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If you want to buy a bottle of Halston perfume, go to your local CVS and check one of those locked plexiglass fragrance cabinets that house ancient boxes of Liz Claiborne and Jovan Musk. The Halston comes in a beige box, with the late designer’s name on it in his signature all-caps, sans-serif font, and costs about thirty dollars. But both the plastic-necked bottle and the caramel-colored juice within it are only echoes of Halston’s original 1975 blockbuster fragrance. That perfume which cost sixty dollars an ounce back then, roughly equivalent to three hundred dollars today came in an exquisite glass teardrop bottle designed by the Tiffany’s jewellery designer and longtime Halston collaborator Elsa Peretti. The scent, created by the legendary French
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The first Oscars ceremony took place in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, in 1929, and lasted fifteen minutes. The real draws were the gourmet dinner (fillet of sole or broiled chicken) and the live orchestra; the prizes were an afterthought, at best. The evening, as the actress Janet Gaynor told the
Times, in 1982, felt “more like a private party than a big public ceremony.” The Academy Awards went on for another twenty-four years without being televised. In that sense, it
was a private party from its inception, an insular night set aside for show-biz fat cats to pat each other on the back for another boffo year of running the dream factory. It was only after the Oscars’ first telecast, in 1953, that the show began to snowball into an international eyeball magnet. Soon, the Academy appointed the notorious costume designer Edith Head to serve as “fashion consultant.” In a memo to attendees, in 1968, she suggested that women w
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At Joe Bidenâs Inauguration, Jill Biden wore a relatively unknown designer, Alexandra OâNeill, and chose to wear the color blue âfor the pieces to signify trust, confidence, and stability.âPhotograph by Patrick Semansky / AFP / Getty
It was a strong day for coats. Senator Bernie Sanders, for instance, arrived at the most pomp-heavy and paparazzied political event of the year in a gruff, no-nonsense taupe parka from the Vermont-based snowboarding company Burton, which he paired with a pair of chunky, hand-knit mittens made from recycled wool. Would we expect anything less? The mittens were not new; Sanders wore several similar pairs along the campaign trail last year (they were a gift from Jen Ellis, a teacher and friend of Sandersâs daughter-in-law who makes knitted goods for craft fairs in her spare time). The jacket was also making a repeat appearance; it was an old Christmas gift from Sandersâs stepson, Dave Driscoll, the