The other lines read like a marketing team brainstorm, with names like Comme des Garcons Comme des Garcons, Comme des Garcons SHIRT, Comme des Garcons SHIRT Girl, Comme des Garcons SHIRT Boy, Comme des Garçons Girl, and Comme des Garcons Homme (designed by Junya Watanabe) — not to be confused with Junya Watanabe Comme des Garcons Man.
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Rei Kawakubo has been designing for Comme des Garcons since 1969.
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Ocean)Piano: Christophe ChassolRecorded at Capitol Studios "Commes Des Garcons" (F.
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The theme was "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between."
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It has a dotted line to Comme des Garcons and designers like Public School.
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Versace Givenchy Yves Saint Laurent Hermes Gucci Thom Browne Balenciaga Proenza Schouler Comme des Garcons
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All of these brands are housed in Comme des Garcons' NYC flagship store in Chelsea.
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Comme des Garcons need to be pre-digested by another designer for it to work.
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Today, Comme des Garcons International is a lucrative privately owned company, operated by Kawakubo's husband, Adrian Joffe.
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Today, the Comme des Garcons family has 18 different, distinct lines of varying degrees of avant garde.
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My jacket is Off-White, the jeans are Saint Laurent, the little heart shirt [Comme des Garcons Play].
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Comme des Garcons is regularly ahead of everyone else, and does things that are more exciting, smarter, more forward thinking.
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Rihanna and the the handful of adventurous red carpet celebrities aside, expect to see a lot of attendees combat the challenge by opting for Comme des Garcons motifs rather than the anti-pretty Comme des Garcons spirit: a lot of polka-dotted gowns; red, ruffled dresses; and nubby black skirt suits, in attractive, flattering renditions.
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This philosophy is why Comme des Garcons' clothes have been considered the paragon of avant garde fashion for nearly five decades.
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Goon des Garcons is a young rapper trying to raise the profile of Arkansas hip-hop one banger at a time.
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Whether you love luxury brands or want to eat the rich, there's something cathartic about burning a Commes Des Garcons rolling paper.
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At the time, Paris was taken with the avant-garde fashions of Japanese designers like Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo's Comme Des Garcons.
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The Course de Garcons de Café was launched to recognise the waiting profession but the Soho Waiters Race is as much about local community.
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And in 2017, went with a bold red tulle gown with veil to the "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between"-themed gala.
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It's unclear who paid for her silvery Tommy Hilfiger outfit, a brand Hadid has a working relationship with and wore again at 6003 "Commes Des Garcons"-themed Met Gala.
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Designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons is like the sun: life-giving and nurturing, but too intense for most people to look at directly without some sort of filter.
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"Where do your arms go?" a guest asked, looking at a fashion display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between exhibition.
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Jaya, in a silky bomber jacket and very timely Comme des Garcons Play T-shirt, later asked permission to speak, too, unsure of the rules of engagement around a recording device.
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Clockwise from above left: Comme des Garcons PLAY Shirt, $155, available at Dover Street Market; DIY Levi's cut-offs; Pixie Market panda dress; Zara tank; Aritzia shorts; Elizabeth and James button-down.
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Williams, 44, was by her side also looking comfortable — ditching the usual tuxedo and suits worn by men at the Met Gala for a far more casual look, also by Comme des Garcons.
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These garments are all fabulous and museum-worthy; which is why the subject of the upcoming Costume Institute's Exhibition at The Met is Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between.
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I'll be wearing a pair of patchworked Junya Watanabe Comme des Garcons pants, and a Comme-in-spirit-but-not-in-label Victoriana blouse that I love but — more delightfully — my fiancé absolutely despises.
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From the women who went big, taking the theme very seriously in actual Comme des Garcons, to the ones who just brought some major glamour to the evening, here's a few of our editors' favorite looks.
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But as I fell into the world of Comme des Garcons and Kawakubo, I found myself entranced by images of women wearing those girlish ruffles like battle spikes and rubber-soled combat boots with tulle ball gowns.
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It's likely then, that the original Soho Waiters Race was inspired by the Course de Garcons de Café, an event first organised in Paris in the early 1900s and taking place on Bastille Day, which falls on 14 July.
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Her veil, according to Business of Fashion, was designed the milliner Stephen Jones, who has outfitted the heads of Isabella Blow and Daphne Guinness, as well as numerous collaborations with clothing designers like Vivienne Westwood and Comme des Garcons.
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"If you're a fucking fuck boy who identifies [as] heterosexual, and you're about fucking bitches but you're in line waiting for the new Supreme x Louis Vuitton collaboration, or Comme des Garcons—fashion is immersed in [diverse] sexuality," he proclaimed.
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It also saw some major, though well overdue, accolades: Anok Yai became the first Black woman to open a Prada show since Naomi Campbell in 1997, and the Comme des Garcons runway featured Black models for the first time in 20 years.
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MONDAY: THE MET GALA Caroline's return to the Met Gala red carpet — and her "sphere like" oversized floral Comme Des Garcons dress — might have made made news on Monday night, but it was Jack's red carpet debut that had many people talking.
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To remedy that problem, the shop started making T-shirts in small runs; and then hoodies and sweaters; then shoes in collaboration with Nike and Clarks, coats with the North Face and Stone Island, hoodies with Comme des Garcons and jeans with APC.
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Japanese designers such as Issey Miyake and Junya Watanabe are stocked in every department store worth its salt, but if your budget's a little more than Kirimi Chan and a little less than Commes des Garcons, Fyodor Golan is your ticket to kawaii-town.
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In a sea of skin-revealing dresses and gowns with mile-long trains, the 36-year-old mother of four looked cozy in a red, pillowy, ankle-length jumpsuit by Comme des Garcons — whose creative director, Rei Kawakubo, was being honored at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual event.
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With the Met Gala coming up on Monday, May 1, Comme des Garcons as a theme presents a unique challenge for stylists like Young and the glitterati they work for: How do you do antipretty when the purpose of the red carpet is to be attractive, alluring — pretty?
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" Stylist Micaela Erlanger who works with Lupita Nyongo, Meryl Streep, Naomie Harris, and Winona Ryder also does not pull from Comme des Garcons showrooms: "It's not a common brand that I necessarily call in for my clients, but it's not because of a lack of respect or interest.
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And yet, over my 30-some years of traveling to China for work and to see family, I've worn face masks each time: small ones that fit child-sized faces, paper ones and cloth ones, surgical masks and cheap drugstore versions, the ones that come with a button-sized air filter, and the ones I bought in a subway kiosk that came with a bootleg set of Comme des Garcons eyes.
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Alber Elbaz: AL-BAIR EL-BAHZ Altuzarra: AHL-TOO-ZAH-RAH Ami: AH-MEE Anna Sui: ANNA SWEE Azzedine Alaia: AZZ-A-DEAN A-LIE-AH Balenciaga: BAHL-EN-SEE-AH-GAH Balmain: BAL-MAHN Bottega Veneta: BOH-TEH-GAH VEHN-EH-TAH Brunello Cucinelli: BRU-NE-LO KU-CHI-NELLY Bulgari: BOOL-GAH-REE Carolina Herrera: CAIR-OH-LEE-NAH HER-RAIR-AH Christian Louboutin: KREEST-YAHN LOO-BOO-TAAN Commes Des Garcons: COHM DAY GAR-SOHN Consuelo Castiglione: COHN-SWAY-LOH CAH-STEEL-YO-NEE Cushnie Et Ochs: CUSH-KNEE-ETTE-OX Dries Van Noten: DREEZ VAHN NO-TEN Elsa Schiaparelli: EL-SA-SKEEAP-UH-RELL-EE Ermenegildo Zegna: AIR-MEN-EH-JILDO ZENYA Giambattista Valli: ZHAHM-BAH-TEE-STAH VAH-LEE Givenchy: JHEE-VONN-SHEE Hedi Slimane: ED-EE SLIH-MAAN Hermes: AIR-MEZ Herve Leger: AIR-VAY-LEH-ZHAY Jacquemus: JACKEU-MUSSS Jean Paul Gaultier: ZHAWN POHL GOH-TEEAY Junya Watanabe: JOON-YAH WAH-TAH-NAH-BEH Lanvin: LAWN-VAH Loewe: LOH-EH-VAY Louis Vuitton: LOO-EE VWEE-TAWN Maison Martin Margiela: MAY-ZOHN MAR-TAHN MAR-JEL-AH Manolo Blahnik: MAH-NO-LO BLAH-NIK Marchesa: MAR-KAY-ZAH MARNI: MAR-NEE Mary Katrantzou: KAHT-TRAHN-TZOO Monse: MAUN-SAY Moschino: MOHS-KEE-NOH Narciso Rodriguez: NAR-SEE-SO RAH-DREE-GEZZ Nicolas Ghesquiere: NEE-KOH-LA GEHS-KYAIR Peter Pilotto: PETER PIL-OTT-TOH Prabal Gurung: PRUH-BUL GOOH-ROONG Proenza Schouler: PRO-EHN-ZAH SKOOL-ER Ralph Lauren: RALPH LAW-REN Riccardo Tisci: REE-CAR-DOH TEE-SHEE Rochas: ROH-SHAHS Rodarte: ROH-DART-AY Roksanda Ilincic: RAHK-SAHN-DAH IH-LIN-CHICK Roland Mouret: ROH-LAHND MOR-AY Saint Laurent: SAAN LOH-RAHN Sies Marjan: SEES MAR-JAHN Thakoon Panichgul: TAH-KUUN PAH-NEECH-GUUL Thierry Mugler: TEER-EE MUH-GLUR Versace: VAIR-SAH-CHAY Vetements: VET-MOHN
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In the 1990s he created an astonishing number of extremely successful so-called "sitcoms", including Salut les Musclés", "Premiers Baisers", "Hélène et les Garcons", "Le Miel et les Abelles", "Le Philo selon Philippe", "Les Filles d'a coté". In addition to these he created many others which had lesser success, such as "Le College des Coeurs Brisés", "Un homme a Domicile", "Talk Show", L'un Contre L'autre", "Les Garcons de la Plage" or "Else, un roman photo". "Premieres Baisers" and its spin-off, "Hélène et les Garcons", each of about 200 episodes, both had several sequels. "Hélène et les Garcons" in particular was followed by "Le Miracle de l'Amour" and then "Les Vacances de l’Amour" (produced on location in the carabian) and Azoulay has recently revived the series, with the same actors, now 20 years older, in "Les Mysteres de l'Amour", which has so far seen three seasons.
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Junya Watanabe (born in Fukushima, Japan in 1961) is a Japanese fashion designer, a protégé of Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo. He continues to work for Comme des Garcons: His atelier is located on the second floor of its Tokyo headquarters, and he produces four shows a year in Paris.
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His company, Aguecheek, had many London boutiques including those for Ungaro, Valentino, Katharine Hamnett, Krizia, Walter Steiger, Giorgio Armani, Tiffany, Luciano Soprani and Comme des Garcons Homme Plu. He opened Gallery 28, a Mayfair outlet with many designers' clothes. He married Prue Hyne in 1960 and they had three sons.
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Jeffries worked as a male model for designers including Jean Paul Gaultier, Comme Des Garcons and Versace. He has been on the cover of the British, American, French and Italian editions of Vogue. His musical style spans classical, vaudeville, music hall and Golden Age Hollywood musicals, as well as more experimental styles. He is a former mentee of Vangelis.
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Martin Lerma, Brooks Brothers and Junya Watanabe Team Up for a Modern Take on Ivy League Style, Robbreport.com, 27 February 2020 He also worked with Comme des Garçons and the video game designer Yoko Taro to develop a cosplay collection.Tomy Wang, The ultimate RPG with Comme des Garçons and Junya Watanabe, Ssense.com, 29 July 2020 He currently continues to work for Comme des Garcons and resides in Tokyo.
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In 2003, she signed a contract to re-create his designs with Rei Kawakubo, an avant-garde Japanese designer under his Comme des Garcons label. Some designs were reissued under the Peggy Moffitt/Comme des Garçons label. In 2012, Women's Wear Daily reported that a German investor had committed to reissuing some of Gernreich's designs. The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art contains more than 100 pieces of Gernreich's designs in its collection.
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Raymond Freymann graduated in 1970 from the Lycée de Garcons in Esch-sur Alzette, Luxembourg. He performed his study in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany. He got his engineering degree in 1976 with a major in aerospace technologies. He obtained his doctor of engineering degree from the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1981 for the work he has performed at the Institute of Aeroelasticity at the DLR in Göttingen (Germany).
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Bertrand Duchaufour trained at the Lautier Florasynth group in Grasse while also working at Florasynth Paris and Créations Aromatiques (the two companies merged in 1997). From 2008, he has been L'Artisan Parfumeur's perfumer 'in residence'. He has also created fragrances for several other perfume houses, including Penhaligon's, Amouage, Comme des Garcons, Givenchy and Christian Dior. In 2012 he worked for Gulnara Karimova, the controversial daughter of Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov, when she decided to release fragrances.
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After art school he set about learning building technology alongside his father with whom he worked for a dozen years renovating apartments. He then became a set decorator for television series like Les Muscle or Helene et les Garcons. He also collaborated on a project for France2 relating to the production of a made-for-television movie adapted from “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” by Jules Verne and also did the stage design for a show by Sylvie Vartan.
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In the 2010s, some streetwear brands were now coveted as much as the most historically elite fashion brands. Complex Magazine named Stüssy, Supreme, and A Bathing Ape as the top streetwear brands, and many went on to collaborate on prized high fashion capsule collections such as Supreme x Louis Vuitton, Fila x Fendi, A Bathing Ape x Commes des Garcons, and Stussy x Dior.Dior x Stussy Fall 2020 by By Jonathan Sawyer, Highsnobiety, Dec 4, 2019.
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Drawing inspiration from his architecture background, the store was praised as being "a treat for the senses" by Vogue UK. The flagship store is located at 33A Bruton Place, Mayfair, London, W1J 6NP. Sweeney has worked with Raf Simons as Creative Director of Accessories at Jil Sander. In addition, he has collaborated with Rei Kawakubo of Comme Des Garcons, and worked for international department store Lane Crawford. In 2012, Sweeney collaborated with Chilean vineyard Carmen Wines to create a limited edition bag.
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A new band website was also commissioned. Their first gig back together (as a 3-piece) took place at the Wheatsheaf, Leighton Buzzard, England, on 21 December 2005. This was a 'secret' gig and not promoted beforehand; however, blackboards outside the pub announced "Kula Shaker tonight" on the night of the show. As a joke about the nature of secret gigs, Mills told the assembled crowd that the band was called The Garcons whilst wearing a "big hair" grey wig.
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Opening Ceremony was one of the first retail shops to carry Havaianas and Topshop products. They introduced both, now globally known, brands into the US market. Designer brand, Alexander Wang, has also been selling his products through Opening Ceremony since 2007, along with famous Japanese brand Comme Des Garcons, Proenza Schouler and Rodarte. The cofounders believed that a person willing to buy expensive or designer garments would also be willing to buy cheap t-shirts, socks and random art pieces.
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In 2009 Guinness launched her eponymous fragrance in partnership with French fashion house Comme des Garcons. David LaChapelle chose her to appear in his Maybach advertising campaign in two pictures for the car's Zeppelin model. On another occasion, when working for LaChapelle, she spent six hours in a tank of water, immersed for up to two minutes at a time, to produce two underwater images, with one titled "Daphne Guinness in Water". In Autumn 2010 Guinness launched a limited edition makeup line with French cosmetics company NARS.
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His partner Pascale de Boysson, Dirk Kinnane and Bibi Hure were also in the cast. Other film appearances include Les Garcons by Mauro Bolognini in 1959, Vanina Vanini (1961), Two Weeks in September (1967), in which he appeared with Brigitte Bardot, The Milky Way (1969), Medea (1969), The Desert of the Tartars (1976), and the TV miniseries Moses the Lawgiver (1974), starring Burt Lancaster. In the 1980s, he primarily acted on stage. Appearances during this era include Rouge Baiser, Germinal in 1993, and The Raft of the Medusa in 1998.
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Gogol Premier and "La Horde" appear in the film Claude Berri Tchao Pantint (you can also see Les Porte Mentaux in this film). Gogol plays its own role Gibus. The songs on the album came out Hencor'Pir'. Gogol Premier appears in the issue of Christophe Dechavanne Ciel mon mardi with Bérurier Noir and Les Garcons bouchers in Jean-Luc Delarue in the program Ca se discute, as he runs for presidential elections and also appears on the Web-Tv alternative Addict-Tv where he presents his own show.
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Today, it is possible to find waiters races in more than 53 countries all over the world. From Hong Kong to Washington DC, from Brussels to Jerusalem or from Buenos Aires to Japan, waiters are at honor for a day and make a show in front of thousands of spectators. In 2011, "the course des garcons de cafe" come back in Paris after years. Up-to-date, more than 724 waiters races in the world from the beginning have been listed by the International Waiters Race Community Website WaitersRace.
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Christiane Linster was born in Luxembourg in 1962 where she remained for her childhood and obtained her high school degree from the Lycee des Garcons Luxembourg. In 1982 she studied clarinet at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz in Austria, as well as Electrical Engineering at the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). She graduated in 1987 with a Certificate in Classical Clarinet and Conducting as well as a Masters in Electrical Engineering and published her senior thesis entitled "Get Rhythm: A Musical Application for Neural Networks".Christiane Linster's Resume, Cornell University.
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Mann, op cit, 22-25. Recurring themes of binaries such as love/hate, peace/war, triumph/calamity, satiation/desire are all prevalent in work that seems to assimilate the global urban landscape but tenders only oblique opinions about that landscape. During this period, FAILE produced several books in limited edition, including, by 2004, Orange, Death, Boredom, and Lavender. The overlap between FAILE's art practice and design background was pronounced during this early period, and found them collaborating on clothing and shoe lines (including Paper Denim, Comme des Garcons, and Pro-Keds), and music projects, as well as work on the street.
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Designed in Manchester, the contemporary architecture of the store was based on a cocoon with monochrome shards framed by contrasting pine wood with products 'floating' on a unique wiring system. In 2011, Garment Quarter won 'Best New Business' at the Drapers's Fashion Awards and has been included in the top shopping destination guides for The Daily Telegraph, The Times and British Airways Executive Club. Garment Quarter continues to have strong relationships with designers Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Victoria Beckham and Comme des Garcons. In 2014 Garment Quarter supported London Collections: MEN designers KTZ and Sibling London.
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Hardy's vocal delivery has been described as "disarmingly conversational". Mason felt that throughout the record, she sings "in an attractive but chilly drop-dead monotone that's far removed from the perkiness of almost every other female singer (minus Nico and Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las) of the '60s." Hazel Cills wrote in 2015: > Her lyrics would never hew this close to yé-yé traditions again: See the > "whoa-oh-oh" echoing on tracks like "Il Est Tout Pour Moi" and her cover of > Bobby Lee Trammell's "Oh Oh Chéri". The title track "Tous Les Garcons Et Les > Filles" remains an iconic vision of Hardy's aesthetic: frank music for > romantic wallflowers.
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Eva Galambos started her career in fashion working for Armani, where she received her training in fabrication, visual merchandising and operating systems. Later she was involved in the company’s launch of Arena magazine. Upon her return to Australia in 2001, she founded Parlour X. Parlour X offers a selection from various designers including Céline, Chloè, Balenciaga, Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney, Loewe, Comme des Garcons and Isabel Marant, plus Australian designers like Ellery, Maticevski and Romance was Born. In 2009, the boutique launched its e-commerce business. In May 2015, Parlour X announced its relocation from Fiveways Paddington into St John’s Baptist Church Paddington, as of August 2015.
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The store’s opening in 1981 coincided with the arrival of the New Romantic music/cultural movement. Crolla's use of lavish fabrics and textures on waistcoats, ties, jackets and trousers, including chintz, paisley and velvet, attracted fans including Boy George, Princess Diana and Isabella Blow. It was also the antithesis of the austere palette and sculptural lines of Japanese brands gaining in popularity at the time, such as Yohji Yamamoto and Comme des Garcons. Initially, the company focused on menswear and, a year after the brand's launch, Ken Probst writing in The New York Times noted the renewed interest in British fashion created by the success of Brideshead Revisited and Chariots of Fire.
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Marie Meyer began modeling at the age of seventeen, for Spoon Magazine shot by Ellen Von Unwerth and has since appeared on magazine covers such as Marie-Claire and Elle, and in advertisements from Yves Saint Laurent to Jean Paul Gaultier. She has been photographed by photographers like Peter Lindbergh, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, and Jonas Bresnan in 2012 for Vogue. Marie Meyer by Jonas Bresnan for Vogue Netherlands October 2012 [Editorial] \- Fashion Copious She was featured alongside singer Lenny Kravitz in the October 2005 in edition Uomo Vogue shot on tour with Aerosmith photographed by Mark SeligerPhoto of Marie Meyer - Fashion Model - ID77022 - Profile on FMD and in the June 2005 edition of Elle Us Photographed by Enrique Badulescu.Photo of Marie Meyer - Fashion Model - ID187333 - Profile on FMD She has modeled for such designers/brands as Chanel, Hermès, Jean Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent, Elie Saab, Zuhair Murad, Comme des Garcons, Junya Watanabe, Maison Martin Margiela, Giorgio Armani and Ungaro among others.
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Ai is the Artistic Director of China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), which he co-founded in 1997. This contemporary art archive and experimental gallery in Beijing concentrates on experimental art from the People's Republic of China, initiates and facilitates exhibitions and other forms of introductions inside and outside China. The building which houses it was designed by Ai in 2000.Kunsthaus Bregenz, "Ai Weiwei: Art/Architecture", Bregenz,2011. On 15 March 2010, Ai took part in Digital Activism in China, a discussion hosted by The Paley Media Center in New York with Jack Dorsey (founder of Twitter) and Richard MacManus. Also in 2010 he served as jury member for Future Generation Art Prize, Kiev, Ukraine; contributed design for Comme de Garcons Aoyama Store, Tokyo, Japan; and participated in a talk with Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller at the International Culture festival Litcologne in Cologne, Germany. In 2011, Ai sat on the jury of an international initiative to find a universal Logo for Human Rights. The winning design, combining the silhouette of a hand with that of a bird, was chosen from more than 15,300 suggestions from over 190 countries.
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Ai is the Artistic Director of China Art Archives & Warehouse (CAAW), which he co- founded in 1997. This contemporary art archive and experimental gallery in Beijing concentrates on experimental art from the People's Republic of China, initiates and facilitates exhibitions and other forms of introductions inside and outside China. The building which houses it was designed by Ai in 2000.Kunsthaus Bregenz, "Ai Weiwei: Art/Architecture", Bregenz,2011. On 15 March 2010, Ai took part in Digital Activism in China, a discussion hosted by The Paley Media Center in New York with Jack Dorsey (founder of Twitter) and Richard MacManus. Also in 2010 he served as jury member for Future Generation Art Prize, Kiev, Ukraine; contributed design for Comme de Garcons Aoyama Store, Tokyo, Japan; and participated in a talk with Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller at the International Culture festival Litcologne in Cologne, Germany. In 2011, Ai sat on the jury of an international initiative to find a universal Logo for Human Rights. The winning design, combining the silhouette of a hand with that of a bird, was chosen from more than 15,300 suggestions from over 190 countries.
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