Finery could, Casey thinks, cut some of that way down.
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They also sell cuff links and other finery for men.
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"Shopping, to me, feels much less wasteful after Finery," she explains.
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Viewers dressed in finery, with prizes for the most creative outfits.
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I think that's when tools like Finery can come in handy.
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She was devoted to finery, entertaining and dressing with theatrical flair.
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Even though her family was poor, the finery came out on Sundays.
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So she shops (and then consequently organizes her closet with Finery) accordingly.
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A straight-up, traditional, Okinawan dojo with no frills or finery attached.
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Not only founded by two women, Finery is also funded by women.
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The next day sees the couple strolling around Versailles in their finery.
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Mr. Gelb engaged a gilded set of singers to populate the finery.
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We can promise Halloween jokes, but not costumes (though your finery is welcome).
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Dressed in their finery, Sam and Ruby no doubt had a magical time.
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The Hidden Figures star perched on an elaborate gold throne in African finery.
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" The CEO added that Finery goes back "10 years into your purchase history.
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Law, as Pope Pius XIII, being dressed in his ceremonial finery to the
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"Succession" has always been about strange family dynamics and blood sport in corporate finery.
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The wooden toy, forever clad in red with his regimental finery, was lifted free.
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She'd sit there in her finery, ashamed of him and ashamed of being ashamed.
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We walked to the Silvermoon Finery, where she purchased me a common gray shirt.
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Smoke drifted into the air as the models paraded around in their luxurious finery.
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The exhibition contained still more, filling the Medieval galleries with couture and priestly finery.
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The pets with the chicest prom finery are named the Puppy Prom King and Queen.
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Perhaps unintentionally, this darkly comic show heightens our awareness of the impertinent finery of decomposition.
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Much of the elite media continues to see Emperor Obama clothed in all his finery.
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In the meantime most actresses would feel relieved to have shucked off that Edwardian finery.
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One night, Ana sloughs off her uniform and wears borrowed finery to an embassy party.
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Though in her singularly fashion-forward finery, she was the exception that proved the rule.
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Brooklyn Decker in recent months has been meeting with venture capitalists on her startup, Finery.
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In children's clothing shops, mothers buying Sabbath finery traded stories about friends with sickened children.
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The league urged young Chinese to don ancient finery to demonstrate "cultural confidence" to the world.
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Children take part in a fashion show, swishing perilously along a catwalk in too-long finery.
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You can hear natural sounds—crickets, wind—as the women take their seats in extravagant finery.
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Many of the participants were dressed in period finery and bespoke millinery to accentuate their cars.
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Onstage, yelping through PWR BTTM's campy, blistering songs, Mx. Hopkins's finery frequently ends up in tatters.
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Among the dead were 12 men, eight women and four children, all dressed in wedding finery.
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The actress and Finery co-founder, 30, chatted with PEOPLE at the Create & Cultivate conference on Saturday.
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And sometimes it doesn't work out, with all the pretty finery and the lavish or exotic weddings.
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How much is she a gold-digger, an active agent in her own ascent to bejeweled finery?
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Some lawmakers' spouses sat waiting in their finery in a Capitol Hill anteroom as the proceedings concluded.
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Decker's online fashion and styling company, Finery, posted a darling photo of her baby bump celebrating the news.
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Meanwhile, the album cover features Wainwright rouged and trussed up in Renaissance finery, flowers blooming in his hair.
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But it's nice to see that confirmed, and be given a glimpse of the next game's darker finery.
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I'm now strutting around Chicago in my (discount) finery, delighted when friends ask the origin of my ensemble.
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And yet there he sits in his bejeweled designer finery alongside the network cardigans looking right at home.
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Donning such finery was said to have protected its wearers from bullets while wreaking terror in their enemies.
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This shows the 50-foot main aisle of one of those aircrafts, where travellers relaxed in their finery.
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As a guide explained recently, during a selfie break, the reënactors were renting their finery by the hour.
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In several of the images, white people in Victorian finery appear to melt away into anonymous black people.
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Fans and Disney cast members alike were decked out in their Star Wars finery every day of the week.
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The plan's next step involves Murtagh putting on fancy French finery; they've also hired men to pose as highwaymen.
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Come as you are — in fleece, flannel or finery — to dinner at No Anchor, a casual downtown gastro pub.
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If you ignored the pomp and finery, their royal highnesses almost looked like any other young couple in love.
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Wedding guests parted, creating a narrow path for the train of unmarried women to parade through in their finery.
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But in showing the silent tectonics beneath all the finery and fog, he makes us want to keep looking.
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Until last year, the bride, who is 35, ran Fashion Finery, a designer clothing and accessory consignment business on eBay.
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"The world can be so serious," said the former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and founder of wardrobe organization app Finery.
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In the images obtained by AP, many of the women and girls are dressed in finery, some in heavy makeup.
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Saskia in her finery crowned with the most expensive type of tulip is in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
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Guo was born during the Cultural Revolution, when citizens were forced to give up all traces of finery and individuality.
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Or the rivals insulting each other with a sharp, arrogant gesture of flicking dust or dirt from their imagined finery.
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The result is an eerie amalgamation of funeral home finery and the extravagant details of a 19th-century French artist salon.
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Like many Americans with roots in Palestine, the women in Muaddi Darraj's family wear their embroidered finery to weddings and parties.
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DeWulf was on hand with her husband, Anaheim Ducks Goalie, Ryan Miller, to support "new friend" Brooklyn Decker's Finery app launch.
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Take Koché, the LVMH Prize finalist line by Christelle Kocher that takes street-y garments and works them into feminine finery.
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The expensive fitness finery spawned a cult following and paved the way for brands like Tory Sport and Gap's Athleta label.
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Along with the fans in their finery, the performers arrived ready to entertain an outsize audience with their sound and style.
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They are looking to sell the furniture and the finery, and possibly the Mercedes, which looks at least 20 years old.
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From their deeply familiar gala finery to their long looks of understanding, they're working as a team here, and it shows.
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For now, Finery (which is in private beta and launches on March 23) makes money off affiliate links to clothing e-tailers.
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Kim Kardashian West didn't show up, but the Roddis descendants turned out in full finery for the black-tie dinner on Nov.
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And just when I could see him up close in his magnificent finery, he looked at me sideways and a little crossly.
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He loves the strands of Christmas lights left up long after New Year, like cheap finery on the facades of humble abodes.
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He greeted me in casual finery: billowing, satiny pants and beaded slippers, with an intricate carved medallion dangling over a white turtleneck.
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Cromwell, who altered the course of the Western world in ways still being felt today, was Steve Bannon in feathered Tudor finery.
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On Wednesday night, the audience, in black tie and other finery, greeted the quips from the lawyers and judges with generous laughter.
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The Obama daughters are young women now, and seeing them in their finery at the state dinner for Justin Trudeau was a shock.
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Be sure not to miss his tender delivery of "The Single Petal of a Rose," which ends the concert in all due finery.
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His disdain for bohemian casualness and embrace of court-worthy finery followed Rubens's example and must have put his royal patrons at ease.
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MUMBAI, India — A modern Indian wedding might include a dayslong celebration, ornate invitations, elephants covered in finery and a bride adorned in gold.
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The City Dionysia began with a procession along this street, with all the citizens, foreigners, visiting dignitaries and choregoi dressed in their finery.
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We used to come here a lot, Sunday afternoons when it was packed with churchgoers just out of service, resplendent in their Sunday finery.
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The Phoenix mug is outfitted in all its desert finery with a cactus and a Gila monster playing in the Valley of the Sun.
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The Oscars are a venerated annual ceremony filled with finery, frippery, and foolishness — and the after parties are the awards show's badass little siblings.
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Even the models stayed on the runway to sip Champagne and dance around in their new-vintage finery after the show was all over.
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On a 1963 visit to Sicily with Thek, he wandered into a Roman Catholic catacomb filled with antique corpses dressed in moldering funeral finery.
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Somehow sensing that Manon has a frivolous side and a weakness for finery, Geronte decides to abduct her and take her to Paris with him.
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As our mouths sank together, our breasts touched, mine adorned only with the finest satin, hers covered with gauzy material studded with teardrops of finery.
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It also looks at other details included in the receipt emails like product images, which will help Finery pick up color, style, and other details.
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Perhaps someday he'll let me do it but for now I'm content to watch as he peels off his wedding finery and yes, his kippah.
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Founded by Emmy award winning television anchor and host Whitney Casey and model/actress Brooklyn Decker, Finery an operating system of sorts for your wardrobe.
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This is a jeremiad about the loss of North America's "monstrous pine finery," in the author's resonant phrase, and thus its weird, old pagan soul.
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Aspirational consumerism, rococo finery, and the pop cultural image-as-iconography of Rick Ross; a Carlos Rolón/Dzine exhbition is something experienced, not just observed.
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"Eighty per cent of my friends have taken out loans," mourns one landowner, himself indebted, to keep themselves in the finery to which they are accustomed.
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Once you've cleaned out the stuff you don't want, try a closet-organization site like Finery, which has Brooklyn Decker on board as Chief Design Officer.
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The officers and sheriff's deputies came from around the country in their crisp, formal finery — all aiguillettes and polished shoes, Stetsons and broad-brimmed campaign hats.
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"Bullfighting provided a stage where he could perform in such finery and with such flair, while at the same time remaining in the closet," she said.
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A man jokingly "climbs" into a painted plane; hipsters in sunglasses imitate the postures of James Brown and Elvis Presley; ladies lounge in elegant, traditional finery.
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"It should happen in the background while she is busy working, playing and being a mom, sister or friend," Decker goes on to describe Finery users' expectations.
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The famous corridor, where wealthy guests once paraded in Victorian finery, was long thought to be the passageway that ran between the original Waldorf and Astoria hotels.
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He was vivacious and charming, draped in understated European finery — including dress shoes so elegant I filed the detail away under the mental heading Interesting Character Trait.
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Within a few weeks, her Fifth Avenue dining room looked like a designer showroom, with 10 racks of finery by Carolina Herrera, Vera Wang and the like.
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Mr. Lovitz portrays Harry as a menschy Yiddish grotesque, garbed in Borough Park finery and commanding a trio of airborne donkeys with names from the old country.
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All that finery: The effect can be alienating, Mr. Wenders suggested, his voice just audible over the insistent strains of Ave Maria piped over the sound system.
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Instead of dealing with a case of the Sunday scaries tonight, they're donning designer finery, borrowed jewels, and heading to the carpet (and everything that comes after).
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Her work also includes two memoirs: "Borrowed Finery" (210), about her peripatetic childhood, and "The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe" (21978), about her young womanhood.
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Watch the video to see why the Finery founder loves a good sale, isn't afraid to take a Sharpie to a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes and more.
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Former Australian government MP Ross Cameron came on to Sky News, dressed in his best Trump-Pence finery, to defend Donald Trump's "grab them by the pussy" comments.
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It's a secret fear many of us harbor: You're all dressed up in your finery, ready to marry the love of your life, and someone dares to object.
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This is where Finery can be used for household shopping, gift buying, and planning what to pack for a trip (for a single person or the entire family).
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Despite all the pretentious finery of the formal wear, traditional setting and the fact it's called the Trinity Ball, there is definitely something refreshingly grimey about it all.
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He worked closely with the fashion designer Christopher Nemeth, whose cobbled-together finery — made of canvas from his own paintings or purloined mail sacks — remains a cult fascination.
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Believing that "the shelves are crowded with perfumes," he declared at the outset of "Song of Myself" that he would not be seduced by such finery and fakery.
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Some canines walked; others arrived in toy cars or carriages; some were carried Cleopatra-style by burly men in loincloths; others were held aloft to show off their finery.
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FROM COINAGE: Being On The Cover of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Edition Can Launch Your Career Finery, Decker's company, also shared a sweet photo of their pregnant boss on Instagram.
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This week she's debuting Finery, an online tool that's the closest you'll come to having Cher Horowitz's closet-computer in your pocket; she serves as its chief design officer.
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The show opens with a life-sized portrait, "October" (1877), of an elegant woman bundled in a black finery of ruffles, fur, and feathers, framed by golden autumn leaves.
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He first shows us the grimy, bustling streets of the city, setting his figures – men in top hats and tails, women in layers of finery – against cardboard vintage photos.
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Johnson posted a picture on his official Instagram account showing the pair dressed in wedding finery and arms raised in celebration on a rise overlooking the ocean in Hawaii.
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Two Nigerian brides were forced to make a tough decision last weekend when they left their wedding receptions to sit their final year exam, dressed in their wedding finery.
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I picture him at my own medical school graduation, another singularly wet commencement, with a sodden tent that sagged ever closer to the seated parents in their graduation finery.
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Chanel has always attracted more customers than perhaps any other show in the entire fashion season, and those loyalists and dedicated shoppers have always gloried in displaying their finery.
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Young newlyweds Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald prompted smiles as the reality show star couple from TLC's 19 Kids & Counting shared a first photo of them in their wedding finery.
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I lived here years ago, when men wore frills and finery and let their hair grow into long lovelocks, before the queen's fair name was breathed upon, before the war.
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"We got our chairs from a place called Rusticks in Cashiers and our art and tchotchkes from Antique Tobacco Barn in Asheville," Decker, who founded digital closet app Finery, says.
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In one photo, Beyonce posed in her couture Maison Francesco Scognamiglio gown, giving a serious expression while Blue (in all her ethereal finery) gave a fierce look of her own.
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The crowd watching the music at Trip Metal 3 was the same people having a fantabulous social get together in the backyard, eating vegan sausage, draped in their backpatch finery.
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Hilariously gorgeous, even garish, these colorful, highly tactile works combine oil and enamel, are dense with dots, patterns and sartorial finery and suggest an artist thrilled to be painting again.
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Mr. Borle had dressed for the walk in unfussy attire — a thermal undershirt, gray jeans, scuffed boots, a scurf of razor burn — a far cry from Wonka's plum-colored finery.
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Emma Watson looks demure in her finery as eldest sister, Meg, while Florence Pugh (playing the bratty Amy) and Eliza Scanlen (as the tragic Beth) serve sweet, wonder-filled gazes.
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"When I got to set [Sarah] was in such good spirits and she's hilarious," cast mate Noureen DeWulf told PEOPLE at the Finery app launch in Culver City on Wednesday night.
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It was one of the most popular rituals of the day; some participants, dressed in witchy finery, had been lined up for half an hour to be sure they'd get in.
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" Once she has seen "Give It Up" dressed up in Kutiman's instrumental finery, Ms. Montgomery flies to Tel Aviv to work with him on two other songs, "Backwards" and "Stay Here.
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Through a narrow door, the finery gave way abruptly to a rudimentary kitchen and a wisp of a bedroom, hardly large enough to hold the twin bed where the countess slept.
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The vibe of the Lynx — a derelict arrayed in the finery of past glories — echoes its setting, a onetime booming hub of the aerospace industry whose biggest employer is going bust.
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The 193,000-year-old skeleton of Saint Aurelius, dressed in 18th-century finery, gets an elaborate makeover at the Center for Art Conservation and Restoration of the Catholic University of Portugal.
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"The chanting when I walked out, the look on his face when he first saw me, the look on my face when I first saw him in his Indian finery," she says.
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This was the perfect piece for my post-baby bod that I forgot I had, and it would have continued collecting dust had I not seen it in my Finery wardrobe. Score.
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But step into the Austin home he shares with his wife, actress Finery founder Brooklyn Decker, 30, and son Hank, 1, and you won't see a single vestige of his epic career.
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Here they both are in all their monochromatic finery at the EE British Academy Film Awards at The Royal Opera House in February 22016 in London just days before they got married.
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When Aradhana had completed 68 days of fasting, she was dressed in bridal finery and paraded in a chariot before a crowd of 600, including a member of Parliament from the area.
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It transported almost 4,000 guests wearing their best furs and silk chiffons into the circular belly of one of London's grandest buildings: the Royal Albert Hall, bedecked in its own festive finery.
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By now everybody must know that all the fancy finery worn by the celebrity Cinderellas at Mr. Ford's show, as at the Grammys, the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards, is borrowed.
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In bygone days, the moneyed classes of L.A. showed little interest in parading their finery in opera boxes, as the Morgans and the Vanderbilts had done at the Met, in New York.
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At the end of "Borrowed Finery," Ms. Fox tells of being reunited with the daughter she had borne at 20, the offspring of a brief liaison after her first marriage had ended.
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"It wasn't a stiff suit, it's made of a silk-blend crepe," said Madeline Sandlin, the owner of Finery Boutique, a Huntsville bridal boutique that also specializes in event planning and design.
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Performed in front of Cinderella's castle (where else?), the show features appearances by Princess Tiana, Rapunzel, Princess Anna and Queen Elsa – plus Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald and Daisy in their royal squire finery.
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Instead of her royal, overtly feminine finery, her costume for much of the action is a nightgown, and we discover a crucial vulnerability when it is revealed that she has lost 17 children.
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"We had a wonderful evening where we reminisced about holiday traditions of the past and present, including decorating every inch of her Hancock Park home with vintage Christmas ornaments and finery," Timolin adds.
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On a recent cold evening, briny Little Gun oysters from Long Island were dressed in hopeful spring finery: milky green pools of olive oil and parsley, like daubs of watercolor before they dry.
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I went to a similar one as a girl in Philadelphia: black men and women in their finery — and hats, of course, always hats — the preacher's syncopated call to souls after the sermon.
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Guests could dress up in their finery, stay at the hotel, and, in a glowing banquet hall with soaring views of Yosemite Valley, watch some light, Yuletide-themed performances and listen to carols.
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The Vindicator reports 972 Youngstown State University students, alumni and community members gathered on the school&aposs campus Saturday in their best penguin finery to celebrate the school&aposs 50th anniversary as a university.
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From her role on Grace and Frankie to managing intuitive wardrobe operating system Finery, Decker is already one busy mom – but the star doesn't seem worried about adding another little person into the mix.
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"That in itself feels good because I'm buying something used," Decker explains, sharing screenshots of some of the inspiration she got within the Finery app and the purchase page that shows her return window.
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It's fitting, he noted, that the gallery where his show is installed is situated in the museum's American Wing, wedged between a Federal period room and glass cases holding decorative pieces of colonial finery.
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Their reappearance each spring, in their elegant finery, is an occasion to wonder at the turning of the seasons, the high cost (biologically speaking) of reproduction and the all-too-human quest for beauty.
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Fans who would like to try on a replica of Cersei's crown can often do so at Steensons jewelers in Ballymena, because that's where the original and other Westerosi finery were designed and made.
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The end of the millennium saw leather go stratospherically pop with a frankly unpredictable trend for matching leather ensembles, sported by the Beckhams and by Destiny's Child in their proto-House of Dereon finery.
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For now, however, he's a hand's breadth from me, all decked out in golden chainmail and floral brocade and looking as relaxed as only thousand-year-old skeletons in 18th century finery can be.
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Decker recently finished an impressive top-to-bottom renovation on the 6,800-square-foot home, including a marble-clad kitchen and impressive walk-in closet, used as a showplace for Decker's wardrobe organization platform, Finery.
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The embalming process, the finery, and the body's burial in the basilica of St. Domenico Maggiore in Naples all suggest that child came from a noble family, Fornaciari says in an email to The Verge.
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Their names were Safi ye and Lucy, and you wouldn't have guessed that either one was a pauper, since they'd spent most of the preceding afternoon liberating various items of priceless finery from their keepers.
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With these transformations—if these transformations did indeed happen, if these transformations have indeed been understood right—the Cinderella story is inverted: The women can go from false finery and false familiarity to true sentiment.
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Aside from the paramilitary finery, there wasn't much else about these men that would make them stand out—this was a professional trade event, not a gun show at a county fairground in the Ozarks.
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The horses were in festive finery and obedient to every subtle command from perfect-posture riders whose stiff-brimmed Cordobés hats complemented their high-waisted paseo trousers, short jackets — chaquetillas camperas — and tall leather boots.
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Finery, which is currently only for women (children's clothes are next, followed by men's clothing), gets to know you, your closet and clothing and style preferences by scanning through every online clothing purchase you've ever made.
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That is hardly a surprise: government schemes to collect gold have disappointed since at least 1962, when Indira Gandhi, then the prime minister's daughter, handed over her own finery to finance a border skirmish with China.
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You can search the Finery database for your clothing or upload images of your clothing (either images you took or those you find on Google) and then let the site, which uses Cloud Vision, identify the image.
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"The chanting when I walked out, the look on his face when he first saw me, the look on my face when I first saw him in his Indian finery," the actress says, listing her favorite moments.
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But when so many men are so mediocre, the deck is stacked in favor of operators who can manipulate consumers, giving those buyers the illusion of finery rather than the reality of quality—operators like, well, Trump.
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When it comes to Hollywood, it's as if black people started with barely any clothes, but today have gotten to the point of being decked out in lush finery, and now just wish people would pay more attention.
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Wood marquetry also lent an aptly rugged feel to the Portrait of an American Indian pocket watch, where the subject, in full fur and feather finery, came to life through 304 wood pieces from 20 species of tree.
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ONE recent Saturday afternoon three performers, dressed in clownish finery, clambered out of a rusty 1950s pickup truck in a suburb of Havana and spent the next hour cavorting, breakdancing and sashaying for the amusement of a dozen children.
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If the candies and fun-size chocolate bars from your neighborhood trick-or-treating aren't filling you up, make the most of your holiday finery and stop by one of these chains for a scary-good bite to eat.
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While we simply adore colorful ornaments, shiny tinsel, and all the trinkets that come with the festive occasion, decking out our homes in the season's finery certainly adds up — even if we opt out of having a Christmas tree.
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A female rector receives a panicked phone call from her churchwarden to say a bride and groom have swept into their West Country parish church in all their wedding finery but with no priest, choir or organist in sight.
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Even the elegant onstage quartet, playing its elegant live score by the great Philip Glass, seems placed there as a nod to Trump's love of finery and wastefulness rather than to serve the direction of King Lear's overall mental decline.
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The steering wheel and the large displays built into it and the backs of the front seats are fine, and so are the Swarovski crystals embedded into the seat padding and all of the finery that the doors are clad in.
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The first major award show of 2017 has arrived, which means that tonight all of your favorite stars will take to the Golden Globes step and repeat in their most elegant finery, ankle-breaking heels, and more carats than Fort Knox.
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That makes Marni especially welcome at the present, when the reigning stance of luxury fashion is aggression, reared up on its hind legs: a mash-up of street wear — in the Virgil Abloh/Supreme sense — and finery, logo-spattered, grimly protective.
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When the wooden doors of Messiah Baptist Church opened after service on Sunday afternoons, members of the congregation, dressed in Sunday finery, walked to a two-story bungalow house on Humboldt Street to gather on the Parnell family's front porch.
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You get the sense of community from all of Stars Hollow coming together for the dance marathon, and that incredibly joyful, vaguely Lynchian sequence of the whole town in their 1940s finery, boogying away on the dance floor at 6 am.
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Recode Editor in Chief Dan Frommer will be on a panel with Brooklyn Decker and Whitney Casey, co-founders of Finery, the digital wardrobe platform with predictive analytics for styling and shopping, and Jamie Chung, the blogger behind What the Chung.
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" She adds, "Their customers expected [them] to be wearing this level of finery, for it added to the fantasy that the prostitutes, adorned in expensive undergarments, were 'proper' women who[m] they could have their way with — for a price.
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"A millennial woman will spend $250,000 to $300,000," on clothes over her lifetime says Whitney Casey, founder and CEO of Finery, a new site launching later this month that aims to be a personal clothing inventory, management, ensemble-selection and shopping service.
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As well as being able to explore new physical properties for such materials and, in principle, make them more cheaply, it is also able to offer them to people who object to having silk worms boiled and cattle skinned for their finery.
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"It's as if we're all standing around admiring the finery of the emperor's new clothes and actually the emperor is running around stark naked and everyone is laughing at us — or at least they would be if it wasn't so sad," she said.
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For instance, the young prince of Congo, Dom Nicolau, who, in 1845, at the tender age of 20, was sent to Lisbon to protest against Portuguese intervention in his country, is seen in his silk finery with one foot on a soccer ball.
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And, of course, from the terraces it has the Turner view, splendidly captured in one of his paintings, "England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday," with its ladies in their finery, the gentlemen in their smartest and in the distance, the unchanged landscape.
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I don't take umbrage with any of TEFAF's ostentatious finery because I think it may be one of the few art fairs that's sincere and transparent in its mission: to sell art to the one percent without revising the historical canon or aiming for accessibility.
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Based in Brazzaville, the shantytown capital of the Republic of Congo, the sapeurs have long performed a deft act of reverse colonization, appropriating the elegant duds and status markers of European high style to disport themselves through the dusty city in all their finery.
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Finery not only allows you to coordinate and organize your wardrobe with a bevy of options (date purchased, color, etc.) and create and save outfits, but it consolidates all of your shopping carts into your Wishlist and alerts you when items go on sale.
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For Kikis and Curl, he envisioned a home that had been built for a refined family that had migrated from a small European city to begin anew on a farm in the New World, carrying with them only a few bits of antique finery.
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A week before Christmas, in the midst of a Midtown Manhattan decked in its holiday finery, Patti Smith, New York City's punk poet laureate, gave an unannounced performance before a fast-gathering crowd of several hundred in the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art.
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Dressed in her wedding finery, her hands laced maroon with henna and her skin cleansed with turmeric, 23-year-old Savitri Prasad said she was weeping in her home as violent mobs battled outside on Tuesday, which was to have been her wedding day.
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It's nevertheless difficult to completely surmount questions -- other than the cash grab -- of elevating this to a movie, even if the sense of finery is understandably heightened by the family's guests, yielding the sort of dazzling imagery will likely renew tourism interest in Highclere Castle.
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Indeed, even among the finery and propriety of 19th-century English society, de Wilde's Emma illuminates many universally human experiences in a way that's deeply it me, even if instead of a corset, you're just rocking an especially tight pair of high-waisted jeans.
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The 31-year-old actress and co-founder of Finery, the first wardrobe-organization website, tells PEOPLE she dines out a lot because of the vibrant city she lives in with her husband Andy Roddick and their two kids, son Hank, 2, and daughter Stevie, 9 months.
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In his eagerness to be seen as a proper gentleman, Trewitt cheats some whores out of their wages (he claims to be investing them), buys a slave and some finery, and sets off to claim his inheritance from the wealthy man he presumes to be his father.
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As an unfortunate 80 percent of our wardrobe goes widely unused, Finery is setting out to have users make the best of what they have, strategically and efficiently shop for what the want, and unload whatever they aren't using for themselves and everyone in the family.
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After the ceremony, so her story goes, she and a fellow bridesmaid, the better for a glass or two of champagne, played truant from the reception and, still in their finery, took an evening stroll along the crowded promenade, where my father was also strolling with intent.
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Mindermann, the young ex-cop with five $27 department-store suits to his name, remembers the president's men who stonewalled the investigation throughout 1972 and early 113 as ''Ivy Leaguers in their custom-fitted finery — these privileged boys born to be federal judges and Wall Street barons.
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Gunshots introduced "God Control," which moves from bitter mourning about gun deaths to happy memories of string-laden 1970s disco, while Madonna and dancers appeared in glittery versions of Revolutionary War finery, complete with feathered tricorn hats, only to be confronted by police with riot shields.
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Finery, which relaunches today with a new look and features, is meant to catalog everything in your closet and help you get dressed without angst and shop without waste (to the point where it will flag price reductions on items you've bought so you can get cash back).
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As a model, actress, co-founder of Finery (an app that helps you keep your wardrobe organized that she describes as "the Clueless closet on steroids") and an "utterly exhausted" mom of two, Brooklyn Decker is an expert in needing clothes that work for multiple occasions – and work hard.
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As Singh trudges along in 50 degree Celsius heat, there are sadhus standing at the edge of the road to bless him, women decked out in their finery and vendors selling food and toys as people wait for this five-year old to perform a seemingly impossible task.
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One evening a bride came by in her gold and finery and was hoisted above a crowd of men chanting, "It's going to fall, and we're going to get married" — a reference to how many Sudanese men couldn't afford a wedding because of the country's dire economic crisis.
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One of the many ways that Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor and the Met Gala's benevolent dictator, cannily rejiggered what was once an opportunity for society people to flaunt their couture finery is that a hefty percentage of its 550 attendees will be wearing clothes they do not own.
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Hollywood's A-listers stepped out of their red carpet finery and into something a little more comfortable (let's be real, statement sleeves just aren't the most practical attire for a night on the dance floor), to celebrate their wins or nurse their losses over a glass of bubbly.
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Almost every turn of the exhibit introduces a familiar foam rubber and felt-made face, each one magical in its own right—Big Bird in all his 8-feet-2-inch glory, or Miss Piggy in her fantabulous wedding finery ("Moi has always possessed a charm that is lethal to men").
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For example, in my earlier research on a small women's salon, one male client told me the barbershop is a place for the mechanic, or "grease-monkey," who doesn't care how he looks, and for "machismo" men who prefer a pile of Playboy magazines rather than the finery of a salon.
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Social figures, fashion magnates, models and actors, and rafts of the largely unsung fanned out their finery as they filed into the vaulted auditorium, transforming what might have been a melancholy hour into a certified social event — the kind of gala affair, in short, that Mr. Cunningham might have relished himself.
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Presented by Spark Movement Collective and choreographed by Chelsea Koenig, the troupe's artistic director, this dance-theater adaptation in Queens features an emperor in striped long johns, as well as contemporary activists who try hard to prove that he isn't really wearing magical finery that only the worthy can see.
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They mounted the sweeping steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art long after night had fallen, the celebrities and models and socialites and titans of business, the 1,000 special guests in their finery and furs, past the paparazzi and a row of ushers standing at attention like a newfangled Praetorian Guard.
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This slender thread of a plot is sturdy enough to send Abigail all over the city in pursuit of a killer, from the wretched Lying-In Hospital, where poor women are herded into overcrowded wards, to the grand ballroom at Charlemont House, where society swells parade in all their finery.
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Unveiled a week after the company's most recent design director, Francesca Amfitheatrof, departed the company, the collection continued the nature theme with a number of tropical bird brooches' being the most obviously Schlumberger-inspired pieces, their feathered finery realized in minute, fully articulated detail in multicolored sapphires, aquamarines and diamonds.
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The organization's Garden of Dreams Foundation held its annual prom, inviting kids who have "faced obstacles" (from severe illness to poverty) to hit the dance floor in prom finery with some help from Macy's — as well Knicks alumni on hand at Men's Wearhouse to help with the tux selections for the guys.
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Although the rain ultimately held off, a wet-weather plan was put into action – meaning that Prince William and Prince Charles and the rest of the royal Knights (and their commoner counterparts) drove to the annual service at Windsor Castle on Monday rather than walk down the hill wearing their Order finery.
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Then there's "Graduation" (1949): here you get to see DeCarava as an insightful street photographer and sociologist as he observes a woman in full finery, carefully picking up her skirts to find her way across a sidewalk caught between an abandoned lot on one side and a heap of trash on the other.
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Natalia Vodianova returned to the runway as a favor for her fellow Russian, Ulyana Sergeenko, opening a show of folkloric flounces in black silk and velvet, as if our heroine had been interrupted in the midst of her cocktail hour and was forced to flee to the woods in all her finery.
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Alessia Cara's performance of "Scars to Your Beautiful" — in which she appeared onstage in full red goddess gown, bobbed wig, makeup and dangling rhinestone earrings, only to have all the finery and paint stripped off to reveal a black tank top, pants, sneakers and bare face — could have served as a metaphor for the evening.
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In her last stage of life, he said, she is holed up in the top floor of an S.R.O. hotel, once a grand townhouse, surrounded by donated finery and decoration — a spangly pillow on a chair with a tropical print, a leopard-print carpet, the novels of Graham Greene — the largess of her decorator friends.
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Borges and Donohue had already left when I arrive, so it was just Geere and Cash, dressed in gorgeous wedding finery and looking out over the twinkling lights of Los Angeles, as Jimmy and Gretchen admitted to each other that they don't know if they can love each other forever, because forever is such a big word.
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"Visions of Johanna" (22001) Again combining large-scale existential gripes ("We sit here stranded, though we're all doing' our best to deny it") with small-scale finery ("We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight / ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane"), "Visions" is regularly cited as one of Dylan's greatest achievements. 22001.
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He embarked on a new profession 20 years ago as a purveyor of sepia and black-and-white images of Shanghai and Beijing before World War II. He specializes in photos of bourgeois families from the 1930s who, dressed in traditional Chinese finery, posed in studios with European backdrops that featured Bugati cars and Art Deco furniture.
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A generation too young to have known her megahits has discovered her anew as a kooky and ubiquitous YouTube presence prancing and posing and vamping across social media wearing couture finery in videos like the brief but addictive one she shot in Paris for Vogue in 2017 — a clip that even The Fader suggested expanding into a feature film.
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Sculptor, printmaker, installation artist, performer, quilt maker, storyteller, and jeweler Joyce J. Scott affirms the femininity of her forebears, giving them the finery they deserve, most notably in the installation "Harriet's Closet," which she describes as a "dream boudoir" for Harriet Tubman, the "inner sanctum of a great lady," with such items as quilts, shawls, hats, and beads.
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When he exploded as a musical force in the late 1970s, Prince seemed like a one-person sexual revolution—someone unabashedly reveling in taboo topics, unafraid to be explicitly horny, and brazen enough to be naked, half naked, or spiffed up in frilly shirts and facial finery as he pleasured himself and his millions of panting fans.
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An experimental series of one lavish mise-en-scène after another, the film is mostly stripped of dialogue: we begin in Plymouth Sound, England, 1554, with slow, meandering shots of silent Elizabethan explorers, their ilk — specifically a red-lipped woman and a preternaturally blonde man — and a few African men, usually in robes but sometimes in the same finery as the white royalty.
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Because of her positions as editor of her own CR Fashion Book magazine and global fashion director of Harper's Bazaar — as well as, for 10 years, curator of the fashion show for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS charity gala on May 19 in Cannes — her friends Azzedine Alaïa, Karl Lagerfeld and Riccardo Tisci are ready to create custom red carpet finery.
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The film, which opens in theaters on May 18, follows Pope Francis from prisons, refugee camps and favelas to the halls of Congress and the United Nations without losing its stringent focus on a pontiff seeking to model himself on his namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi, the son of a rich textile merchant who cast off his finery for mendicants' robes.
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If the original "Colonus" functioned as a misty-eyed tale of redemption for the Theban king damned by prophecy to marry his mother and kill his father, then director Lee Breuer's "Gospel" amplifies the anger and adulation manifest in Oedipus' final act with soaring musical numbers delivered by a choir clad in neon eighties costumes ranging between glossy Easter finery and glittering African garb.
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To watch her, in "A Doll's House, Part 2," collapse to the floor, flat on her back, wearing period finery, stay there and act, or to see her drive a car in "Lady Bird" — haranguing her passenger then, later, with no one to harangue — is to experience a master comedic technician strip away her technique and leave you soaked in tears, both the pants-wetting and heartbroken varieties.
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While one has yet to be announced, the other four are OnRamp, a cloud hosting company that sold last year to a data and IT company called LightEdge; the personal finance startup Clarity Money, which sold to Goldman Sachs last year; the wardrobe tech company Finery, which sold to Stitch Fix in September; and the smart oven maker Brava, which just yesterday disclosed that it's being acquired by Middleby, an industrial equipment company.
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"Paris, Capital of Fashion," at The Museum at FIT, focuses on the spare-no-expense, color-drenched explosion of finery that took off in the Ancién Regime (from the 15th to 21916th centuries) and hasn't stopped since; "French Fashion, Women, and the First World War," at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, depicts how the French fashion industry persevered amid hardships and, by war's end, gave the emerging modern world a pretty good idea of how it would dress.
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Rowan Kaiser described the irreconcilable tensions within Rise and Fall as Firaxis trying to turn Civilization into something it's not and has never been, which sums up a lot of the choices and ambitions that have guided the series since Civ V. Where Paradox strategy games have always been focused, even obsessed, with the mechanisms that shaped, guided, and constrained historical politics, Civ has never tried to be a simulation of history so much as a fantasy deathmatch dressed in history's finery.
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Gradually they step to the front and stand like dolls in a row: in ballooning brocade Scarlett O'Hara ball gowns and shrunken little-girl velvets with big white Peter Pan collars; in faded, ripped jeans and smocked velvet; in crucifixes and leather harnesses; in granny sweaters and peasant florals; in all the flibbertigibbet, eccentric, everything-goes finery Mr. Michele has become known for — as the stage begins to rotate like a merry-go-round and, in the middle, a big neon metronome ticks backs and forth.
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But on adult women, historical dressing and the comfort of special occasion childhood clothing can be a test in fantasy, read in a way that brushes up close to costume and weaponizes the naiveté of girlhood and modesty (in a way, similar to Courtney Love's "kinderwhore" look), bringing the wearer into an arena of the perverse or gothic, sitting closer to the girls in Picnic in Hanging Rock or the group of Civil War-era women in Sofia Coppola's remake of The Beguiled, whose faded petticoated pastel finery masks dark impulses for sex and murder.
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Our correspondent R.W. Apple reported: All the panoply of monarchy was deployed on this, one of the great days in the history of the House of Windsor: the stirring music of Handel and Purcell and Elgar; the Household Cavalry, in their burnished breastplates and helmets with red plumes; the stately royal horses, caparisoned in silver; almost all of the reigning sovereigns of Europe, come in their finery to share in the happy occasion, and the royal bride herself, resplendent in a gown of pale ivory, with puffy sleeves and a train 25 feet long.
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Despite the story's setting hundreds of years ago, many of the situations feel wildly relatable: The film depicts multiple panic attacks; a devastating breakup between two best friends (Emma and Harriet); the crippling pain that comes from hurting someone you love; the heart-wrenching regret of believing you lost your shot at real love; and a scene where we see Mr. Knightley (Johnny Flynn) and Emma getting dressed in all their finery that may or may not include a little nudity, showing that underneath all the ruffles and bows, they're just two people.
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