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declared that six designers made fashion, and from them “all fashion hangs by a golden thread”. In 1989 they were Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, Karl Lagerfeld and Vivienne Westwood.tassels from Dries Van Noten. Although some coats — hermes bearnespecially at Christian Dior — are shaped to the body line, a more frequent style is the fitted coat just loosely tracing the silhouette. The look sometimes has a tinge of the ladylike 1950s, when the coat is curved at the back or when it morphs into a body-conscious cape. The point about this between-seasons coat is that it is made to be worn like a jacket, over a slim skirt and blouse with a squishy bag tucked under one arm. Prim? It might be, if the colors were not so gentle and alluring. Instead, the new fashion for tailoring has all the dynamism of a masculine cut and the femininity of its pastel tone: the best of both worlds. Today it’s Marc, Miuccia and Christopher. There are probably a few others. If Nicolas Ghesquiere moves to Louis Vuitton, as has been widely rumoured, he’ll be back up there. Raf Simons’ influence is also extensive.

 I personally didn’t comprehend quite how extensive until Jo-Ann Furniss of style.com, who works closely with Raf at Dior, drew my attention to the similarities between the African elements in his winter haute couture collection for Dior and those popping up over other catwalks, two months later, for spring 2014. I felt a bit of an idiot. It was quite obvious.oulders with fashion's elite at the Met Gala were slim last year, you probably should just admit defeat now for the 2014 affair: Ticket prices have nearly  hermes wallet blackdoubled. Anna Wintour and the rest of the event's organizers have upped the ticket price from $15,000 to $25,000, reports Page Six. A source told the paper, "Increasing the ticket price will make the Met Gala even more high-fashion, even more exclusive and even more aspirational." More aspirational than $35,000 gowns and the chance to see Gwyneth Paltrow getting down to a live Kanye West performance? Chalk it up to fashion party inflation, but we think this may just

be Wintour's way of keeping folks like Kim Kardashian out of this year's gala, which will take place on May 5 and launch the "Charles James: Beyond Fashion" exhibition. Kardashian's last Met Gala red carpet appearance in 2013 launched a less-than Anyway, back to Prada. Today the label revealed their hermes kelly walletcollaboration with Damien Hirst. It’s kind of a counterpart to Louis Vuitton’s collaboration with the Chapman Brothers that I wrote about a month or so ago. In that its most obvious physical embodiment is a handbag. Prada and Hirst have also created a Pharmacy Juice Bar, installed in the desert north of Doha, Qatar like a UFO or some kind of mirage. A juice bar is exactly what you want in the Arabian desert after all. Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, chairperson of Qatar Museums Authority (QMA), is the third hand in this collaboration. It was launched to mark “Relics”, a major retrospective of Hirst’s held in QMA.