabriela Corrêa, chief executive of LadyDriver, a Brazilian car-hailing app that only accepts female passengers and hires female drivers....
...On the subject of shopping-list shows, I fell hard for Gabriela Hearst’s SS18 collection, which offered a feminine take on masculine codes....
...And it certainly didn’t lack ideas; Montero seemed determined to put her idiosyncratic stamp on each bar. But that was also the problem....
...Barnes first met James in the Bung Hole, a London wine bar in the 1970s. James and Martin Amis were “roaring away about Keats while consuming several glasses of wine. I was spectacularly silent....
...“In 100 years, history will recognise Cristina as someone who really changed Argentina,” said Gabriela Minardi, an actress, in the Perón bar, a pro-Cristina badge pinned to her T-shirt....
...Weakened by her exuberance and genuinely thirsty, I allow myself to be led towards Gabriela’s Cactus Bar....
...After a row he heads back to the bar, leaving wife and children in tears. Then come scenes of child prostitution and drugs. Play-acting offers some escape from such harsh realities....
...And the first of a trio of hopefuls to perform was Gabriela Cilmi – a notional rival to Beyoncé and Pink in the Best International Female category, despite being British-based with one big hit behind her...
...That experience has left them with a white-hot act, a Dublin-Mexican brogue and more than a hint of the Irish bar room vernacular – the F-word is a perhaps too frequent friend in their onstage banter and...
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