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...With a few exceptions — tartan that referenced Vivienne Westwood’s punk sensibility, blown-up puffer details or the relentless influence of Y2K — so much of what was shown on the autumn/winter runways this...
...Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, designers of the aforementioned brand The Row, were often papped in the mid-noughties dressed in giant tailoring, oversized Starbucks cups clutched to dwarf their hands....
...Early in my career, I was photographed running out of a Dries Van Noten show by the late New York Times style photographer Bill Cunningham, dressed in a vintage Vivienne Westwood hunting pink and riding...
...“It seemed dictatorial and nothing really interested me except Mary Quant, which at least seemed fresh,” she says....
...Queen Mary, who succeeded Queen Alexandra, was a passionate wearer of chokers, often pairing them with other necklaces, as the early 20th century mode dictated....
...leather biker jacket, £3,390, harveynichols.com Cartier 1980s pre-owned leather skull-buckle belt, £295, farfetch.com The Eye by Vladimir Nabokov, £12, waterstones.com Tom Ford lipstick, £44 Vivienne Westwood...
...The Beatles bought mini skirts for their girlfriends at Mary Quant’s pioneering Bazaar store. In the 1970s, it was where Vivienne Westwood opened her punk boutique, which became known as SEX....
...Hence Blanchett’s decision to wear Mary Katrantzou’s wild style – the opposite of Giorgio Armani’s pared-down chic....
...Westwood wasn’t pitching for drag, nor consciously aligning herself with a drag aesthetic....
...The Boston Federal Reserve president, Eric Rosengren, and San Francisco Fed president, Mary Daly, have recently called out risks in the sector....
...King’s Road was a radical street for fashion, with boutiques like Granny Takes a Trip and Mary Quant’s Bazaar....
...Other ideas we loved include summer tailoring, sequins and shine, a lot of bold colour [seen at Mary Katrantzou], deconstructed silhouettes and natural fabrications.”...
...As in 1984, competitors will be housed on the UCLA campus in Westwood....
...Biba was also about vulgarity, but ultimately Vivienne Westwood really tapped into it....
...I tracked down a man called Tom Llewellyn who made hats for Vivienne Westwood and Phillip Treacy, and he was pretty much a one-man band with no one to hand over his skills to....
...Vivienne Westwood had already backed Scottish independence, saying “it could be a great day for democracy.”...
...Mrs Prada’s SS15 dedication to brocade had woven quite a spell in London, where the fabric was revisited in myriad interpretations, at Erdem, Marques’Almeida, Simone Rocha, Vivienne Westwood Red and Antonio...
...Take Mary Katrantzou, whose collection was based on Pangaea, the supercontinent that, 200m years ago, yes, divided....
...Mary Katrantzou’s show offered rich pickings for future red carpet clothing....
...Things were a little more frivolous at Mary Katrantzou....
...“For a recent wedding, I wore it with a scarlet lace wrap and gold Vivienne Westwood Mary Janes. There is so much navy and black, so emerald green is exciting.”...
...And Vivienne Westwood embraced holograms zebra stripes and lamé for her Red Label show....
...” … Theresa Mary May, née Brasier, was born in 1956 and is one of just two Conservative women to rise this far in British politics....
...Tanja Ariane Baumgartner’s Clairon, and Mary Plazas and Barry Banks as the Italian singers, added further panache. Through all this Fleming’s Countess floated with aristocratic dispassion....
...… Mary Katrantzou If I’m flying short-haul and going straight from the airport to an event, I keep what I am wearing, and add a pair of amazing costume earrings....
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