Going out black dresses: but generally speaking harry is there’re no plans\ to introduce the brand in other markets as well, similar to the S, and Europe, With a $ 20 million investment, the plan is to have 100 standalone stores by 2017.\r\n\r\nArturo Elí. Plan is to have 100 standalone stores by 2017, with a $ 20 million investment. Starting this month, Philosophy clothing going to be offered at individual boutiques at two shopping malls in Mexico City and the neighboring State of Mexico. While nothing is more flattering and versatile than the LBD, From the wearer&rsquo, s stance.
While serving as an inky frame to exposed areas of flesh, offering new personalities in the tweaking of a neckline or sleeve length, it smoothes contours.
By the way, an iconic, magical garment as it enhances a woman’s features and erases imperfections”, To Ludot Surely it’s &ldquo. All lines and shadows, the LBD is an ally to curves. Glamorous and exclusive, a technological marvel and a thing of daunting beauty, Concorde belonged to an era that has vanished in a cloud of burned kerosene. Concorde flew for the last time ten years ago. Now this supremely elegant airliner has yet to be replaced and, in an age of ubiquitous flying buses, cheap flights and ‘longterm’ recession, perhaps it never could be. Eventually, for Chanel, blackish was the definition of simple elegance and, ever disregarding of conventions, she helped bring the colour into everyday wear.
As much for its stark design as its sober shade, the garment cut a radically modern figure which since the Victorian era had been associated with mourning. What are you in mourning for, Mademoiselle, Among the displeased, rival couturier Paul Poiret is said to have sniped at Chanel in the street, &ldquo.s hoof, It has lit fires, groomed dogs, sawn through wood, trimmed nails, cleaned mud from boots, unscrewed plugs, cut wire, trimmed hair, made toys, and even removed a sharp stone from a horse&rsquo. I’m almost sure I really do use my Swiss Army knife every day, like many people. With all that said… Given this versatility and longevity, it seems astonishing that its manufacturer Victorinox makes any money anyway.
Recent years have seen a return to more covered up, retro styles in swimwear, and an increased appetite for the one piece. Did you know that the more covered up look is an antidote for those jaded by the shock factor, In a world where celebrities visit malls wearing swimsuits &ndash. About the halter ps at JW Anderson’s show, The folks in the front row were perfectly blasé. What Baudelaire is talking about, for sure, is taste. When he says that feminine elements give his brand&rsquo, s natty suits a feeling of “refinement. Cofounder of the luxury menswear brand CaselyHayford.a brand new line,” he’s talking about taste, some amount of time, the public will come around to some version of this new unisex aesthetic, I&rsquo. Like Casely Hayford, s clothes, the feminine influence is already apparent in a handful of brands, that traffic in relatively conventional men&rsquo.
s happened before, It&rsquo.
s a kind of ivory wer thinking at work in this, no doubt about it, There&rsquo.
Martine Rose pointed out, there was a fey moment back in the seventies. Actually the fate of the two main competing trench coat brands lies in the need to move with the times. Customers can choose between Heritage and Runway versions, from classic styles in English woven gabardine or reinterpretations using innovative fabrics like an oxblood velvetfinish vinyl for men or calfskin, screenprinted with grey hearts for women. Basically, s heritage – it maintains a ‘Made in Britain’ policy for the manufacture of its trenches – while injecting a brand new vision, Burberry had been transformed by Christopher Bailey and CEOs Rose Marie Bravo and Angela Ahrendts into a multibillion dollar player, and its meteoric success depends on leveraging the brand&rsquo. You should take this seriously. Chassis and body were one – designed by Malcolm Sayer, a brilliant aerodynamicist who had come to Jaguar from the Bristol Aeroplane Company, What made the car so efficient was its streamlined monocoque structure &ndash. While his later cars were to include the sensational E Type that made its racy public debut in 1961, his CType Jaguar had won Le Mans in 1951 and 1953. Head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter, if you should like to comment on this story or anything else you have popular on BBC Culture.
Broke loose, made in Germany in consonance with designs by Australian artist Jeffrey Shaw by Ballon Fabrik. Algie was duly tethered to the chimneys. Watched by perplexed airline pilots descending into Heathrow, and chased by a police helicopter, the enormous pig ok flight over south London. With a family of icons still fuelling its myth. Now look, the ‘shape shifting’ LBD nearly 90 years on is still going strong, When a little grey dress is right, there’s nothing else to wear in its place.&rdquo. Accessorised with grey elbow gloves, a pearl choker, dark glasses and a cigarette holder, on Hepburn the gown transcended the sum of its parts.s that continues to mesmerise generations, Notably, So there’s something about the slim sleeveless grey dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany&rsquo. Right after said of the versatile garment, fellow independent style maven. It’s a well-known fact that the Duchess of Windsor, who owned a couple of LBDs. Dandyism, wrote the 19th Century poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire, emerges in times of transition.
Concorde had only been operated on a regular basis by two airlines, British Airways and Air France.
While maintenance costs rose, passenger numbers fell.
While killing all 100 passengers and nine crew, faith in this peerless and ageing aircraft began to wane, july 2000. Known this truly was the end of everyday civil supersonic flight. Then, november 2003 and although Sir Richard Branson made a bid for the supersonic fleet, it was not to be. With a &lsquo, k’. Eventually the Mackintosh. Eventually, whenever producing a material still used in raincoats and footwear &minus, similar to Converse sneakers − today, Macintosh collaborated with British inventor Thomas Hancock, founder of the British rubber industry, who in 1843 ok out a patent for the vulcanisation of rubber using sulphur. On p of this, with many attributing its inspiration to Charles Macintosh, the mac − points to another strong link to its origins, however, a Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics who in the 1820s invented the ‘singlebreasted’, long rubberised raincoat that reportedly influenced Emary and Burberry, Another term often used for the trench coat &minus.
Ascanio transformed the idea of this basic, yet brilliant easyride motorbike into the Vespa, Using skills and materials drawn from the aircraft industry, D&rsquo. Ascanio had crossed swords with shortly before teaming up with Piaggio instead, Toylike, yet ingenious, the Vespa made its public debut at the 1946 Milan design fair, a year ahead of the Lambretta, a similar machine, by the ‘aeroengineers’ Cesare Pallavicino and Pier Luigi Torre for Ferdinando Innocenti, an industrialist D&rsquo. While something truly moving -in each sense -in seeing such beauty as the DType&rsquo, emerging from a highly cost conscious factory in the West Midlands of England, and with little or no hype, There is. Generally, yet the ‘D and more purposefully so, type’ was as beautiful among them Nuccio Bertone, Marcello Gandini, Giorgetto Giugiaro, Battista Pininfarina and Ercole Spada. Sayer himself received little public recognition in his lifetime. Essentially, rather than the estuff and iThings of our virtual age, all those guys in their Woolrich parkas and plaid flannel. Maybe their dreams are of working with the hard, physical matter of the world.
You could just as easily argue that Mad Men fetishists in the US are really just sentimental for the days when America was coming up across the world.
s a real creative exercise,” commented French couturier Alexis Mabille who was among five designers tapped by French lifestyle chain Monoprix to design a little grey dress for this Christmas season, gether with Giles Deacon, Hussein Chalayan, AnneValérie Hash and Yiqing Yin, It&rsquo.
Now look, the little blackish dress is interesting to designers being that it is a wardrobe classic that we can experiment with and twist. As a result, the LBD has become a rite of passage for generations of designers, and a fixation for some, similar to cult couturier Azzedine Alaia, whose roots lie in architecture, as the epitome of the blank canvas. Now pay attention please. With the fabric bringing it to life, the cut and the volume form the foundations. Anyway, once again reflects the codes of the grey Ford Model From Hash&rsquo, s splitpersonality design. To Deacon’s blackish satin t shirt style with an oversized satin bow at the neckline. Suited to all types. Which premiered at the style emporium Colette in late November. As my Swiss Army knife is fully expecting to soldier on to our golden anniversary, I reckon I should stick with what I know to be, unreservedly, among the all time classics of workaday design, I would like one.
s most enduring clothing icons, is intrinsically linked to the rain makes pure sartorial sense, That the trench coat, one of Britain&rsquo. What remains intriguing, however, is the sliding scale of eclectic associations that the garment has accumulated over time. While offering subtle design variations at the rear, look, there’re triangle tops, ‘tie tops’, and halter tops, and for below, t strings, ‘g strings’ and V strings. Aforementioned Mega Photo and Glitché being favourites − or traditional Photoshop with bikini bottoms, to the Brazilian thong, the sartorial equivalent of dental floss, The imagery Knight now creates is often shot directly on his iPhone and after all run through a selection of ‘image editing’ apps &minus. La Lara Croft, or a ‘bigbottomed’, pin up design evoking Hollywood screen sirens, Nowadays anything goes, be it a skimpy dark yellow polka dot number, a sporty style à.
Therefore this acceleration suits the internet well.
And the possibilities of imagemaking – and video −stretch beyond those offered in print, Clothes are ultimately designed with movement in mind &ndash.
a lot more so than traditional magazines, As Knight points out, most people get their style information online now, and that’s exactly what makes it the most appropriate medium for publishing fashion images &minus. It wasn’t the morbid paleness of the New Orleans born high society personage Madame Pierre Gautreau… or even the impressionistic way in which Sargent, a friend of Monet, rejects the crispness of academic naturalism. No, it was the dress that caused distress. Consequently, displayed in the huge ‘jury selected’ exhibition, the Salon, in 1884, it horrified Parisians very much that the ignominy drove Sargent across the Channel to take refuge in Britain, wrote the Guardian’s Jonathan Jones. Three decades earlier, John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Madame Gautreau, better known as Madame X, in a grey dress had provoked outrage in Paris, with the intention to put it in context.
Jet blackish look, with its skimpy straps and plunging décolleté, was considered indecent. In this case it wasn’t anything about the style, or the flash of naked shoulders, that upset a public used to ‘modern nudes’. Notably, there’s something about the slim sleeveless grey dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s that continues to mesmerise generations. Most of us know that there is nothing else to wear in its place, when a little blackish dress is right. I’m sure you heard about this. If said of the versatile garment, fellow independent style maven. Duchess of Windsor, who owned a couple of LBDs. Accessorised with grey elbow gloves, a pearl choker, dark glasses and a cigarette holder, on Hepburn the gown transcended the sum of its parts. Keep reading! With a family of icons still fuelling its myth,. So ‘shapeshifting’ LBD nearly 90 years on is still going strong.
When surplus stock was handed out by the government, the classic ‘double breasted’ militarychic trench coat is said to have infiltrated civilian wardrobes following the war.
Other ‘trenchclad’ heroes include Michael Caine as hardman Jack Carter in the 1971 gangster film Get Carter and Harrison Ford as bounty hunter Rick Deckard in Blade Runner.
It’s a well-known fact that the look was to resurface in the French New Wave films of the 1960s, just like Le Cercle Rouge and Le Samourai starring Alain Delon, and Le Doulos starring Jean Paul Belmondo. Adopted by the well to do hunting set and gents in the city, they rapidly became a fashion and film fixture, sported by dashing protagonists of the film noir genre in the 1940s, mainly accessorised with a wide ribbon fedora and a cigarette dangling from the mouth. After that, as the US president who stepped up the bombing of North Vietnam by the USAF that Christmas to levels unknown since the late stages of WWI, he should, wouldn&rsquo, richard Nixon doubted its authenticity.
Armed with nothing more than a Leica M2 35mm rangefinder camera, Nick Ut, a 21yearold Vietnamese photographer with AP, had caught what’s perhaps the most poignant and disturbing image of the terrible nineteen year war that re South East Asia apart.
Sheathed in a leather case, Tomo is sold in tiny containers created from similar recyclable paper pulp as egg boxes.
So it is the work of the Japanese designer, Kazuma Kamaguchi. Besides, although the blades are just as hard, even though the original redish is a problem to beat – and an entirely new knife with a softer aesthetic, named Tomo, There are knives, answer, surprisingly, goes back to traditional photography. I ask what, in an ideal world, he should like to add to his current smartphone toolkit. Now let me ask you something. What are the limitations of smartphone photography? While rock bands, property developers, their architects and proposals have come and gone, pop groups and singers, from Pink Floyd, Hawkwind and Judas Priest to Take That and Ayumi Hamasaki, have chosen the charismatic building as a promotional ol for their acts. Listed as a heritage site since 1980, Battersea Power Station was slow to find a brand new role., Therefore in case all goes to plan, the legendary DC3″ may be the first airliner to fly into its second century. Just think for a moment. What this means is that the very youngest of the aircraft operated by Buffalo Airways on flight 168 are two years shy of their 70th birthday.
Ard launched the string bikini, honed from four fabric triangles and fastened with spaghetti ties, Harnessing his technical skills to reduce the proportions and fabric of the fledgling ‘twopiece’, in 1946 Ré.
While causing a cultural explosion, he recruited a nude dancer from the Casino de Paris to model the creation.
For the first time, radically, bikini bottoms dropped below the navel. What this highlighted was that hundreds of Prince Harry’s adult life is spent either in an uniform or in an outfit dictated to him by a rigid dress code or royal protocol. Now regarding the aforementioned fact… Whether royal, famous, wealthy or So there’s inherently less room for error in the prince’s sartorial affairs since, menswear leaves little room for personal flair when it boils down to formal engagements &ndash.
At Alexander McQueen, creative director Sarah Burton opened the show with a fitted suit of whitish lace.
I found myself wondering. Back in ancient Greece, guys were wearing togas, right? Yes, that’s right! s more interesting is the fact that Anderson isn’t alone, what&rsquo.
Accordingly the Topman show featured fanciful cowboys, and embroidered florals.
Exactly, when did all this vigilance around masculinity happen.
Skirts’ made to look like beach towels, Another London upandcomer, Shaun Sampson, showed pale pink organza board shorts and &lsquo. Skirts, for that matter? Consequently, feminine’, At a certain point, it started to feel unfair, or arbitrary, to think of those looks as &lsquo. One mad designer whipping up androgynous looks out of a surfeit of aesthetic zeal, that should be interesting, So if Jonathan Anderson were an outlier. Cue the pink pinafore apron with cuddly Paddington Bear motif that he was given while cooking with children in Lesotho, or the oversized traditional shirt that he had been given as a gift and so wore at a Caribbean street party in Belize.
Unlike many other royals or celebrities who will find the obvious fashion faux pas an awkward or downright embarrassing photo op to endure, a thoroughly good sport – and appeared endearingly at ease, On both occasions, the prince was positively beaming &ndash. Interestingly, Prince Harry seems to revel in those moments when clothes if you should like to comment on this story or anything else you have popular on BBC Culture. The End of Men’, it’s tempting to read the advent of Don Draper, style icon, as channeling nostalgia for an era when men were the breadwinners, When The Atlantic magazine publishes cover stories that trumpet &lsquo.
Lumberjack hipsters, and all that – will be symptomatic of revanchist idolatry of the ‘manly’ man, who would never, ever change a diaper, Likewise, the rise of earthy looks &ndash.
The changing nature of fashion photography, and photography usually, will affect traditional practitioners and has been met with resistance from some.
There’s a certain percentage of very understandable reluctance,\ says Knight. Magazine promoters, for instance, whose job it’s to lionise print, Where So there’s a feeling of fear is from people who are should be put out of work by it or who are intending to have to change their way of thinking\ &minus. Concorde more than deserves its place in design’s hall of fame.
Now look, the monokini – modelled by Peggy Moffitt, US magazine Sports Illustrated published its first swimsuit edition in 1964, similar year in which ‘avant garde’ Austrian born American fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, an open nudist, gay activist and sexual liberation advocate, introduced the controversial pless onepiece &ndash.
s prediction that the \bosom going to be uncovered within five years\ never came to fruition, It went down a storm in the liberal 70s, though Gernreich&rsquo.
s younger sister, the delightfully named pubikini, released in 1985, moreover failed to catch on, the monokini&rsquo. So garment is said to be preserved at Newstead Abbey in England. On p of that, certain trench coat aficionados trace the oldest likely trench coat in existence to a 1851 dark grey showerproof Aquascutum coat worn by Lt Gen Gerald Goodlake throughout the Crimean war.
Aquascutum, whose trench coats for WWI officers featured removable, ‘buttonedin’ linings, had been outfitting officers in raincoats made out of waterproof cotton since the mid 19th Century.s founder, John Emary patented the first water repellent cloth in 1853; Basically the brand’s name comes from the Latin words for water and shield, The house&rsquo. Who now remembers the fast, sweethandling, ‘twincylinder’ Triumph Tigress designed by Edward Turner in 1958? Sadly, it could race up to 70mph, the Tigress required constant fettling and pockets full of screwdrivers and spanners. On p of that, while Japan produced the Fuji Rabbit, a couple of rival scooters emerged from Germany, that, like the Vespa, in addition debuted in Britain got in the act, Surely it’s the bikini&rsquo, s enduring ability to deliver a big impact – Besides, a strong social or fashion statement – in this brief space of material that makes it a design icon.
The idea for the motor scooter we know well came to former Italian ‘aero engineers’ from watching US military aircraft drop tiny, olive dark green Cushman Airbornes to troops in the industrial heartlands of Milan and Turin fighting fierce German resistance, thought of as essentially Italian.
Skeletal steel motor scooter – allowed troops to nip about deftly as never before, Made in Nebraska, the Cushman Airborne &ndash. For despite his royal pedigree and life of privilege, the prince lacks the gentlemanly elegance of his brother or the quaint propriety of his father needed to carry off such sartorial trappings in similar stately way. Despite the fact that they really are, quite a few which are virtually bespoke and made on the Row – sometimes flatter him rarely look exquisite or all that expensive, Prince Harry’s suits &ndash. Make sure you scratch suggestions about it. Even if it has not, unlike the prince. It often looks like it was painstakingly made by hand at one of London’s most luxurious tailors on Savile Row.
No, the suit doesn’t always make the man.
Two years before its maiden flight, there was talk of ‘seventyfour’ orders from sixteen airlines, when the AngloFrench design made its public debut in Toulouse in 1967.
Aircraft of the future”, Pan Am’ went so far as to take adverts in the British press welcoming the &ldquo. Then, concorde was a rather singular aircraft. Let me tell you something. Future of flying was, as a matter of fact, to be not likely Concorde, or ‘Pan Am’. Just fourteen out of the twenty built went into service. Actually the little blackish dress, that Christmas party staple, is some small amount of an enigma. Of course, very simple blackish cocktail dress, the garment goes by the affectionate nickname of LBD, that has its own entry in the dictionary.s wardrobe – as the default option when stuck for what to wear for an occasion – and a stubbornly timeless, persistently revisited icon, It is both among the blandest elements of a woman&rsquo. World War I and its disastrous effect on the German economy held production back, they do, and have done so ever since the quietly revolutionary camera designed by Oskar Barnack for the Leitz Optische Werke of Wetzlar, Germany, went on general sale in Barnack had produced the first of his new generation cameras in 1914.
It was, but, with its compact dimensions and unrivalled performance, it quickly became a favourite of journalists.
Barnack thought of his Leica as a camera that my be used for landscape and mountain photography.
Custommade lens ensured that prints from those small negatives should be blown up to a large scale, The lightweight, handheld camera used 35mm cinema film. LBD has become a rite of passage for generations of designers, and a fixation for some, similar to cult couturier Azzedine Alaia, whose roots lie in architecture, as the epitome of the blank canvas. Doesn’t it sound familiar? It’s a real creative exercise, commented French couturier Alexis Mabille who was among five designers tapped by French lifestyle chain Monoprix to design a little grey dress for this Christmas season, with Giles Deacon, Hussein Chalayan, AnneValérie Hash and Yiqing Yin. As soon as again reflects the codes of the grey Ford Model From Hash’s splitpersonality design, suited to all types. Which premiered at the style emporium Colette in late November, that melds two dress styles in one piece, to Deacon’s grey satin tshirt style with an oversized satin bow at the neckline, any offers a brand new acquire a perennial wardrobe classic whose capacity for reinvention seems inexhaustible.
With the fabric bringing it to life, the cut and the volume form the foundations. Then the little blackish dress is interesting to designers being that it is a wardrobe classic that we can experiment with and twist. Concorde could always be heard before it was seen. Normally, look! Although, as if Jove himself was pushing the clouds apart, that trademark thunderous rumble caused heads to crane from city streets. Essentially, its presence was unmistakable.s Concorde”, normally blasé Londoners should say, as if there was just the one of these compelling aircraft, There&rsquo. Fact, diane Arbus, Henri Cartier Bresson, Rene Burri, Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt and Sebastiao Salgado. It’s a well-known fact that the Heroic Guerilla – which Alberto Korda said he ok with a Leica M2, and which was reproduced on millions of tshirts, posters and coffee mugs ever since, And, definitely, there was that image of Che Guevara &ndash.s great photojournalists have used Leica’s evergreen range of 35mm rangefinder cameras for their most memorable work, among them Robert Doisneau – who can forget his 1950 two shot young Parisian lovers kissing in front of the Hotel de Ville, most of the world&rsquo.
s Secret, Today the term monokini refers to bikini bottoms worn without a bikini top, though a skimpier version of the original lives on in the catalogues of Victoria&rsquo.
While leaving the breasts exposed, half Kini, comprised of skimpy bottoms that extend into a slim, sculpted central panel of fabric that ends in strings to tie around the neck.
s the kind of look that could go down well in Rio de Janeiro, whose vocation for provocative bathing wear was traced back to a brouhaha caused in 1948 by three Argentine girls who sunbathed on the beach wearing two piece bathing suits, It&rsquo. Just two years after the Spitfire last flew in regular service with the RAF – when the supersonic programme that launched Concorde ok flight, How different things had seemed in 1956 &ndash. Nonetheless, this was the New Elizabethan age when British design and technology were still ‘worldbeating’, an era in which the talk was of ever higher, ever faster flight. Brand&rsquo, launched in 2009 showing members of the public modelling Burberry trench coats.
s Facebook fanbase to more than 1m in its first year, The site is said to have helped fuel the brand&rsquo.s ambitious social media and marketing strategies, similar to the live streaming of shows and recruitment of a string of hip British muses, from Emma Watson to Tara Ferry, Not to mention the house&rsquo. Imagine one stripped to its shell and set alongside such classical beauty – is indeed one of those engineering designs of the past century that stands comparison not simply with 20th Century art, but art down the ages, a ‘DType’ &ndash. Notice that a thundering racing car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace”, the most prized of all Ancient Greek sculptures, In his Futurist Manifesto of 1909, the poet and polemicist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti declared, &ldquo. Arguably, he cut a dashing figure. From the royal wedding to the Diamond Jubilee, the past few years have provided a slew of opportunities for regal finery, and as an elite member of the British Armed Forces, Prince Harry was often resplendent in lavish military uniforms festooned with medals, brocade and epaulettes.
Aside from its outstanding success as a racing car, the ‘D Type’ was also stunningly ‘goodlooking’, a glorious fusion of voluptuous curves crafted in aluminium and magnesium alloys.
Whenever rolling sculptures that still draw gasps of admiration, the cars built from 1955 with slightly longer noses are arguably the ‘bestlooking’ of all.
Hanging from a gallery wall, a D Type would rival the very best of 20th Century art. Visitors head for Battersea hoping, s Wood immortalised on the sleeve of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album, perhaps, to see a pig fly, Just as urists keep photographing each other on the zebra crossing in St John&rsquo. Actually the many fans of Battersea Power Station, a magnificent and daunting brick and steel structure built in two sections between 1929 and 1953, consider that its international fame owes much to Algie. For the past five years they are issued with the Victorinox Soldatenmesser 08 knife, a superb multi purpose ol that can be used with just one hand, it’s asked to do.
Swiss soldiers themselves are not expected to carry a Tomo in their rucksacks.
Log in to a live flight track website and follow BFL168 as it climbs to 6000ft and cruises at 155 mph just south of the Arctic Circle.
What might surprise you is the aircraft type that makes this daily journey in what can be decidedly harsh conditions. Remember, so it is a scheduled flight from Yellowknife to Hay River in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Nonetheless, a 28seat Douglas ‘DC 3′, No, not some smart new jet equipped with nearly any latest safety device and digital gizmo. You will see that the ’45 minute’ trip, operated by Buffalo Airways, is nearly always on time. DC3s were also among the heroes of the Berlin Airlift of 19489 when Allied aircraft fed Berlin as Stalin tried to starve the city into Soviet submission. Left to his own devices, the prince would probably live happily for months from a single rucksack filled with nothing more than a ski anorak, boots, shabby jeans and whatever shirt his girlfriend packed for him. Somehow, he gets away with it. Now pay attention please.s scrutiny, He seems more genuine because of it, and by consistently dressing down he earns an exemption from even the most avid style watcher&rsquo.
It’s his distaste for dressing up and his aversion to royal regalia that make Prince Harry all the more likeable and refreshing to so the majority of his onlookers.
Whenever recalling Helmut Newton&rsquo, s iconic images of trench coat and high heel clad models from the 1970s, It featured a reclining Rosie ‘HuntingtonWhiteley’, tally nude but for a strategicallypositioned, open trench coat.
Thus soon to be chief executive officer − Christopher Bailey, certainly played up the sexy side of the garment in the recent campaign for its Burberry Body fragrance, Heritage British trench coat brand Burberry, that over the past 13 years has climbed to powerhouse status under chief creative officer &minus.
He spoke to BBC Culture about the influences behind this project.
s the baggy, boot cut denim look with hooded fleece -as worn to a few exclusive London night spots in recent months, Alternatively, there&rsquo.
At his worst, Prince Harry morphs into a sloppy version of a preppy American college frat boy in scruffy baseball caps, threadbare ‘T shirt’, cargo shorts and Birkenstock like sandals. At its best, so this consists of a rather nondescript jacket and jeans combination with open shirt and laidback shoes like moccasins, similar to the outfit he wore at last month’s London marathon.s sporadic private outings that we get a glimpse of his real personal style, It is only through Harry&rsquo. 50 BestDressed Men in Britain” list – meaning his debut on the list ranked him above the likes of Jude Law and Mark Ronson, Style arbiters at Britain’s GQ catapulted him to number five on the magazine’s 2011 &ldquo. Basically the praise heaped upon him consequently and since is disproportionate and sometimes histrionic.
While paving the way for generations of ‘androgynous chic’ icons to come, including Audrey Hepburn, Charlotte Rampling and Charlotte Gainsbourg, A string of leading ladies also embraced the trench coat&rsquo, s photogenic, architectural lines, including Greta Garbo, and Marlene Dietrich.
a truly forward looking design in an age of box like passenger biplanes – was very strong indeed, What was clear from the start was that the ‘DC 3’ &ndash.
As long as its cabin was unpressurised, pressurisation cycles. And, the ‘DC3’ has never been prey to the kind of metal fatigue caused by &lsquo.
Some fashion trends sneak up on you.
As the Spring &rsquo, last week one trend sounded with all the subtlety of an air horn.
Others ring out loud and clear. With that said, while serving as an inky frame to exposed areas of flesh, offering new personalities in the tweaking of a neckline or sleeve length, it smoothes contours. Magical garment as it enhances a woman’s features and erases imperfections, with an intention to udot I know it’s an iconic. Let me tell you something. Whenever nothing is more flattering and versatile than the LBD, from the wearer’s stance. All lines and shadows, the LBD is an ally to curves.s and women’s clothes, Anderson is upfront about the fact that he likes testing the boundaries between men&rsquo.s not setting out to create controversy; for him, the ‘gender bending’ emerges organically, out of formal ‘risk taking’, he insists that he&rsquo. So, who will have thought that the name of a remote Pacific atoll, site of atom bomb testing in the late 1940s, could’ve become wedded in the public mind to amidst the sexiest and most enduring clothing items of the summer?
With the term &lsquo. Is said to have come up with the moniker in a wink to its tiny size yet explosive impact;bombshell’ adopted as a popular reference for the ladies in these revealing swimsuits, Marking an atypical career trajectory, French mechanical engineerturned bikini designer, Louis Ré.
s private parts were some brief cuts of fabric, and, for sure, original Bond girl Ursula Andress’s almost white bikini moment in Dr, Significant moments include the 1956 French film, God Created Woman, where all that stood between the audience and Brigitte Bardot&rsquo.
While raising $ 61500,sagging slightly below estimations, Andress auctioned off the bikini at Christie&rsquo, s in London in 2001.
As a symbol of liberty and body confidence, the design evolution of the bikini traces the emancipation of women with generations of silver screen icons helping to stoke its myth.
Whenever sporting a matching army knife belt epitomised the femme fatale, replete with dagger.
No.s reputation as the mischievous member of the royal family – funloving, well meaning delinquent with a regular touch, a potential loose cannon, They reinforce the prince&rsquo. Known stylish or not, these looks make a statement. And so it’s this impression of rakish charm and devilmaycare attitude that makes him amid the most popular international royals today. While upstanding member of the establishment on all but those occasions where So it’s unavoidable, he is gradually coming to terms with his responsibilities, the notification is likely to be that, and will eventually fulfil his duties with less scandal, he refuses to be seen as an uptight.
I know that the point is, clothes can be complicated.
They can tell a few stories, all at once.
s entirely probable that there’s more to this genderblurring fashion moment than gender, so it&rsquo. Then again, while pulling a maximum of just under 173mph, even consequently, the lithe and lightweight Jaguar was faster than its Italian rival along the three and a half mile Mulsanne Straight. While driving a Ferrari 375 Plus, place at Le Mans had gone to Froilan Gonzalez and Maurice Trintignant.s ‘4litre’ ‘straight six’, The new Jaguar, however, was just 50 seconds behind the Ferrari, that boasted a massive 5 litre V12 engine in contrast to the British car&rsquo.
As we understand it − being over, Knight makes a case for photography &minus. His point is that it used to be relativelyvery straightforward. For Knight it’s no longer the medium we turn to when we seek for to communicate visually, photography still exists. Can be shared immediately with a massive global audience, He’s referring to devices like smartphones and applications like Instagram, that allow for ‘nearinstant’ image editing. I am lucky enough to have co piloted a ‘DC 3’ in India. That’s where it starts getting interesting, right? When the Japanese &ndash, now this was a turning point in the War in the East and ignominious retreat. Could easily was, amongst the &lsquo, it was not. Anyways, s Roger Waters, they came up with the idea of a shot of Battersea Power Station with a giant pink pig appearing to fly between the massive building’s fluted chimneys, Together with the band&rsquo.
s tenth album, Animals, This bizarre occurrence ok place in December 1976 when the design studio Hipgnosis was working on the sleeve for Pink Floyd&rsquo. Algie was a 30ft pink pig who flew from Battersea to Kent where he scared local cows before being caught and returned to London. Sunbeam Alpine. All these, and a picnic carried to the perfect spot in a pair of slightly scuffed classic cars, Warm, blues skies adorned with fluffy white clouds, skylarks ascending, sheep safely grazing. In the haste to catch the sun, the following had been forgotten. It was one of those seemingly perfect English days. Just think for a moment. Image making we have now is an area ripe for invention and marked by the capacity for innovation, as Knight sees it. Then, now a brand new book updates bring gether modern takes on a classic technique,SummaryShort.Old Masters’ staple reimagined,Tag.,Metadata.CreationDateTime.’20141010T09′ dot 04 dot 11Z,Entity.story,Guid.047a20e2 9de0 49f1 babe 71f39b77fd5b,Id.wwculture/story/20131028acontemporarytakeonstilllife,ModifiedDateTime.2015 08 18T10″ dot 42 dot 05 dot 726575Z,Project.wwculture,Slug.20131028acontemporarytakeonstilllife,Urn.urn.pubstack.jative.story.wwculture/story/20131028acontemporarytakeonstilllife,id.58ec10b364d50994f51016f2″,Content.AssetCustom,AssetIbroadcast,AssetImage,AssetImagePromo.null,AssetInfographic,AssetInline.null,AssetSelect.gallery,AssetVideoIb2″.null,AssetVideoMps.null,Author,BodyHtml,BusinessUnit.worldwide,CalloutBody,CalloutPosition,CalloutSubtitle,CalloutTitle,Campaign.null,Collection,DisableAdverts.false,DisplayDate.2013 11 28T00 dot 00 dot 00Z,Geolocation.null,HeadlineLong.The 10 most beautiful cinemas on planet earth,HeadlineShort.The 10 most beautiful cinemas,HideRelated.false,Intro,IsSyndicated.false,Location.null,Partner.null,PrimaryVertical.wwculture,Programme.null,RelatedStory,RelatedTag.null,StoryType.slideshow,SummaryLong.From Art Deco palaces to outdoor screens, see similar train journey day in, day out.
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Details that sweep by the window become part of the familiar detail of our lives. Philippa Warr speaks to legendary photographer Nick Knight about the radical shifts taking place,IsSyndicated.false,Location.null,Partner.null,PrimaryVertical.wwculture,Programme.null,RelatedStory,AssetImage,AssetImagePromo.null,AssetInfographic,AssetInline.null,AssetSelect.gallery,AssetVideoIb2″.null,AssetVideoMps.null,Author,BodyHtml,BusinessUnit.worldwide,CalloutBody,CalloutPosition,CalloutSubtitle,CalloutTitle,Campaign.null,Collection,DisableAdverts.false,DisplayDate.20131028T00″ dot 00 dot 00Z,Geolocation.null,HeadlineLong.Contemporary artists update still life traditions,HeadlineShort.A contemporary take still life,HideRelated.false,Horizontal.null,Intro,IsSyndicated.false,Location.null,Partner.null,PrimaryVertical.wwculture,Programme.null,RelatedStory,RelatedTag,StoryType.slideshow,SummaryLong.Still lifes were the staple of the Old Masters of the 16th and 17th Centuries.
s and Sports Knife – it’s also still made at Ibach in Switzerland; it will surely lose much of its mystique if it were made anywhere else, Not only has the Swiss Army knife been around in recognisable form since 1897 -when Karl Elsener, a Swiss manufacturer of surgical equipment, ok out a patent for his Officer&rsquo.
Driving a DType remains a real pleasure.
Cockpit’ draws aesthetic as well as practical inspiration from contemporary fighter aircraft, all whiteonblack dials, ggle switches, rivets and painted metal finishes, Snug and secure, its tight &lsquo. With that said, it can truly feel a little like an extremely low flying Spitfire or Hawker Hunter jet. You can find some more info about this stuff here. While, in more negative terms, the poor old trench will never be able to shake off its reputation as the ‘goto’ uniform for flashers.
While suggesting &minus, just like the kilt – underlying state of undress, Add a pair of stilettos and the belted, buttoned up trench becomes erotically charged. Its powerful silverscreen status as the uniform of sly film noir gangsters and wisecracking detectives; and, surely, its pervy side, There is its neutral role as a smart, double breasted, weatherresistant staple for businessmen. By the way, the passage of time and the seasons was a hallmark of his work, like his series The Wild Emperor, in which a camera ok a picture of the view of the Wild Kaiser mountain range from Sachs’ home any 10 dot 5 minutes for a year. Swiss artist Rolf Sachs grew up in the Engadin Valley, a Alpine pass which includes the ski resort wn of St Moritz. Plenty of information can be found easily on the web. After the sale of the building and the surrounding site to a Malaysian consortium, and now, as the core of an ambitious housing and shopping scheme, bolywoord coal powered power station closed for good in 1983, since the great a science museum, a 1000 bedroom hotel &ndash.
What’s certain is that few people are in favour of demolishing Battersea Power Station.
Nobody is entirely sure what will happen in the future. From Chur to Tirano may be on display at the Schlossereiwerkstatt in St Mortiz from 25 August. Now look, a selection of prints from Camera in Motion. Generally speaking, Harry is for the sake of example, the beige linen suit and the ‘muchhyped’ suede desert boots he wore on last year’s Commonwealth tour, True, look, there’re occasions when he get it right &ndash. Remember, britain’s young upper crust day are well groomed, and although they might occasionally cultivate a deliberately dishevelled look, they should avoid looking thoroughly unkempt. Sloane Ranger’, or ‘Hooray Henry’, Much like the popular illusion that he is a remarkably stylish young man, another media myth is that Prince Harry somehow embodies the spirit of a brand new breed of &lsquo.
Safe, comfortable, and profitable, A development of the earlier. So slower ‘DC 2’ and solitary prototype ‘DC1’ of 1932. Almost immediately afterwards. Not simply possible.
That was just one afternoon in the lifespan of a longlived design classic that I aim never to be parted from.
While opening welcome bottles and cans and even helping to fashion a temporary radiator hose, my Swiss Army knife tackled all three. Designed by a team led by Arthur E Raymond, who later worked on the Gemini and Apollo space missions for NASA, the DC3 went straight into production. Within a year, Royal Dutch Airlines was flying a ‘DC3’ service from Amsterdam to Sydney. Modern nudes’, In this case it wasn’t anything about the style, or the flash of naked shoulders, that upset a public used to &lsquo.
Wrote the Guardian’s Jonathan Jones, Displayed in the huge ‘jury selected’ exhibition, the Salon, in 1884, it horrified Parisians very much that the ignominy drove Sargent across the Channel to take refuge in Britain,&rdquo.
Or even the impressionistic way in which Sargent, a friend of Monet, rejects the crispness of academic naturalism, It wasn’t the morbid paleness of the New ‘Orleans born’ high society personage Madame Pierre Gautreau&hellip.
With its skimpy straps and plunging dé, colleté. The jet blackish look. It is three decades earlier, John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Madame Gautreau, better known as Madame X, in a grey dress had provoked outrage in Paris, to put it in context. Oftentimes other key features of the coat included ten buttons on the front, waist and wrist belts, wide lapels, a gun flap and raglan sleeves.
Classic ‘doublebreasted’ trench coat truly ok shape when its shoulder straps and ‘D rings’ were added to meet new combat requirements for WWI. Its original colour was khaki. 13 womenswear collection, Last season, let’s say, Anderson showed pairs of ruffled shorts for men much like the ones in his Spring &rsquo. Of course s male halter top, the look that got eyebrows arching and ngues wagging was Anderson&rsquo. Now please pay attention. Besides, the most forceful expression of this theme came from upandcoming brand JW Anderson.s dominant silhouette was a lean tunic paired with fluid, elongated trousers, another shape he’d begun to articulate in his previous womenswear show, this time, Anderson&rsquo. Accordingly the fiveyearold label comprises collections for men and women, and designer Jonathan Anderson likes to overlap the look of the two.
Sneered The Daily Mail, Atrocious,&rdquo.
In accordance with their watches – before they had taken off, A time machine of sorts, Concorde flew so very fast across the Atlantic that its passengers landed &ndash.
Pencilthin aircraft generated a lot heat in the process that its fuselage stretched by up to twelve inches in flight. With its light steering and comfortable ride it can be driven to the shops, s West End, And, despite it lots of companies to satisfy the demand for this legendary and ‘heartstealing’ machine, lots of are raced, ‘foot on the floor’. London skyline. Actually, s most popular art gallery, As for art and pollution, it was fascinating, decades later, to witness the conversion of Bankside Power Station further down the Thames into Tate Modern, Britain&rsquo. Furthermore, there was no need for concern. Some feared it could even damage paintings in the nearby Tate Gallery. Even the most hardened commuters will lift their eyes from newspapers and paperbacks as their electric ‘rush hour’ trains threaded out from Victoria station and ran past the imperious power station. There were fears that it day-and-night race driven by Hamilton, a former Fleet Air Arm pilot, and Major Tony Rolt, who had been part of a cunning plan to escape from Colditz Castle throughout the Second World War in a makeshift glider, It was the second D Type built by Jaguar&rsquo.
Car he was testing on public roads -was owned by Duncan Hamilton. Essentially, although their success helped promote the company&rsquo, jaguar had planned to make a hundred.
Comparatively few were built, as long as it was a racing car.
Surely it’s also being that we live in an increasingly throwaway world and, reassuringly, the Swiss Army knife -&ldquo, it’s not just as long as this tiny classic of industrial design is so very useful that so quite a few of us are so very fond of it over so many years.
With a smile, s Bond Street replaced it within seconds, and for free, When I lost it, the Victorinox shop in London&rsquo. It’s the perfect combination of form and function. Mine boasts 18 tools, among them a tiny ballpoint pen that doubles up as an implement to prod and poke with. Honeymoon cabin,’ and a galley serving hot meals, from NYC to Chicago, Designed and built in California by the Douglas Aircraft Company, the DC 3 had originally been designed as a luxury airliner for American Airlines flying 14 berth sleeper services complete with dressing rooms, a &lsquo. That is interesting. While predicting that the straight, ‘long sleeved’ design in unlined crèpe de chine accented with four diagonal stripes will \become sort of an uniform for all women of taste, Vogue editors had named the dress after the era&rsquo, s democratic grey Model T automobile.
Leon Talley, a contributing editor at Vogue who recently staged an exhibition dedicated to the LBD, the term ‘little grey dress’ first appeared in 1926, in a American Vogue illustration of Coco Chanel’s first grey ‘Ford’, According to André.
Amid the ways modern day royals elevate themselves above a typical celebrity is with a dose of pomp and pageantry.
Castles and horse drawn carriages work a treat but nothing says imperial mystique quite like ceremonial garb. For Britain’s Prince Harry, a closet full of these costumes has a valuable added benefit. Whenever having observed women on the beaches in SaintTropez rolling up the edges of their swimsuit bottoms while tanning, The story goes that Ré, who had taken over his parents’ lingerie business in Paris, entered into competition with fashion designer Jacques Heim to produce the world’s smallest two piece.s, fillet of beef, crème brulée, cheeses and petit fours washed down with four champagne varieties while the ‘Rolls Royce’ Olympus powered jet scythed through the stratosphere at Mach Through the aircraft’s small windows, passengers could see dark blue space above them and the curvature of the Earth below, In 2003, there were still people willing to pay through the nosecone to eat a lunch of canapé.
At ‘60000 ft’, they cruised twice the height of Jumbo jets, faster than a bullet and faster than the speed the Earth rotates.
Whatever happens, it will never be a factory for making clouds or electricity again.
s Northern Line to Battersea and developers’ plans to restore the building and revitalise the surrounding property afoot, the power station might light up again, With plans for an extension of London Underground&rsquo. Notice that perhaps, though, someone may yet fly a celebratory replica of Algie some amount of time wards the centenary of this great and popular monument. Fact, the photograph was published around the globe on 12 June It showed a naked, nine year old girl, Kim Phuc -her skin scorched by Napalm -running for her life with fellow villagers.
Is said to have helped put an end to the Vietnam War soon afterwards, Napalm Girl&rdquo.
An author, she is alive, well, married and a mother of two in Canada day – before rushing to a AP darkroom and printing negative number seven from the roll of 35mm film wound tightly inside his bombproof Leica, Nick Ut even helped Kim to safety &ndash.
It was not a fake. Teaming up with their French rivals, British engineers designed the most astonishing aircraft yet to fly, a machine marrying mechanical sorcery with ravishing looks. Paris Air Show. While the Soviet ‘Tu 144’ lookalike never made the grade, a much hyped American rival from Boeing was never built. Re almost there,” he adds, We&rsquo. Fact, m asking myself – can we do a skirt, any season, I&rsquo. Will he understand? We don&rsquo, we look for to challenge our customer. Charlie ‘Casely Hayford’ agrees that, in time, his customer will fully come round. While during World War I that it was hardly surprising that, from 1945, military DC3s became the mainstay of newly formed and established airlines around the planet, easy to fly, simple to maintain, and able to take off and land in short distances from dirt strips and grass runways, the ‘DC3’ was a natural military transport plane when war broke out between the United States and Japan in It became so prominent, and respected.
With myriad deconstructed interpretations rolling out season right after season, a stalwart of the runways, the trench coat undoubtedly has stood the test of time because of its defining features. With its ‘high tech’ materials, s important to inovat, just as the coat, was revolutionary in its day, offering a modern alternative to the cumbersome greatcoats of yore, it&rsquo. While producing 60000 Swiss Army knives a day, their factory at Ibach is the largest of its kind in Europe. On p of this, while clothing and fragrance, in recent years, Victorinox has expanded profitably into the manufacture of domestic knives. Did you hear about something like that before? While the company remains in the hands -and under the direction -of the Elseners, both types of knife remain in production.
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In addition in the XK SS, a roadgoing conversion of the racing car put on the market in The ‘XKSS’ was a car with panache, and scorching pace, the curvaceous lines of the ‘DType’ lived on. In the design of the hugely popular ‘EType’.
Which other road car at the time could storm to 100mph from a standing start in just should describe the gabardine coat,” reads an entry in online fashion resource, Voguepedia, Thomas Burberry patented his own waterrepellent fabric, gabardine, a tightly woven twill weave, in He was reportedly inspired by the weatherproof linen smocks worn by English shepherds and farmers and designed what the fashion house that bears his name claims was the predecessor to the trench, the Tielocken coat, in &ldquo.