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PARIS — At Paris Fashion Week, designer Olivier Rousteing, the creative mastermind behind Balmain, put on a defiant runway display Wednesday, just days after garments from his collection were stolen from a truck loaded at Charles de Gaulle airport. Here are some highlights of spring summer 2024 shows: FROM STEIN TO STEM: BALMAIN’S NOD TO AN ICONIC FRIENDSHIP When Gertrude …
The story of the ‘queen of flowers’ The rose has been associated with everything from debauchery to purity. Similarly, during World War One, roses – like the lone rose blooming in the barren landscape of René Magritte’s 1945 painting l’Utopie – became “emblematic of the beauty and fragility of life”, according to de la Haye, and were picked and dried …
