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...A childhood friend of Jean Cocteau, and early collector of Man Ray, Max Ernst and Dalí, she embodied the French avant-garde....
...Pale pink and an ultra feminine aesthetic were seen through a different prism at Simone Rocha’s guest collection for Jean Paul Gaultier....
...The taste of Virginie Viard, who succeeded Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel in 2019, is often in doubt....
...Designer Virginie Viard talked of “playing with opposites and contrasts, with nonchalance and elegance”....
...Coppola has worked as a Chanel brand ambassador with the artistic director Virginie Viard since 2019....
...Gvasalia and his teams of designers and seamstresses eschewed the traditional materials of the craft elsewhere too: straight-leg jeans spliced from old pairs and left frayed at the seams, an oversized red...
...In her show notes, Viard described the collection as “very metropolitan yet sophisticated”....
...Out walked the models to the chiming of a turret clock, dressed in wide, bouncing pannier skirts and boxy wool blazers with silk lapels, lace slip dresses layered over blue jeans and sporty lace-up boots...
...Chanel’s friend and collaborator Jean Cocteau in his 1960 film The Testament of Orpheus....
...There were even couture jeans, riveted with sterling silver, and track-suits. “It’s very much me, but also Balenciaga,” Gvasalia says, by simple way of explanation....
...The collection might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but Viard’s designs are selling....
...Gabrielle designed clothes to bring women freedom and ease — Viard is doing the same....
...At Chanel, Virginie Viard offered high-waisted blue jeans with a pleated front and Isabel Marant showed all-American farmworker dungarees....
...I thought about Kristen Stewart playing Jean Seberg and all the actresses Gabrielle Chanel dressed at that time.”...
...Jean Liu, Didi’s president, said in September that “we wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for burning cash”....
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