In a pristine kitchen-cum-laboratory, deep inside Marks and Spencer’s gleaming new Paddington headquarters, Simon Allison, a senior food technologist, is sampling part of a recently launched range of organic food – a chicken and vegetable terrine.
He explains what he is looking for: “Crushed carrots in the topping, a red, livery, paté-style flavour underneath.” For texture, [...]
At Vuitton, Grammy winner Amy Winehouse did not perform %26ndash; as rumoured by entertainment blogs before the show %26ndash; but there were plenty of other stars willing to take a front row seat for the fashion houses celebrity designer Marc Jacobs.
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sofia Coppola, Dita von Teese and Shilpa Shetty were among those to see [...]
Karl Lagerfeld, the maestro of French fashion and the designer behind Chanel, sent out models for his own name label in monochrome, mannish tailoring for fall 2008 with only a single flash of colour in the red lining of a coat.
Top model Irina Lazareanu, on-off muse of British Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty, led the line [...]
Their design was a far cry from the 1960s heyday of paper clothing, when A-line sleeveless frocks were plastered with geometric designs and Andy Warhol prints, but designer Dai Fujiwara said the aim was to capture fears about the planet.
Fujiwara presented a series of dresses and bodysuits with paper stretched and ruffled so that it [...]
John Galliano took a trip back to the 1960s at Dior on Monday updating the rich bored housewife look made famous by Bancroft in the film The Graduate for a generation of women looking to take that buttoned-up womanliness into the office.
To the pumping introduction of %26quot;Mrs Robinson%26quot;, the title track from the 1967 movie, [...]
Models with hair flowing straight and sleek hit the catwalks in dresses barely hitting their thighs in black whorled chiffon or cut away at the mid-riff to reveal flashes of black lace. Skirts were also mini, ruched in leather and slung low.
Christophe Decarnin, the designer behind the remaking of the established house of Balmain, had [...]
