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...Michèle Lamy, the French designer, has just ordered a piece. Fashion has never been enough....
...Alessandro Michele said he based his February Gucci show around the suit because it was the most unfashionable thing he could do. It is refreshing that familiar things may not be so familiar any more....
...But I’m dying at home’,” her widow, Michele Chilvers, recalled....
...Marine Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie, had known exactly what he was doing when he complained “that they let players come from abroad and baptise them the French team”....
...Michèle Flournoy, a leading candidate for defence secretary in a Biden administration, has laid out the steps necessary to “reestablish credible deterrence of China” by changing Beijing’s cost-benefit calculus...
...Gucci’s Alessandro Michele has been offering gargantuan jewels for a few years....
...In 1972, a 17-year-old from the Paris suburbs named Marie-Claire Chevalier was charged, along with her mother Michèle and three other women, under a 1920 law that prohibited abortion....
...My style icon is Alessandro Michele [the creative director of Gucci]. I’m not particularly interested in fashion but I like him as a person....
...But Alessandro Michele is not about to let convention stand in his way....
...“The French court, including Marie Antoinette, used pantoufle, and a pair of what are supposedly her slippers are in the Met Museum.”...
...That can be difficult for born maximalists such as Moschino’s Jeremy Scott, who dressed his models in corsets and ribbons, birthday-cake panniers and towering powdered wigs in a camp ode to Marie Antoinette...
...It was designed not by an experienced jeweller but by Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele....
...At the fore of this trend are Alessandro Michele at Gucci and Hedi Slimane at Celine....
...“That’s a great advantage,” agrees his colleague Michèle Bodenmann, who says she might consider switching later to a career in the military or as a paramedic....
...The Walworth Beauty, by Michèle Roberts, Bloomsbury, RRP£12.99 A tale of London past and present from the Man Booker-shortlisted novelist....
...Alliot-Marie, a former French foreign and defence minister; and former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke....
...Ignorance, by Michèle Roberts, Bloomsbury, £14.99, 240 pages In “Ma Semblable Ma Soeur”, a short story by Michèle Roberts, twin sisters swap places every couple of months, to have “the best of both worlds...
...Fronzoni, a widower, is selling his house in San Michele di Pagana because he finds it too large....
...Coisne-Roquette (49, Sonepar) Out of this year’s top 50 Anne Lauvergeon (15, Areva); Ofra Strauss (16, Strauss Group); Carol Ann Bartz (20, Yahoo); Stine Bosse (22, Tryg); Susan Ivey (34, Reynolds American...
...Thiago Arancam, a Brazilian tenor with a budding European career, made a virile Luigi; Werner Van Mechelen was a serviceable Michele....
...Jean-Marie Fourrier of Gevrey-Chambertin, just turned 40 and one of the most thoughtful vignerons of his generation, decided last year to establish a négociant business named after himself (wines made from...
...Mr Juppé replaced Michèle Alliot-Marie, the veteran politician....
...I gather French people fuss about Carla Bruni and Michèle Alliot-Marie (“MAM” to insiders). It passes me by. Living here, my tinnitus has almost entirely cleared up....
...Pressure was mounting on Michele Alliot-Marie, French foreign minister, to quit after yet more revelations about her links to the discredited regime of former Tunisian president Zein al-Abidine Ben Ali....
...Michèle Alliot-Marie, foreign minister, first drew attention to those links when it emerged that France had offered the Tunisian regime of Zein al-Abidine Ben Ali its savoir faire in controlling the protests...
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