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  Inès de la Fressange is a lovely dark-haired woman. So fascinating that when she was in her twenties she wrote Claude Lévi-Strauss, telling him that she would love working for him, even if it was just pouring him a cup of tea, the famous anthropologist replied that he was …

  The result is an array of comfortable, crease-resistant clothing which is ideal for modern globetrotters. Today the editor Taschen retraces the history of this project with a 600-page monograph, going over the genesis and development of this technique and the joint efforts with the artists which rendered it: from …

  In 1986 Anna Piaggi wrote a book, «Anna-Cronique, a diary of fashion». The drawings, sketches of the author’s clothing area performances are the work of Karl Lagerfeld, a devoted and constant admirer. After a hand-to-mouth beginning (“I translated detective books – she told me – and I made do …

  A SNEAKER CRAZE IS SWEEPING THROUGH HOLLYWOOD Having put away their super sexy Louboutin, Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik heels, celebrities are relenting and opting for more comfortable and practical shoes. There are those who remain faithful to the classic Converse and those who go for hi-tech styles. In …

  FEMININE ORANS FIGURE– CIBORIUM BAS-RELIEF– DATABILE TO THE FIRST HALF OF THE 12th CENTUYR– BASILICA DI SANT’AMBROGIO, MILAN   A wonderful example of 12th century civilized clothing: the face is chastely wrapped in blindfolds which indicate here the woman’s marital status. A round biretta towers atop the blindfolds: the …