Tag: Interviews
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Betty Halbreich: the most famous personal shopper in the world
The 86-year-old director of personal shopping for Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store tells us she hates trends and talks about her friendship with Joan Rivers and why she loves Lena Dunham but hasn’t seen Girls
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Jeremy Scott: ‘I try to convey joy in the clothes I design’
Jeremy Scott’s outlandish outfits are as witty as they are outrageous. Having dressed everyone from Katy Perry to Rihanna, he’s now making over Moschino. Alice Fisher talks to him about the serious business of being pop culture’s most irreverent designer
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Hedi Slimane: heart and soul
Creative director of Saint Laurent, Hedi Slimane is an indie-rock obsessive and his fascination with music’s wild side inspires his designs and his catwalk shows. Alex Needham takes a first look at a new exhibition of the designer’s gritty and atmospheric photographs
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Stephen Burks on DIY-meets-luxury and sustainable design
The modernist designer seeks ‘a return of the hand’ – or handmade products – in high-end consumerism
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Eve Branson: ‘I was not saved by Kate Winslet!’
Her billionaire son is used to making the news, but when Eve Branson had to escape a fire on Necker island, it was she who made the headlines. As she celebrates her 90th birthday, Elizabeth Day meets her
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Bjørn Lomborg: the climate-centric agenda is squeezing out other issues
Author of Skeptical Environmentalist says the climate change debate is ‘polluted with myths’