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...In early October the French luxury group Kering announced that the relatively unknown designer Seán McGirr would take over the brand Alexander McQueen, succeeding longtime creative director Sarah Burton....
...Formerly of Alexander McQueen and most recently Versace, Akeroyd’s plans for the 166-year-old fashion brand are yet unknown....
...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....
...As such, what is unknown beyond the company’s Burbank headquarters is how much the Disney of 2021 even cares about an Oscar....
...The film itself — Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, with a breakout performance from the unknown Maria Bakalova — was much funnier than you might have feared....
...The Swiss jeweller claims, however, that its celebrity relationships are based on long friendships with actors, some of whom, like Marion Cotillard, it dressed when they were relatively unknown....
...Even for someone who is used to making journeys into the cultural unknown, New York’s latest artistic project presents a forbidding challenge....
...That’s fascinating — unexpected, widely unknown. We know a big pink dress is camp, but we don’t know where the phrase comes from....
...The 32-year-old, largely unknown, Englishman was appointed to the house by Kering last June....
...The company has long relationships with acclaimed British and Irish directors, such as Lenny Abrahamson (Room) and Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave), having backed them when they were relatively unknown....
...The existence of the angels, which were seized by Henry after Wolsey’s fall from grace, had remained unknown until two appeared at auction in 1994, via a Parisian art dealer and historical detective work...
...The appointment came as a shock: Michele was a largely unknown figure in the fashion world with no public profile, own label or experience as head of another fashion house....
...He added that Kering had shown “great touch” in choosing appropriate creative talent at Saint Laurent, and had also managed the transition at its Alexander McQueen effectively....
...When you talk about the wider industry, the signposts either spell doom or the unknown, much as they do with the Oscars....
...past 100 years, the new millennium champions a new kind of art-making; one that depends on synergy and spontaneity and that requires artists to wander far from their cultural comfort zones, and into the unknown...
...The production was big budget, aimed not just at the audience in attendance, but the unknown numbers globally online and on social media....
...The campaign for Calvin Klein, the company that built Kate Moss’s career, turning an unknown teenager from Croydon into a global icon back in 1992, is currently fronted by Kendall Jenner, who has 27m Instagram...
...Along with McQueen, early contributors included Damien Hirst, Jay Jopling, the Chapman brothers, Björk, Blur and Radiohead – back when they were all relative unknowns....
...reality TV show starring Ms Lawson and co-chefs Anthony Bourdain (the two are also co-executive producers of the US show) and Ludo Lefebvre (plus Marcus Samuelsson in the US) in which they pick teams of unknown...
...It’s transition time for the city, the end of the Bloomberg era and the start of something new: as yet unknown, but guaranteed, whatever happens, to be very different....
...Indeed, there may be opportunity here for them to change the overall game by elevating an unknown. What do you think the odds are?...
...McQueen in the face of much talk about the need for a “star” at that brand, only reinforced this position....
...De la Renta also probably didn’t help his case when he publicly criticised the first lady for wearing Alexander McQueen to the Chinese state dinner in 2011....
...Alexander McQueen: Working Process, Photographs by Nick Waplington, by Susannah Frankel, Damiani, RRP£40 An unvarnished behind-the-scenes photographic memoir of McQueen’s A/W 2009 collection, The Horn of...
...Finally, the dress also marks a very public coming out for creative director Sarah Burton, an unknown until she assumed the design helm of the company last May after Mr McQueen’s death....
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