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...Golden Jubilee Bridges (2), left, is the official name for the pair of footbridges that now link the south bank with the West End, although Londoners still use the name of the railway bridge between them: the Hungerford Bridge...
...couture clothing. But for most, it's an exclusive art form known only through pictures or the occasional museum exhibit. Opening Sept. 22 at London's V&A is one such show that gives visitors an almost unprecedented in-depth look into couture's most glamorous era. "The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957" will display more than 100 dresses designed by haute couture's most revered names, among them Givenchy, Balmain, Balenciaga, Schiaparelli and, of course, Dior. The exhibit covers everything from suits and cocktail dresses to the undersides of evening gowns to documentary artifacts like...
...showcase for high-end American designers?a tradition Baker hopes to revive. But when Lord & Taylor was bought by Associated Dry Goods in the late '70s, it lost its edge as a fashion leader. May Co.'s 1986 acquisition only contributed to their downward spiral. "Lord & Taylor was the golden jewel in May's portfolio, but [the owners] didn't focus on it," says Christine Chen, a retail analyst at Needham and Co. Upscale vendors began to bow out. "When I took over [as CEO] in 2000, there was no difference between us and May Co. stores [Macy...
This fall the Tudor trumpet is being noisily sounded again on the cultural front by the novels of Philippa Gregory, the Showtime series The Tudors and big-screen spectacles like The Golden Age, starring Cate Blanchett, and the forthcoming The Other Boleyn Girl, with Natalie Portman as the doomed Anne Boleyn and Scarlett Johansson as her sister...
...Golden Age, the sequel to 1998's Elizabeth, costume designer Alexandra Byrne has hatched the most lavish and rarefied survey of the period. Elizabeth's court was, to be sure, far more elaborate than that of her predecessors: she had a handmaiden whose sole purpose was to retrieve errant jewels that detached from the Queen's gowns. Byrne searched for visual cues in seminal books like Janet Arnold's Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, a recent Elizabethan exhibition at London's National Maritime Museum and Balenciaga's designs from the 1940s, which referenced 16th century Spanish court painting...