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...The Chiffon Trenches, by André Leon Talley, HarperCollins, RRP£20, 304 pages No book this year rivals the insight into 20th-century fashion’s major figures — Karl Lagerfeld, Yves Saint Laurent, Anna Wintour...
...Leon Wei has also joined Jupiter as a fixed income credit analyst. He previously worked for Temasek, the Singapore state investment group....
...Irene Espinosa was confirmed by Congress to fill the seat vacated by Alejandro Díaz de León, who took the helm on December 1....
...heating up again, what with Blackstone taking a minority stake in Versace, Permira courting Cavalli, and, as of Tuesday, a new swain in town making its move on Opening Ceremony (that’s OC founders Carlos Leon...
...Meanwhile, Amazon has taken a similarly editorial approach to that of Yahoo, signing ex-Vogue guru Andre Leon Talley as “artistic director” of Zappos, their upmarket show site, late last year....
...The change in direction didn’t get any more obvious than at Kenzo, where designers Humberto Leon and Carol Lim collaborated with director David Lynch, whose films they said inspired their well-orchestrated...
...The pioneering duo is Intel and Opening Ceremony, aka the designers Humberto Leon and Carol Lim (left, with Justin Bieber), who own trend-setting stores by the same name and are also the designers behind...
...André Leon Talley (that’s him, above, in a Fendi fur). Or, to put it a less personal way: a famous fashion personality....
...The grand jury of fashion fairy godmothers and godfathers who chose Tait included Karl Lagerfeld, Nicolas Ghesquière, Marc Jacobs, Riccardo Tisci, Raf Simons, Phoebe Philo, Kenzo’s creative duo Humberto Leon...
...stellamccartney.com … Alexander Wang Who: Anna Ewers, Vanessa Moody, Katlin Aas, Kat Hessen and Lexi Boling, shot by Steven Klein. What: You’re nicked – by the fashion police....
...Of course, Mr Leon and Ms Lim were not designing, or even selling, in those days (as it said on the programme, “Est. 2002”), so it’s possible that for them this seems like a new idea....
...Post-taking the creative director job at Kenzo, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, the founders of destination retail space Opening Ceremony, are holding their own brand show for the first time this season....
...Then in New York earlier this season, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim of Kenzo introduced their own line under the name of their retail brand, Opening Ceremony....
...Andre Leon Talley touched on this in his current Vanity Fair profile, when he noted, “What person of colour do you know who’s in a position like that [editor in chief of a major magazine], be it a man or...
...The quarantined young woman’s name is Vanessa Asina. She is soon entirely poised in her demure clothes....
...See what LVMH has done with Kenzo, for example, where hipster boutique owners Humberto Leon and Carol Lim have moved that brand into the contemporary direction....
...At least when Kenzo designers Humberto Leon and Carol Lim indulged themselves in kitsch via embroidered lions surrounded by a “Kenzo Jungle” logo on the backs of jackets, or exaggerated Crayola-coloured...
...Leon Daniels, TfL’s managing director of surface transport, said London bus drivers were employed by private companies, who set their pay and working conditions....
...vanessa.friedman@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/friedman...
...After all, Kenzo (LVMH) didn’t, because its new designers Carol Lim and Humberto Leon (of Opening Ceremony, the New York emporium) are still feeling their way into the house....
...Kenzo has appointed a new design team: Humberto Leon and Carol Lim of US high hipster retailer Opening Ceremony to replace Antonio Marras Harvey Weinstein and Sarah Jessica Parker have disengaged from Halston...
...The Whitechapel Boy Bomberg who went to Jerusalem in the 1920s (and later by teaching and friendship fathered a generation of Jewish-Anglo painting – Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach) stands in some sort...
...Vanessa Friedman is the FT’s fashion editor ………………………………………….....
...After all, the Prada show was held on a set inspired by a quote from a renaissance architect called Leon Battista Alberti: “A house is a small city and a city is a small house.”...
...Vanessa Friedman is the FT’s fashion editor vanessa.friedman@ft.com Columns at www.ft.com/friedman...
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