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	<title>Beautyspot Cosmetics &#187; Dept. of culture</title>
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		<title>Knock-Down, Drag-Out Glamour At London’s Audrey Hepburn Sale Preview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Kerry Taylor previewed her Audrey Hepburn auction in Paris, 2,000 people showed up, including Hubert de Givenchy, who&#8217;d designed most of the dresses on display. Taylor introduced a little crowd control for Monday&#8217;s London preview&#8212;you had to buy a &#163;10 catalog before you got in the door&#8212;but if the turnout was substantially smaller, it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When Kerry Taylor previewed her Audrey Hepburn auction in Paris, 2,000 people showed up, including Hubert de Givenchy, who’d designed most of the dresses on display. Taylor introduced a little crowd control for Monday’s London preview—you had to buy a £10 catalog before you got in the door—but if the turnout was substantially smaller, it was just as avid. No surprises there: Given Hepburn’s unimpeachable style icon status, who could resist the opportunity to own the black cloque silk dress she wore in <em>Paris When It Sizzles</em>, or the Chantilly lace cocktail dress from <em>How to Steal a Million</em> (minus, unfortunately, the lace mask that accompanied it in the film), or a ravishing organza evening gown, embroidered with blue floral sprays? With its estimate of £4,000-6,000, this last item seemed a snip, though Taylor optimistically insisted her conservative pricing would invariably be blown out of the water during Tuesday’s auction.

It’s inevitable when you’re contemplating the wardrobe of a woman like Hepburn that a dozen poignant intimacies rear their tiny little heads. She was wearing the Elizabeth Arden cocktail dress—absolutely flawless after nearly 60 years—when she met her first husband, Mel Ferrer, at a party for her breakthrough film <em>Roman Holiday</em> in London in 1952. The ivory satin wedding dress, also from 1952, was designed by the Fontana sisters for what <em>would</em> have been her first wedding, to James (later Lord) Hanson. After she called it off, she instructed the Fontanas to pass the dress on to “someone who couldn’t ever afford a dress like mine, the most beautiful, poor Italian girl you can find.” A gown in printed summer crepe, which Hepburn may have bought when she was filming <em>Breakfast at Tiffany’s</em>, had tiny cigarette burns, a reminder of a lifelong bad habit. “Buy a dress like that and you become part of its story,” vintage guru Steven Philip of Rellik murmured. He was also taken by the other lots in Taylor’s auction, which include a collection of proto-supermodel Marie Helvin’s Oldfields, Ossies, Prices, and Alaïas from the eighties; a rare and precious handful of Bill Gibb’s spectacular knitwear from the seventies; and some evening dresses by the likes of Balenciaga and Paquin, which backed up Philip’s claim that what people are looking for in vintage now is proper knock-down, drag-out glamour. Eyeballing a luscious Madame Grès in turquoise chiffon, he said, “No one knows how to do it properly now, so you have to go back to the past.”
<a href="http://www.kerrytaylorauctions.com"><em>www.kerrytaylorauctions.com</em></a>.
<div class="byline">—Tim Blanks</div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Prada Enters The Book Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just don&#8217;t call it a retrospective. That was the message at the Prada store in Soho today, as a new book documenting the world of Prada was unveiled to members of the press. Formally launched at an event earlier this week at the Prada store in Milan, PRADA was conceived and edited by Miuccia Prada [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just don’t call it a retrospective. That was the message at the Prada store in Soho today, as a new book documenting the world of Prada was unveiled to members of the press. Formally launched at an event earlier this week at the Prada store in Milan, <em>PRADA</em> was conceived and edited by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli in collaboration with designers Michael Rock and Sung Joong Kim of New York City design firm 2×4. Rock, who was on hand for the event this morning, explained that the book’s 708 pages can be broken up into two separate investigations, Inside and Outside. The Inside sections of the book trace Prada’s history, document the design and production process, and catalog the product Prada has introduced in the years since Miuccia Prada took over the company’s helm. (There are 3,885 thumbnail photos of the “looks” at Prada runway shows since 1987; bring your own magnifying glass.)</p><a href="http://www.style.com/blogs/stylefile/wp-content/uploads/cdocuments-and-settingslsteinbedesktopblog.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-8222 alignright" title="cdocuments-and-settingslsteinbedesktopblog" src="http://www.style.com/blogs/stylefile/wp-content/uploads/cdocuments-and-settingslsteinbedesktopblog.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="216" /></a>

<p>The Outside section of <em>PRADA</em>, meanwhile, covers Prada’s various engagements with the worlds of commerce and culture, including stills from videos such as <em>Trembled Blossoms</em>, documentation of projects such as the Prada Transformer in South Korea and Double Club in London, photos of Prada on the red carpet and on the street, and even descriptions by eBay sellers of the Prada <em>objets</em> they are putting up for auction. The book also gives much love, naturally, to Rem Koolhaas, revealing the ruminations on the meaning of “luxury” that led to the launch of the Prada “epicenter” stores. Mediating the Inside and Outside sections is a chronology of Prada campaigns—images from every womenswear and menswear campaign from 1987 to the present. Prada COO Sebastian Suhl, offering remarks on the book this morning, said that the book’s focus on Prada’s accomplishments over the past 30 years does not make the book a retrospective, or a summing up; rather, he said, when you look at all that’s been done, “you see how much can be done.” “This book,” Suhl underscored, “is about the future.” At present, <em>PRADA</em> is available at Prada stores worldwide and via www.prada.com.</p>
<div class="byline">—Maya Singer</div>
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