Hints and tips:
...Hans Josef Kieffer, head of the SS intelligence agency in Paris (Chris Porter)....
...around the 2008 financial crisis, not because the brand was in trouble but because the climate felt fearful (“When the blood’s in the water, the sharks are out,” she says), and went on to work at Gap, Vera...
...Inspiration struck closer to home for Vera and Viola Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga, the creators of Venetian slipper brand Vibi Venezia....
...Peers across the luxury goods space slid after the earnings report, with shares of Coach falling 5 per cent to $34.68, Vera Bradley declining 4 per cent to $13.48, and Fossil sliding 7 per cent to $70.55...
...Net-a-Porter, which started a dedicated internet bridal boutique in 2009, says its best-sellers still tend to be labels such as Lanvin and Roland Mouret, where prices hover around $5,000....
...After all, prêt-a-porter is presumably a shared cultural currency....
...A few weeks later, 64-year-old Vera Wang made a splash too when she accepted an award at the Delete Blood Cancer gala – and not because her date was Katy Perry....
...Vera Wang was a senior fashion editor at US Vogue. L’Wren Scott, whose dresses have been worn by Nicole Kidman and Penélope Cruz, styled shoots for many years for magazines such as W and Interview....
...She created Net-a-Porter.com, the first luxury fashion e-tailer, in 2000. Success story: Net-a-Porter offers over 300 labels attracting 3m online visits every month....
...Mover, the only ski brand stocked on Net-a-porter.com, will not be supplying an Olympic kit for the Swiss ski team but rather for the Swiss television team....
...Vera Wang, for example, maker of gowns for Victoria Beckham and Jennifer Lopez, the woman who first made wedding chic, well, chic – would not be an option. She’s American....
...Online fashion retailer Net-a-porter.com joined the trend by launching a dedicated bridalwear boutique section in March....
...more), and, ultimately, most of the items on the site remain priced well outside the affordable range for an end-of-season designer tog, especially since it is relatively easy to find Oscar de la Renta, Vera...
...No wonder online retailer Net-à-Porter, in its new “boutique” area, has an entire section devoted to the working wardrobe....
...She sells the Scoop NYC label on Net-a-Porter, the online fashion store, and plans to open a store this summer in Mykonos’s hip Belvedere Hotel....
...The name under the picture confirmed it: it was Vera S, the mother of my old friend Kati. I could hardly believe it....
...The journalist Henry Porter has written his latest novel, Brandenburg, about the last days of the Stasi in Berlin in 1989....
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