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...Jean Paul Gaultier viscose The Body Morphing minidress, £600, doverstreetmarket.com Large Triangles, 2022, by Jesús Pedraglio, $16,000, artsy.net Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1970s wood revolving bookcase...
...Pale pink and an ultra feminine aesthetic were seen through a different prism at Simone Rocha’s guest collection for Jean Paul Gaultier....
...Now showing until midsummer at San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a sprawling retrospective comprising 175 images spanning Penn’s nearly 70-year career....
...In 2017, a 37m-high rocket inscribed with Chanel’s double-C logo almost did, rising up like a NASA simulator at the end of its AW17 presentation....
...Fashion historian Mairi MacKenzie recently researched the old Comme des Garçons outpost....
...June 7 to September 29; further information and tickets here Performances ‘Das Land des Lächelns’ (‘The Land of Smiles’), Opernhaus Zürich Perhaps best known for its much-loved aria “Dein ist mein ganzes...
...Mary and a doll-like Jesus sit outside a wonky Hansel-and-Gretel shack, from which a chaotic, tipsily crowned figure half-emerges, having somehow mislaid his knickers; outside, a stately black Balthazar...
...Which is why I’m suspicious of clutches, even if they are the de facto accessory of party season....
...Recent frames were inspired by the Dutch Elementarist movement of the 1920s, aligned with the spirit of de stijl....
...The SS23 Junya Watanabe Man collection features Haring’s work, as well as that of his peers and friends Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol....
...Original Travel has a new 13-day road trip that includes the Picos de Europa National Park, Ribadeo, the beaches and historic old town of La Coruña and three nights in Santiago de Compostela....
...De Giorgi was most recently co-chief of Pegasus Europe, the blank-cheque company backed by Bernard Arnault and former UniCredit chief Jean Pierre Mustier....
...Another talking point of Christie’s auction was Paul Signac’s “Calanque des Canoubiers (Pointe de Bamer), Saint-Tropez” (1896), which was at the centre of a London High Court claim in 2020....
...Yes, it currently stocks The Vampire’s Wife, but it was always more Jean Muir than Jean Paul Gaultier....
...Frédéric Panaïotis, Ruinart champagne’s chef de caveLe Monde sans Fin by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain A graphic novel about the finite resources of the earth....
...Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo wrote that she too wanted to “go back to the starting point, working with free patterns, using basic materials.”...
...For decades organic civet was a key component in Chanel No 5, Jean Patou Joy, Schiaparelli’s Shocking and Cartier’s Le Must de Cartier, among many others....
...Prada nylon crepe de chine and paper-detail dress, £2,400. Ariat leather Heritage R Toe Western boots, £160....
...As a teenager he would go to Place des Vosges after school to hang out and smoke cigarettes....
...The term “laissez faire” was coined in the 18th century by Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, a French economist....
...It took 30-odd years and the French Revolution to exonerate François-Jean Lefebvre de la Barre, who in 1766 had been sentenced to having his tongue cut out and the rest of him beheaded and burnt for acts...
...“Lumumba is the Jesus of Africa, we need to pray to him!” someone shouted from behind a fence....
...De Jesus’s work will be one of several at the fair by artists who identify as Latinx — a gender-neutral term for individuals of Latin American descent who live in the US....
...L’état, c’est moi’ The personalisation of postwar French politics can be traced back to the domineering de Gaulle, who oversaw the creation of the system that has endowed the president with substantial...
...Galette des Rois is a cake eaten in France to celebrate Epiphany – the day the Three Kings brought gifts to the baby Jesus – on 6 January; and of all the bakes to evoke seasonal cheer, it is hard to beat...
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