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Digital presentations at Paris fashion week yesterday were proof of what an international affair the line-up has become.The debut of the week was at Chloé, where the Uruguayan designer Gabriela Hearst

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Star French florist weathers pandemic Published on Share There was a time, pre-pandemic, that Thierry Boutemy’s flowery creations graced catwalks, magazine covers and celebrity weddings. Now, of course, the French florist — who has worked for Sofia Coppola, Lady Gaga and the fashion house Hermes — is having to weather the crisis like anyone else. But his passion for petals has not withered. For more than 25 years, Boutemy has run his boutique in Brussels, ...

Because we were in L.A., where street art is so important, I wanted to have more graffiti-type pieces. And I had the idea that maybe we’d have art directly on the wall—something you couldn’t commercialize or trade for money. It had to be part of the building, in the same way it would be if it were done on the facade. So knowing that, and knowing people couldn’t travel, I contacted Jenny, the store director, and we started to look around. I got a shortlist of 25 artists, from which I pi...

Buyers Welcome Cozy and Chic Trends From Paris Shows Womens Wear Daily (WWD) 1/26/2021 Mimosa Spencer PARIS — It was another hybrid fashion season in Paris, with a mix of live shows — with no audiences — and video presentations, but brands still managed to deftly relay their artistry through the screen. Retailers expressed enthusiasm for the efforts, and the clothing, sensing an underlying streak of optimism amid the upheaval. More from WWD “We typically expect quite a...

Sony Pictures Classics Confined to her home for reasons unknown, a woman stares at the wall, paces, picks out outfits, makes phone calls, and slowly begins to unravel. Sound familiar? We all performed a version of that scene during lockdown, but Pedro Almodóvar translated the experience into a meditation on forbearance and the new lease on life that awaits on the other side of heartbreak. Except, in his telling, we’re all dressed like Tilda Swinton in straight-off-the-runway Balenciaga gown...

Friday Five With Gil Melott of Studio 6F 01.22.21 here Founder and Principal of Studio 6F, Gil Melott runs a creative design company with a focus on high end residential and boutique hospitality interior design. The business itself runs out of an award-winning design gallery and showroom in Chicago, and represents Melott’s furniture brand Gil Melott BESPOKE. You’ll also find sought after vintage furniture along with American contemporary makers and artists representing a variety of mediums...

Best of 2020: Dance by Jenny GilbertThursday, 31 December 2020 Beach ready: Some of the 38 dancers from 14 African countries rehearsing Pina Bauschs Rite of Spring, on the coast of Senegal in March. The world tour was cancelled just days before the premierephoto: Florian Heinzen-Ziob Hard as it is to recall how it felt to sit elbow to elbow in a red plush seat, plenty of us did that during the first 10 weeks of 2020, with no heed at all to who might be breathing over us. I have since wondered...

How Melania Trump is styling out her last White House Christmas Melanias final take on doing festive dressing, First Lady style 18 December 2020 • 2:35pm Mrs Claus or Republican red? The First Lady wearing an Alexander McQueen coat Credit: Reuters Think Melania Trump and Christmas, and the recordings which recently emerged, courtesy of her former friend and employee Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, in which she claimed that, “I’m working ... my ass off on the Christmas stuff, that you know, who...