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Gourmand fashion 15 Dec 2011 | 12:54 am
Dries van Noted turned 50 in 2005. His banquet. A priori, fashion goes better with drinking, than eating. Filippa Hamilton was fired because she had 2 cm too much on her hips. Lagerfeld showed us tha...
Victoria’s Secret comes from Samothrace 13 Dec 2011 | 10:08 am
Who said myths are dying ? The survive in a different form, with commercial success. Can you spot a Hellenistic heritage in a brand of lingerie ? I guess Napoleon I would have liked his winged victor...
Gaultier bottles 11 Sep 2011 | 06:56 am
Yes, we are still in postmodernism. We still grind old grain…. Gaultier Classique 1993 When this fragrance was launched, the official inspiration for the female torso shape was Madonna and the dress...
Fashion in print (on paper, not on fabric) 8 Sep 2011 | 12:56 am
Is Carine Roitfeld already a myth ? We remember the ads for Gucci that she styled, but do you collect recent French Vogue ? Do you find it ground-breaking ? Revolutionary ? Scandalous ? Neither do I....
David Bailey now and then 1 Mar 2011 | 10:13 am
A documentary about Bailey at FIFA Montreal http://www.artfifa.com/index.php?option=com_film&task=view&id=2377&Itemid=716
Un odalisque for Dior homme 23 Feb 2011 | 01:33 am
La Baigneuse Valpincon - Ingres Ingres was an excellent realistic painter when portraying men. But, with women, he always favoured some incongruity : surrealistic arms, twisted torsos, impossible nec...
Tom Ford ads 27 Jan 2011 | 02:34 pm
Diana Ross Tom Ford White Patchouli Diana Ross American idols are still chic. If fashion in the 30s and 50s was French, the 70s and the 80s were the era of Farrah Fawcett, Victoria Principal and Ja...
Was Tom Ford a reincarnation of Halston ? 26 Jan 2011 | 01:09 am
Most probably, yes. But fashion victims never thought of that . They are such victims of fashion because they have no culture. That’s why fashion is their sustenance. Their education starts when the s...
Il dolce Tom 25 Jan 2011 | 05:29 am
Thanks to his interests in the movie industry, Tom Ford switched his ad image from oily crotches to more powdered fellinian 50s/60s references. He admires Anouk Aimee, thus he named a frame after her...
A Vogue for Tom Ford 25 Jan 2011 | 05:24 am
Carine Roitfeld left the French Vogue. I wouldn’t get extatic over her porn-chic stylism for Gucci or about the content of Vogue (L’Officiel is much more attentive to couture and Numero is more creati...
