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...It’s not just the couture; this viewer nearly wept at Woodcock’s suits, jumpers and beautiful carmine socks. Both movies contain lessons....
...“It’s couture dressing for the modern individual,” he says....
...“Rene Russo in The Thomas Crown Affair was the first movie that I ever designed clothes for....
...An exemplar of belle époque braggadocio, it’s one of few places in the world that could host a multimillion-euro haute-couture fashion show for Chanel one week, and a trade show for manufacturers of farm...
...When Gela Nash-Taylor, the American co-founder of fashion brand Juicy Couture, and her husband John Taylor, bass guitarist in Duran Duran, bought 15th-century South Wraxall Manor in 2005, they enlisted Kime...
...For daytime polish, she takes inspiration from the 1999 version of The Thomas Crown Affair, and recommends jewellery, great boots, jeans that fit perfectly and “a beautiful wool or cashmere coat and in a...
...It was by Antonia Pugh-Thomas, now a couture maker with a shop in London. In the late ’90s I got her number from a friend of a friend....
...Coppola is in Paris for the Chanel couture show, taking place by the river, for which she has helped with the set design....
...In 2015, the label hit €1bn in estimated annual revenue, according to Citi luxury analyst Thomas Chauvet — he estimates 2022 turnover at €2.2bn, with operating margin close to 20 per cent....
...The top 1 to 2 per cent of clients account for about a fifth of sales at couture brands, Citi luxury analyst Thomas Chauvet estimates, and these brands are hustling to draw them back into stores....
...Moving up to the present day, Nigerian-Scottish designer Olubiyi Thomas has created a brand-new tartan for the V&A....
...The artist describes herself as a “painter with fabric”; her sitters don elaborate couture constructions that she makes using fabric, clamps and tape....
...The couture doesn’t lack hauteur. Ada still gets to preview the collection, gasping at the satin and chiffon....
...In Vienna, the alchemist jeweller Thomas Hauser of Atelier Allure spent a year exploring how to master Niellium, a tough, precious alloy that is mystically black....
...One of a growing number of “haute couture”-style whisky collections, which are hand-sold to collectors through private client programmes round the world. 51.3 per cent abv, RRP £17,000 Gordon & MacPhail...
...There is also a couture line featuring larger stones, the most expensive piece of which is £250,000....
...Well, it isn’t but it is: synonymous with Paris fashion, it was actually an Englishman, Charles Frederick Worth, who established haute couture in Paris in the mid-19th century, at the same time as Thomas...
...Dior Diorshow 5 Couleurs couture eyeshadow palette (in model’s right hand), £48. On table: Ysl Volume Effect Faux Cils mascara, £28....
...Typically with high jewellery — the prestigious ‘couture’ side that for centuries has catered to royalty, society and high-fashion, and where a piece can cost anything from tens of thousands to several million...
...At the time it was rare for a couture house to make its own perfume....
...(Perhaps a dining room to the west of Buckingham Palace, munching on regal couture, is the closest she can get to royalty these days.)...
...Phantom Thread (2017) Where to watch: Amazon Prime, Apple TV and YouTube Daniel Day-Lewis returns to the city where he spent his childhood in Paul Thomas Anderson’s story of a haute-couture dressmaker,...
...Mishra was so enthralled by mushrooms’ starring role in David Attenborough’s documentary A Life On Our Planet that he based his entire spring 2021 couture collection on fungi....
...Tika the Iggy, a nine-year-old Italian greyhound from Montreal, Canada, owned by Thomas Shapiro and his husband, was already an established pet influencer at the time, getting multiple thousand likes for...
...This kind of DIY demi-couture is the concept behind Viltier, a boutique brand created by childhood friends Thomas Montier Leboucher and Iris de La Villardière....
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