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...HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT...
...working. According to François-Henri Pinault, CEO of Balenciaga owner PPR, Ghesquière has delivered higher figures than originally expected. "Balenciaga is an even more international brand than we thought," he said before the Stella McCartney show last Thursday. "He has a very strong image, but he is always challenging it. He is a searcher...
Enrico Cernuschi was a man of passion. Born in Milan in 1821, he was such a fiery supporter of Italian independence from Austrian rule that he was forced to flee to Paris in 1850. There he Frenchified his first name to Henri and channeled his energy toward more lucrative pursuits, helping to found the Banque de Paris. In 1871, appalled by the turmoil of the Paris Commune, a workers' revolution, he took himself and the young art critic Theodore Duret on a world tour, during which he focused on collecting Asian art. Voraciously acquisitive, he was as likely...
...American Spoon Sour Cherry Preserves ?A Fujifilm QuickSnap Flash camera ?A small tin of Trendy Mints from Henri Bendel, New York City ?A DVD of the 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, in which a teenage boy is masturbated by an adult ?The Harbor Springs Visitors Guide ?The Aug. 16 issue of the gay magazine the Advocate, whose cover featured a shirtless man and blared, SUMMER SEX ISSUE...
...Paris, the museum offers, as curator Gilles Bèguin eloquently puts it, an "aesthetic promenade," a kind of random walk through the earliest periods of Chinese art. And that is exactly what makes the Musèe Cernuschi unique among museums of Asia. Just what Enrico, or rather Henri, would have wanted...