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"prêt-à-porter" Definitions
  1. ready-to-wear clothes

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"Other designers can do prêt-à-porter," Bradly Dunn Klerks, the director of the label, told me.
A prosecco pit stop is next at Pomellato, which calls itself the world's first prêt-à-porter jewelry brand.
I'm studying to become a seamstress at his boutique, so I can make magnificent clothes for myself that you can't buy prêt-à-porter.
In the '210s and '803s, Kriemler's parents, Max and Ute, expanded Akris's scope, producing prêt-à-porter for such houses as Ted Lapidus and Givenchy.
This was a gay black man who did not make ordinary Parisian prêt-à-porter—through his signature buttoned and bowed jersey dresses, he was bold and daring.
By 1988, Kelly was the first American and black person to become a member of the august Chambre Syndicale du Prêt-à-Porter, which governs the French ready-to-wear industry.
The team wants to expand into body scanning for customer orders and improve their ability to create custom shirts that unburden us all from the shackles of the prêt-à-porter hegemony.
Similar to the suspense before a theatrical Marc Jacobs show in the '90s, it seems the entire industry can't wait to see what the ultra-exclusive Gvasalia does next each prêt-à-porter season.
When we consider that the cachet of high-end art and couture is ultimately about its exclusivity, perhaps achieving status recognizable to the average Simpsons viewer represents a slide into the mainstream — or, even worse, prêt-à-porter.
A great reader, lover of literature, and a privately humorous woman, Rykiel appeared as herself in Robert Altman's 1994 comedy Prêt-à-porter (Ready To Wear) and Altman frequently credited  Rykiel (who also served as the film's Creative Consultant) for its inspiration.
"Up until 1999, when I started my 'prêt-à-porter' collection, making watches for special clients was my métier," Mr. Journe said in an interview, referring to the jeweled pocket watches he sold to Asprey in London, which, in turn, were sold to the sultan of Oman.
It's that same, endlessly worshiped je ne sais quoi that the brand was built upon, when its founder Gaby Aghion introduced Chloé — and the concept of luxury prêt-à-porter — to the world in 1952, at a time when most fashion houses were exclusively creating couture.
"As far as we are concerned, the present system is still valid," Ralph Toledano, president of Fédération Française de la Couture du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode in France, told WWD last February, as the buzz around in-season presentations started gaining traction.
Indeed, after the Gvasalias decided to move their fashion show from October to July to give the collection more time on the sales floor, the Fédération Française de la Couture, du Prêt à Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode offered them a slot on the couture calendar.
There, the son of a Milanese goldsmith hatched a bar-side plan for a new kind of jewelry: Aimed at the era's freewheeling feminists, it would be expressive yet easy to wear, blending Italian artisanship with the kind of prêt-à-porter nonchalance that was replacing haute couture's fussy supremacy in fashion.
The designer is one of India's fashion pioneers: In the 1990s he specialized in minimalistic resort wear at a time when the country was still focused on heavy embellishment, has been invited to international events like the trade fair Prêt-à-Porter Paris, and in 2014 was honored with a Padma Shri, one of India's highest civilian awards.
It is made-to-measure clothing produced to the highest possible standards, by teams of specialist craftspeople — and it is extraordinarily expensive, ranging from around $50,000 to $200,000 per outfit, according to Pascal Morand, the executive president of the Fédération Française de la Couture, du Prêt-à-Porter des couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode, the governing body of French fashion.
Chloé: A 60-Year Tradition of Pretty Prêt-à-Porter . Lauren Cochrane. The Guardian, 2 October 2012.
Lempicka herself has appeared in the movies "Prêt-à-porter" and "Quelqu'un De Bien" (Slice of Life).
He also won an award for the best prêt-à-porter garment in the first season of Let's Design, 2009.
Ece Ege (born 1963 in Bursa, Turkey) is a Turkish-French fashion designer and founder of the prêt-à-porter line DICE KAYEK.
However, Saint Laurent, whose health had been precarious for years, became erratic under the pressure of designing two haute couture and two prêt-à-porter collections every year. He increasingly turned to alcohol and drugs. At some shows, he could barely walk down the runway at the end of the show, and he had to be supported by models. After a disastrous 1987 prêt-à-porter show in New York City, which featured US$100,000 jeweled casual jackets only days after the "Black Monday" stock market crash, he turned over the responsibility of the prêt-à-porter line to his assistants.
Melinda Looi Prêt- à-Porter Melinda Looi Prêt-à-Porter is her collection of ready-to-wear evening dresses in a series of cocktail dresses, tops, bottoms and accessories. Since 2009 this line also offers ready-to-wear bridal gowns. MELL Offers an alternative wardrobe for men and women seeking casual wear. Their line is currently only available in Malaysian outlets.
Daniel Hechter (born 30 July 1938) is a French fashion designer, sometimes referred to as the inventor of ready-to-wear or prêt-à-porter.
At the same time, between 1992 and 1994, he created lingerie, jewellery and scarf collections. At the end of 1996 he presented «Moda Barcelona», his first bridal prêt-à-porter collection. The same year he began to industrially produce his women’s prêt-à-porter collections. In 1997 he launched a new brand, «J.D.P.», in Japan, together with Daimaru Inc, with a presence in five department stores.
Katarzyna Figura (born 22 March 1962) is a Polish actress. She is sometimes billed as "Kasia Figura", as in Prêt-à-Porter (Ready to Wear), Robert Altman's 1994 film.
In 1998, Sirop entered into a partnership with Daimaru Stores of Japan to produce Dominique Sirop for Daimaru, a high- fashion prêt-à-porter (or ready-to-wear) label.
Little, Brown and Company, 2006. p.49. others point out that other couture houses were preparing prêt-à-porter lines at the same time – the House of Yves Saint Laurent merely announced its line first. The first of the company's Rive Gauche stores, which sold the prêt-à-porter line, opened on the rue de Tournon in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, on 26 September 1966. The first customer was Catherine Deneuve.
The Christian Dior Ready-to-Wear collection is showcased biannually for spring-summer and autumn-winter seasons during Paris Fashion Week to an audience of media, retailers, buyers, investors, and customers, under the auspices of the Chambre Syndicale du Prêt- à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode, which is one of three trade associations affiliated with the Fédération française de la couture, du prêt- à-porter des couturiers et des créateurs de mode.
CuteCircuit product line is formed by the Prêt-à-Porter Collection, the Haute Couture Collection and special tailored pieces for private customers and celebrities. The Prêt-à-Porter Collection includes fashionable pieces made of laser cut Reflective Materials, 3-D Digital Print and Smart Textiles. They have successfully redesigned their iconic Haute Couture pieces for the Prêt-à-Porter market; for example, the K Dress inspired by Katy Perry’s Dress for MET Gala 2010 was the first interactive fashion garment to be featured in Selfridges womenswear department. More recently CuteCircuit has launched the World's First Couture Twitter Dress, an evening dress worn for the very first time by Nicole Scherzinger and ables to receive and show tweets sent in real-time by fans.
Prêt-à-Porter, released in the US as Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter), is a 1994 American satirical comedy-drama film co-written, directed, and produced by Robert Altman and shot on location during the Paris Fashion Week with a host of international stars, models, and designers. The film features an extensive ensemble cast, including Anouk Aimée, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Kim Basinger, Stephen Rea, Lauren Bacall, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Lili Taylor, and Sally Kellerman.
The Valentino Ready-to-Wear collection is a showcased biannually collection for spring-summer and autumn-winter seasons during Paris Fashion Week to an audience of media, retailers, buyers, investors, and customers, under the auspices of the Chambre Syndicale du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode, which is one of three trade associations affiliated with the Fédération française de la couture, du prêt-à-porter des couturiers et des créateurs de mode.
After a brief period with Karl Lagerfeld as an assistant, he worked as a designer at Jean Patou before being appointed director of luxury prêt-à-porter at the house of Balenciaga. It was for the next five and a half years that Thimister would spend reviving the brand with his pure, succinctly modernist vision. He then set up his own Paris-based house in 1997, and thereafter presented both haute couture and prêt-à-porter collections under his name.
A grand couturier is a member of the French Chambre syndicale de la haute couture, part of the Fédération française de la couture, du prêt-à-porter des couturiers et des créateurs de mode.
Malo headquarters is located in Campi Bisenzio, near Florence. Prêt-à-porter presentations are held at the showroom in Milan. Malo boutiques are present in Italy, France, Spain, the United States, Russia, Japan and South Korea.
The song appeared in an episode of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head, in the films Prêt-à-Porter, Never Been Kissed, Alien AutopsyVideography at mvdbase.com and in the video game UEFA Euro 2004.
In the United States the film was release with the title Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter). In other countries, the original title was used. The U.S. DVD and VHS title was Robert Altman's Ready to Wear.
Alternatively, a specific sense of a borrowed word can be reborrowed as a semantic loan; for example, English pioneer was borrowed from Middle French in the sense of "digger, foot soldier, pedestrian", then acquired the sense of "early colonist, innovator" in English, which was reborrowed into French.The Oxford Guide to Etymology, by Philip Durkin, 5. Lexical borrowing, 5.1 Basic concepts and terminology, pp. 212–215 In other cases the term may be calqued (loan translated) at some stage, such as English ready-to-wear → French prêt-à-porter (1951) → English prêt-à-porter (1957).
Pernet's iconic personal style has attracted cinematographer attention as well: she has figured in the Robert Altman film Prêt-à-Porter, Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate, Larry Clark's The Smell of Us and Ben Stiller's 2016 Zoolander 2.
"Nothing Underneath". Entertainment Weekly. 44. John Simon writing for the National Review said Prêt-à-Porter was a picture that only a director's mother could love and that though the film lasted over two hours, wore out its welcome in ten minutes.
For her first collection in 1991, Ege created 13 shirts in white poplin, conceived a bit for herself. The success led to the launching of her prêt-à-porter line DICE KAYEK in 1992. With DICE, her second line launched in 1994.
Ole Yde Ole Yde (born 24 July 1978 in Odense) is a Danish fashion designer based in Copenhagen. He is the creative director and founder for the fashion house YDE, launched in 2005. YDE is a luxury women’s Prêt-à-Porter Brand based in Copenhagen.
In 1998, Daimaru entered into a partnership with the French grand couturier Dominique Sirop to produce Dominique Sirop for Daimaru, a high fashion prêt-à-porter (ready-to- wear) label. As of 2016, Daimaru had seven stores in Japan, and employed about 3,000 people.
Schön's work was introduced in the United States in 1967 in Dallas and Houston by Neiman Marcus. In 1969, she designed uniforms for Air Italia. Schön's men's line and her first prêt-à-porter collection for women appeared in 1971. In 1972, she designed uniforms for Iran Air.
She subsequently had supporting roles in the comedy Mr. Mom (1983), and two Robert Altman films: The Player (1992), and Prêt-à-Porter (1994). Garr subsequently had small roles in the comedies Dick (1999) and Ghost World (2001) before going into semi-retirement due to her diagnosis with multiple sclerosis.
Carlos Tufvesson is a fashion designer in Brazil. He attended Domus Academy, in Milan, Italy. In 2000, he opened a space in Ipanema: One side his atelier, the other a store front. In 2001, he released his first prêt-à-porter collection during the Semana Barra Shopping, a precursor event to Fashion Rio.
Costello and Tagliapietra met in Manhattan in 1994, and after eleven years working together they presented their first collection for the spring 2005 season at New York Fashion Week, and won the 2005 Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award. From its inception, Costello Tagliapietra has had a prêt-à-porter clothing line for women.
In 1960 Walter and his wife Mariella founded the company with the purpose of the production and distribution of children's clothing. After the rise of prêt-à- porter for women in the 1970s, the company began to export abroad in the 1980s, and expanded into other lines of clothing, as well as by opening stores.
Portrait of Ralph Toledano Ralph Toledano (born 27 September 1951, Casablanca, Morocco) is a French-Moroccan businessman. He is president of the Puig group’s fashion division; president of the Fédération française de la Couture, du Prêt à Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode; and president of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture.
"Right Thing, Wrong Way" featured prominently in the end credits of Beverly Hills Cop III. "What Shall I Do?" was featured in an episode of the UPN television series Girlfriends. He sang the ending song, "Letting Go", in the 1996 film The Fan. D'Arby's songs were also used in Prêt- à-Porter and the 1995 miniseries The Promised Land.
The Fédération française de la couture, du prêt-à-porter des couturiers et des créateurs de mode () is the governing body for the French fashion industry. The Federation was created in 1973, growing out of an older trade association (which still exists within the Federation), the Chambre syndicale de la haute couture parisienne which was created in 1868.
The quirky personal style she presented at castings inspired Marc Jacobs' aesthetic for the spring 2005 Louis Vuitton prêt-à-porter collection . Her runway appearances include Valentino, Versace, Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana, Chloé, Prada, Rochas, and Burberry. Her image has graced the covers of Zoo magazine (Germany) and Vogue (Russia).Querelle Jansen Profile on FMD.
Celebrities were asked to wear Marchesa (his ex- wife's label) at least once if they were in a Weinstein movie. His production companies were frequently involved in fashion-themed movies, including Madonna's W.E., Robert Altman's Prêt-à-Porter, and Tom Ford's A Single Man. Stars of Weinstein's films appeared on more than a dozen Vogue covers.
Two years after his arrival, he brought Phoebe Philo on board as artistic director. Toledano remained head of Chloé until 2010. From 2011-2012 Mr. Toledano was chairman of St. John. He was president of the Chambre Syndicale du Prêt à Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode from 2003-2008 and from 2012-2014.
In 1974, the House of Chanel launched Cristalle eau de toilette, which was designed when Coco Chanel was alive. 1978 saw the launch of the first non- couture, prêt-à-porter line and worldwide distribution of accessories. Alain Wertheimer, son of Jacques Wertheimer, assumed control of Chanel S.A. in 1974. In the U.S., No. 5 de Chanel was not selling well.
For her femme fatale portrayal in L.A. Confidential (1997), Basinger won the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Blind Date (1987), Prêt-à-Porter (1994), I Dreamed of Africa (2000), 8 Mile (2002), The Door in the Floor (2004), Cellular (2004), The Sentinel (2006), Grudge Match (2013) and Fifty Shades Darker (2017).
Gaby Aghion was born in 1921 in Alexandria, Egypt. After moving to Paris, France in 1945, she founded Chloé in 1952 with a vision of offering luxury prêt-à-porter (Ready- To-Wear), a new concept at that time. Gaby Aghion continued to run the house until 1985, when Chloé was bought by Alfred Dunhill Ltd. (now part of Richemont).
Her prêt-à-porter anticipated the concept of demi-couture. One of her pieces was included at the “Unbridaled: The Marriage of Tradition and Avant Garde” exhibition in Paris. She was named a chevalier (knight) of the French government's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Tcherassi is the author of the bestseller Elegancia Sin Esfuerzo (Effortless Elegance) published by Random House.
Kritharioti designed the costumes of "Romeo & Juliet" and "Swan Lake" ballets for the Greeκ National Opera presented at the Megaron venue in Athens. Kritharioti presents an Haute Couture Collection (annually), a Bridal Collection (annually), the 5226 Prêt- à-Porter collection (twice a year) and the 5226 Princess Collection for children (twice a year). She also designs sunglasses, jewelry and accessories.
In 1946, she publicized the launch of her first perfume by parachuting hundreds of sample bottles across Paris. In 1950, Carven created a collection inspired by Gone with the Wind to coincide with the film's French release. She toured France with the collection, staging fashion shows at movie theaters. In 1950, she became one of the first couturiers to develop prêt-à-porter.
Judge 1, Living TV Butcher appeared regularly at the prêt-à-porter shows in Paris, Milan and New York until she became a mother for the first time in 1995. As a mother of two, Butcher works exclusively from London. She has modelled for many brands, including Yves Saint Laurent, Ferritti Jeans and John Galliano. She has also been the face of Hardy Amies since 2003.
Rykiel collaborated with impresario and performer Malcolm McLaren on the song "Who the Hell is Sonia Rykiel?" on McLaren's 1995 album Paris. Rykiel makes a cameo appearance in Robert Altman's 1994 film Prêt-à-Porter. Altman was inspired to make the film after attending one of Rykiel's ready-to-wear fashion shows. The lead character, played by actress Anouk Aimée, was based on the designer.
In 1962, the French fashion designer Daniel Hechter published his first women's collection. Three years later, he added a children's line and completed the fashion range with the men's line in 1968. These collections made him become popular as the inventor of ready- to - wear or Prêt-à-porter fashion. After a few years, these collections were expanded into sports, relaxation, and leisure wear.
With Warnaco's backing, Kelly designs were soon available in stores throughout the world. That year, his sales approached $7 million. With the support of designer Sonia Rykiel, Kelly was admitted in 1988 to the prestigious Chambre syndicale du prêt-à-porter des couturiers et des créateurs de mode. His young label thus became an official colleague of brands such as Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel and Christian Dior.
Wolfgang Joop in 1992. In early 1982, Wolfgang Joop presented his first prêt-à-porter women's collection, followed by his first men's collection in 1985. Two years later, with the launch of his first perfume collection, he made his name a trademark, with capital letters to symbolise energy along with an exclamation mark. Clothes, shoes, jewelry, eyeglasses, and perfume were immediately available under this brand.
Gabrielle Aghion (née Hanoka;Alexandrie Info n° 35, décembre 2010. "Decès: Raymond Aghion, à Paris le 24 juin 2009, à l'âge de 88 ans; Raymond avait épousé Gaby Aghion, née Gabrielle Hanoka." 1 March 1921 - 27 September 2014) was an Egyptian/French fashion designer and the founder of the French fashion house Chloé. She is said to have coined the phrase "prêt-à-porter".
In Paris the Aghions gravitated toward the Communists, becoming close to writers Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard and Tristan Tzara. Gaby launched Chloé in 1952. Raymond opened an art gallery in 1956, specializing in modern art. According to the website of Chloé, Aghion rejected the stiff formality of 1950s fashion and created soft, feminine, body conscious clothes from fine fabrics, and called them "luxury prêt-à-porter".
A fashion blog can cover many things such as specific items of clothing and accessories, beauty tips, trends in various apparel markets (haute couture, prêt-à-porter, etc.), celebrity fashion choices and street fashion trends.Corcoran, Cate T. Blogging for bags, "Women's Wear Daily", October 23, 2006.Weil, Jennifer with contributions from Corcoran, Cate T. and Moir, Jane. In their sites, "Women's Wear Daily", June 29, 2006.
Also, the designer has been mentioned in Dorothea Gundtoft's book "Fashion Scandinavia". Ole Yde presents his collection twice a year during Copenhagen Fashion WeekChristina Christensen / All Over Press Editor: Christoph Nagel. "ELLE - Copenhagen Fashion Week - Ole Yde Show", 2012. and Paris Fashion Week. In addition to the YDE’s flagship store in Copenhagen, the Prêt-à-Porter collection is available through a selection of retailers in North America, Middle East and Asia.
The remixed version of the track also incorporates the bass line from Taana Gardner's 1981 single "Heartbeat".Aaron, Charles (1995) "Singles: Ini Kamoze - Here Comes the Hotstepper", Spin, February 1995, p. 80. Retrieved 23 December 2012 The song appeared on the soundtrack to the fashion-industry satire feature film Prêt-à- Porter. "Here Comes the Hotstepper" remains Kamoze's only US number one hit (see Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1994).
In 1994, Deep Forest appeared on the soundtrack for Robert Altman's Prêt-à-Porter with the song "Martha". Deep Forest was hired to provide a full original score for the 1995 movie Strange Days and their credit appears on early advertising for the film. In the end, the score was instead composed by Graeme Revell. One cue from Deep Forest's original music remains in the film, titled "Coral Lounge".
All of the episodes' titles are based on the name of a film or a novel. For example, episode "The Wild Brunch" evokes western film The Wild Bunch and "Seventeen Candles" Sixteen Candles. Episode "All About My Brother" refers to Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother while "Pret-a-Poor-J" came from Prêt-à-Porter. "There Might Be Blood" took its title from 2007 film There Will Be Blood.
Mastroianni is a friend and frequent collaborator of French filmmaker Christophe Honoré. She has appeared in roughly half of his films in either major roles or cameos, beginning with the 2007 film Love Songs. Before her father's death she appeared in two films with him, Prêt-à- Porter (1994) and Three Lives and Only One Death (1996). Mastroianni also works frequently with her mother; they often play mother and daughter onscreen.
In the early 1960s Louis Féraud hired the designers Jean-Louis Scherrer, Margit Brandt and Per Spook. In 1970, he signed a contract with Fink (Germany) for a ladies' prêt-à-porter (ready-to- wear) collection. The year 1978 was an excellent one for Féraud: he won the "Golden Thimble Award" for his Spring/Summer 1978 Haute Couture Collection. He went on to claim this accolade again in 1984.
Further products became introduced such as the Taiga leather line in 1993, and the literature collection of Voyager Avec... in 1994. In 1996, the celebration of the Centennial of the Monogram Canvas was held in seven cities worldwide. In 1997, Louis Vuitton made Marc Jacobs its Artistic Director. In March of the following year, he designed and introduced the company's first "prêt-à-porter" line of clothing for men and women.
In 1994 she exhibited her collection in Paris at the "Salon du Prêt-à-Porter Feminin". Two years later she opened her first international store in Paris, located in the famous rue de Grenelle. At the same time she began to diversify her collections by creating bags and shoes for both men and women. In December 1998, she started the management of the model agency "FACE MODELS" in Lisbon.
The first studio album, entitled "Prêt-à Porter" was released in 2003. Gil took nude pictures for the cover and the booklet of the CD. The idea was for the singer, in particular, to feel reborn. Once Gil finished photographing the pictures, she showed them to the label. But the record label was alerted and asked if she was sure that she wanted to use them because it might cause a 'scandal'.
Types of modelling include: fashion, glamour, fitness, bikini, fine art, body-part, promotional, and commercial print models. Models are featured in a variety of media formats including: books, magazines, films, newspapers, internet and television. Fashion modelling as a profession is sometimes featured in films (Prêt-à- Porter and Looker), reality TV shows (America's Next Top Model and The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency), and music videos ("Freedom! '90", "Wicked Game", "Daughters" and "Blurred Lines").
A maxi-single was released with several remixes of the song. A remix of "Get Wild" was played in the 1994 film, Prêt-à-Porter and was included on the soundtrack album. A video featuring cameo scenes with Lolly Pop and various others was shot at Glam Slam Minneapolis, but was shelved by Warner Brothers. Prince's rap from "Get Wild" was later reused in a promotional remix of the Gold Experience track, "P. Control".
Patrick Kelly (September 24, 1954 – January 1, 1990) was a celebrated African- American fashion designer who came to fame in France. Among his accomplishments, he was the first American to be admitted to the Chambre syndicale du prêt-à-porter des couturiers et des créateurs de mode, the prestigious governing body of the French ready-to-wear industry. Kelly's designs were noted for their exuberance, humor and references to pop culture and Black folklore.
Peter is now Akris's global CEO, handling management and manufacturing. Peter Kriemler is credited with bringing the Akris collection to Asia with subsidiaries in Japan and Korea, as well as developing the worldwide network of directly operated stores. Since 2004, the Akris collection is shown during Paris fashion week - the only Swiss house in the Fédération française de la couture, du Prêt-à- Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode.ecch, the case for learning.
Soon after that Isaeva was relieved of her duties and the position of Editor-in-Chief was occupied by a number of different people until Podgorbunskaya herself took up the role. Podgorbunskaya and Zhanar Mirzazhanova, the Fashion Editor at Harper's Bazaar Kazakhstan, are the only two journalists from Kazakhstan officially accredited by the Fédération française de la couture, by prêt-à-porter des couturiers and by créateurs de mode to the fashion shows in Paris.
Notable prêt-à-porter designers of the 1970s include Toni Miró and Antonio Balado. The end of 20th century brought the beginning of various fast fashion chains. Fast fashion refers to designs that quickly move from the runway to stores at affordable prices. The first Zara opened in La Coruña, Galicia, Spain (under the name of “Zorba”) in 1975 and expanded throughout Spain until its first international store opened in Porto, Portugal in 1988.
The stores appeal to a wide audience, selling both prêt-à-porter and haute couture clothing and accessories. The downstairs menswear section of the Dublin branch has been recently renovated. Ralph Lauren, Gant, Hugo Boss, Paul Smith, Dolce & Gabbana and Prada are some of the brands that can be found in the new men's basement area. Both the restaurant and cafe are now located together on the top floor of the store.
Marie-Louise Carven (31 August 1909 – 8 June 2015), born Carmen de Tommaso, was a French fashion designer who founded the house of Carven in 1945. She was noted for her designs for petite women, her use of lightweight fabrics such as lace and pink gingham, and for being one of the first couturieres to launch a prêt-à-porter line. She was the first Paris designer to patent a push-up bra.
"The Look that shocked the world". The Independent (11 February 1997). Charles-Roux was a great supporter of Christian Dior's "New Look", of which she later said, "It signalled that we could laugh again - that we could be provocative again, and wear things that would grab people's attention in the street." In August 1956, the magazine issued a special ready-to-wear (prêt-à-porter) issue, signaling a shift in fashion's focus from couture production.
She then appeared in Robert Altman's 1994 satirical fashion film Prêt-à-Porter and in the music video of George Michael's "Too Funky" song. As of 2010, she is a theater actress, charity spokesperson for the Ghanaian charity OrphanAid Africa, and the face of luxury ad campaigns. In 2007, she released a perfume line under her name through Etat libre d'Orange. In 2009, she posed nude in an information campaign on breast cancer for the magazine Marie Claire.
Untitled (Crushed), a work consisting of one-hundred-plus unique works- crushed branded shopping bags collected by Beaumont, presents the bags as deconstructed fetishized icons of beauty and the branding of identity. A related work, the sculptural assemblage Prêt-à-Porter, is a societal construct of identity. The work consists of a collection of international shopping bags, a rolling double clothes rack, and hangers. The branded shopping bags are hung with tags naming the individual who contributed the bag.
Jeffrey Hyman founded the first Pret a Manger in London on 21 October 1983. The first Pret A Manger shop opened in Hampstead, London, in 1984.Company Number 1763373, Pret A Manger Shareholders included Robin Wight and Andrew Garner, both directors of advertising agency WCRS; James Pilditch; Monty White; singer Lynsey de Paul; Jeffrey Hyman; and Valerie Hyman. The name Prêt à Manger (, ready to eat ) was based on prêt-à-porter, French for "ready-to-wear" clothing.
She was born and raised in Paris, France. Her mother is a photographer of Russian descent, and her father, a French businessman and art collector. At age 16, she left home and moved to London, England where she became a musician, playing drums with local punk bands. At 18, she turned to fashion modelling for three years and was one of the first tattooed fashion model to break through in prêt-à-porter and couture in the eighties.
Chanel is a privately held French company founded in 1909 by Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, a former milliner. The Chanel ready-to-wear collection is showcased biannually for spring-summer and autumn-winter seasons during Paris Fashion Week to an audience of media, retailers, buyers, investors, and customers, under the auspices of the Chambre Syndicale du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode, which is one of three trade associations affiliated with the Fédération française de la couture, du prêt-à-porter des couturiers et des créateurs de mode. The House of Chanel is known for liberating women from the corset in the early 20th century and designing fluid, jersey pieces, most notably the little black dress. Chanel died in 1971, Karl Lagerfeld served as Creative Director from 1983 until his death in 2019. Virginie Viard, Karl Lagerfeld’s longtime collaborator for more than three decades, succeeded him as Creative Director. Viard has a background in costume design and presented her first solo collection in May 2019 for Chanel’s Cruise 2020 Collection.
Chanel launched a small selection of menswear as a part of their runway shows. In 2002, Chanel launched the Chance perfume and Paraffection, a subsidiary company originally established in 1997 to support artisanal manufacturing, that gathered together Ateliers d'Art or workshops including Desrues for ornamentation and buttons, Lemarié for feathers, Lesage for embroidery, Massaro for shoemaking and Michel for millinery. A prêt-à-porter collection was designed by Karl Lagerfeld. In July 2002, a jewelry and watch outlet opened on Madison Avenue.
He was a member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture et du Prêt-à-Porter from 1953 to 1993. Like many other designers today, Cardin decided in 1994 to show his collection only to a small circle of selected clients and journalists. After a break of 15 years, he showed a new collection to a group of 150 journalists at his bubble home in Cannes. A biography called "Pierre Cardin, his fabulous destiny" was written by Sylvana Lorenz.
Degan was initially discovered in New York City as a male model, and subsequently worked in the film industry. By the mid-1990s, Degan was based in Italy and starred in a series of Italian commercials; he also had roles in several television films and played minor parts in cinematographic films. In 1994 he had a cameo role in Robert Altman's 1994 film Prêt-à-Porter. In 2004, he secured the role of Darius III in Oliver Stone's film Alexander.
He was elected president of the Fédération française de la Couture, du Prêt à Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode on July 1, 2014 and holds the position since then.French Federation Reelects Ralph Toledano as President. He was re- elected as President of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture on November 12, 2015.Ralph Toledano, l’instinct mode Le FigaroRalph Toledano nommé Président de la Fédération française de la Couture Vogue In 2018 he was appointed Chairman of Victoria Beckham Ltd.
Mansouri launched a women's prêt-à-porter line until she was offered a position in Milan, Italy as head designer for an Italian clothing firm. In 2007 she relaunched her line in the United States with a specific focus on Couture Wedding and Evening wear. In addition, she began pursuing her passion for costume design and had pieces featured in Hollywood productions. Mansouri is a member of The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the Costume Designers Guild as a costume designer.
Since the beginning of her career, Meier has been on the catwalk for national as well as international brands. At the beginning of 2011 she ran for the fifth time for various designers at Fashion Week Berlin. In addition to shows in LA, New York, Paris and Bangkok Meier participated in the Fashion Week Paris in the spring of 2010, where she was booked by the designer Wolfgang Joop for the prêt-à-porter show of his brand Wunderkind.Barbara Meier – Taking things as they come.
Balizza is a prêt-à-porter fashion house located in Milan, Italy which exports mostly to European countries, Russia, and the United States. Balizza was the first fashion group originally from Turkey to attend the Milan Fashion Week.Fashion TV - Balizza 2008 Milano BALIZZA USA opened its first Americana retail boutique on April 7, 2013 at the Americana at Brand shopping community located in Glendale, California. The second boutique will open its doors on July 1 in Sherman Oaks, California at the Westfield Fashion Square Shopping Center.
In the 1970s he kept on experimenting with other materials, mainly leather. In 1970 the Italian fashion designer's debut collection in Paris showcased his leather patchwork designs, created with the collaboration of Mario Valentino. In 1972 he showcased his patchwork designs applied to jeans in the first Roberto Cavalli Women's runway collection show at Palazzo Pitti in Florence, which was the major prêt-à-porter event at the time in Italy. His work attracted many international fashion labels, including Hermès, Pierre Cardin, Krizia and Emilio Pucci.
Mila Zeiger (born Emilja Liberman; 6 February 1929 – 13 September 2016), a businesswoman in fashion, contributed to the introduction of prêt-à-porter in Brazil. In the 1950s, she founded with her husband, David Zeiger, and her parents, David and Rachel Liberman, the women's sportswear company, Pullsport, where she developed collections based on European and North American design trends for three decades beginning in the 1950s. Mila and David Zeiger were avid socialites in Brazil, having befriended influential figures of politics, high society and the artistic world.
Logo until 2018 Alessandro Sartori was Berluti's creative director for 5 years, overseeing its first clothing collections Berluti was founded in 1895 by Italian Alessandro Berluti, and later run by Olga Squeri, also known as Olga Berluti.Olga Berluti The LVMH group acquired Berluti in 1993. In 2012, Berluti acquired Paris tailor house Arny's and launched its first prêt-à-porter menswear collections. Berluti is headed since 2012 by LVMH's CEO Bernard Arnault's son, Antoine Arnault, who also serves as the chairman of Loro Piana.businessoffashion.
During the 1990s, she appeared in Unzipped, a documentary about fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, and the fashion mockumentary film Prêt-à-Porter by director Robert Altman. Additionally, she was featured in Catwalk, a documentary about her life on the fashion runways by director Robert Leacock. She was presented on the November 1999 Millennium cover of American Vogue as one of the "Modern Muses". Turlington has appeared on international fashion magazines that include Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire, L'Officiel, Tatler, Glamour, Cosmopolitan and Allure.
Arietha Emília Salles Corrêa, also known and credited as Arieta Corrêa was born in the city of Botucatu, interior of São Paulo. Present in more than 20 assembly is formed by the Research Center Theatre (CPT) Son of Ali with whom he worked for six years. With Antunes Filho, Arieta starred in shows such as Medea and Prêt-à-Porter 6. Under the direction of Philip Hirsch, Arieta was in The Miser, highly praised assembly that marked the last appearance of the scenic actor Paulo Autran.
In 1932, Chanel presented an exhibition of jewelry dedicated to the diamond as a fashion accessory; it featured the Comet and Fountain necklaces of diamonds, which were of such original design, that Chanel S.A. re-presented them in 1993. Moreover, by 1937, the House of Chanel had expanded the range of its clothes to more women and presented prêt-à-porter clothes designed and cut for the petite woman. Among fashion designers, only the clothes created by Elsa Schiaparelli could compete with the clothes of Chanel. Chanel's spymaster: General Walter Schellenberg Chief of the Sicherheitsdienst.
In 1994, she reunited professionally with Baldwin for the thriller The Getaway, in which she portrayed the wife of a former con, and with director Robert Altman for the comedy Prêt-à-Porter, playing a breathlessly dim-witted cable reporter. Amid financial issues, Basinger went into hiatus from the screen by the mid-1990s. She made a comeback as the high-class hooker in Curtis Hanson's neo-noir L.A. Confidential (1997), alongside Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe. She initially turned down the film twice, feeling an insecurity at returning to the screen and enjoying motherhood.
In 1991, Thimister advanced toward Balenciaga where he would hold the position as artistic director of luxury women’s prêt-à-porter and accessories for over half a decade. It was said that at Balenciaga, he "contributed through his minimalist style and great skills in cutting in modernizing the house's image." After spending nearly six years with Balenciaga, Thimister began to design for the Italian ready-to-wear label Genny in 1998. At Genny, Thimister readapted classic military coats and bias-cut gowns; synthesizing dramatic, long leather skirts with elegant crisp cotton-glazed shirts.
In 1954, the Florence Center for Italian fashion was born, which had Mario Vannini Paren as its first director. In the 1960s, Giovanni Battista Giorgini succeeded in conquering the Japanese market, selling Italian creations to Isetan, one of the most important department stores in the country. His understanding of the importance of prêt-à-porter led to the early success of Florentine fashion shows, but this became a source of conflict with the great Roman fashion houses that, in 1967, decided to create competing Haute Couture fashion shows directly in Rome.
Damir Doma is a fashion designer, founder and creative director of the Damir Doma brand.Damir Doma at Cruvoir Doma studied fashion in Munich and Berlin. He graduated in 2004 with magna cum laude from the l'Ecole Supérieure des Arts et techniques de la Mode fashion school in Munich and Berlin. After gaining experience in the ateliers of Antwerp designers Raf Simons and Dirk Schönberger, he relocated to Paris and launched his first menswear collection in 2007, and three years later showed the first women’s prêt-à-porter collection.
Jean Paul Gaultier (; born 24 April 1952) is a French haute couture and prêt- à-porter fashion designer. He is described as an "enfant terrible" of the fashion industry, and is known for his unconventional designs with motifs including corsets, marinières, and tin cans. Gaultier founded his eponymous fashion label in 1982, and expanded with a line of fragrances in 1993. He was the creative director for French luxury house Hermès from 2003 to 2010, and retired following his 50th-anniversary haute couture show during Paris Fashion Week in January 2020.
These hits made him The Source magazine dance hall artist of the year in 1993. He was also an early collaborator with The Notorious B.I.G., featuring the then unknown artist (along with Mary J. Blige, 3rd Eye and Puff Daddy) on the B-side remix of "Dolly My Baby" in 1993. The title song, "Don Dada" was a reply to many jabs made by Ninjaman. His version of Fats Domino's "My Girl Josephine", performed with Jack Radics, was included in the soundtrack to the film Prêt-à-Porter in 1994.
In the 1960s, the elitist "Haute couture" came under criticism from France's youth culture. In 1966, the designer Yves Saint Laurent broke with established Haute Couture norms by launching a prêt-à-porter ("ready to wear") line and expanding French fashion into mass manufacturing. With a greater focus on marketing and manufacturing, new trends were established by Sonia Rykiel, Thierry Mugler, Claude Montana, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Christian Lacroix in the 1970s and 1980s. The 1990s saw a conglomeration of many French couture houses under luxury giants and multinationals such as LVMH.
Mastroianni earned a César Award nomination for her first feature film appearance in André Téchiné's My Favorite Season (1993), starring her mother in the lead role. The next year she appeared in Robert Altman's Prêt-à-Porter. Her first starring role came in 1995, opposite Melvil Poupaud in Le Journal du séducteur, a romantic comedy inspired by "The Seducer's Diary" chapter from Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or. She worked with Poupaud again in Three Lives and Only One Death (1996), playing the daughter of her real father, and in Time Regained (1999), also starring her mother.
Music producer Marius de Vries was commissioned to remix "Analyse". The remix, which is called the "Oceanic remix", is a chill-out version of the original song with light electronica elements and piano additions. While an edited version was made available on some commercial singles, the long version was released only on promotional CDs. Previously, The Cranberries also released an airy and distorted mix of Zombie, called "Camel's Hump Mix", on the "When You're Gone" single and some slightly different mixes of "How" ("Linger" single) and "Pretty" (Prêt-à-Porter soundtrack).
Between 1996 and 2001, Päetow became a central player for CPT (Centre for Theatre Research). During this period, he created the experimental Prêt-à-Porter. For this specific project, he directed, wrote and starred in five plays: Passengers, Under the Bridge, No Concert, Hours of Punishment and Wings of the Shadow. His documents were also published later in book form, along with essays by Renato Janine Ribeiro and Olgária Matos, among others. In 1998, he worked as assistant director to Daniela Thomas on Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, starring Fernanda Montenegro.
Lupfer was born in the south of Germany. After attending University in Trier he moved to the UK to study fashion design at London's University of Westminster whose alumni includes other well-known designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Burberry's former chief executive officer Christopher Bailey. After graduating from Westminster in 1997 with a first-class honours degree his final year collection was bought by Koh Samui, a London-based boutique, and was sold within two weeks. In 1999, Lupfer makes his prêt-à-porter London Fashion Week debut.
Printing, binding and all other work is done within a four-storey house on Düstere Strasse in Göttingen. The number of titles produced by Steidl is unusually large for an art publisher: about three hundred a year. Gerhard Steidl produces special editions, but prefers what he calls "'democratic books' or more 'prêt à porter' books", books that can freely be reprinted if the demand for them is sufficient. Since 1993 up to his death Steidl has held the worldwide rights to the work of Nobel Prize Laureate Günter Grass.
Despite that social circumstance, Boy Capel perceived the businesswoman innate to Coco Chanel and, in 1910, financed her first independent millinery shop, Chanel Modes, at 21 rue Cambon in Paris. Because that locale already housed a dress shop, the business-lease limited Chanel to selling only millinery products, not couture. Two years later, in 1913, the Deauville and Biarritz couture shops of Coco Chanel offered for sale prêt-à-porter sports clothes for women, the practical designs of which allowed the wearer to play sports. The First World War (1914–18) affected European fashion through scarcity of materials, and the mobilisation of women.
"Here Comes the Hotstepper" is a song co-written and recorded by Jamaican dancehall artist Ini Kamoze. It was released as the lead single from his 1995 album Here Comes the Hotstepper as well as the soundtrack to the film Prêt-à- Porter. It is best known for its "na na na na na..." chorus sampled from the Wilson Pickett song "Land of 1000 Dances". The song was Kamoze's only song to reach the top 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking atop the chart on December 17, 1994, and remaining there for two weeks.
The French designer opened his Pret-a-Porter House YSL Rive Gauche in 1967 where he was starting to shift his focus from Haute Couture to Ready-to-wear. One of the purpose was to provide a wider range of fashionable style being available to choose from in the market as they were affordable and cheaper. He was the first French couturier to come out with a full prêt-à-porter (ready-to-wear) line, although Alicia Drake credits this move with Saint Laurent's wish to democratize fashion;Drake, Alicia. The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris.
The skits were parodied on Saturday Night Live and critics considered them a sellout, many suggesting her film career was over. She told Ladies' Home Journal, "Suddenly I became the Infomercial Queen and it didn't occur to me that people would focus on that and strip me of all my other things." Cher made cameo appearances in the Robert Altman films The Player (1992) and Prêt- à-Porter (1994). In 1994, she started a mail-order catalogue business, Sanctuary, selling Gothic-themed products, and contributed a rock version of "I Got You Babe" to MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head.
In 2008, the Yohji Yamamoto Fund for Peace was established to foster development of China's fashion industry and to help heal the long-standing enmity between China and Japan.Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries: "Y’s Fashion Show and Auction for Yohji Yamamoto Fund for Peace Held in Beijing." Each year, an emerging Chinese designer will be awarded with a two-year scholarship to a fashion college in Japan or Europe, and a male or female Chinese fashion model will be selected to make a runway debut during the Paris prêt-à-porter season.Alexander, Hilary.
Zaki launched her first collection at the Dubai World Trade Center in 2006. After viewing her designs at the world trade center, the international fashion expert, Michael Mandeville commented, "I wonder no more, it is enough to know that Zeena is the daughter of the oldest civilization in the history of mankind, Mesopotamia, Iraq, rising up at this time from beneath the ashes of this cradle of civilization. We can now see Iraq starting to shine again." Since 2007, Zaki has participated in The Bride Show Dubai and in 2009 was awarded Best Female Designer for Prêt-à-Porter at Dubai Fashion Week.
Kim wanted to pursue a modeling career since he was a high school student. He debuted as a runway model in 2009 at the age of 20 and began appearing in prêt-à-porter and Seoul Fashion Week collections. As his modeling career progressed, he started doing commercial films and began studying acting, under the guidance of acting coach Moon Won- joo. Kim fell in love with acting, saying, "In the course of doing so, I found myself feeling the same thrill and enthusiasm that I felt the first time I came to walk on the runway".
Spikes' career began in 1986 at Motown Records, where he was the product manager for Boyz II Men, Stevie Wonder, Spike Lee, Queen Latifah, and Eddie Murphy. In 1990, Spikes joined Sony Music Entertainment and worked on feature film soundtracks for movies including Jungle Fever, Bad Boys, House Party, House Party 2, Prêt-à-Porter, and Darnell Martin's I Like It Like That. In 1994, Spikes became vice president of marketing at Miramax Films. At Miramax, Spikes led marketing campaigns for films including Trainspotting, The Crow: City of Angels, Don’t Be a Menace, Emma and Scream.
She reunited with Coppola the same year, appearing in his musical One from the Heart (1982), followed by a supporting part in Martin Scorsese's black comedy After Hours (1985). Her quick banter led to Garr being a regular guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman. In the 1990s, she appeared in two films by Robert Altman: The Player (1992) and Prêt-à-Porter (1994), followed by supporting roles in Michael (1996) and Ghost World (2001). She also appeared on television as Phoebe Abbott in three episodes of the sitcom Friends (1997–98).
Alessandro Dell'Acqua (born 21 December 1962 in Naples) is a fashion designer. He presented his first prêt-à-porter collection at Milan Moda Donna in 1996 and his first men's line at Pitti in Florence in January 1998. Dell'Acqua took over as creative director at Malo, the Italian luxury knit company, and showed at Milan Fashion Week for the Spring 2009 season in September. At June 2009, Dell'Acqua sent out a press release informing the press that the men's Spring- Summer 2010 and women's Pre-spring 2010 collections will be produced without his approval, and departed ways with his eponymous label.
Melinda Looi Lai Yee (； born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is a fashion designer known for her avant-garde and vintage style. She won the title Designer of the Year three times, twice at the Malaysian International Fashion Awards Malaysian International Fashion Week and latest in 2009 at Mercedes Benz Stylo Fashion Awards .Press Release – Melinda Looi She has three distinct brands, which are: Melinda Looi Couture, Melinda Looi Prêt-à-Porter and MELL, which are sold in Malaysia, and boutiques in Europe, Australia and the Middle East. Her latest addition is a sub-line called MELL BASICS consisting of basics made from cotton.
In 1952 she founded a jewellery company, which she eventually named "langani," a combination of her given and maiden name. Her first commercial success came at the 1952 Frankfurt Fair; between 1969 and 1989 she worked together with Louis Feraud, Paris, and designed the jewelry for his Haute Couture and Prêt-à- porter fashion shows. langani continues to produce fashion jewelry in Stuttgart, Germany. Anni Schaad is said to have invented the "Floating bead" technique in which beads are strung on nylon threads so that they appear to be dancing on the skin, but no patent was ever filed.
The trunks are loose and flowing with a small amount of flaring but can also be cut straight. Great care is taken to make a hand-made ensemble of one's own tailoring. Contrary to the notion that the ensemble is simply pajamas as though it were prêt-à-porter bought off the rack, part of a family's pride is the ability to provide everyone with individualized sets suited to each family member's personality and tastes. It is silk, it is delicate, it is made with care and attention, it is made to be worn daily rather than merely on special occasions.
At the age of 24, Icarius presented his prêt-à-porter collections at Carrousel du Louvre in Paris from 2000 to 2002. The collections were characterized by his artist's obsession with the human body in all its forms, mixed with experimental prints and a delicate style of minimal and new age. The Icarius label enjoyed worldwide success and praise from the international press and buyers, and was immediately snapped up by such stores as Barneys, Neiman Marcus, Maria Luisa, Joseph, Selfridges, Joyce and Daslu. Icarius took part in Enka Mania, a project to promote new designers, sponsored by Vogue Italia.
In 2000 when Gang was a first year university student, he was spotted on the street by a modeling agent. Thus began his modeling career, and he appeared on the catwalk for prêt-à-porter collections in Paris such as DKNY, Gucci and Hugo Boss, as well as for the local Seoul Fashion Artists Association (SFAA). After being cast in the music video for Jo Sung-mo's "I Swear," the experience intrigued Gang so much that he decided to take some acting classes. Realizing that acting was what he had been looking for his entire life, the revelation meant a change of career.
In 1992, there was a fourth collaboration between Kellerman and Altman in The Player, where she appeared as herself. Supporting roles followed in Percy Adlon's Younger and Younger (1993), Murder She Wrote (1993) and Mirror, Mirror II: Raven Dance (1994), the sequel of the Yvonne De Carlo and Karen Black horror film Mirror, Mirror. The actress appeared in another Altman film, Prêt-à-Porter, as Sissy Wanamaker, editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar, with Tracey Ullman and Linda Hunt. During filming, Altman flew Kellerman and co-star Lauren Bacall from Paris for his tribute at Lincoln Center.
In the late 1970s, he and Bergé bought a neo- gothic villa, Château Gabriel in Benerville-sur-Mer, near Deauville, France. Yves Saint Laurent was a great admirer of Marcel Proust who had been a frequent guest of Gaston Gallimard, one of the previous owners of the villa. When they bought Château Gabriel, Saint Laurent and Bergé commissioned Jacques Grange to decorate it with themes inspired by Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. The prêt-à-porter line became extremely popular with the public if not with the critics and eventually earned many times more for Saint Laurent and Bergé than the haute couture line.
In 1991, he became of the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors. Unfortunately, in 1994, he was expelled from the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture et du Prêt-à-Porter and from the Maison du Haute Couture for launching a ready-to-wear collection for the Printemps department store without permission from the chamber. He tried to launch his Cardino collection on his own, but his notoriety was not enough to re-conquer the high fashion market, and despite of his previous experience, his name and work were disliked by the public. Angry and disappointed, Guarrigue-Lefèvre then disappeared from the scene for a few years.
These "Mannequin Models" would pose for up to an hour at a time in the windows of the store as "Living Mannequins", wearing classic designer clothes and current fashions designed by Nik Nik, Pierre Cardin, and other top designers and exclusive prêt-à-porter from upscale fashion houses. Eventually, as crowds would often stop traffic and became a safety hazard, Abraham & Straus had to move the Living Mannequins inside the store or face a stiff penalty from the city. Despite this change, the crowds still came. Each season, the young mannequin models would be allowed to move in order to do an in-store runway show for the Designer de Jour.
Tuck Muntarbhorn (Thai: ทัก มันตาภรณ์; born January 1994 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai artist, curator, contemporary art collector and entrepreneur based in London and Bangkok. Muntarbhorn is Thailand’s first contemporary art collector to produce and curate an art exhibition in the UK. He co-founded the international fashion brand Busardi in 2009 with the intention of bridging the exclusivity of haute couture with the accessibility of prêt-à-porter (as 'semi-couture'). In 2015, it became the first Thai label to exhibit collections at the Paris Fashion Week. Within the field of haute couture, Muntarbhorn's creations have been characterized among those that reflect designers' own personalities.
The company opens its first flagship boutique across the famous Heritage Square in the City Centre of Cape Town the following year in 2013. To answer popular demand, the designer started his line of Prêt-à-Porter in 2014 and launched the brand Simply Vermeulen during the renowned Design Indaba in March of the same year. Hendrik Vermeulen remains one of the very few South African designers who have successfully appeared on the calendar of International Fashion Weeks and showcased their work on prestigious fashion platforms such as: New York Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week and Alta Roma / Rome Fashion Week in 2015 and 2016.
This gave the prêt-à-porter label Simply Vermeulen, the opportunity to explore the field of Prêt-à-Couture, in a collection entitled "Smoke and Mirrors". The Couture house added a new element to its already wide spectrum of techniques, by working with African antelope leather from ethical source. During the NYFW presentation, Hendrik welcomed the inclusion of disabled models (that he calls: differently abled models) to the runway. Using the media attention gathered for this collection, Hendrik spoke out about the unhealthy way the fashion industry is forcing people to look at themselves in comparison to the highly edited, unobtainable perfection depicted in High Fashion Campaigns.
In the early twentieth century, the industry expanded through such Parisian fashion houses as the house of Chanel (which first came to prominence in 1925) and Balenciaga (founded by a Spaniard in 1937). In the post war year, fashion returned to prominence through Christian Dior's famous "new look" in 1947, and through the houses of Pierre Balmain and Hubert de Givenchy (opened in 1952). In the 1960s, "high fashion" came under criticism from France's youth culture while designers like Yves Saint Laurent broke with established high fashion norms by launching prêt-à-porter ("ready to wear") lines and expanding French fashion into mass manufacturing and marketing.Dauncey, 195.
In 1963, Spanish textile manufacturers and clothing companies created the Moda del Sol union under the leadership of designer José María Fillol in order to present new, innovative textiles in the form of clothing. From 1967 to 1974, Vogue devoted 17 pages to Moda del Sol twice per year, helping Catalan designers to become internationally recognized. In line with the style of “Moda del Sol” came the rise of prêt-à-porter, or ready-to-wear, fashion in the place of haute couture during the 1960s. Early designers who took part in this initiative in Barcelona include Santa Eulàlia, Sant Patrick, Margarita Nuez, and Marisol Bofill.
She subsequently acted in Fellini's 8½ (1963), Jacques Demy's Lola (1961), George Cukor's Justine (1969), Bernardo Bertolucci's Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981) and Robert Altman's Prêt à Porter (1994). She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her acting in A Man and a Woman (1966). The film "virtually reignited the lush on-screen romance in an era of skeptical modernism," and brought her international fame. She won the Award for Best Actress at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival for Marco Bellocchio's film A Leap in the Dark.
Milan is synonymous with the Italian prêt-à-porter industry, as many of the most famous Italian fashion brands, such as Valentino, Gucci, Versace, Prada, Armani and Dolce & Gabbana, are headquartered in the city. Numerous international fashion labels also operate shops in Milan. Furthermore, the city hosts the Milan Fashion Week twice a year, one of the most important events in the international fashion system. Milan's main upscale fashion district, quadrilatero della moda, is home to the city's most prestigious shopping streets (Via Monte Napoleone, Via della Spiga, Via Sant'Andrea, Via Manzoni and Corso Venezia), in addition to Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, one of the world's oldest shopping malls.
In 1974 he opened his first men’s fashion store and in 1976 he presented his first men’s collection at the SEHM in Paris. From 1980 onward he presented his women’s prêt-à-porter collections at the Cibeles fashion show in Madrid. In 1989 he showed at the Fashion Foundation in Tokyo, and in 1990 at La Cour Carrée at the Louvre in Paris. In 1992, Jesús del Pozo entered the world of perfume with «Duende», his first feminine fragrance, followed by «Quasar» (1994), «Esencia de Duende» (1996), «Halloween» (1997), «Quasar Adventure» (1999), «J. del Pozo In Black» (2005), «Halloween kiss» (2008) and «Ámbar» (2010).
Born, in Chicago, Illinois, Roshumba has appeared in such feature films as Woody Allen's Celebrity, Robert Altman's Prêt-à-Porter and the comedy Hair Show. In 1999, Williams published her first book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being a Model, a title in the widely read series by Penguin Publishing USA, The Complete Idiot's Guide to.... She also authored the second edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being a Model in 2007. In 2002, she was hired by Entertainment Tonight as a substitute anchor for Mary Hart after a successful season on the red carpet as a correspondent. She conducted several celebrity interviews.
She appeared on the cover of Runway, a book of fashion photographs by Larry Fink, and was featured opposite Brad Pitt in a commercial for Acura Integra. In 1994, she made a brief appearance in Robert Altman' s movie Prêt- à-Porter. She was the subject of a book, published in Moscow, Russian Models, by Ekaterina Vasilyeva, which credited her as the first widely recognized Russian model to emerge after perestroika. With the publication of the December 2001 issue of the Russian edition of Vogue, Sorokko, who is fluent in both Russian and English, embarked on a new career as its Foreign Correspondent and Contributing Editor.
In 1994, Cluzet tried international cinema, acting in ensemble movie Prêt-à- Porter for director Robert Altman and romance French Kiss with Lawrence Kasdan. He returned to French cinema and comedy in 1995 with Les Apprentis (César nomination for best actor) and Enfants de salaud with Tonie Marshall, following a new Claude Chabrol: Rien ne va plus in 1997. Cluzet has often portrayed a role of the tormented writer: Fin août, début septembre with Olivier Assayas, L'Examen de minuit (1998), and Je suis un assassin (2004). He played the double of John Lennon in Janis et John (2003) and an animator of teleshopping in France Boutique (2004).
The Chanel product brands have been personified by male and female fashion models, idols and actresses, including Inès de La Fressange, Catherine Deneuve, Carole Bouquet, Vanessa Paradis, Nicole Kidman, Jackie Kennedy, Anna Mouglalis, Audrey Tautou, Keira Knightley, Kristen Stewart, Pharrell Williams, Jennie Kim, Cara Delevingne, and Marilyn Monroe. Chanel is well known for the perfume Chanel No. 5 and the Chanel Suit. Chanel's use of jersey fabric produced garments that were comfortable and affordable. Chanel revolutionized fashion – both high fashion (haute couture) and everyday fashion (prêt-à-porter) – by replacing structured-silhouettes, based upon the corset and the bodice, with garments that were functional and at the same time flattering to the woman's figure.
To regain the business primacy of the House of Chanel, in the fashion fields of haute couture, prêt-à-porter, costume jewelry, and parfumerie, would be expensive; so Chanel approached Pierre Wertheimer for business advice and capital. Having decided to do business with Coco Chanel, Wertheimer's negotiations to fund the resurgence of the House of Chanel, granted him commercial rights to all Chanel-brand products. In 1953, Chanel collaborated with jeweler Robert Goossens; he was to design jewelry (bijouterie and gemstone) to complement the fashions of the House of Chanel; notably, long-strand necklaces of black pearls and of white pearls, which high contrast softened the severe design of the knitted-wool Chanel Suit (skirt and cardigan jacket).
Giorgini had planned to present 18 models from 10 Italian fashion houses. The Italian couturiers who presented at the show were: Princess Giovanna Caracciolo of Atelier Carosa, Alberto Fabiani, Duchess Simonetta Colonna di Cesaro Visconti of Simonetta, Emilio Schuberth, Sorelle Fontana, Jole Veneziani, Vanna (the trade name used by the tailors Anna Carmeli and Manette Valente), Vita Noberasko, and Germana Marucelli. The prêt- à-porter designers were Emilio Pucci, Giorgio Avolio, Baroness Clarette Gallotti of La Tessitrice Dell'Isola, and Marquise Olga di Grésy of Mirsa. Giorgini's resourcefulness, the quality of the products, the buyers' reputation, and the support of some journalists like Irene Brin, who as Italian editor for Harper's Bazaar advertised the event overseas, decreed its success.
At the age of 20, Mila married the businessman David Zeiger,(In Portuguese) David Zeiger (site), owner of Goomtex, a company that manufactured overcoats and raincoats. In the 1960s, Goomtex was integrated with Pullsport.(In Portuguese) Marleine Cohen, Estampas de uma Vida: Pioneirismo e prêt-à-porter no Brasil, Editora Cintra, 2016 At the height of its success, Pullsport produced 40,000 pieces per month,(In Portuguese) 60: Os anos dourados em São Paulo, and had five hundred employees in the production area, in addition to a large group of contractor seamstresses.(In Portuguese) Pull-Sport, Mila Zeiger produced a fashion directed to the Brazilian taste in choices of texture, colors, details and cut.
Following this development, Milan emerged in the 1960s and 1980s as one of the world's pre- eminent trendsetters, maintaining this stint well into the 1990s and 2000s and culminating with its entrenchment as one of the "big four" global fashion capitals. As of today, Milan is especially renowned for its role within the prêt-à-porter category of fashion. In 2009, the city was declared as the "fashion capital of the world" by the Global Language Monitor that tracks how many times a city is posted in social media using "fashion capital," even surpassing its relative cities. The next year, Milan dropped out of the top four falling to sixth place, yet in 2011 it returned to fourth place.
This was the start of Hendrik's passion for creating his own unique fabrics through various methods of fabric manipulation, hand dyeing and airbrushing; having learned some of the skills required while practising one of his hobbies, carpentry. With the arrival of Digital Fabric Printing in South Africa, Hendrik started working very closely with a Cape Town-based printing company to perfect the reactive dye process on silk and other natural fibres. This inspiration led to the creation of the "Reflections of Subterranean Luxury" collection, putting his newly acquired skills to the test. The collection was first presented during the launch of the prêt-à-porter label Simply Vermeulen at the Design Indaba in March 2013.
Ready-to-wear clothing display Ready-to-wear or prêt-à-porter (; ; often abbreviated RTW; "off-the-rack" or "off-the-peg" in casual use) is the term for ready-made garments, sold in finished condition in standardized sizes, as distinct from made-to-measure or bespoke clothing tailored to a particular person's frame. The term "off-the-peg" is sometimes used for items other than clothing, such as handbags. Ready-to-wear has a rather different place in the spheres of fashion and classic clothing. In the fashion industry, designers produce ready-to-wear clothing, intended to be worn without significant alteration because clothing made to standard sizes fits most people.
At the age of 20 Rolland joined Balenciaga and within a year was promoted to the position of Creative Director of menswear and international licenses. At 24, he left Balenciaga to start his own prêt-à-porter company, which he ran for six years, until he was asked to become artistic designer for the haute couture fashion house formerly owned by Jean-Louis Scherrer, a position he occupied for the next ten years.Stéphane Rolland interview, Haute Couture News Retrieved on 28 February 2011 Rolland simultaneously worked as a costume designer. In 2006 and 2007, he was nominated for the prestigious Molière awards and became an official partner of the Cannes Film Festival.
The iconic Givenchy balloon coatThe 'baby doll' dress In 1969,Givenchy Gentleman: prêt-à-porter for men a men's line was also created. From 1976 through 1987, the Ford Motor Company offered a Givenchy Edition of its Continental Mark series (1981 to 1983) and Lincoln Continental (1982 to 1987) automobiles beginning with the 1976 Continental Mark IV coupe and ending with 1983 Lincoln Mark VI and the 1987 Lincoln Continental sedan. In 1988, he organized a retrospective of his work at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The House of Givenchy was split in 1981, with the perfume line going to Veuve Clicquot, and the fashion branch was acquired by LVMH in 1989.
Rubik's select runway appearances include the Haute Couture collections of Atelier Versace, Chanel, Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and Valentino. She has walked the runway for the prêt-à-porter collections of Alexander McQueen, Alexander Wang, Anthony Vaccarello, Balenciaga, Balmain, Burberry Prorsum, Chloé (5 seasons), Emanuel Ungaro, Emilio Pucci, Fendi (4 seasons), Gucci (4 seasons), Isabel Marant, Kanye West's DW Kanye West line, Michael Kors, Prada, and Tom Ford, among others. Rubik made her Victoria's Secret runway debut in its annual televised fashion show in 2009, going on to also appear in the 2010 and 2011 editions. Rubik has been featured on the covers of more than twenty- five international editions of Vogue.
Transporting ordinary objects into the world of art, the artist honours the Duchampian wave of the prêt-à-porter, but he also induces it, creating new meanings. The fact that Marepe lives in his native town influences his art; the everyday life in Brazil is Marape's source for creation: stalls, low-income ménages, metallic basins or trees trunk – are mixed in his artwork. Marepe includes these items in different universes resulting an "alterity" within the artistic world, alluding subjects as colonialism, identity issues, various differences between social classes and the antithesis between the modern and the traditional lifestyles. Marepe renders objects which may seem useless but which are a necessity in some of the under developed areas of Brazil.
Van Bellen is also co-owner of events organization and creative branding agency Meubel Stukken, known for its extravagant parties. Together with Richard Cameron (of Arling & Cameron), Van Bellen produces music under the name Cowgum. Following their hits “Filthy and Raw” and “Rollercoaster Rodeo”, the duo are currently working on an EP. Joost van Bellen’s latest endeavor, together with DJ Sanyi, is Star Studded Studios, which produces sound scores and provides musical direction for fashion shows, including Diesel (European shows and New York Fashion Week), Marlies Dekkers, Tommy Hilfiger, Elle Style Awards, Elle Prêt-à-Porter, Lancôme Design Awards, Daryl van Wouw, and Björn Borg. Star Studded Studios is currently also working with young Dutch designers.
While at university, he dated singer and ex-model Camilla Henemark of Army of Lovers, who introduced him to the Swedish music business. He started out as one half of Eurodance duo E-Type + Stakka B, but went solo after two singles, continuing to release music as Stakka Bo. Stakka Bo had a hit single in 1993 with the song "Here We Go", which peaked at No. 13 in the UK Singles Chart. Heavily influenced by the Stereo MCs, who were popular at the time, "Here We Go" appeared in an episode of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head, in the films Prêt-à-porter, Never Been Kissed, Alien AutopsyVideography at mvdbase.com and in the video game UEFA Euro 2004.
It consisted of five pieces that were presented during the designer's catwalk shows during Paris Fashion Week and then sold in highly limited editions at the Lagerfeld Galleries in Paris and Monaco and at the Diesel Denim Galleries in New York and Tokyo. During the first week of sales in New York, more than 90% of the trousers were sold out, even though prices ranged from $240 to $1,840. In a statement after the show in Paris, Rosso said: "I am honored to have met this fashion icon of our time. Karl represents creativity, tradition and challenge, and the fact that he thought of Diesel for this collaboration is a great gift and acknowledgement of our reputation as the prêt-à-porter of casual wear".
In it, she played a young law student who uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger. The film was a commercial success, grossing US$195.2 million worldwide. None of her next film releases – I Love Trouble (1994), Prêt-à-Porter (1994) and Something to Talk About (1995) – were particularly well-received by critics.... In 1996, she guest-starred in the second season of Friends (episode 13, "The One After the Superbowl"), and appeared with Liam Neeson in the historical drama Michael Collins, portraying Kitty Kiernan, the fiancée of the assassinated Irish revolutionary leader. Stephen Frears' Mary Reilly, her other 1996 film, was a critical and commercial failure... By the late 1990s, Roberts enjoyed renewed success in the romantic comedy genre.
In a statement after the show in Paris, Rosso said "I am honored to have met this fashion icon of our time. Karl represents creativity, tradition and challenge, and the fact that he thought of Diesel for this collaboration is a great gift and acknowledgement of our reputation as the prêt-à-porter of casual wear." In 2003, Rosso asked legendary street and graffiti artist Stephen Sprouse to take over Diesel's Union Square store for New York Fashion Week the following September. As part of the collaboration Sprouse designed a series of limited edition jeans, T-shirts and hats, and made a complete makeover of the Diesel store, which meant adding his renowned Day-Glo design to windows, interiors, and outer building exteriors.
As a student, Icarius caught the attention of the Brazilian press with the presentation of his conceptual and polemical collections, with subjects including cancer and plastic surgery, and reflections on the social and political decadence so rife in Brazil at the time, giving them a broader, more sophisticated and cleaner allure. During this time he also worked as a collaborator for Vogue Brazil and Casa Vogue. Following his graduation from the Santa Marcelina Fine Arts School in the late 1990s, he launched his prêt-à-porter label ICARIUS. During this same period, he also worked as head designer for Ellus, the foremost denim label, and thus had the opportunity to develop his versatility as both labels had a strong impact.
Deneve plays an active role in developing the economic and creative growth of the fashion and luxury goods sector. Since May 2012, he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Fédération Française de la Couture, du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode (English: French Federation of Fashion and of Ready-to-Wear of Couturiers and Fashion Designers), as well as a jury member for the ANDAM Fashion Awards. In 2008 he was elected member of the board of the Comité Colbert, the French luxury goods association, and was subsequently re-elected in June 2012. In addition to his activities in the fashion and luxury goods industry, Paul Deneve is also an advisor to several Silicon Valley start-ups and a Sloan Fellow at Stanford University.
In addition, a remix of "Keep Givin' Me Your Love" was popularized on the original motion picture soundtrack of the Prêt-à-Porter (Ready To Wear) film, and released in the U.S. after a one-year delay, scoring No. 4 in the US Dance charts in March 1995. "Keep Givin' Me Your Love" became Peniston's first song not to enter the Hot 100 chart (No. 101), possibly as the result of appearing as a B-side on her previous release, and sharing its sales with the single "Hit by Love". ;The Sisters of Glory Between releases, Peniston made a jazzy cameo "Don't Forget the Love" with words and music by a Grammy Award-nominated composer, Jeff Lorber, and Eric Benét (also a later Grammy Award nominee) for his album West Side Stories.
Vogue (15 February 1966) Givenchy's notable clients included Donna Marella Agnelli, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Countess Mona von Bismarck, Countess Cristiana Brandolini d'Adda, Sunny von Bülow, Renata Tebaldi, Maria Callas, Capucine, Marlene Dietrich, Daisy Fellowes, Greta Garbo, Gloria Guinness, Dolores Guinness, Aimee de Heeren, Audrey Hepburn, Jane Holzer, Grace Kelly, Princess Salimah Aga Khan, Rachel Lambert Mellon, Sophia Loren, Jeanne Moreau, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Empress Farah Pahlavi, Babe Paley, Lee Radziwill, Comtesse Jacqueline de Ribes, Nona Hendryx, Baroness Pauline de Rothschild, Frederica von Stade, Baroness Gaby Van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Diana Vreeland, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, Baroness Sylvia de Waldner, the Duchess of Windsor, haitian first lady Michèle Duvalier and Jayne Wrightsman. In 1954, Givenchy's prêt-à-porter collection debuted. Givenchy created the iconic 'Balloon coat' and the 'Baby Doll' dress in 1958.
Lydia Susanna "Linda" Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American actress. After making her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye (1980), Hunt's breakthrough came playing the male character Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first person to win an Oscar portraying a character of the opposite sex. Hunt also appeared in films such as The Bostonians (1984), Dune (1984), Silverado (1985), Eleni (1985), Waiting for the Moon (1987), She- Devil (1989), Kindergarten Cop (1990), If Looks Could Kill (1991), Rain Without Thunder (1992), Twenty Bucks (1993), Younger and Younger (1993), Prêt- à-Porter (1994), Pocahontas (1995), The Relic (1997), Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998), Dragonfly (2002), Yours Mine and Ours (2005), and Stranger than Fiction (2006).
After creating the Diesel brand in 1978, Renzo Rosso acquired complete control of the brand in 1985, surrounding himself with an international team of designers, and turning Diesel into a global icon. The year 2000 marked the acquisition of Staff International, a stronghold of «Made in Italy», which develops and produces ready-to-wear, bags, shoes, and accessories collections that epitomize Italian craftsmanship and excellence. The company is also the exclusive worldwide distributor for some of the most iconic prêt-à-porter and advanced contemporary brands in the fashion scene. In 2002, Renzo Rosso became the majority shareholder of Maison Margiela, and in 2008 Viktor & Rolf joined the group. The year 2011 saw the constitution of Brave Kid, a one-of-a-kind company, specialized in the product development, production, and distribution of licensed premium children’s clothing and accessories.
Zaitsev designed a collection of costumes for the Soviet team for the 1980 Summer Olympics which were held in Moscow, for which he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor. He authored two books in 1980, "Such Changeable Fashion" () and "This Multifaceted World of Fashion" (), which were republished in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in 1983. In 1982 he transformed his studio into the «Slava Zaitsev» Moscow Fashion House (), also known as Dom Modi, becoming the first Soviet couturier who was permitted by the Soviet Government to label his own clothing. By the mid-1980s, Dom Modi employed 600 civil servants and was required to produce some 2 million rubles worth of clothing each year. In 1984 it was reported that Dom Modi had served 10,000 customers, and prices ranged from US$170 to US$260 for prêt-à-porter dresses, and up to US$1000 for haute couture gowns.
While the young Queen Elizabeth II was the fashion role model for most New Zealand women of the 1950s, Gus Fisher instead looked to Paris for influence. He travelled there every year to see first-hand the new designs and fabrics and to experience the mood and feel of the fashion trends. For his own fashion label, El Jay, he interpreted French Couture and created his own version of uncluttered European elegance making it available to women here. This commitment to experiencing the real thing led to not just a keen awareness of the latest trends but also to the establishment of relationships with the Paris couturiers which in turn led to El Jay becoming the New Zealand licensee for Christian Dior, giving it the exclusive rights to manufacture and sell Christian Dior originals and Christian Dior prêt-à-porter in the New Zealand market.
After appearing on the cover of Vogue from various countries such as Mexico, Greece, Germany, and Marie Claire in several numbers, Benítez received the offer that would launch success and worldwide recognition to any model: US magazine Sports Illustrated. After arriving in Europe, specifically in France and Italy, participating in fashion, presenting collections of top designers; starts on runways prêt-à-porter becoming the muse of Dolce & Gabbana Italian house for which she starred in their shows and marketing campaigns. She also paraded on runways and/or campaigns for Chanel, Valentino, Christian Lacroix, Versace, Fendi, Christian Dior, Pierre Balmain, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Gianfranco Ferre, MaxMara, Salvatore Ferragamo, Chloé, Escada, Emanuel Ungaro, Massimo Dutti and in the U.S. for Carolina Herrera and Oscar de la Renta, Anna Sui, and CoverGirl. Benítez is perhaps the only model that has marched in Latin Couture during her stay in Paris.
Lovett's music career began as a songwriter, but he soon signed with MCA Records in 1986 and released his eponymous debut album. While typically associated with the country genre, Lovett's compositions often incorporate folk, swing, blues, jazz and gospel music as well as more traditional country & Western styling. He has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Country Album (1996 for The Road to Ensenada), Best Country Duo/Group with Vocal (1994 for "Blues For Dixie" with the Texas swing group Asleep at the Wheel), Best Pop Vocal Collaboration (1994 for "Funny How Time Slips Away" with Al Green) and Best Country Male Vocal (1989 for Lyle Lovett and His Large Band). Lyle Lovett performing on the Watson Stage at MerleFest in 2011, Wilkes County, N.C. Lovett has acted in a number of films, including Robert Altman's films: The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993), Prêt-à-Porter (1994), Bastard Out Of Carolina (1996), Cookie's Fortune (1999), and composed for Dr. T & the Women (2000).
A contemporary press piece in 1968 ranked Khanh and Bailly alongside Michèle Rosier as part of a "new race" of young designers, described as "stylists who work for ready-to-wear." These French ready-to-wear designers were called créateurs. In 1971, Khanh and the London-based Ossie Clark were the first members of a new fashion group, Créateurs et Industriels, founded by the manufacturer Didier Grumbach as a means of bringing together innovative ready-to-wear designers from around the world (including Issey Miyake and Thierry Mugler) with manufacturers prepared to promote their originality. The group was eventually absorbed by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture who realised that such original and creative ready-to-wear was more profitable and widely marketable than haute couture, and created its own equivalent group, also supervised by Grumbach, the Fédération Française de la Couture, du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode.
"Aimée—It Means 'To Be Loved'", Life Magazine, 19 May 1967 pp. 85–86. Among her notable films were Alexandre Astruc's Le Rideau Cramoisi (The Crimson Curtain, 1952), Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960), Fellini's 8½ (1963), Jacques Demy's Lola (1961), André Delvaux's Un Soir, un Train (One Evening, One Train, 1968), George Cukor's Justine (1969), Bernardo Bertolucci's Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981), Robert Altman's Prêt à Porter (Ready to Wear, 1994) and, Claude Lelouch's Un Homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman, 1966) — described as a "film that virtually reignited the lush on-screen romance in an era of skeptical modernism." Words like "regal," "intelligent" and "enigmatic" are frequently associated with her, notes one author, giving Aimée "an aura of disturbing and mysterious beauty" that has earned her the status of "one of the hundred sexiest stars in film history," according to a 1995 poll conducted by Empire Magazine. Because of her "striking features" and her beauty, she has been compared to Jacqueline Kennedy.

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