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...bookstore in Boston, Commonwealth Books, lacks any such accoutrements. It’s a throwback to a time when bookstores did nothing but sell books. The branch by Boston Common is housed in a creaky building with multiple floors of small nooks, all overflowing with used books and distressed leather armchairs. Its Web site a is no-nonsense list of new stock and pictures of the store locations. Bookstores like Commonwealth rely on a small, hard-core demographic that is willing to pay a premium for the experience of book buying in spite of the convenience of Amazon.com or large...
...weeks later, a pricey half-moon of supple leather named the Muse bag was born. That was June 2005. By the end of summer, it was dangling from the arms of actresses and It girls like Demi Moore and Kate Moss, and by fall the mythic house of Yves Saint Laurent had itself a best seller...
...even a bit tousled. In the tearoom of the Plaza Athenée, around the corner from YSL's headquarters, Hermann stands out among the rich European women wearing tight jeans and toting suitcase-size designer bags. Angular and petite, she arrives carrying a miniversion of the patent-leather Downtown bag and unravels herself from an Army green trench coat to reveal a black-and-white checked dirndl skirt and sky-high sandals. Hermann confesses that she often blends her YSL wardrobe with other labels, like Hermès and even Monoprix, France's version of Target...
...21st century remix of 16th century style, the Tudors are more clothing obsessed than the average Teen Vogue reader. As a virile young Henry VIII on The Tudors, Jonathan Rhys Meyers comports himself as the world's first metrosexual, in taut leather shirts, fur doublets and enormous gems. The Other Boleyn Girl, scheduled for release early next year, is less salacious in its interpretation but no less compelling in the fashion stakes. Before the corpulence and the gout set in, Henry was a strapping King, and it's this image that inspired Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell, who conceived...
Then again, model Agyness Deyn was spotted recently in a leather ruff and farthingale by British designer Gareth Pugh. Silhouettes aside, designers this fall are offering a king's ransom of silk, satin, fur and jewel-like ornamentation that alone evoke the Tudor spirit. Oscar de la Renta showed ermine and chinchilla shrugs atop embroidered tulle. For Burberry Prorsum, Christopher Bailey referenced armor with a collection of austere leather coats, metal-studded dresses and black gauntlets that would not seem out of place in the Tower of London. Rodarte featured shimmering gold dresses fit for a nascent Queen...