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...Across its two New York sites in the coming year will be the prolific Steve McQueen, with a new sound-and-light piece upstate in Dia Beacon (Marcus Miller and other hot musical names collaborate) and his...
...If the items sell, then their original owner gets credit to be used at McQueen boutiques....
...And the title of “7th Nov” refers to the day that McQueen’s cousin Marcus accidentally shot and killed his beloved brother. Marcus relates the horrific episode in a candid, unsparing monologue....
...Some relationships were obvious, like the photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, or Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, who work together. Others were harder....
...Photographs: Luc Castel; Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot; Guy Marineau; Roberto Marossi...
...He had to go to Texas to meet Neiman Marcus.” It’s worth noting that a decade after founding his house in 1946 Dior died while on holiday in Italy....
...This, in case you don’t know, is the cooking reality TV show starring Ms Lawson and co-chefs Anthony Bourdain (the two are also co-executive producers of the US show) and Ludo Lefebvre (plus Marcus Samuelsson...
...Up top, designers David Neville and Marcus Wainwright provided further evidence of the move in menswear towards sportiness, with taped seams on zip-up hooded blousons....
...Milliner Philip Treacy staged a bizarre show-come-tribute to Alexander McQueen, Isabella Blow and Michael Jackson, featuring Lady Gaga in a hot pink veil....
...“It’s the sense of rebellion,” says London-born Marcus Wainright, co-owner of cool New York label Rag & Bone, referring to the counter-intuitive use of Scottish plaid in Watson’s otherwise adventurous frock...
...Love Looks Not with the Eyes: Thirteen years with Lee Alexander McQueen, by Anne Deniau, Abrams, RRP£45 This has been a year of Alexander McQueen books – at last count there were at least four of them...
...The new restrained, grown-up mood is dubbed “lady chic” by Ken Downing, senior vice-president and fashion director at retailer Neiman Marcus, which has a branch in Dallas....
...North America www.neimanmarcus.com The men’s shop at Neiman Marcus online has a strong line of designer casualwear, from Loro Piana to Zegna Sport and Etro....
...One row back – a small step for man, a giant leap for fashionkind – is Burt Tansky, chief executive of US department store Neiman Marcus....
...I have also become more adventurous and been introduced to Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and Matthew Williamson; labels I might not have otherwise tried.”...
...Paolo de Cesare, president of the Printemps group, has in mind Harrods and Selfridges in London, New York’s Neiman Marcus and Isetan in Tokyo....
...“We call it ‘chiconomics’,” says Robert Brvenik, president of Prime Outlets, which own a portfolio of 21 outlet centres across the US and Puerto Rico, stocking brand names such as Neiman Marcus Last Call...
...It also exposes Broach and Kirkby to a group of people far beyond the customers of the 20 or so stores that currently stock Boudicca worldwide (even if some of those stores are Barneys and Neiman Marcus)...
...Neimen Marcus is no joke and we challenge their Prada Sport sales all day long.” Puma’s latest partner, Alexander McQueen, comes from a similar place....
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