Words cannot fully explain our experience of this world, yet we try to do this expressly or inadvertently in our private reverie or shared moments with others. When presented with a work dealing with text, we become in varying degrees aware of our cognitive faculties. A work which is presented to us in a direct form where its meaning and interpretation are intentionally straightforward and meant to be immediately grasped, perhaps demands less cognitive skills from us to experience a satisfactory
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Madame Jeanne Lanvin's active fashion career spanned 50 years from the 1890's up to the New Look just after World War II. In 1867 Jeanne Lanvin was born in Brittany, France. She was the eldest of 10 children of a pair of Breton concierges. She first trained as a dressmaker at a house called Talbot and then as a milliner. In 1890 she opened a millinery shop in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore. While making hats, she also made dresses for a younger sister and her daughter. Lanvin's clothes came to
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‘Bvlgari creations are appreciated by customers worldwide for their bold, sophisticated and unmistakable style, in which meticulous attention to quality and innovative design combine to create a timeless elegance’. Bvlgari is a leading Italian global and diversified luxury brand renowned for their production of fine jewelry. Going back to the late 19th century, descending from an ancient family of Greek silversmiths. To sum it up, Bvlgari practices quality, excellence and glamour as the company’s
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silhouette available to women was the Robe de Style, which was inspired by wide-skirted Spanish styles of the early 1600s, and originated by designer Jeanne Lanvin. Robe de Style Characteristics: • Full skirt • Drop waist • Mostly a fitted bodice • Skirt was supported by petticoats or panniers • sometimes imitated by Callot Soures • Lanvin also designed children’s clothing. Mass Production of clothing- Civil war * Civil War- body measurement data collection
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Created by: Marina Kim DESIGNER STUDY GUIDE * Haute couture “the finest needlework” * Paris became the center of haute couture because France has been the leading manufacturer of beautiful fabrics, including silks, taffetas, velvets, and brocade * Chambre Syndicale de la Couture de Paris was established in 1868. This was a professional body that was composed of haute couture houses and other firms that had made-to-measure dressmaking business in the Paris area. This union determined
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1920s Fashion: Style in The Jazz Age 1920s fashion was the perfect blend between style and function. Beautiful clothes that allowed women to move. Even 90 years after The Roaring Twenties ended, almost everyone still recognizes the style: * Cloche Hats * Flapper Dresses * Famous Fashion Designers * Elegant Art Deco Inspired Evening Wear * High Heeled Shoes * Simple Costume & More Complex Jewelry * Men's Fashion (suits and sportswear) * Art Deco Fashion Louise Brooks
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Oscar de la Renta was born in 1933 in the Dominican Republic. At the age of 18 Oscar left his native county and moved to Spain to study painting at the San Fernando Art School. While he was living in Spain he found out his passion for fashion and began design for many upcoming Spanish fashion shows. This soon brought Oscar to being an apprentice with Spain's most famous designer, Christian Balenciaga. Soon after that Oscar de la Renta left Spain and began working with Antonio Castillo as a couture
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https://www.1976.com.tw/1976/category.jsp?id=8&pid=1 http://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Giorgio-Armani/Si-18453.html [pic] Salvatore Ferragamo Signorina 芭蕾女伶女性淡香精是一款歡慶女性時尚的香氛，帶有雅緻、俏皮及清新的風貌。這款香氛的靈感來自於Salvatore Ferragamo品牌與散發女人韻味的年輕時尚女性的概念緊密連結，展現永恆的都會風格，不但富有創意，並帶有女性大膽示愛的勇氣。 Signorina，一個可愛別緻的義大利名稱，原意為時尚且極具義式風采、清新並充滿朝氣的年輕女性。 香 調： 清新花果香調 Signorina is a celebration of chic girls with a sophisticated, subtly cheeky and fresh scent signature. A new fragrance creation with the elegant and all Italian
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offered a Limited piano with a special mahogany finish on its 140th anniversary. The quantity is offered was 140, and they sold all of them in hours (Balachander& Stock, 2008, p336). On November 23, 2010, H&M cooperated with Lanvin and offered a limited number of “Lanvin for H&M” in given stores in some Chinese cites (Cheng, 2010). Many consumers lined up the night before the stores opened. Contrastingly, many unknown chocolate producers offer limited edition candies for Valentine’s Day. After
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Can you tell me a country as remarkable as France? You probably cannot. France is an astonishing country. The primary language of France is French. French is a language derived from Latin and 115 million people speak it as a native language. Approximately 15% of the world knows how to speak French. This language was born in France and it is spoken in many other places such as Quebec, Mauritius, Louisiana, and Côte d'Ivoire. France has many more things too offer than language. France has an
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