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Special Report: My Techno: A Designer Viewpoint

Some are cyberexperts and others are technophobes, but most designers today embrace a variety of technology applications. While e-commerce tends to be handled by management and Photoshop by art directors, there are all sorts of ways that designers are ...

From SUZY MENKES, International Herald Tribune,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Christopher Bailey,  Frida Giannini,  Fendi (designer)

Special Report: Christie's to Value Vintage Gucci

On a mission to enhance the brand’s heritage and to fight counterfeiting, especially online, Gucci is announcing a dramatic new strategy in collaboration with the auction house Christie’s. The project includes both the opening of a Gucci museum in ...

From SUZY MENKES, International Herald Tribune,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: eBay Inc.,  PPR

Special Report: Gritty Glamour in Berlin

Cities, like music, have their own rhythms. They rise and fall in fashion, from Paris in the Belle Époque to Swinging London in the 1960s. If ever there were a city that expresses the hard-edged, high-tech dot.com era of the 21st century, it is Berlin. ...

From SUZY MENKES, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Glamour,  Twitter Inc

Special Report: Nick Knight: Techno King

In front of her, Nick Knight bends his pipe-cleaner silhouette down to catch the model through his camera lens. Around him, images of the Vogue fashion shoot appear on consoles, ready to be manipulated to perfection. What makes this glossy magazine ...

From SUZY MENKES, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Nick Knight,  Natalia (musician),  Naomi Campbell,  Yohji Yamamoto,  John Galliano

New Knits Are Flexible Friends

PARIS — Woolly, hairy or feather light, autumn knits have one thing in common: They cover the body like falling leaves. Softly, softly is the story, whether a sweater is filmy and vaporous or a cardigan dense with cable stitching. Your flexible friend ...

From SUZY MENKES, The New York Times,  12 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Diane Keaton,  Woody Allen,  Coco Chanel

Special Report: Vintage Scarves Get a Modern Makeover

PARIS — Take a scarf — a beautiful Balenciaga jewel of a foulard. Find it a partner, fold them together and tie the knot. Voilà! There is the concept of E2.2 , which fits so perfectly with the scarf dresses this season at Vionnet and elsewhere, you ...

From SUZY MENKES, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Vionnet (designer)

Special Report: Louis Vuitton's 'Soul of a Journey'

PARIS — The flower looks familiar — a four-petal shape traced in a golden trellis circle. Is this piece of jewelry, with its recurring round shapes filled with multicolored sapphires and yellow diamonds, taken from a church’s stained-glass window? ...

From SUZY MENKES, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Louis Vuitton

Special Report: Giles: Itsy Bitsy Spiders

PARIS — It was his debut in Paris, but Giles Deacon stepped right away from the bold couture silhouettes on which he made his name as a London designer. The Giles Deacon collection, with its sparkly fabrics and bright colors, looked like it was ...

From SUZY MENKES, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009

Sport Alaïa

PARIS — Azzedine Alaïa knows exactly who he is and the values that he stands for. But the skill of the designer is to tilt his precise vision to the look of the moment. So there was a surprise start to the collection the designer sent out Thursday ...

From SUZY MENKES, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Naomi Campbell

Special Report: Game to Hermès; Galliano' S Movie

PARIS — The ping-pong of tennis balls, bouncing backward and forward, was a fine fashion metaphor on which to end four weeks of summer 2010 collections. At Hermes, Jean Paul Gaultier was inspired by a 1920s image of the French tennis player Suzanne ...

From SUZY MENKES, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Jean-Paul Gaultier,  Suzanne Lenglen,  John Galliano,  Hermes (designer),  Karl Lagerfeld

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