Word: grumbach
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...While public figures and several designers in Italy expressed support for Nolita's ad campaign during the Milan fashion week, the campaign has also drawn criticism as runways are set to open in Paris this weekend. Didier Grumbach, head of the French Couture Federation, lashed out at the fashion house. "I find this absolutely scandalous," he told the AFP. "Winning notoriety through people's illness is painful. What we're seeing here is sensationalism by a label, to the detriment of an extremely serious social problem...
...with Melville, who was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach a generation before the French New Wave, which revered him, and took as his nom de cinema the name of the author of Moby Dick . It was intended as an homage to the things American that he admired - most particularly genre crime films. It is therefore an irony that his work is so little known in the United States, though Bob LeFlambeur, released here in the ?80s, about robbing the take at a Deauville casino, is the greatest heist movie I?ve ever seen. It is more than an irony...