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...In March 2011, Dior fired its star designer John Galliano when a shocking video surfaced of him at La Perle bar in Paris....
...The painting, and its pose, was the inspiration for a 2008 Dior couture show by its then artistic director, John Galliano....
...It’s an unfortunate irony, then, that The New Look, an Apple TV+ series about Dior and his haute-couture contemporaries during and after the Nazi occupation of Paris, feels old-fashioned....
...“We wish that there could have been a better outcome for the Ted Baker employees and stakeholders,” John McNamara, chief strategy and transition officer at Authentic Brands Group, the US owner of the Ted...
...For Raf Simons’ debut couture show at Christian Dior in 2012, Colle created a spectacular wall of 17,000 carnation stems....
...Ariana Grande showed impressive stamina in her custom Giambattista Valli Haute Couture gown, its enormous, billowing fabric concealing her hands....
...A handful — Britain’s John Akomfrah, France’s Julien Creuzet — produced the most impressive pavilions of 2024, as did, on tight budgets, several “Global South” countries (see my top five choices below)....
...We learn how Simons’ affinity for contemporary art helped him forge a connection to Christian Dior, and produce some of the most compelling and technically accomplished haute couture of the 2010s....
...Twelve-year-old Hulanicki moved with her grieving family to Brighton to be taken in by “Auntie” Sophie, a haughty, wealthy widow accustomed to couture and thrice-daily change of wardrobe....
...In 2023, that included singer Doja Cat attending Schiaparelli’s haute couture show in Paris, covered in 30,000 red Swarovski crystals; Harry Styles’ crystal harlequin bodysuit at the Grammys; and rapper...
...There’s a dash of Vionnet via Calvin Klein and John Galliano in the many iterations of slip dresses and the languid air of Daisy Fellowes in the silhouettes....
...In August 1993, Kurt Cobain met Los Angeles Times journalist Robert Hilburn wearing a short dress over flannel long johns. “Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want,” he told Hilburn....
...At his Maison Margiela haute couture show in January, John Galliano proposed a third option, his men tightly cinched in stomach-crunching corsets with padded behinds, their silhouettes resembling belle époque...
...While Diesel remains OTB’s crown jewel, other labels, such as Maison Margiela, whose spring/summer 2024 couture show designed by John Galliano was highly buzzed about, are quickly catching up (the group...
...Partly inspired by images of Kate Bush in movement, Vogue’s Sarah Mower described it as “freestyle haute couture”....
...Laurie Kynaston is winsome and whingy as Tug while George Fouracres is bombastically ridiculous as Charlton, a chap who “blends in” with the foreign countries he visits by turning up in haute couture versions...
...Over a lunch of oysters, John Dory and a glass of Albariño at Le Mermoz, it is a surprise to learn that Chatillon, voluble and passionate, never wanted to be an architect....
...Mark C O’Flaherty was inspired to write his new book, Narrative Thread, following a conversation with the editor and gallerist Carla Sozzani – she has a collection of couture pieces by her close friend and...
...The week closed on Sunday night with a thumping show and shindig in the new headquarters of the John Galliano-helmed Maison Margiela....
...The then young and radical couturier Yves Saint Laurent proposed beribboned haute couture knickerbocker suits for women in 1967 that were dead ringers for Wilde’s: some conservative establishments refused...
...The Louis XIV-inspired wig and train Elton John wore for his 50th birthday party in 1997 get their moment....
...Botter, with its “Caribbean couture” rugby shirts and crewneck sweaters sewn onto the front of turtlenecks, gives the Bright Young Things aesthetic a refreshingly diverse twist....
...When Gela Nash-Taylor, the American co-founder of fashion brand Juicy Couture, and her husband John Taylor, bass guitarist in Duran Duran, bought 15th-century South Wraxall Manor in 2005, they enlisted Kime...
...In October 1996, he moved designer John Galliano from the house of Givenchy to Dior; 27-year-old Lee Alexander McQueen was the replacement at Givenchy. That was only the beginning....
...The original 19th-century dandy, Beau Brummell — famous, incidentally, for his fastidiousness in dress rather than the flamboyance the term has come to be associated with — declared that if John Bull turns...
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