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Updated Jan. 29, 2024 at 12:25 p.m. On this day in 1962, the famous fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent presented his first personal couture collection in Paris at just 26 years old. What was special about Yves Saint-Laurent’s first show? The show attracted the rich and famous, including the Countess of Paris, Princess Anne, the Baroness […]
Crocs or Birkenstock: for a long time, they were just ugly slippers. Now, they’re the eternal embodiment of summer cool. Les Echos unravels a fashion mystery.
WASHINGTON – As Mitt Romney would say, it’s a particularly well-stuffed “binder full of women.” The 2012 vintage of candidates for public office is one of the best — at least in terms of quantity. More women are running for Congress this year than ever before. The newspapers are comparing it to the 1992 so-called […]