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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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 The year 2020 is finally getting ready to wrap up, and none too soon for most of us, what with the covid-19 pandemic, the global economic turndown and — lest we forget — the now-almost universal practice of WFH (work from home). Yes, we are all going to be celebrating the end of 2020 come Dec. 31,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s fall again, and that means a time to revamp your wardrobe and bring out your cosy sweater collection to keep you warm and comfy as Jack Frost begins to replace soft, summer breezes with nippy autumn gusts. But it is not just your garments that need a seasonal makeover in fall. Your skin care routine also
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By THÉRÉSE MARGOLIS The Irish-American poet John Boyle O’Reilly once wrote: “The red rose whispers of passion, and the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, and the white rose is a dove.” Throughout history, roses have been associated with love, passion and beauty, and they have always been a key ingredient in beauty products. The
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS So Sunday, June 21, came and went and you pretty much blew it in the remember-Daddy department, forgetting completely that is was Father’s Day .and not even bothering to send Dear Ol’ Dad a card expressing your appreciation for all he has done for you over the years. But, this year — and this year only —
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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 THÉRÊSE MARGOLIS In Mexico, Mother’s Day is a very big deal, with mandatory presents, commemorative lunches and even mariachi serenades. Father’s Day, not so much. In case you are interested, the much-maligned holiday for Pops came into existence back in 1909 in the United States, when a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, “tried to establish an official equivalent to
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