Word: marchesas
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...attendees had the pleasure of watching models saunter down the runway in designer duds from a broad range of labels including Marc Jacobs, Marchesa, Banana Republic, and DKNY. These couture brands weren’t worn by professional models, but instead by 35 HBS students and their partners—including former beauty pageant winner Miss Malaysia...
Women designing for women was a strong theme on day five of New York Fashion Week. Designers including Monique L'Huillier, Georgina Chapman and runway newcomer Karen Craig of Marchesa trained their eyes on the celebs who wear their clothes (and sit front row at their shows), such as Sarah Michelle Geller and Mischa Barton, with lots of light airy goddess dresses. Or, in the case of Marchesa, several short puff ball dresses in cotton candy colors...
...Brueghel, David Teniers, and Frans Snyders. Not to be missed is Jacob Jordaens's amusing genre scene of a corpulent "Married With Children" type family entitled As the Old Ones Sing, So the Young Ones Pipe (1640-45). Also impressive are Van Dyck's stately, sweeping Portrait of the Marchesa Elena Grimaldi, and the massive, sixteen-foot Boar Hunt by Frans Snyders...
...thievery, bribery, betrayal and greed. In his first foray into popular fiction, Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and editor in chief of Connoisseur magazine, takes us into the international art arena, where a masterpiece has come up for auction. On the block is the Marchesa Odescalchi, a sexy full-length portrait by the 17th century Spanish master Diego Velasquez of his alleged mistress. Experts predict that the portrait will bring at least $11 million, an auction record for a single painting. Among the main competitors in the battle for the naked marchesa are two archrival...
...disappointments--Turner, for instance, is poorly represented --there are also some startling moments. It would be difficult to find a clearer or fresher Canaletto than his view of the Thames from Richmond House, for instance, or a more precocious early Rubens than his enormous, little- known portrait of the Marchesa Caterina Grimaldi from Kingston Lacy, or such a drop-dead showpiece of neoclassical metalwork as John Flaxman's silver- gilt Shield of Achilles, based on Homer's description of the "wonderful shield" wrought by Hephaestus in the Iliad...