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Sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac in a hotel room in Rochefort, before the filming of Jacques Demy's "The Young Girls of Rochefort"

Sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac in a hotel room in Rochefort, before the filming of Jacques Demy's "The Young Girls of Rochefort". In Françoise's hands is a front page mentioning the film about hopeful provincial youth setting off for Paris in search of

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What Use to Me Is the Sun of Monaco, and the Moon of Saint-Tropez, Tell Me What For

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Star Wars Characters in the Style of the Napoleonic Era

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From mid-December to mid-April, Saint Moritz in Switzerland will host a Louis Vuitton pop-up store in the form of a Central Asian yurt, decorated in the LV style

Harper's Bazar cover for December 1916: a couple in masquerade costumes embrace against fireworks and flowers.

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Harper's Bazar marked its fiftieth year with an anniversary cover in December 1916

The anniversary cover of Harper's Bazar. In December 1916 the magazine of fashion, style and society marked its fiftieth anniversary

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One of Vivienne Westwood's most important collections, Harris Tweed, Autumn-Winter 1987/88, was inspired by images of the royal family, British motifs and historical details…

One of Vivienne Westwood's most important collections, Harris Tweed, Autumn-Winter 1987/88, was inspired by images of the royal family, British motifs and historical details, and featured traditional woollen fabrics, black velvet and elements of eighteenth-century corsetry. Ironic and mocking of the aristocratic way of life,

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Vivienne Westwood in an ermine cape and a fur-trimmed crown hat of her own design, in a shoot for Vogue, August 1987

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The Crystal Temple from the Yule Ball scene in the 2005 film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

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Jean Cocteau and Charlie Chaplin spend time on the Riviera, in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, late 1950s

Cocteau and Chaplin met in 1936, when they were returning from Japan on the same ship. Cocteau spoke no English, and Chaplin no French. Nevertheless they fell into conversation and on the very first day chattered until four in the morning, helped along by Cocteau's secretary, who knew

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The former King of England, the Duke of Windsor, and Wallis Simpson, the cause of his abdication, in the star photographer Philippe Halsman's "Jump" series, 1958

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I have never worn a stitch of Thom Browne, but the collection inspired by the novel "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" went straight to my heart 💎

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Remember how Liza Yankovskaya raised the topic of nepo babies a whole year ago?

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