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...A childhood friend of Jean Cocteau, and early collector of Man Ray, Max Ernst and Dalí, she embodied the French avant-garde....
...It has had a torrid time in recent years after its enigmatic founder Ray Kelvin resigned as chief executive in 2019 amid accusations of inappropriate behaviour against staff, which he denies....
...“It has its own completely separate voice to the haute couture line....
...At the high jewellery collections in January, the ne plus ultra of jewellery collections that are presented to VIP clients during Paris couture, Chaumet showed an asymmetrical and transformable 6.05-carat...
...Top of the Pops was taken over in DIY couture and dental braces, a far cry from the doe-eyed pin-ups young women were meant to aspire to....
...What is it that makes the gewgaws of Tom Wolfe’s 1980s “social X-rays” resonate both with the times and a new generation? It isn’t just the fun factor....
...“X-ray black and white, but filled with books and papers, delicate white crochet and photographs.”...
...Blumenfeld’s trajectory encapsulates the smooth passage from avant-garde to haute couture....
...She mingled with artists such as Dalí, Man Ray and Jean Cocteau and her clothes were worn by prominent women including Greta Garbo and Katharine Hepburn....
...Pair with trenchcoat for serious investigator vibes. £270, Matchesfashion.com Ray Ban Ray Ban’s oval opticals indulge those Harry Potter childhood fantasies with their small black frames — but are also...
...Using McQueen’s shows as theatre, the two friends shone a light on one of the least-known aspects of couture: the catwalk jewel....
...those styles persist: Trump’s 1980s heyday was characterised by extravagantly pouffed, ruffled and padded dresses, worn by the kind of pin-thin society women the novelist Tom Wolfe described as “social X-rays...
...Anyone who’s sipped warm white wine at a book launch will know that it’s often a sea of cord, not couture....
...I stayed in a little guesthouse and spent five days counting stars, swimming with manta rays, watching monkeys and walking in the clearest aquamarine sea....
...Among the treasures on display will be a 19th-century gold and enamelled gem-set pen from Jaipur, exhibited by Indian and Islamic dealer Simon Ray....
...It was a catwalk of anorexic skinnyscrapers by the equivalents of haute-couture designers — the built manifestations of Tom Wolfe’s “social X-rays”....
...‘Savage Beauty’ is at the V&A in London until August 2, vam.ac.uk Photographs: Ann Ray (AKA Anne Deniau); Anthea Simms; Catwalking.com...
...Neither company commented on why Disney films including Muppets Most Wanted and Captain America: The Winter Soldier are not available for pre-order on DVD or Blu-ray from Amazon’s site....
...Ray-Ban aviators 1985: £6.95 (£18.90 today) 2015: £125 (minimum) The Prada bag 1985: £250 (£680 today)2015: £565 High-tech home 1985: British Telecom Robin answering machine, £99.99 (£272 today)2015...
...… Jean Patou: A Fashionable Life by Emmanuelle Polle, Flammarion, £65 (published September 24) Coco Chanel’s haute couture rival in the 1920s and 1930s finally gets the full archival treatment....
...Disney, which does not give earnings guidance, said DVD and Blu-ray sales of John Carter – the year’s biggest boxoffice bomb – and The Muppets were lower than the comparable period last time, when it released...
...Selections by Martin Wolf … BUSINESS The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office, by Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan, Twelve, RRP$26.99 Fisman and Sullivan lead us through the organisational structure that...
...But the president was not above taking out his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, to Ray’s Hell Burger, an excellent suburban spot serving the American national dish, or smooching at Ben’s Chili Bowl,...
...“It has huge potential both in fashion and the medical field, as the fabric is sterile,” says Torres, who adds that a French couture house and an Italian luxury fashion brand have approached the company...
...Matthew Williamson brought a ray of holiday sunshine....
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