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...could match Chanel. In addition to hosting Mme. Kidman, Lagerfeld overloaded the runway with 99 models, including vintage strutters Naomi, Linda, Shalom and Amber. Each sported some rendition of the house's iconic tweed jacket, now cut in soft pastel colors, or a whiff of an evening dress in beaded chiffon. Nobody knows better than Lagerfeld that fashion is not about art but about selling clothes. Indeed, it may cost the house of Chanel millions of dollars to pull off the whole Kidman campaign. But why pinch pennies? At a trunk show at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City last...
...There was some tension,” he said of one particular rub up between Harvard tweed and newly christened Crimson Crazies. “But it was a good tension...
Ever since that whole “meritocracy” thing happened, true-blueblood Ivy Leaguers have had to use sartorial means to identify one another in a crowd. You know the drill: Brooks Brothers oxford button-down, ribbon belt, tweed jacket and—for the more sporting chap—a pastel Lacoste polo, collar upturned. But wait a second—weren’t half the people in your Tuesday morning Gov class wearing the exact same thing? Welcome to campus style, 2004: Retro preppy is in, and if the morning traffic across the Yard last...
GENEVA Conservative Swiss women are rushing to Celine on the Rue du Rhone to check out the black-and-white tweed Ella ($1,210), inspired by style icons like Audrey Hepburn...
...spokeswoman for jewelry company Harry Winston. "You see so much heavy-duty cashmere and fur in the stores. It hasn't been like this since the 1980s." Indeed, the fall collections are among the most extravagant in recent history, with fur trim and crystal beading showing up on every tweed coat and charmeuse evening dress. Thanks to the weak dollar against the euro, prices for these clothes are up a whopping 20%, but so are sales. Houses like Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Gucci have all reported double-digit increases in the second quarter...