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...Vera-Lotte Boecker brings dizzying heights and heart-stopping purity to the title role, but should not be singing it in the first place — it is a part for a heavier voice than hers....
...René Benko knows the feeling....
...“I think demand will continue to be sporadic because those people who want to be vaccinated have already got the vaccine and been boosted,” said Rene Rodriguez, owner of Tens Pharmacy in Roseland, a small...
...Rodriguez is not named in Campbell’s filing but people familiar with the matter told the FT’s Josh Franklin that the “Pro Athlete Client” refers to Rodriguez....
...In nearby Jamaica Plain, local agent Rene Rodriguez of Cabot and Company is selling a four-bedroom house for $1.89m. But it is a grimmer picture for younger residents....
...In their midst was René Redzepi, perhaps the world’s most talked-about chef, looking tanned and relaxed as he leapt into the water with his kitchen team for their daily pre-service swim....
...(We had a democratic government in Bolivia — President René Barrientos had been elected one year earlier — and we had a parliament, a free press and so on.)...
...For while there’s no doubt Vera Wang nodded liberally to the recent grunge trend set off by Dries Van Noten and Saint Laurent via grey and black plaid shirts and chiffon skirts, oversize ribbed sweaters,...
...But just because Vera Wang’s alliterative notes – “Artful and Architectural and Athletic” – seemed potentially over-egged (a little mesh here, a little paint splash there, circular seams all over) that didn...
...Narciso Rodriguez let loose, literally, with collarless coats and jackets that moved like cardigans, vertical colour blocking on shifts and crescent moons of hemlines, and if some of the results were a bit...
...It takes finesse and great self-control to make these sorts of minor alchemical changes, which were also seen, albeit in a different sartorial vernacular, at Narciso Rodriguez, who expanded the confines...
...On the other hand, sometimes the oddness was less felicitous, as with Vera Wang’s “exploration of classical dressmaking” (her words), which took the geometry of couture – egg shapes, peplums, drapery – and...
...It was Narciso Rodriguez, however, who built a bridge between past and future on an arc of grace....
...To understand what a loss that would be, simply consider the elegant progression of Narciso Rodriguez’s masterly tour through the variations of a tuxedo, from colour blocked day suit to bone-embroidered...
...Other participating designers include Vera Wang, Marcus Wainright and David Neville (Rag & Bone), Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig (Marchesa), Russell Simmons, Sean Combs and Alexander Wang....
...And Narciso Rodriguez drew an ode out of geometry, using mathematical rigour to piece fabrics and colours together in trousers and vest tops that may or may not have been attached, slip dresses and jackets...
...There is Narciso Rodriguez, whose extreme form of body engineering through stitches loosened up to great effect for spring, billowing out in silk dresses short in the front and cloud-like in the back, and...
...Knock-off Vera Wang togas will doubtless shamelessly copy the original: but how original was it? Togas can scarcely claim to be post-modern....
...As for Vera Wang, her artsiness took a more accessible, though no less attractive, turn, with appliqués limited to the back seam of a skirt, or the fall from a shoulder....
...To a certain extent this is what Vera Wang was attempting in her combinations of luxurious fabrics and generous proportioned “new look” skirts under slouchy sweaters inset with triangles of wafty chiffon...
...Rene Ortiz of the Ecuadorean Association of Oil Companies, which represents private companies, said the protests had cut private oil production to about half its normal level of 340,000 b/d....
...“From our point of view, Univision has much to lose,” wrote Rene Pimentel and Carlos Constantini of Deutsche Ixe Securities, in a research note....
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