The Dressmaker, starring Kate Winslet, opens in theaters September 23.
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His mother is a dressmaker, and teaches him his craft.
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THE PRINCE AND THE DRESSMAKER By Jen Wang 288 pp.
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His mother, Maria (Onofria) Campanella, was a homemaker and dressmaker.
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"I had used Dolly Parton's dressmaker," Winfrey said at the time.
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The identity of Kate's private dressmaker remains a mystery for now.
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Queen Elizabeth II's dressmaker reveals the change in a new memoir.
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But without the Wertheimer family, Chanel might just be another forgotten dressmaker.
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"The Dressmaker" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian).
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The film is about a Parisian dressmaker who seduces his best friend's fiancée.
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A sheath was made of strips of knit studded with silver dressmaker snaps.
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Rosie O'Donnell will play the gym teacher, and Sean Hayes will play dressmaker Mr. Pinky.
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"Phantom Thread," Paul Thomas Anderson's period romance about an obsessive dressmaker, won for costume design.
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My coutelier's dresses were made of aluminum, and the dressmaker Paco Rabanne copied the idea.
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There is a church, a mosque, a synagogue, a few hair salons and a dressmaker.
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Kate Winslet knew very little about her The Dressmaker costar Liam Hemsworth – not even his age.
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Fortunata Versace — Tina for short — was the eldest child of Antonio and Francesca Versace, a dressmaker.
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THE DRESSMAKER Kate Winslet rocks some glamorous 1950s couture and cigarette holders in this revenge comedy.
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Kim Ryen-hi, a dressmaker from the North, has been on a similar campaign since 2015.
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Back in 2012, a dressmaker even crafted a voluminous gown out of 555 of the cobalt bags.
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In limited release, "The Dressmaker," an Australian comedy with Kate Winslet, opened to $180,522 in 38 locations.
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Queen Elizabeth's staff use gin to clean her jewels, according to Her Majesty's senior dressmaker Angela Kelly.
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To make matters worse, Broadgreen acted as a distributor for Amazon Studios' The Dressmaker and The Neon Demon.
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But the dress isn't from one of her usual designers, it's from a "private dressmaker," according to sources.
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Unfortunately, and despite its promising start, "The Dressmaker" doesn't move much beyond the level of well-costumed playacting.
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Queen Elizabeth's senior dressmaker says Her Majestry didn't break royal protocol by embracing Michelle Obama back in 2009.
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The film centers on the character of a fictional British dressmaker, not on the late couturier Charles James.
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An earlier version of the review of "The Prince and the Dressmaker" misstated the nationality of Prince Sebastian.
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Her father, Cecil, was a city clerk, and her mother, Frances (Batchelor) Berry, was a part-time dressmaker.
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It is as if a dressmaker had disavowed fabric in order to make clothes out of air instead.
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In 1930 Elsa Schiaparelli, an avant-garde designer, was the first dressmaker to feature prominent zips in her collections.
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"My mother was a dressmaker to the end of her life," said Ms. Sekules, who grew up in England.
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She was a dressmaker who, records indicated, had given birth to three other children who did not survive infancy.
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I had no idea what to expect from Phantom Thread, Anderson's new movie about a dressmaker in 1950s London.
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In Phantom Thread's twisted tale of a fucked-up relationship, Day-Lewis plays a dapper dressmaker called Reynolds Woodcock.
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Before Queen Elizabeth puts on any pair of shoes, her dressmaker and close confidant, Angela Kelly, breaks them in herself.
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Covered in sequence and beading flower appliques, Moore worked with dressmaker Pallas Couture to design the gown especially for her.
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Kate opted for a festive burgundy coat by an independent British dressmaker with a matching velvet fascinator by Jane Corbett.
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"It's totally impossible to be well dressed in cheap shoes," Sir Hardy Amies — dressmaker for Queen Elizabeth II — once said.
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In 1962, while a student dressmaker, Nuala had to create, for her exams, a Gesellenstück , a journeyman piece of work.
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She liked fashion, and her mother, a professional dressmaker, taught her how to make doll clothes at any early age.
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Some she loved — "Girl With a Pearl Earring" and "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana" — and some she wasn't so sure about.
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Queen Elizabeth II has given her senior dressmaker, Angela Kelly, special permission to publish a tell-all book about their relationship.
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ARTS & LEISURE An article last Sunday about the country singer Loretta Lynn misstated the surname of her longtime dressmaker and assistant.
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The Queen's dressmaker says she puts decoy hats on display in Windsor Castle before important royal events, such as Royal Ascot.
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Paul Thomas Anderson's "Phantom Thread" (Focus Features), starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a British dressmaker in the 815s, did the best.
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Renee Jon, a dressmaker who alters wedding dresses and makes custom designs, works out of her home in Chino Hills, Calif.
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The real surprise of her, though, is how much the slender body that lures the dressmaker encases Ms. Krieps's uncompromising soul.
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The 1950s period piece tells the story of genius dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock's torrid love affair with the passionate and challenging Alma Elson.
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It also had little success as a straight distributor for Amazon Studios, with both The Neon Demon and The Dressmaker significantly underperforming.
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Like Balenciaga, Mr. Owens is as much sculptor as dressmaker, one whose work is represented by a blue-chip fine-arts gallery.
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When Queen Elizabeth's longtime dressmaker needs to clean the monarch's priceless jewels — she reaches for something quite unexpected: a bottle of gin!
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Mary Todd Lincoln, his widow, was cloistered in the White House, wailing in grief, unable to reach her closest confidante: her dressmaker.
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In addition to the aforementioned Neon Demon and Dressmaker, potential commercial player Elvis & Nixon had a theatrical run that was anemic at best.
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But this is England, so naturally, the Queen's dressmaker would reach for something more traditional to the country, like a bottle of gin.
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A top-and-shorts ensemble by Ying Gao is covered in dressmaker pins that move in a shimmering, undulating fashion when voice-activated.
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The Queen's senior dressmaker and confidant Angela Kelly says it was "a natural instinct" for Her Majesty to embrace Michelle Obama in 2009.
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For the first time in her 67-year reign, Her Majesty will swap out real fur for fake alternatives, her dressmaker has confirmed.
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Christmas is the only day of the year that the Queen uses a professional makeup artist, according to Her Majesty&aposs senior dressmaker.
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Queen Elizabeth's dressmaker says she puts decoy hats on display to stop staff from placing bets on what color she'll wear to Royal Ascot.
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We learn that Versace, growing up in Calabria in austere postwar Italy, was encouraged by his mother, herself a dressmaker, to follow his dreams.
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Later, she moved to Paris, working first as a domestic servant and then as an underpaid dressmaker before finally committing herself to labor organizing.
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Daniel Day Lewis plays that man, a dressmaker in 1950s London named Reynolds Woodcock, in what he has said was his final screen performance.
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Ms. Trump, 23, relied on the dressmaker Simin Taghdiri of Simin Couture for her rhinestone-decorated baby pink and silver damask strapless mermaid gown.
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Princess Elizabeth saved her coupons to purchase the ivory silk and other materials that court dressmaker Sir Norman Hartnell used to create her wedding gown.
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In addition to the Balenciaga bag, a dressmaker used a grand total of 555 blue tote bags to construct the "IKEA Sack Gown" in 2012.
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My grandmother, Sylvia, worked as a hairdresser and a barmaid before moving to Jamaica in 1990, where she worked as a chicken farmer and dressmaker.
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Ms. Wolfe tried out some Fiskars shears ("Eliminates Fabric Fray," the package promised) and some Gingher dressmaker shears (whose package touted "smooth, mistake-free cutting").
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An expert dressmaker may have once been responsible for every aspect of their craft: designing the dress, procuring the fabric, cutting and stitching, marketing and selling.
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When it came to recreating the royal christening gown, Queen Elizabeth's dressmaker used an old-fashioned form of dye for the secret project — a tea bag!
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That's not to say that the Dressmaker actress had an easy go of achieving her dreams and putting her childhood bullies in their place, of course.
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Susong, who liked the idea of wearing white, wanted to purchase an American-made dress and be certain the dressmaker was paid well for her work.
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After years of criticism from animal welfare groups, the Queen's dressmaker says Her Majesty will be swapping out real fur for fake fur from now on.
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It defined the wearer as an arbiter of style, wealthy (by midcentury he was the most expensive dressmaker in the world) and, most of all, patient.
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Indeed, though The Modist, the name of Ms. Guenez's website, is a clear nod to "modest," it also denotes a "modiste," a fashionable milliner or dressmaker.
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Their court dressmaker, who was unknown in the West until recently, and to whom the West was virtually unknown until sixteen years ago, is Guo Pei.
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Users can make scaled figurines of themselves if they so desire, or they could be fit for customized clothes without going to a dressmaker or haberdasher.
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In St. Croix, at the age of five, he had begun making his own fashions out of scraps of fabric scavenged from his grandmother, a dressmaker.
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Evidently, this commitment runs in the family: David's mother was a dressmaker, his father a furniture maker, his sister designs fabric, and his brother works leather.
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Spain's Queen Letizia, 43, dazzled in a striking two-tone black and white set (designed by her dressmaker Felipe Varela) for her first public appearance of 2016.
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Variety reports that his final film will be Phantom Thread, a drama about a British dressmaker helmed by his There Will Be Blood director, Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Ms. Choi longed to be reunited with the sister, a 50-year-old dressmaker with her own home business, and also the nephew she had left behind.
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She usually made her own clothes, but in this case, she bought her wedding dress from a dressmaker in Southport, near Liverpool, where she met my dad.
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But when Kelly was working on her first book, the dressmaker recalled the conversation and asked the monarch if she would model with her hands in her pockets.
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And if the baker wins, he will be followed by a chef, a dressmaker, or a DJ. New and unexpected businesses will claim a right to discriminate too.
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We have little Gianni, whose dressmaker mother respects and encourages his designing talent, and little Andrew, whose Filipino father, a fraudulent stockbroker, spoonfeeds him lies about wealth and privilege.
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Most recently, that was when I was seeing Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson's latest movie, which features Daniel Day-Lewis playing a quiet but demanding and overly particular dressmaker.
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"To make sure it looked authentic we dyed it in Yorkshire tea (the strongest, as we all know)," reveals Angela Kelly, the Queen's longtime dressmaker in her new book.
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She promised Keckly that if she could complete the task, she would introduce her to the fashion-conscious new first lady, who was looking for a "modiste," or dressmaker.
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The dressmaker, Kiran of Bangalore, India, was a little surprised by the request for a dog-size sari, but did a wonderful job creating a custom piece for Coco.
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The Queen&aposs annual Christmas broadcast is "the only occasion throughout the year when Her Majesty does not do her own makeup," according to the monarch&aposs senior dressmaker.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is the author of New York Times best-sellers Ashley's War and The Dressmaker of Khair Khana and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Day-Lewis stars in the film—due out in December—as a dressmaker tapped to design for the upper echelons of British society and the royal family, according to IMDb.
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Vicky Krieps, the Luxembourg actress who was the muse of Daniel Day Lewis's dressmaker in "Phantom Thread," here plays Simone Strasser, an Alsatian translator whose brother is aboard U-612.
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She learned about beautiful clothes only when she went to Paris for a year after college, and discovered an inexpensive little dressmaker, who copied couture with great skill, she told Vogue.
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Kate Winslet told Entertainment Tonight on the Screen Actors Guild Award red carpet, Saturday, that her oldest daughter, Mia, 15, is likely "very disapproving" of her The Dressmaker costar's relationship change.
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A home dressmaker, seeing on the street a sleeve cap from a blouse, might be prohibited from borrowing the shape without somehow tracking down the copyright owner and paying a fee.
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Nathalie Moellhausen, whose sixth-place finish on Saturday was the best ever for a Brazilian woman, has walked for Italian dressmaker Alberta Ferretti and won team gold at the 2009 world championship.
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But Ms. Murphy is in fact a model, donning the outfit for a Ukranian dressmaker using the backdrop, along with shoots earlier in the day in Times Square, to sell the product.
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Before World War II, his father, Motel Gerzon, — the name was later changed — was a bookkeeper at his parents' candy store in Zamosc, Poland; his mother, Peshka (Szajt) Gerzon, was a dressmaker.
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Five floors above Clinton Street, in her warrenlike studio and apartment, Ms. Bode has her stockpiles and her scissors, and operates more like a midcentury dressmaker than many of her fellow designers.
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Winslet and Hemsworth talked to PEOPLE about their romance in their upcoming film at London Fog's special screening of The Dressmaker at Frances Gould Hall Theater in New York City on Friday night.
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In The Dressmaker, Kate Winslet's character Tilly returns to the town that spurned her as a child — bringing an arsenal of seamstress skills that she uses to curry favor with her former tormentors.
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A beautiful but quirky drama, it was a latecomer in the season and featured Daniel Day-Lewis playing a dressmaker in midcentury London, in what he has said will be his last film.
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The heavy-duty Gingher 8-inch Knife Edge Dressmaker&aposs Shearsslice through fabric smoothly and precisely with sharp steel blades, making them our top pick for the best sewing shears you can buy.
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Liam Hemsworth had to show some skin while playing Kate Winslet's love interest in the upcoming film, The Dressmaker, so of course he wanted to make sure he looked good in nothing but boxers.
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Sebastian's best friend and dressmaker, Frances, has kept his secret, but when the secret becomes too hard to keep, she may risk their friendship and Sebastian's trust for her own shot at the spotlight.
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Richard J. Schwartz, who at 21960 took over the dressmaker Jonathan Logan from his father and built it into an even more successful enterprise, died on Monday in Upper Nyack, N.Y. He was 77.
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The royal parents were helping Queen Elizabeth, who chose a gown by her go-to dressmaker Angela Kelly and the Vladimir tiara with emerald and diamond drops, host a special reception for diplomats at Buckingham Palace.
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The royal parents were helping Queen Elizabeth, who chose a gown by her go-to dressmaker Angela Kelly and the Vladimir tiara with emerald and diamond drops, host a special reception for diplomats at Buckingham Palace.
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The book's clothing descriptions are so vivid and so compelling that they are almost their own character — and it's all fully justified, because Vivian is a dressmaker who reads people's personalities by looking at their wardrobes.
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But according to a recent film synopsis, Phantom Thread centers on "renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister, Cyril (Lesley Manville)," who are at the center of the post-war British fashion world.
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Cyrus talked about her upcoming Woody Allen TV series, Crisis in Six Scenes, and her new stint as a judge on The Voice on the Today show, and Hemsworth attended a special screening his film The Dressmaker.
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"I had a vision of what I'd like this dress to be, so I asked a young man in my church who is an artist to sketch it and I took it to the dressmaker," she shares.
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According to People, Queen Elizabeth's longtime dressmaker, Angela Kelly, revealed in her new book that whenever she is doing a quick cleaning of Her Majesty's jewelry, she uses a little bit of gin to help them sparkle.
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"Elton's mother was a dressmaker, so from a very early age he had a strong interest in clothing," as reflected in an early flashback in which a young Reggie (Matthew Illesley) fantasizes that he's conducting an orchestra.
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The granddaughter of Abraham Zapruder, the Dallas dressmaker who recorded the shooting in all its horror with his 8-millimeter camera, presents a kind of "Zapruder Agonistes," delineating the personal trials of the filmmaker and his descendants.
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So when Daniel Day-Lewis, perhaps the greatest actor of our age, announced in June that Paul Thomas Anderson's forthcoming "Phantom Thread," about a fictional British dressmaker, would be his last film, eyebrows were raised and hands wrung.
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Kennedy's personal dressmaker in 1961: a green wool suit ("for Mex not used"), a white crepe coat, a short pink crepe dress, a long mauve one, an orange coat and dress ("silk - worn in Udaipur, India - on lake").
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Realizing she was onto something, Ms. Vender then asked Ms. Ferri, a Milan-based dressmaker who creates styles for the likes of her sister-in-law Beatrice Borromeo Casiraghi and Margherita Missoni, to whip up seasonal capsule collections.
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Angela Kelly, who is the Queen's dressmaker and close confidant, explained that the monarch actually welcomed the warm gesture as recalled in her book The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe, which Hello!
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For the exhibition catalog, Ms. Golbin explained to Hamish Bowles, European editor at large for American Vogue, that she devised a "conversation" with Vionnet — the lively, chatty dressmaker (who died in 1976) — folding in the couturière's previously published comments.
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Ms. O'Brien is the author of 12 books, including "The Dressmaker" (Anchor, 2013), which she wrote under the pseudonym Kate Alcott, and "I Know Just What You Mean" (Simon & Schuster, 2000), which she wrote with Ms. Goodman, the officiant.
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For the collection, Owens collaborated with the legendary Italian fabric manufacturer Fortuny to create sumptuous printed jersey pieces that were draped around the body in a homage to the midcentury dressmaker Charles James, whose work Owens often draws on.
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Other suspects included former Burberry designer and CEO Christopher Bailey, Alexander McQueen (creative director Sarah Burton was the designer of Kate Middleton's wedding dress), Stewart Parvin (the Queen's royal dressmaker), and Erdem (said to be staffing up significantly this spring).
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A dressmaker and former slave, she is best known from her memoir "Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House" -- a postbellum slave narrative and portrait of the First Family, especially Mary Todd Lincoln.
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Metz customized her look with the help of her stylist Penny Lovell and dressmaker Dani Kurrle who shared a sneak peek of the process that included adding black sequin fabric at the waistline and strings of black sequins throughout the bodice.
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He takes a couturier-like approach to curtains and bed hangings — he is an ardent admirer of the dressmaker Charles James — giving yards of decadent satin extra volume by lining them with even more satin, or finishing them with pleated ruffles.
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Ms. Kim, who was a dressmaker in the North, says that while on a trip to China in 2011, she met smugglers who promised to take her to South Korea, where they said she could make money quickly before returning home.
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PHANTOM THREAD Paul Thomas Anderson's first feature since "Inherent Vice" (2014) reunites him with Daniel Day-Lewis — unforgettable in "There Will Be Blood" — and centers on a dressmaker who tailors for the crème de la crème of London in the 1950s.
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The oldest came from the 21th-century embroiderer Maison Michonet, which was active at the time of Charles Frederick Worth, who was the official dressmaker to Empress Eugénie of France and considered by many to be the father of haute couture.
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Reynolds — a dressmaker in London's high-end fashion scene in the 1950s who designs garments for British royalty and other high-profile clientele — is one of the decade's most iconic characters, and not just because it's Day-Lewis's last role ever.
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Combining photographic and printmaking processes, this close-up of the artist's mother, a dressmaker smiling at life's long sunset, was made in collaboration with the master printmaker Randy Hemminghaus and Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, New Jersey.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The 486 frames of Double-8mm film shot by a Dallas dressmaker (and immigrant from Russia) named Abraham Zapruder on November 22, 1963, reputedly constitute the most thoroughly analyzed footage in the history of motion pictures.
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Another pas de deux — between Daniel Day-Lewis as a domineering dressmaker and Vicky Krieps as his muse — is at the center of Mr. Anderson's "Phantom Thread" (on Sunday), which was shot on 35 millimeter but is showing in a stunning blowup.
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The custom as we understand it today, whereby the client and designer meet on a number of occasions to fit a dress perfectly to her needs and form, was invented in the mid-19th century by the English dressmaker Charles Frederick Worth.
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One of the earliest heroes in Greenhouse's book is a Ukrainian immigrant named Clara Lemlich, a dressmaker and a union organizer, who, in 21961, hopped onstage during a rally at Cooper Union to call, in Yiddish, for a strike against New York's garment industry.
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She just earned her first Oscar nomination for her turn as Cyril Woodcock, the sharp-as-a-sewing-needle older sister to Daniel Day-Lewis's precious dressmaker Reynolds in "Phantom Thread" (2017), but she has been reliably dazzling in the corners of films for years.
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Tale as old as 2018: An Orthodox Jewish former corporate lawyer, wistful for the safe, frilly charms of vintage Laura Ashley, seeks out a dressmaker to make her dream a reality, and is enthusiastically taken up, in all her ruffled unlikelihood, by New York's demimonde.
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Here are some of the other possibilities that didn't make the cut: DEPARTED ACTOR, DEPRESSED DRY CLEANER, DEBUNKED CAMP COUNSELOR, DETESTED EXAMINER, DEBRIEFED LAWYER, DECOMPOSED SONG WRITER, DEFROCKED DRESSMAKER, DEPOSED MODEL, DISCHARGED SHOPPER, DISCOUNTED CENSUS TAKER, DISSOLVED PUZZLER, DISBARRED BALLERINA, DISCONCERTED MUSICIAN, DISINTERESTED BANKER.
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Information about the movie has been pretty sparse so far—save for the fact that it stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a dressmaker in 1950s London, is the last film he made before announcing his retirement, and supposedly inspired him to make gowns full time.
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For the premiere of "The Dressmaker" at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, it was a gray embellished Badgley Mischka halter-neck gown, while for the New York Film Festival a few weeks later, she selected a seductive Valentino dress with plunging neckline and lace skirt.
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The 93-year-old monarch's longtime aide and dressmaker Angela Kelly is sharing glimpse of the Queen behind-the-scenes in her new book, The Other Side Of The Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe, including a prank she pulled for April Fools' Day.
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It looks like it's about a naive young woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who's destined to get swept up, used, and eventually discarded by a prominent man — the both stuffily and phallically named Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis, in his last role before retiring), a celebrated dressmaker in 1950s London.
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It lives up to the hype, but the dining experience was just OK.I lived like Meghan Markle in London for a day, and it made me appreciate my life as a commonerThe most surprising confessions made by the Queen's dressmaker in her new tell-all book about life at Buckingham Palace
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The Queen&aposs senior dressmaker Angela Kelly recently wrote in her new book "The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, The Dresser, and The Wardrobe" that Her Majesty could change outfits "as many as five or up to seven" times in one day over the festive period, depending on the occasion.
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But as one of the many pieces by the diva's dressmaker, Elvira Leonardi Bouyeure, known as Biki, it reveals how instrumental the long-forgotten Italian couturier, a granddaughter of Puccini, was to the soprano's remarkable metamorphosis from naïve singer to sophisticated jet-setting global star — which included a 70-pound weight loss.
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Scene City 9 Photos View Slide Show ' On Monday night, hours after Daniel Day-Lewis received his eighth Golden Globe nomination, he arrived at the stately Harold Pratt House on Park Avenue to toast the New York premiere of the movie that had earned him the nod, "Phantom Thread," in which he portrays the renowned British dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock.
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Using both emblematic designs (Elsa Schiaparelli's iconic shoe hat, say, or a famous sheath dress designed by the seminal 20th-century dressmaker Madeleine Vionnet) and ordinary suits from his own wardrobe, installed in ghostly tableaux, Mr. Saillard explores an element of costume ignored by most installations devoted to the subject: that is, the bodies that once inhabited the clothes.
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He has often sought out the hangers-on and the peripheral characters, and in "Four Hundred Dresses," a brief 2010 article about the dressmaker to the recently deceased restaurateur Elaine Kaufman, he finds unexpected gems of insight, such as the irrepressible Kaufman's splurge on $6,000 worth of brocade for new clothes just a month before she died.
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Read more:Meghan Markle once shared tips on how to host the perfect Christmas, and it shows what her first holiday without the royal family could look likeThere&aposs a holiday romance novel based on Meghan Markle&aposs mom, and it sheds some light on how the royals spend ChristmasThe most surprising confessions made by the Queen&aposs dressmaker in her new tell-all book about life at Buckingham Palace
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Read more:Michelle Obama tells her side of the story about the time she broke royal protocol and touched Queen ElizabethMichelle Obama says she was surprised to see the Queen wearing a 'little bitty pin' she gave her when they sat down to dinnerThe Queen's dressmaker creates decoys of her hats to prevent staff from betting on which color she'll wear7 times Queen Elizabeth was a royal rebel and broke her own protocol
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By all accounts that I'm aware of, including that of his adoring son Jean, the great film director, he got on pleasantly enough with the woman he married, in 1890—Aline Victorine Charigot, a dressmaker, almost twenty years younger, with whom he had already had one child and would have two more—and with models, a mistress, and an illegitimate daughter, born in 1870, whom he secretly supported for the rest of his life and, with a bequest, beyond it.
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Read more:How the royal family would change if Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave up their titles and quit foreverThe Queen's senior dressmaker says Her Majesty didn't actually break protocol by putting her arm around Michelle Obama: 'It was a natural instinct'The Queen and Prince William are reportedly worried about Prince Harry and Meghan MarkleMeghan Markle and Prince Harry may have broken protocol by promoting their documentary while William and Kate were on tourPrince Harry appeared to confirm rumors of a rift between him and Prince William.
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