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...In his introduction, he characterises his work as “the retelling of a ceaseless pageant as, in all its daily variousness, it moves through time”....
...“We’re trying to lift the veil on authenticity – where we hang our formal gowns on sconces. There’s a lot more construction and renovation coming in now....
...She attends a debut during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where she observes a pageant that has become entirely engineered by and for the rich white fathers....
...A black corset dress is edged with laser-cut roses; frilled high-necked knit dresses recall those worn in the Rose Queen pageants of the north....
...Later, following racial tensions in the drag pageants of the 1960s, separate “balls” were established to give LGBT people of colour a space for themselves....
...Our ultimate mauve moment was furnished by another actress, Demi Moore, who wore a 1940s style gown with long gloves and a stole to the 1992 Academy Awards....
...Some will find this too camp a conceit, though they probably wouldn’t be caught dead at Pageant anyway. For me, the all-male gambit has matured since Pageant first sashayed down the runway in 1991....
...Instead, we were spectators at a Miss Jean Paul Gaultier pageant, whose competitors were named after some of the great clichés of French culture and fashion....
...Everyone is wearing black academic gowns. A few carry mortar boards. The warden is speaking in Latin. But for the absence of floating candles and a Sorting Hat, it could be the Great Hall at Hogwarts....
...give up at least part of a possible £17m pay-off to save the bank’s reputation from further damage - Permira fashions €600m Valentino sale: Luxury designer Valentino, famous for its opulent red ball gowns...
...The skill served him when he jettisoned the orderly pageants of his youth in favour of mannerism....
...The Forest Bird has become a wandering coloratura who flaps her arms as if in a grade-school pageant when not pretending to play a magic flute....
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