Christian Dior: An Extreme Bal des Artistes
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Fashion Wire Daily - The invitation for Christian Dior&#39;s ball on Monday night had simple dress instructions: &quot;extreme elegance,&quot; which neatly summed up the show that preceded it and indeed designer John Galliano&#39;s reign at the house.
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Peter Max, the artist whose  psychedelic style embodied the wild spirit of the 1960s, still  is amazed and bemused by the impact of his works.
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Life & style: Does the Middle East present the next frontier for the record-breaking Giorgio Armani?
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily December 3, 2004 - PARIS - The designer that never sleeps has begun using his talents with the athletic brand that best fuses fashion and street chic.
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The Paris menswear shows ended in suspense on Tuesday with what could be Hedi Slimane&#039;s final collection for Christian Dior, should his contract renegotiations with the French label end in failure.
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ÂThe lingering, perceived essence of anotherÂ sounds like the subject of a Proustian rumination. In fact, it is a line from an academic paper last April in The Journal of Marketing, by Jennifer J. Argo, Darren W. Dahl, and Andrea C. Morales. The authors examined a phenomenon that drives store managers crazy: consumers love to touch products in stores, but they hate buying things others have touched.
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Fashion designers are coming up with unique theme to create their range of collection.
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Young blood ruled at the Paris menswear shows on Sunday as Belgian designer Kris Van Assche made his hotly anticipated debut at Christian Dior, while other new faces prepared to revamp Cerruti and Francesco Smalto.
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Jean Yu's lingerie designs have a cool aesthetic that has earned her a high-profile clientele of photographers, artists and models.
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Christian Dior's showman designer John  Galliano, who astounded the fashion world with gothic chic and  mermaid gowns, yet again took his audience by surprise on  Tuesday, this time by going for straightforward and  understated.
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Is the mainstream finally ready for the unsettling art of this perennial outsider?
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Travel: Shoppers love Paris, but a spree in the fashion capital can be hard on the wallet. Lennox Morrison finds out where real Parisian designers go to buy top labels at a fraction of the cost.
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By Graham Keeley in Barcelona  A battle is raging in the world of flamenco which is almost as passionate as Spain's most quintessential art form.   Purists are fighting to stop the dance and music from being "ruined", as they see it, by modernists introducing new influences.
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Arts & entertainment: Adrian Searle on how the Tate Modern has brought the pervy panache of Duchamp and Pacabia to life
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Can digital musicians, artists and other media creators free themselves from the tyranny of popular software design? Commentary by Momus.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Music references are common on the runway, and of course by now we are used to seeing Pete Doherty dopplegangers in porkpie hats running amuck in dirty clubs, thanks to Hedi Slimane&#39;s influence at Dior Homme.
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The world of fashion is one of professional transgression. The industry's lifeblood is shock and outrage; it survives, in its highest form, by virtue of almost hysterical exhibitionism.