How Hermès Bags Are Made | Vogue

Feb 1, 2024 | For the fist time ever, Hermès is opening the doors to their leather goods studio to give Vogue an inside look at how they create their exclusive bags. From the Birkin to the Kelly and more, watch as Priscila Alexandre Spring, the leather goods creative director at Hermès, gives us a tour of the stunning facility.

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Inside Karl Lagerfeld’s French Home Filled with Wonderful Objects | Vogue

Dec 1, 2021 • In this episode of Objects of Affection, Lady Amanda Harlech takes Vogue on a tour through Karl Lagerfeld’s treasures ahead of a landmark Sotheby's auction. Watch as Amanda shows everything from Karl's beautiful royal blue upholstered Bruno Paul couch to his replica Adolph Menzel paintings.

Pakistan Fashion House Sana-Safinaz Under Fire for Rich-poor Divide Poster
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Sana-Safinaz, one of Pakistan's best-known fashion houses, has found itself mired in controversy after a glossy advertising campaign pictured a glamorous model alongside penniless porters carrying her Louis Vuitton luggage.

Sana-Safinaz's latest spring-summer collection of dresses and fabrics hits shops in Pakistan later this month.

However, when the design house posted a photograph of its ad campaign on Facebook the result was a storm of angry comments.

"It just glorifies the gap between rich and poor. Look at the poor man. Their whole life worth is less than that bag," was a typical response. » | Rob Crilly | Islamabad | Friday, March 16, 2012

The Devil Wears Prada, But the Church Wears Armani
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The devil may wear Prada but the Roman Catholic Church has opted for Armani.

Giorgio Armani has designed vestments for a bishop for the inauguration of a new church on the tiny Mediterranean island of Pantelleria, where the designer has a holiday hideaway perched on top of a cliff.

Wearing a mitre and holding his staff, Monsignor Domenico Mogavero, the bishop of Mazara del Vallo in Sicily, showed off his new liturgical robes during a thanksgiving Mass in the courtyard of the new church this week.

The 76-year-old designer, Italy's fourth richest man with an estimated fortune of £4.2 billion, decorated the pale green robe with embroidered symbols of the island, including starfish, shells and olive sprigs.

Armani has strong links to the island, an extinct volcano which lies between Sicily and the coast of Tunisia, its name deriving from the Arabic Bent el-Riah, or daughter of the winds.

He has been holidaying there for nearly 40 years and in 2006 was made an honorary citizen.

"It's not about trying to be fashionable," said the bishop. "It was an initiative aimed at involving a fashion designer who loves Pantelleria and to capitalise on his originality in the service of faith and ultimately of God. Read on and comment » | Nick Squires | Tuesday, April 03, 2011

THE GUARDIAN: Italian bishop turns heads with Giorgio Armani vestments: 'This is about wearing something beautiful to give glory to God,' says Bishop Domenico Mogavero » | Tom Kington in Rome | Tuesday, May 03, 2011

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Giorgio Finds His Rainbow: What Armani’s Infidel Devotees Will Shortly Be Wearing

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THE TELEGRAPH: The Age of Aquarius finally arrived for the Italian couturier, Giorgio Armani, in Paris last night (Wednesday), exactly a week before his 73rd birthday.

As the actress Cate Blanchett, sitting front row, murmered “this rocks”, Armani, once known as ‘Mr Beige’, swapped from minimal to magic. Armani on a rainbow trip (more)

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Slob 'Culture'
TIMESONLINE: Mothers wearing pyjamas on the school run prove that the codes that once governed how we got dressed in the morning have all but disappeared. But it is still disrespectful to make no effort, says our correspondent

Times2 is confused. We’re on the phone to Vogue magazine and Vogue magazine is telling us that the whole country is smartening up: “The ladylike look is back,” Vogue says. “Even jeans are sort of passé now.”

But what about pyjamas? Now Vogue is confused. Times2 explains that last week a headmaster publicly appealed to women who take their children to and from school while still dressed in nightwear to show some respect. “People don’t go to see a solicitor, bank manager or doctor dressed in pyjamas, so why do they think it’s OK to drop their children off at school dressed like that?” Joe McGuinness, the principal of St Matthew’s primary in Belfast, told his local paper.

And bear in mind that this latest sartorial bombshell comes on top of a lot of other things: on top of the revelation by the Lonely Planetguide to Great Britain that we are known the world over for our slovenliness; on top of the fact that even the Savoy has given in to the cult of comfort-dressing, which means that guests are now allowed to pad about in the legendary hotel’s foyer in flip-flops or shorts; on top of the fact that we’re on the brink of another record-breakingly hot summer – a summer that, because of global warming, may decide never to go away – and we all know what happens to the way people in Britain dress when the temperature skyrockets. Isn’t the pyjama plague just another sign that we have become a nation of irredeemable slobs? A casual affair (more) By Stephanie Marsh

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