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...Namely, re-embracing his own past and melding it with his present, as well as with the couture maison he calls his creative home....
...Or the peppy practically of Bonnie Cashin’s sportswear to the overblown glamour of the French haute couture?...
...Her decision to launch d’AddA, her clothing and accessories line, came from a desire to merge the couture knowledge she’d acquired with a love of found things....
...The extent of the threat of climate change for marine habitats is still unknown....
...The thieves, they were eventually caught, but the paintings were long gone, they were sold to an unknown buyer. And for years no one knew where the Van Goghs could be....
...It has revived, with varying degrees of success, the couture house of Vionnet and the Parisian trunk-maker Moynat (now owned by LVMH)....
...For her wedding to Torretta, in 2018, she wore high-necked Valentino haute couture....
...“It was important for me to do more couture,” he stated. “Couture is British.”...
...But, just as they won’t be creating lampshades in the form of couture gowns for the W in Milan, their wit is subtle....
...But this time there were no models, trunks of couture gowns or crew. “We set off in a van with equipment, maps and bananas,” he recalls. “There was no fixed agenda....
...From one angle, the story of an old-school villain — brilliantly played by Bob Hoskins — making plans to go legit (ish) while menaced by enemies unknown is simply a great thriller....
...The entire area is an architectural gold mine; the better preserved, Delettrez says, for being relatively unknown. “I think we” – the family – “feel a bit like the guardians of this place.”...
...“High jewellery makes haute couture more irresistible.”...
...Of the cast of around 60 models, 48 were non-white, and many names, Naomi Campbell excepted, were totally unknown....
...That’s fascinating — unexpected, widely unknown. We know a big pink dress is camp, but we don’t know where the phrase comes from....
...Until now, her high jewellery collection has been available by private appointment as well as being presented to a limited audience during Paris Haute Couture Week every July....
...And I feel it at the Couture shows when watching the front-row clients dial in their favourite looks....
...The 32-year-old, largely unknown, Englishman was appointed to the house by Kering last June....
...For long centuries, our stubborn island mentality made every Channel crossing a voyage into the hostile unknown....
...Transatlantic politics are in varying, unsettling degrees of upheaval and transition; there’s more “unknown” in “the great unknown” than ever before....
...This act, close to recycling and then upcycling, whose stakes are contemporary, was unknown to couturiers and fashion designers.”...
...Only two of these were ever made for clients — one for American heiress Sunny von Bülow, the other for a person unknown....
...Mr Bizzarri was running the luxury, couture and leather goods division of Paris-listed Kering at the time but was on the verge of being named as Gucci’s chief executive, and tasked with a major turnround...
...Browne’s name is relatively unknown. Yet quietly and determinedly he has built an extraordinary brand. His menswear is stocked in almost 250 stores worldwide, his womenswear stockists near 120....
...The risk of the unknown is tempting, though it is calculated risk. There is a top team at the Today programme. I have been in newspapers for 30 years and know my way around....
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