Digby morton biography of christopher
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Benjamin Schwarz
Sample: Cuttings from Contemporary Fashion, by Bronwyn Cosgrove (Phaidon)If there&#;s any justice, many of the emerging fashion designers featured in this sleekly gorgeous book will soon be forgotten. But some will be, and deserve to be, the next big thing. (Truth be told, although its publishers tout this volume as a collection of up-and-comers, not a few of the young designers here, including Christopher Bailey, of Burberry; Olivier Theyskens, of Rochas; the Paris-based, Morocco-born, Israel-raised Alber Elbaz, of Lanvin; Nicolas Ghesquière, of Balenciaga; and Phoebe Philo, of Chloe, have already most definitely arrived.) Bronwyn Cosgrave, formerly of the British Vogue, assembled ten doyens of the fashion scene (a team of established stylists, schmatte scribes, and designers of high reputation and widely varying taste and talent) and asked each to pick the ten most promising budding designers from around the globe. Unbelieva
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Interview with Charlotte Philby for Jewish Renaissance about Edith and Kim
John Updike famously and scathingly wrote that biographies were simply novels with indexes. Charlotte Philby has now written the reverse: a brilliantly imagined novel that could pass as a biography with no index.
In Edith and Kim she has found an elegant way to write about her notorious grandfather, Kim Philby, a Communist spy who died in Moscow in when she was just five and a half. She has a strong memory of going to visit him in his flat there, remembering guns on the wall. But she did not really know him as a grandfather.
‘I have wanted to write about him for a long time but in a way that shifted the focus, that tallied with the way my family spoke of him, not how inom read about him in other people’s accounts,’ she told me on a zoom interview from her garden writing shed in Bristol. ‘After my father died in , inom felt compelled to understand what my grandfather’s legacy, which had so overshadowed his
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Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers
| Formation | ; 83&#;years ago&#;() |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Maintain and develop London as a fashion centre[1] |
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| Remarks | Disbanded in the s and succeeded by British Fashion Council |
The Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers (also known as IncSoc, Inc Soc and ISLFD) was a membership organisation founded in to promote the British fashion and textile industry and create luxury couture to sell abroad for the war effort.[2] It aimed to build the relationship between government and fashion industry and represent the interests of London couturiers. The organisation continued after the war and sought to present itself as an alternative to the revived Paris couture industry.
Establishment
[edit]Some sources suggest Inc Soc was established by Harry Yoxall, managing editor of British Vogue,[2] and others indicate it was the idea of Sir Cecil Weir of the Board of Trade.