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...Jeanne du Barry was a courtesan in 1760s Paris who became Louis XV’s favourite mistress....
...Crushed, she leaves France for Lisbon, where she grew up, and en route meets a bumptious ex-schoolmate, the presentable but motormouthed Jean (Laurent Lafitte, cheerfully going all out with affable buffoonishness...
...Gallery founder Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn describes their working relationship as a “partnership” rather than a “representation”....
...“Perfumes are like jewels when worn,” says Laurent, a Corsican who began her career as an apprentice to master perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain....
...The Orsay includes prominent examples from 1874: “Sarpédon”, Henri Lévy’s three-metre tale of heroism in the Trojan wars, immediately bought by the state; Jean-Léon Gérôme’s “L’Éminence Grise”, a story about...
...The shock prompted Fanon to write Black Skin, White Masks (or rather declaim: he dictated his books, first to his fiancée Josie Dublé, later his secretary Marie-Jeanne Manuellan)....
...When Vincent Farelly and Jean-Baptiste Martin of Parisian design studio Antoinette Poisson first travelled to Port-Louis in Brittany three years ago, they had no intention of relocating....
...This year’s Ruhrtriennale brings Greek-born composer Georges Aperghis together with philosopher/poet Jean-Christophe Bailly for Die Erdfabrik, an ostensibly genre-bending multimedia creation that muses on...
...Among mannequins, tissue paper and drawers crammed with conservation materials is the oldest garment in the show: a “robe de style” from Jeanne Lanvin’s autumn/winter 1926 collection....
...After the acquisition, Lanvin appointed Jean-Philippe Hecquet as CEO, but he left after less than two years....
...Baldwin formed the unlikeliest of bonds with its owner, Jeanne Fauré, puzzling many in the village. Fauré’s political views diverged significantly from Baldwin’s progressiveness....
...About 20 years ago, she became the second woman to bear the creative director title at Cartier following Jeanne Toussaint, a legendary designer who steered the brand’s creative efforts between 1933 and 1970...
...One of the most eagerly anticipated launches is Jean-Claude Biver’s eponymous low-volume, high-production-value brand, which kicked off ambitiously with a carillon tourbillon....
...Jeanne Friot denim and ostrich-feather Peacock jeans, £525....
...“The Jura is particularly close to my heart, so we’ll have wines from amazing producers like Jean-François Ganevat,” he says....
...As Jean-Christophe Babin, Bulgari’s group CEO, told me: “Place Vendôme is the high-jewellery centre of Paris, and therefore of the world!”...
...The New York gallerist Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, founder of Salon 94, opens a 17,500 sq ft headquarters in a five-storey Beaux Arts building on Manhattan’s “Museum Mile” this week (3, East 89th Street)....
...His ex-assistant Jean Paul Gaultier told Laurence Benaïm, founder of Stiletto magazine, “with him, I learned you could make a hat from a chair”....
...Lanvin chief executive Jean-Philippe Hecquet is to leave the French fashion house owned by Fosun International after just 18 months....
...I bottled it and now I sell a lot of it as a single variety, Jeanne Renard. It was a good lesson.” In Tallec’s kitchen, we tasted different apples and shooed away errant chickens....
...Born Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Madame de Pompadour’s decorative influence was once writ large across the palace of Versailles....
...She regarded her second husband, Claude Faux, who had been personal secretary to Jean-Paul Sartre, and Sartre as the only male feminists she had ever known....
...James Galway and his wife Jeanne joined in flute duets....
...Green describes The Assistant as a “hommage” to Jeanne Dielman....
...Smith traversed the worlds of fashion, art and performance, mingling with artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, photographer Jean-Paul Goude, performer Grace Jones, model Pat Cleveland and dancer-choreographer...
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