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...Bespoke tailoring – in London, at least – still has something of an image problem, conjuring images of grey figures in dowdy suits in mahogany-panelled chambers. The reality is very different....
...“Dowdy fits,” as he called them, inspired by ordinary British women from the 1970s. “I’m mixing things we all know, or that my parents know....
...This contrasts with any image of “Aunt Jane”, long presenting her as a sort of reclusive country mouse, staying a spinster in the bosom of her rural family and dowdy to boot. Well, she wasn’t....
...I live there full-time and Yeoh part-time with her French partner, Jean Todt, former boss of Ferrari’s all-conquering Formula 1 team....
...The wrong length can take you from cool to dowdy in a millisecond, so ensure skirts, dresses and trousers are hitting you at the right point on the leg. Consider cut, fit and detail....
...By the mid-1960s, he’d been invited to apply his forward- thinking to the house of Fendi, turning the dowdy Roman furrier into a fun, fashion-led label....
...Pedretti stumbles around attractively enough, a Bambi with big hair and high-waisted jeans....
...You can sense her struggling to rescue writer Arthur Schnitzler and his dowdy wife Olga from awkwardness and misery....
...Ira’s Rome duplex filled with works by Roy Liechtenstein, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Josef Albers and Yves Klein....
...Ties with Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission president, exposed him to claims that he protected the former Luxembourg premier when he was under pressure over corporate tax deals....
...But its image was dowdy and its designs undeveloped....
...Mr Brady, an energetic man in dark jeans and crisp white open-neck shirt, is speaking at Acro’s light industrial unit near Gatwick airport where workers on the assembly floor are turning out 3,000 seats...
...Green’s first significant deal was the purchase of ailing fashion chain Jean Jeanie for £65,000 in 1985, which he worked hard to revive....
...That was probably what the Parisian Jean-Paul Sartre meant by, “Hell is other people.” In Paris, the only response is to fight them....
...Just carrying one makes you dowdy. Even a paper bag is a lovely product with form and quality and character....
...(The comic actor doing “serious”; the English star doing dowdy-madcap.)...
...Although international in scope – it includes a tumultuous scarlet Van Gogh, which Planque discovered hanging in the barely lit bathroom of a dowdy Basel flat; subtle abstract gouaches by Paul Klee; and...
...With a career marketing and strategy setting for upmarket brands including Polo Jeans and Tommy Hilfiger, Grossman has introduced glitz to the dowdy home-shopping scene....
...By Daniel Dombey, US Diplomatic Correspondent I am travelling with the US defence secretary Robert Gates and a clutch of itinerant journalists to India and there’s a certain dowdy potency about the whole...
...But your average football manager has traditionally been associated with embarrassing sartorial own goals, such as dowdy anoraks or all-enveloping sheepskin coats....
...Ty is played by the up-and-coming Columbus Short; his villainous colleagues are played by down-and-outs such as Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne and Jean Reno....
...Likes St John knit suits and dresses with opaque tights, Chanel shoes and, when dressing casually, dark denim jeans. Message: Angelina Jolie meets congressional conservative. 4....
...In a moment of such high drama, after all, the choice of a skirt or jeans can say a lot about strategy and aggression behind the scenes. Yet it was not to be....
...A Royal Personage (pink suit, dowdy hat, handbag and a blue sash) supervises curtain-rise, her appearance then duplicated by the rest of the cast. Ha, I suppose, ha!...
...With its jutting, angular form (designed by French architect Jean Paul Viguier) the trendy Hotel Sofitel mixes cutting-edge design with understated elegance....
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