By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF French fashion house Dior opened a new boutique at El Palacio de Hierro Santa Fe, its second in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 9. In keeping with the brand’s traditonal lush quality, the interior of the new boutique combines the elegance of a stately Louis XVI style with a modern, minimalist design – an ideal
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Dior Couture Returns to Historical Roots By KELIN DILLON Perennial French fashion house Dior, now headed by Maria Grazia Chiuri, released its spring couture line last week, transporting lovers of all things sartorial back in time to a bygone era — a welcome escape from the torrid landscape of coronavirus-tinged modern life-as-we-know-it. Chiuri’s latest design effort harkens back to the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Okay, so 2020 was a real dud, and the new year has begun with a rather rocky start. But that doesn’t mean we have to accept that 2021 is going to be a replay of last year. It is time, albeit a bit belatedly, to put those New Year resolutions into full play, starting with a personal
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Pierre Cardin: An Out-of-this- World Designer By KELIN DILLON Though legendary Italian-French designer Pierre Cardin passed away this past Dec. 29, his legacy remains forever cemented in the hallowed halls of bygone fashion titans with his iconic, larger-than-life designs and ambitious business choices. Born in 1922 in Italy, Cardin’s parents settled in France after the First World War, with him
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Christian Dior once said that “after women, flowers are God’s most divide creations.” Dior loved flowers, having grown up in villa in the heart of Granville, France, where he and his mother would spend hours cultivating their fragrant rose gardens along the Normandy coast. And it was Dior’s inherent love of flowers that inspired his first major
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Back in 1947, when a then-42-year-old Christian Dior brought out his first collection of women’s fashion, the couturier wanted to create a classic, sensuous line of garments that were feminine, sophisticated and — most importantly — made women resemble inverted flowers. Dior’s unprecedented New Look revolutionized the world of fashion, with his newly opened Parisian design house
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … In the U.S., sales for men’s personal care products hit $6 billion last year. In Mexico, the figure is nearly $3 billion…
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid is offering a first-ever exhibit on classic Spanish art and the extraordinary designs of the late Basque fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga, whose square coats and undulating bubble skirts revolutionized the international fashion world in the mid-1940s. Referred to as “the master of us all” by Christian Dior and idolized by Coco
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