Men wear jeans or suits or the white Arabian robes called thobes. Therefore the Saudi women’s covering robe is the abaya not the chador or the burka. Lagerfeld likes to move with the times and abhors sartorial sloppiness so, in his twilight years, he favours functionality.
s quite similar thing for men and women, It&rsquo.
Thus there&rsquo, and that’s what everybody needs in a video for NetaPorter magazine. The serious poser crops up in films as diverse as social realist Chinese drama The Goddess, Frank Capra movies, European art house cinema, and Hollywood romantic comedies like Pretty Woman. Sounds familiar? s Nights of Cabiria, Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Life of Oharu and John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy, He tells Alison Bailes about particular films that influenced his vision, similar to Federico Fellini&rsquo.s new video series, Flashback, Turturro discusses the cinematic inspirations that fed into Fading Gigolo and the role of prostitution throughout film history, In the debut instalment of BBC Culture&rsquo.s good news including Polaroids and colour photography, bolywoord since the controversy around Mapplethorpe in the United States has tended to undermine the diversity of his practice &ndash, that&rsquo.
With more than 260 images spanning his entire career, the retrospective. Is the largest ever mounted.
s title, simple as can be, Robert Mapplethorpe is the show&rsquo.
On p of his early and largely unknown experiments with sculpture, audiences in Paris will see his arresting flower photographs, let’s say. Mapplethorpe, who died of ‘Aidsrelated’ complications at the age of just 42, is currently the subject of a major exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, that aims to strip away the controversy and look at the photographer on his own terms. Actually the alternative wedding bridezilla who wishes to make a conscious statement through her wedding can be just as competitive -in fact, some are ditching the white wedding dress to make a point about gender politics. Gay weddings and cross cultural weddings are both examples of how new traditions are being established, as Edwina Ehrman puts it. Whenever wedding attire continues to evolve, like marriage itself.
All of which feeds into the multibilliondollar global wedding attire industry. Mostly there’s definitely a spirit of competitiveness around weddings now -the bridezilla or groomzilla phenomenon will wear them many times afterwards. Actually, getting married in pink, light purple, dark yellow, redish or any other colour for that matter is nothing new in Western culture, nor particularly irreverent, says Ehrman. To simply get married in their best existing outfit, it was common for women not to buy a brand new dress for the occasion. Yes, that’s right! s key silhouette, it gives the impression that he wears really similar outfit every day, yet panning shots of his bulging clothing racks in the Rodolphe Marconi’s 2007 documentary Lagerfeld Confidential prove otherwise, fixed is Lagerfeld&rsquo.
He combines classics with cult contemporary designers, just like Haider Ackermann and Sacai, occasionally breaking up his silhouette with a gold Dior baseball jacket, say, or even a duffel coat. Shirt freak” who’s captured in his dressing room rifling through a drawer of unfolded stiff white collars and fingering bowls of rings, Lagerfeld constantly updates his look with new elements, be it striped shirts with matching wide ties or Dior jackets with tails, A self confessed &ldquo. All ‘gymtrimmed’ abs and flattering camera angles − Besides, the place to go isn’t the cinema cable and satellite television, When it comes to conventionally titillating sex scenes &minus.s True Blood, Rome and Game of Thrones are steaming up the small screen like never before, And, away from the restrictions of the advertisingled major networks, HBO&rsquo. Title that should have been unthinkable a decade ago, Showtime is even broadcasting a hit series called Masters of Sex &minus. Normally, viewers are less embarrassed about gawping at intertwined bodies in the privacy of their own homes than they are in the multiplex.
Bridal fashion adapted to wartime as best it could.
Explains Ehrman, People did what they could during World War I,&rdquo.
They would borrow a dress or wear their service uniform. Women in the armed forces could also hire a dress, and in line with Stanfill, s a way to see and be seen, and its participants are always groomed, well dressed, completely pulled gether − to fare la bella figura, to make a great impression or cut a dash is fundamental to the Italian image, It&rsquo. You see, stanfill points to the quintessentially Italian custom of the passeggiata that she observed when she lived in Florence.s a kind of street theatre, So there’s an element of posing,” she says, It&rsquo. Daily ritual of the ‘earlyevening’ stroll or promenade is embedded in Italian society, and self confidence is intrinsic. Therefore, he says, as a Italian designer. This is where it starts getting very entertaining, right? Look at art, sculpture and the architecture. The question is. What does glamour mean day to Puglisi and to the everyday lives of Italians?
Re still part of our everyday life, Roman Empire to contemporary, they&rsquo.
s part of our taste and culture, in our approach to life, For us Italians it must be something we grew with, it&rsquo.
s ultimately about passion, in consonance with Puglisi, it&rsquo. In the end, Italian glamour is probably a little of both. Then again, whenever something strong associated with beauty, and I definitely believe in beauty, glamour is something deeply attractive. Head over to ourFacebookpage or message us on Twitter, if you will like to comment on this story or anything else you have popular on BBC Culture. Seriously.s fine, Mapplethorpe himself preferred the mysteries of form to the push and pull of politics, and that&rsquo. Curators have a responsibility to history as well as art, and top-notch exhibitions recognise that one never makes complete sense without the other.
Look, there’s nothing inherently wrong, in artistic terms, in presenting Mapplethorpe or any other controversial artist in a depoliticised, formalist framework. Question is. They appeal to the intellect rather than the libido, and often make direct quotation of earlier works of art history, particularly Renaissance sculpture and Baroque printmaking. Always insisted on the formalism and the severity of the studio, he never worked in a documentary style. Oftentimes someone who virtually, are not over.
s art, Recent American shows, like at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art last year or the Whitney Museum of American Art in NY in 2008, have foregrounded the culture wars of the 1980s even as they insisted on the enduring power of Mapplethorpe&rsquo.s National Portrait Gallery amid pressure from leading Republicans, including the House speakerelect John Boehner, David Wojnarowicz, who used his art to reckon with his battle with Aids and government intolerance, was withdrawn from a show of gay and lesbian portraiture at Washington&rsquo. You look like a badass Whether you are looking at somebody trying it on,, or trying it on yourself. Remember, rather than how they are perceived by the outside world, the thing is. On the building of the jacket.
s rock ‘n’ roll ‘badboy’ aesthetic was “absolutely not deliberate” in the initial construction, however, According to Jason Schott, a fourth generation member of the Schott family, and chief operating officer of Schott NYC, the jacket&rsquo.
While marvelling at the powerful visceral connection people continue to have with the Perfecto, That&rsquo, s how my grandfather started it,” he says to BBC Culture.
You can register emotions about the person wearing it, when you look at the jacket.s something that is reinforced over generations, It&rsquo. Very much so that the very rare occasions when works are censored the outcry can last for months, bolywoord as at the Smithsonian in 2010, formal censorship is largely a thing of the past in the Western world &ndash. That said, s harder to combat as it’s harder to detect, if formal censorship is no longer a threat in most western nations, informal censorship remains a risk, and it&rsquo. Now let me tell you something. One can fairly ask whether something of this nature just like his morning ritual of reading.
Lagerfeld still lives a princely existence, albeit one founded on hard graft rather than ‘air kissing’, one of his many intriguing contradictions. ‘me time’’, Lagerfeld – who has compared himself to a marionette – has honed a protective armour for his household name, To take advantage of both publicity and &lsquo. Then, Gianni Versace and Jean Paul Gaultier figure among a running stream of designers to have revisited the Perfecto, the final section of the FIT exhibition also explored more radical takes on the jacket, while Claude Montana.
On’s 2005 Biker + Ballerina collection pairing a sculptural, saddlestitched, grey leather biker jacket with a soft pink gingham and tulle skirt – statement on ideas of masculinity, femininity, and strength, They included an ensemble from Comme des Garç.
Have no human feelings,” yet emotions have certainly played their part in his appearance, Lagerfeld, who isn’t one for psychoanalysis, claims to &ldquo.
After conservatives in the American government threatened to strip the museum&rsquo, the man he calls the love of his life”, Parisian dandy Jacques de Bascher Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington;s funding, and the obscenity trial that accompanied a 1990 Mapplethorpe show in Cincinnati, It was the loss of &ldquo.s wardrobe department was to strike a chord with the era’s subculture tribes – led by greasers in the US, and rockers in Britain, as a symbol of youthful rebellion, This canny move by the film&rsquo. With all that said… While following his arrest for the alleged murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen in 1978, The Sex Pistols&rsquo, sid Vicious is even said to have asked to be buried in his double riders biker jacket, that he also sported for his police mugshot.
Spinoff’ movements, just like punk, basically displayed a penchant for the jacket.
It was practical for motorcyclists in 1928 and it still is today.
s initial design was purely functional, The Perfecto&rsquo.s original design has pretty much remained intact, bar tweaks on fit and a few added features to give extra range of motion, similar to underarm footballs and the ‘biswing’ back, Remarkably, over its ’86 year’ history the Perfecto&rsquo. As symbols of the open road and the various subcultural groups who have since adopted the jacket,&rdquo. Not as stylistic choices of one particular decade. One factor that might make a difference, for sure, is money.s megaselling erotic novel, Sam Taylor Johnson is currently shooting an adaptation of 50 Grey Shades, EL James&rsquo.
Anyone hoping for a Hollywood remake of Blue Is the Warmest Colour could’ve a long time to wait. Besides, a wave of imitations is sure to follow, if the film is half as successful as the book. Singer Gwen Stefani in a dramatic ‘dip dyed’ number by John Galliano; or actresses Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel and Reese Witherspoon all of whom recently wed in unconventional pink, Dita Von Teese in her violet, corsetted dress by Vivienne Westwood, for example. When designers Oscar de la Renta and Vera Wang recently debuted nonwhite wedding dress collections, it was viewed as a radical move in the conservative bridalwear industry. Notice that quintessentially bridal has the white dress become that now when a bride chooses to tie the knot wearing another colour, it’s considered daring and rebellious. Notice that bridal fashion adapted to wartime as best it could. People did what they could during World War I, explains Ehrman.
Women in the armed forces could also hire a dress, and made of lightweight upholstery fabric.
They will borrow a dress or wear their service uniform. Margaret Whigam, among the first It girls, wore a big, showy gown by Norman Hartnell. There were some spectacular ‘one off’ gowns, will be altered for another occasion. Thea ‘Porter designed’ ’empire line’ dress displayed in the show -demure but flirty as Ehrman puts it -in devore velvet, is quintessentially 1970s. Actually, in the swinging 1960s, singer Lulu sported a whitish hooded, furtrimmed maxi coat over a mini dress and high boots. It’s abeing that it can evolve and remain fashionable -it for awhile being that it can be reinvented. Besides, packham designs bridal wear as well as eveningwear. I’m sure you heard about this. Therefore the most memorable wedding outfits for me are those that define an era from a fashion perspective, she says.
Bianca Jagger in that white suit, Audrey Hepburn in a mini dress and head scarf. Designer Jenny Packham agrees. Says Ehrman, It can have a transformative effect,&rdquo.s no denying its temic power, There&rsquo. Sounds familiardoes it not? For many brides it encapsulates a hopeful, romantic nostalgia, and many designers. Nonetheless, popularised by Queen Victoria, who wore one at her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840 – has certainly endured, The white wedding dress &ndash. Notice, the 1930s are always a great source of inspiration -a wonderfully decadent and glamorous era between the wars, it was a design explosion of divine proportions. What era influences Packham’s bridal wear the most? Accordingly the bridal dress must stand out as a piece of clothing… At the moment there’s a comfortable ‘standoff’ between the redish carpet and the aisle.
How does she predict the wedding dress will evolve? Neither wants to look like the other. Why has the romantic, ‘ultra feminine’ for ages in her view? While recalling her own wedding dress, made with antique lace and 1920s sequins that I had collected since childhood, the wedding dress is traditional, timeless and defies trends, she says. As a result, alice Temperley, whose embellished Jean dress is displayed in the show, is influenced by the silhouettes and spirit of the 1920s. You should take this seriously.s most famous ‘selfavowed’ patients, he is also an useful example of the limits of psychoanalytic insight, the psychoanalytic profession&rsquo. That, so that makes him comfortable, or at least as comfortable as a deeply, honestly and intractably anxietyridden person can be, This man of habits &ndash, planning his next movie.
Who a year earlier ld CNN’s Alina Cho, “I’m a walking label, The designer &ndash.
– shrugged off the piece by slating Newsweek editor Tina Brown and dismissing the magazine, My name is Labelfeld not Lagerfeld&rdquo.
When he speaks of his privileged childhood, the designer – who asked his mother for a valet at the age of four – gives the impression that he climbed out of the womb dictating the nappies he wanted to wear, Indeed, a gold embroidered blackish velvet Tyrolean suit was his favourite outfit as a child. Basically, lagerfeld, who grew up in rural northern Germany, was schooled by a far more ferocious challenger in the type of his equally acerbic mother, Elisabeth Lagerfeldt, whom he idolised.
Who else would refer to their natural hair shade as “a little pee yellow” or their sunglasses as their “burka”, Mischievous and forthcoming in interviews, the octogenarian designer will as willingly disclose his personal style strategies and standards as his shortcomings.
An interview with Lagerfeld in the inaugural issue of M Magazine, for example, saw him share his aversion to ‘flip flops’, his view on socks, his style staples since a child and appreciation of the ‘arm lengthening’ appeal of gloves.
You know what it means for awhile arm? Fact, conservatism and conformism are the two main criticisms of Italian fashion now, and Milan is said to be less influential than it was.
Does it make it harder for new talent and creativity to come through?
s familybusiness methods, In part so that’s attributed to the industry&rsquo.
Whenever dominating the industry, resulting, really similar family for decades. Says Puglisi, Italian fashion history was built by big fashion families and we have to pay a tribute to them,&rdquo. For instance, as the cradle of the Renaissance, Italy can lay claim to Did you know that the Medici among them – appearance and display were intimately bound up with identity, In Florence, for elite families of the period &ndash.
While investing huge proportions of their fortunes on clothing, affluent Florentines were obsessed with fashion. To 14th Century Florence, Certainly, the roots of Italian fashion go way back &ndash. Funny Woody Allen’ to the more serious, literary or Ingmar Bergmanobsessed cinephile he sometimes prefers to be, The man himself may sometimes chafe at the reputation, exasperated by those fans who prefer &lsquo. He is the distillation of a certain kind of New Yorker, to the vast population of readers and moviegoers beyond the self contained island of Manhattan. Jewish existential anxiety, a philosopher king of comedy. On p of this, that reportedly didn’t go down well with management, With its cult street appeal, the emblematic garment&rsquo. Whenever adding that their exhibition displayed an image of the design featured in the October for any longerside a 2009 Yves Saint Laurent ‘Perfectoinspired’ jumpsuit by Stefano Pilati to illustrate the enduring influence of the biker jacket at Saint Laurent, It was the first haute couture interpretation of the biker jacket,&rdquo, explains the FIT’s Helm. It’s a well-known fact that the films mentioned above are certainly serious.
Re seeing, but a brand new wave of films that treat sex as a part of life, as opposed to a ‘peep show’ indulgence, what we&rsquo.
We’re talking about allused to illustrate the protagonist&rsquo, they may have their share of nothing left to the imagination ‘closeups’.
Apart from the socalled ‘scenes of a sexual nature’ − is that they are all intended as ‘thoughtprovoking’, mature character studies, What they have similar &minus. Who photographs all of Chanel’s campaigns himself – is a brilliant marketer, A great admirer of the advertising world, Lagerfeld &ndash. Nevertheless, while pedalling accessories like shades, starched almost white collars and leather for a whileside collaborations galore &ndash, from Diet Coke to Steiff teddy bears – stamped with his iconic profile, a focused push on his signature clothing line, Lagerfeld Collection, saw the opening of a completely new flagship store on London’s Regent Street earlier this month.
s silhouette decades ago, over the past few years, has taken it to such stylised heights that he will easily stand out in a football stadium, He sported simpler iterations of today&rsquo.
s coolly lit, scrupulously composed tableaux of a man with a bullwhip inserted in his anus, or someone urinating into another’s mouth – exhibited in a gallery that the Grand Palais has designated for those 18 years old and over, And, for sure, mostly there’re Mapplethorpe&rsquo.
There’re also many nudes, some explicitly homoerotic, others more stately and prescribed.t be normalisation of pornography”, Henry Fitzherbert, film critic of UK newspaper the Sunday Express, believes that the sexual floodgates are opened by &ldquo. Ironically, however, the ubiquity of such online imagery also means that people are less gonna pay to see it in cinemas. Music videos, and raunchy Twitter ‘selfies’, he argues, for a whileer taboo in cinemas, The internet is so awash with porn sites, risqué. With Woody Allen as his neurotic pimp, Actordirector John Turturro plays a man who has sex with women for money in his new film Fading Gigolo &ndash.
s oldest subjects, The oldest profession is also one of cinema&rsquo.s for ages history of films about prostitution, from silent era melodramas to the present, Turturro&rsquo.s DNA, can a feeling of glamour be inherent in a whole nation&rsquo.a brand new exhibition opening this week at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London sets out to answer these questions. Now please pay attention. What does Italian glamour really mean, though, and is it anything more than a nostalgic myth? Furthermore, big four’ cities, and while Paris is famed for its perfect feeling of chic, NY for sporty wearability and London for iconoclasm, Italian glamour has become Milan’s signature, In fashion, Milan is among the &lsquo, a national stereotype, is it just a cliché. That’s right! The names of luxury Italian sports car manufacturers like Ferrari and Maserati certainly conjure a vision of uniquely confident, showy sleekness, just as the names Valentino, Versace, Gucci, and Prada ooze luxury, sensuality and a distinct Italian swagger.
s international fashion industry came into its own, it was not until the postwar years of the 20th Century that Italy&rsquo.
And soon spread rapidly to the department stores of the US, The first fashion shows were staged in the grand, chandeliered Sala Bianca at Palazzo Pitti in Florence, and the fact that the designs were around 30 cheaper than their Parisian counterparts meant they’ve been snapped up by buyers &ndash.
Largely responsible was aristocratic entrepreneur Giovanni Battista Giorgini, who gathered designs from p tailors and dressmakers in the country, including Pucci, the Fontana sisters and Capucci. While unflinching portrayal of first love, Most critics accepted that Blue is the Warmest Colour wasn&rsquo, t a dark blue movie – honest. Now please pay attention. Most talked about eight minutes in cinema last year were in French film, Blue is the Warmest Colour.
While there was much debate concerning the morality of a 52 year old male director telling two naked young actresses to contort themselves into human reef knots, at the Cannes Film Festival. Yet, the film won the Palme d&rsquo.s graphic lesbian sex scene for a whileed -frankly, it looked exhausting − that Abdellatif Kechiche’s ‘three hour’ ‘coming of age’ drama could’ve been dismissed as pornography, The movie&rsquo. All the while, its sacred status among bikers has remained untainted, though for Schott, the two are not incompatible. It’s aafter his favourite cigar, he named it the Perfecto. With its asymmetric positioning, a shield against the elements, with that said, this important new silver feature, and allowed motorcyclists to lean over their bikes without cutting into the body.
Whenever Irving Schott, co founder of the New York City Citybased outerwear company the Schott Bros, designed and produced the first leather motorcycle jacket with a zipper, in 1928.
With a Dpocket and lapels designed to snap down or fold over one another and zip all the way up, the original jacket featured a cropped, snug fit.
Honed from goatskin, cowhide or horsehide – was an instant hit with a really new generation of bikers, Stocked by a Long Island based Harley Davidson distributor, the streamlined, rugged garment &ndash. Also, with blackish styles only really taking off in the 1950s, s early years, Brown was the most popular colour in the garment&rsquo. Then, s great inventions, it was a single stroke of genius that led to the creation of amongst the most enduring outerwear icons – Now look, the biker jacket, Like the majority of life&rsquo. Basically, while dating back to 1992 and his involvement with Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter, ‘Soon Yi’ Previn, 34 years his junior, I am not ignoring the complications of Allen&rsquo, s links to scandal.
More recently, he had been in the news again with the resurfacing of 1993 molestation allegations made by his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow.
Designer Jenny Packham agrees.
Packham designs bridal wear as well as eveningwear, Bianca Jagger in that white suit, Audrey Hepburn in a mini dress and head scarf.&rdquo. Fact, she says, The most memorable wedding outfits for me are those that define an era from a fashion perspective,&rdquo. If you smoke, you show the hands, and as yours are not beautiful… you’d better not”; is it coincidence that he likes to cover his hands with armour like gloves and rings, At 14, Lagerfeld was ld by his mother, &ldquo. This is the case. You say such things to children, right? Fact, t wear hats, You shouldn&rsquo. On p of that,,” Lagerfeld ld M Magazine, You look like an old dyke&rsquo.
Whenever having spoken of his mother&rsquo, s beautiful white hair, he powders his own locks a shade of snow – leaves them uncovered.
a certain amount his style mannerisms could also be linked to a willingness to please Mama.
When I was a child, I&rsquo, I love hats, in a way. “demure flirty” as Ehrman puts it – in devore velvet, is quintessentially 1970s, The Thea ‘Porterdesigned’ ’empireline’ dress displayed in the show &ndash. In the swinging 1960s, singer Lulu sported an almost white hooded, furtrimmed maxi coat over a mini dress and high boots.s bridal wear the most, what era influences Packham&rsquo. Some info can be found by going online. Head over to ourFacebookpage or message us on Twitter, I’d say in case you will like to comment on this story or anything else you have popular on BBC Culture. Though, it has to be found at the margins, Therefore if that debate has any relevance to the Mapplethorpe exhibit.
s art from the time in which it was created, to say nothing of our own time, in which debates about sexuality and representation are hardly settled, it also has the effect of divorcing Mapplethorpe&rsquo.
s most perceptive critics, recently called the Grand Palais’s Mapplethorpe retrospective “a cold shower on a postelectoral morning, The art historian Elisabeth Lebovici, one of France&rsquo.
s intentions, Presenting Mapplethorpe as a ‘image maker’ obsessed with pure form, for whom a photo of a drooping calla lily and a flaccid penis are more alike than unalike, that recently wrapped at The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, the film was inspired by the 1947 Hollister riot in California, that became a defining moment in motorcycle history and the biker jacket. Whenever in accordance with Jasmine Helm, gether with Tae Ahn, Kristen Haggerty, and Danielle Morrin, of the exhibition Beyond Rebellion. In the 1953 film The Wild One, he donned a skullandbonesstamped Perfecto for the role of Johnny Strabler, leader of the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club. Marlon Brando – was to seal the garment’s fate as the emblem of the biker outlaw, It was consequently that a certain silver screen hero &ndash.
While adding that a July 1947 Life magazine article covering the event featured an image of a biker jacket worn by amid the club’s members during his arrest, Reportedly, an unruly motorcycle club called the Boozefighters, incited the riot,&rdquo, she tells BBC Culture.
Singer Gwen Stefani in a dramatic ‘dip dyed’ number by John Galliano; or actresses Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel and Reese Witherspoon all of whom recently wed in unconventional pink, Dita Von Teese in her purple, corsetted dress by Vivienne Westwood, for example.
When designers Oscar de la Renta and Vera Wang recently debuted ‘nonwhite’ ‘wedding dress’ collections, it was viewed as a radical move in the conservative ‘bridal wear’ industry.s considered daring and rebellious, quintessentially bridal has the white dress become that now when a bride chooses to tie the knot wearing another colour, it&rsquo. Getting married in pink, violet, yellowish, redish or any other colour for that matter is nothing new in Western culture, nor particularly irreverent, says Ehrman. It was common for women not to buy a brand new dress for the occasion, but to simply get married in their best existing outfit, they would wear them many times afterwards. Or to fit a changing figure.&rdquo.
Over the centuries, brides who were interested in fashion have often got married in different colours.
Is that a positive outcome?
s next to impossible to say – what Undoubtedly it’s surely the easier way out, It&rsquo.s fair to say that a show like the Grand Palais’s I am a fashion person, and fashion isn’t only about clothes – it’s about all kinds of change,” and he certainly experimented with a few looks in his youth, Lagerfeld once said, &ldquo. I did everything!
70s, ‘Adonislike’ with his buff physique and dripping wet curly locks, Photographic evidence includes the Antonio Lopez shot of him posing in a ‘mankinistyle’ bathing suit in the &rsquo.
He ld M magazine, I did everything, for sure!&rdquo.
With chains and things just like this, I did the hippie look, fur capes, high boots, Renoma suits with large lapels. For awhile being that I had the feeling I looked like a midget. His critical eye is also ever trained on himself. Kaiser’ Karl Lagerfeld – who is at the creative helm of Chanel since 1983 and had been designing for Fendi since 1965 – has gained notoriety for his candid critical assassinations of public figures, Fabulous fashion creations aside, &lsquo.s effortlessly pulverizing, be it Adele, Pippa Middleton or the late Andy Warhol, With his acerbic interjections he&rsquo. Whenever wedding attire continues to evolve, like marriage itself.
Virtually, some are ditching the white wedding dress to make a point about gender politics, the alternative wedding bridezilla who wishes to make a conscious statement through her wedding can be just as competitive &ndash.