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Best Fashion Books - 50 most influencial designers

31 August 2011 · Editorial & Art › Books

Best Fashion Books We find in this book the world of haute couture. It is glamorous, it is creative, it is revolutionary. From names like Jean Patou who created fashion design in the 20s and 30s to Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli who collaborated with Salvador ...

What Haute Couture means in France?

1 December 2011 · Fashion & Style › Style tips

This notion takes us to Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895), who was the first to create a " home dressmaking " in Paris and who put on for sale of the clothes under his own name as mark. From there, the usage ...

The Many Lives of Miss K.: Toto Koopman — Model, Muse, Spy

29 August 2013 · Editorial & Art › Books

It is said that well behaved women don't make history. So true! All the feminine icons like Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Marylin Monroe and so on, all of them were either big names lovers, had deep connections with many influent men or ...

Schiaparelli Couture Fall 2014 Fashion Show

8 July 2014 · Fashion & Style › News

It is glamorous and out of proportions, it is bold and audacious, it is `controlled excess` as the Italian designer Marco Zanini puts it. The fashion collection Couture Fall 2014 signed by Schiaparelli depasses its limits and goes to another level of ...

From Calder to Koons, artist jewelry from a collection by Diane Venet

6 December 2017 · Fashion & Style › News

Diane Venet, wife of the sculptor Bernar Venet, remembers the origin of her collection which became a reference: "My passion for the jewel of art was born the day Bernar had fun wrapping around my left ring finger a thin silver ...

Jean Cocteau at Villa Saint Sospir in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat

13 August 2021 · Editorial & Art › Culture & Photography

The magic of the French Riviera has never ceased to mesmerize the spirits. Jean Cocteau was among the lovers of this region. More precisely, he was very fond of Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, the little gem peninsula of the South Coast. Jean Cocteau and his love ...

Rochas Spring 2014 Paris Fashion Week

26 September 2013 · Gallery › Runways

A fashion collection that literally shone. From organza blouses with crystals to silvery lace shirts, puffy dresses and structured ruffles, the Rochas fashion collection seemed like flashes of light. Pale soft colors from blush to citron green, structuralism and miminalism, all ...

Schiaparelli Fashion Week Haute Couture Paris Spring Summer 2017

24 January 2017 · Gallery › Runways

Apparently contradictory, the Schiaparelli style is defined at once by its opulence and its simplicity. The Haute Couture Collection Spring / Summer 2017 explores this duality by focusing forcefully on each of these fundamentals, Ying and Yang, with lightness and joy. Credits: ...