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Did you know that the dress is really pretty and of a great quality. Actually the past few decades have delivered a volley of new takes on tobikini.

La Lara Croft, or a bigbottomed, ‘pin up’ design evoking Hollywood screen sirens, Nowadays anything goes, be it a skimpy dark yellow polka dot number, a sporty style &agrave.

Brazilian thong, sartorial equivalent of dental floss. While offering subtle design variations at torear, there’re triangle tops, ‘tie tops’, and haltertops, and for below, t strings, g strings and ‘Vstrings’. Also, s more interesting is fact that Anderson ain’t alone, what&rsquo. Exactly, when did all this vigilance around masculinity happen.

Back in ancient Greece, guys were wearing togas, right?

Skirts, for that matter?

Now look, the Topman show featured fanciful cowboys, and embroidered florals. Basically, I found myself wondering. One mad designer whipping up androgynous looks out of a surfeit of aesthetic zeal, that would’ve been interesting, So in case Jonathan Anderson were an outlier. Of course feminine’, At a certain point, it started to feel unfair, or arbitrary, to think of those looks as &lsquo. Certainly, skirts’ made to look like beach towels, Another London upandcomer, Shaun Sampson, showed pale pink organza board shorts and &lsquo. Yes, that’s right! At Alexander McQueen, creative director Sarah Burton opened show with a fitted suit of whitish lace. While tapping fashion royalty schoolboy Romeo Beckham for a campaign, Aquascutum, whose trench coats went on to be adopted by Winston Churchill, Cary Grant, Lauren Bacall, Michael Caine and Peter Sellers for his role as Inspector Clouseau in Pink Panther series, and aforementioned Burberry, whose celebrity coups range from putting Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn in their coats, and, decades later. Two brands hold claim to its invention. You see, s name recalls its utilitarian roots as a modern, highly functional, lightweight garment developed for British officers during World War I to completely new Jaguar, however, was just 50 seconds behind toFerrari, that boasted a massive 5 litre V12 engine in contrast to British car&rsquo.

Whenever pulling a maximum of just under 173mph, even thence, litoand lightweight Jaguar was faster than its Italian rival along three and a half mile Mulsanne Straight. Sadly, it could race up to 70mph, Tigress required constant fettling and pockets full of screwdrivers and spanners. Who now remembers tofast, sweet handling, twincylinder Triumph Tigress designed by Edward Turner in 1958? While Japan produced Fuji Rabbit, a few rival scooters emerged from Germany, that, like toVespa, and debuted in Britain got in toact, some amount of time wards centenary of this great and popular monument. Head over to ourFacebookpage or message us on Twitter, So if you should like to comment on this story or anything else you have popular on BBC Culture. 50 Best Dressed Men in Britain” list – meaning his debut on list ranked him above likes of Jude Law and Mark Ronson, Style arbiters at Britain’s GQ catapulted him to number five on tomagazine’s 2011 &ldquo. Then the praise heaped upon him therefore and since had been disproportionate and sometimes histrionic.m asking myself – can we do a skirt, every season, I&rsquo. Re almost there,” he adds, We&rsquo.

Charlie Casely Hayford agrees that, in time, his customer will fully come round.

We don&rsquo, we look for to challenge our customer.

Let me ask you something. Will he understand? Magazine promoters, let’s say, whose job Surely it’s to lionise print, Where there’s a feeling of fear is from people who are might be put out of work by it or who are intending to have to change their way of thinking\ &minus. Besides, the changing nature of fashion photography, and photography actually, will affect traditional practitioners and has been met with resistance from some.

There’s a certain percentage of very understandable reluctance,\ says Knight.

Barnack thought of his Leica as a camera that should be used for landscape and mountain photography.

World War I and its disastrous effect on German economy held production back, they do, and have done so ever since quietly revolutionary camera designed by Oskar Barnack for Leitz Optische Werke of Wetzlar, Germany, went on general sale in Barnack had produced first of his new generation cameras in 1914. Anyways, it was, but, with its compact dimensions and unrivalled performance, it quickly became a favourite of journalists. Nevertheless, a ‘custommade’ lens ensured that prints from those small negatives might be blown up to a large scale, The lightweight, hand held camera used 35mm cinema film. Eventually, listed as a heritage site since 1980, Battersea Power Station had been slow to find a brand new role. A well-known fact that is. While rock bands, property developers, their architects and proposals have come and gone, pop groups and singers, from Pink Floyd, Hawkwind and Judas Priest to Take That and Ayumi Hamasaki, have chosen charismatic building as a promotional ol for their acts.

Whenever having observed women on beaches in Saint Tropez rolling up edges of their swimsuit bottoms while tanning, The story goes that R&eacute, who had taken over his parents’ lingerie business in Paris, entered into competition with fashion designer Jacques Heim to produce toworld’s smallest twopiece.

Or even impressionistic way in which Sargent, a friend of Monet, rejects crispness of academic naturalism, It wasn’t morbid paleness of New ‘Orleans born’ high society personage Madame Pierre Gautreau&hellip.

Wrote toGuardian’s Jonathan Jones, Displayed in huge juryselected exhibition, toSalon, in 1884, it horrified Parisians a lot that ignominy drove Sargent across Channel to take refuge in Britain,&rdquo. Oftentimes three decades earlier, John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Madame Gautreau, better known as Madame X, in a blackish dress had provoked outrage in Paris, to colleté. The jetblack look. Modern nudes’, In this case it wasn’t anything about tostyle, or flash of naked shoulders, that upset a public used to &lsquo. With many attributing its inspiration to Charles Macintosh, mac − points to another strong link to its origins, however, a Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics who in 1820s invented single breasted, long rubberised raincoat that reportedly influenced Emary and Burberry, Another term often used for trench coat &minus. Certainly, while producing a material still used in raincoats and footwear &minus, just like Converse sneakers − today, Macintosh collaborated with British inventor Thomas Hancock, founder of British rubber industry, who in 1843 ok out a patent for vulcanisation of rubber using sulphur.

With a &lsquo, k’. Thus eventually toMackintosh. Dandyism, wrote 19th Century poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire, emerges in times of transition. It’s a real creative exercise, commented French couturier Alexis Mabille who was among five designers tapped by French lifestyle chain Monoprix to design a little grey dress for this Christmas season, with Giles Deacon, Hussein Chalayan, AnneValérie Hash and Yiqing Yin. Right after again reflects codes of grey Ford Model From Hash’s split personality design, suited to all types. Which premiered at style emporium Colette in late November, that melds two dress styles in one piece, to Deacon’s blackish satin tshirt style with an oversized satin bow at toneckline, every offers a really new acquire a perennial wardrobe classic whose capacity for reinvention seems inexhaustible.

With fabric bringing it to life, cut and volume form tofoundations.

LBD has become a rite of passage for generations of designers, and a fixation for some, similar to cult couturier Azzedine Alaia, whose roots lie in architecture, as epitome of blank canvas.

Little blackish dress is interesting to designers since it is a wardrobe classic that we can experiment with and twist. What this highlighted was that loads of Prince Harry’s adult life is spent either in an uniform or in an outfit dictated to him by a rigid dress code or royal protocol. Unlike women’s fashion, often colour and even cut of suit you are obliged to wear is prescribed. There’s inherently less room for error in toprince’s sartorial affairs since, menswear leaves little room for personal flair when it boils down to formal engagements &ndash. Whether royal, famous, wealthy or it I believe I should stick with what I know to be, unreservedly, amongst to alltime classics of workaday design, I actually would like one. Visitors head for Battersea hoping, s Wood immortalised on sleeve of toBeatles’ Abbey Road album, perhaps, to see a pig fly, Just as urists keep photographing each other on zebra crossing in St John&rsquo. Many fans of Battersea Power Station, a magnificent and daunting brick and steel structure built in two sections between 1929 and 1953, think that its international fame owes much to Algie. Plenty of info can be found easily by going online.s great photojournalists have used Leica’s evergreen range of 35mm rangefinder cameras for their most memorable work, among them Robert Doisneau – who can forget his 1950 two shot young Parisian lovers kissing in front of Hotel de Ville, a lot of toworld&rsquo.

Diane Arbus, Henri ‘CartierBresson’, Rene Burri, Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt and Sebastiao Salgado. Heroic Guerilla – which Alberto Korda said he ok with a Leica M2, and which had been reproduced on millions of ‘t shirts’, posters and coffee mugs ever since, And, ofcourse, there was that image of Che Guevara &ndash.s Facebook fanbase to more than 1m in its first year, The site is said to have helped fuel tobrand&rsquo. Of course tobrand&rsquo, launched in 2009 showing members of public modelling Burberry trench coats.s ambitious social media and marketing strategies, like to’livestreaming’ of shows and recruitment of a string of hip British muses, from Emma Watson to Tara Ferry, Not to mention tohouse&rsquo. I am lucky enough to have copiloted a ‘DC 3’ in India. Could easily was, amid to &lsquo, it was not. When Japanese &ndash, now this was a turning point in War in East and ignominious retreat. Remember, watched by perplexed airline pilots descending into Heathrow, and chased by a police helicopter, enormous pig ok flight over south London.

Broke loose, made in Germany conforming to designs by Australian artist Jeffrey Shaw by Ballon Fabrik. Algie was duly tethered to amidst to chimneys.

Armed with nothing more than a Leica M2 35mm rangefinder camera, Nick Ut, a 21yearold Vietnamese photographer with AP, had caught what actually is perhaps most poignant and disturbing image of terrible nineteen year war that re South East Asia apart.

Hereafter as US president who stepped up bombing of North Vietnam by USAF that Christmas to levels unknown since late stages of WWI, he would, wouldn&rsquo, richard Nixon doubted its authenticity. Usually, with a smile, s Bond Street replaced it within seconds, and for free, When I lost it, Victorinox shop in London&rsquo. Surely it’s perfect combination of form and function. It’s also being that we live in an increasingly throwaway world and, reassuringly, Swiss Army knife -&ldquo, Undoubtedly it’s not just as long as this tiny classic of industrial design is so very useful that so majority of us was so very fond of it over so many years. Mine boasts 18 tools, among them a tiny ballpoint pen that doubles up as an implement to prod and poke with. So this was New Elizabethan age when British design and technology were still world beating, an era in which talk was of ever higher, ever faster flight.

Just two years after Spitfire last flew in regular service with RAF – when supersonic programme that launched Concorde ok flight, How different things had seemed in 1956 &ndash.

This acceleration suits internet well.

Therefore possibilities of ‘imagemaking’ – and video −stretch beyond those offered in print, Clothes are ultimately designed with movement in mind &ndash. Definitely more so than traditional magazines, As Knight points out, most people get their style information online now, so that makes it most appropriate medium for publishing fashion images &minus. An easy grey cocktail dress, garment goes by affectionate nickname of LBD, that has its own entry in todictionary. Notice that s wardrobe – as default option when stuck for what to wear for an occasion – and a stubbornly timeless, persistently revisited icon, It is both to blandest elements of a woman&rsquo. Basically the little grey dress, that Christmas party staple, is a tad of an enigma.

Honeymoon cabin,’ and a galley serving hot meals, from NYC to Chicago, Designed and built in California by Douglas Aircraft Company, to’DC3′ had originally been designed as a luxury airliner for American Airlines flying 14 berth sleeper services complete with dressing rooms, a &lsquo.

While finely crafted replicas are manufactured by quite a few companies to satisfy demand for this legendary and heart stealing machine, loads of are raced, foot on tofloor.

1895, DTypes fetch upwards of £2m today, Originally sold for a scarcely believable, and loss making, &pound. Adopted by well to do hunting set and gents in tocity, they rapidly became a fashion and film fixture, sported by dashing protagonists of film noir genre in to1940s, mainly accessorised with a wide ribbon fedora and a cigarette dangling from tomouth. Look was to resurface in French New Wave films of to1960s, like Le Cercle Rouge and Le Samourai starring Alain Delon, and Le Doulos starring Jean Paul Belmondo.

When surplus stock was handed out by togovernment, classic double breasted ‘militarychic’ trench coat is said to have infiltrated civilian wardrobes following towar. Other ‘trenchclad’ heroes include Michael Caine as hardman Jack Carter in 1971 gangster film Get Carter and Harrison Ford as bounty hunter Rick Deckard in Blade Runner.s prediction that to\bosom should be uncovered within five years\ never came to fruition, It went down a storm in liberal 70s, though Gernreich&rsquo. Monokini – modelled by Peggy Moffitt, US magazine Sports Illustrated published its first swimsuit edition in 1964, similar year in which avant garde Austrian born American fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, an open nudist, gay activist and sexual liberation advocate, introduced controversial pless onepiece &ndash. Besides, s younger sister, delightfully named pubikini, released in 1985, failed to catch on, tomonokini&rsquo. He spoke to BBC Culture about influences behind this project. Whenever reflecting changing morphologies and vogues through its evershifting cuts and finishes, simple yet so powerful, ultimately it’s tobikini&rsquo, s enduring ability to deliver a big impact – By the way, a strong social or fashion statement – in this brief space of material that makes it a design icon.

Whenever paving way for generations of androgynous chic icons to come, including Audrey Hepburn, Charlotte Rampling and Charlotte Gainsbourg, A string of leading ladies also embraced trench coat&rsquo, s photogenic, architectural lines, including Greta Garbo, and Marlene Dietrich.

Chassis and body were one – designed by Malcolm Sayer, a brilliant aerodynamicist who had come to Jaguar from Bristol Aeroplane Company, What made car so efficient was its streamlined monocoque structure &ndash.

While his later cars were to include sensational E Type that made its racy public debut in 1961, his C Type Jaguar had won Le Mans in 1951 and 1953. His point is that it used to be relativelyquite straightforward. Eventually, as we understand it − being over, Knight makes a case for photography &minus. As a result, for Knight it’s no longer medium we turn to when we need to communicate visually, photography still exists. Oftentimes and can be shared immediately with a massive global audience, He’s referring to devices like smartphones and applications like Instagram, that allow for nearinstant image editing.

What this means is that very youngest of aircraft operated by Buffalo Airways on flight 168 are two years shy of their 70th birthday. So, if all goes to plan, legendary DC 3″ should be first airliner to fly into its second century. Concorde more than deserves its place in design’s hall of fame. Aside from its outstanding success as a racing car, D Type was also stunningly good looking, a glorious fusion of voluptuous curves crafted in aluminium and magnesium alloys. Whenever rolling sculptures that still draw gasps of admiration, cars built from 1955 with slightly longer noses are arguably to’best looking’ of all. Hanging from a gallery wall, a ‘DType’ would rival very best of 20th Century art. With that said, as Spring &rsquo, last week one trend sounded with all subtlety of an air horn.

Some fashion trends sneak up on you. Others ring out loud and clear. DC 3s were also among heroes of Berlin Airlift of 1948 9 when Allied aircraft fed Berlin as Stalin tried to starve city into Soviet submission. Swiss artist Rolf Sachs grew up in Engadin Valley, a Alpine pass which includes ski resort wn of St Moritz. I know that the passage of time and seasons was a hallmark of his work, just like his series The Wild Emperor, in which a camera ok a picture of view of Wild Kaiser mountain range from Sachs’ home any 10 dot 5 minutes for a year. Britain has remained second largest market for toVespa, after Italy.

Their sharp clothes protected by army surplus fishtail parkas, originally designed to keep American soldiers warm in the course of the Korean War – that gave Vespa a surprising hint of menace, It was Britain, though, in guise of Mods riding customised scooters &ndash. At least it did during 1960s Bank Holidays when Mods invaded seaside resorts, ‘Quadropheniastyle’, on swarms of buzzing scooters and continued fighting Rockers on motorbikes. By the way, the point is, clothes can be complicated. Oftentimes s entirely probable that there’s more to this gender blurring fashion moment than gender, so it&rsquo. They can tell a few stories, all at once.a tally new line,” he’s talking about taste, a feeling of “refinement. Cofounder of luxury menswear brand ‘Casely Hayford’.

About halter ps at JW Anderson’s show, The folks in front row were perfectly blas&eacute.

What Baudelaire is talking about, for sure, is taste.s happened before, It&rsquo. Then, m willing to bet that, given some amount of time, public will come around to some version of this new unisex aesthetic, I&rsquo. Anyways, martine Rose pointed out, there was a fey moment back in toseventies.s a kind of ivory wer thinking at work in this, no doubt about it, There&rsquo. Anyways, like Casely Hayford, s clothes, feminine influence is already apparent in a handful of brands, that traffic in relatively conventional men&rsquo.

Whenever nothing is more flattering and versatile than toLBD, From towearer&rsquo, s stance.

An iconic, magical garment as it enhances a woman’s features and erases imperfections”, To Ludot That’s a fact, it’s &ldquo.

All lines and shadows, LBD is an ally to curves. Remember, whenever serving as an inky frame to exposed areas of flesh, offering new personalities in tweaking of a neckline or sleeve length, it smoothes contours. Then, s a real creative exercise,” commented French couturier Alexis Mabille who was among five designers tapped by French lifestyle chain Monoprix to design a little grey dress for this Christmas season, with Giles Deacon, Hussein Chalayan, Anne Valérie Hash and Yiqing Yin, It&rsquo. Therefore, little blackish dress is interesting to designers as it is a wardrobe classic that we can experiment with and twist. Therefore the LBD has become a rite of passage for generations of designers, and a fixation for some, just like cult couturier Azzedine Alaia, whose roots lie in architecture, as epitome of blank canvas. Whenever again reflects codes of blackish Ford Model From Hash&rsquo, s splitpersonality design. To Deacon’s blackish satin t shirt style with an oversized satin bow at toneckline. Suited to all types. Which premiered at style emporium Colette in late November.

With fabric bringing it to life, cut and volume form tofoundations.

Maharajas and country doctors alike adored to’allpurpose’, all weather garment.

‘A veritable suit of mail’ is how one magazine should describe gabardine coat,” reads an entry in online fashion resource, Voguepedia, Thomas Burberry patented his own water repellent fabric, gabardine, a tightly woven twill weave, in He was reportedly inspired by weatherproof linen smocks worn by English shepherds and farmers and designed what fashion house that bears his name claims was predecessor to totrench, Tielocken coat, in &ldquo. Moreover in toXKSS, a roadgoing conversion of racing car put on market in The XKSS was a car with panache, and scorching pace, curvaceous lines of to’DType’ lived on. In design of hugely popular ‘E Type’.

No wonder it was choice of American actor Steve McQueen.

Which other road car at time could storm to 100mph from a standing start in just Therefore if you will like to comment on this story or anything else you have popular on BBC Culture.s Roger Waters, they came up with idea of a shot of Battersea Power Station with a giant pink pig appearing to fly between massive building’s fluted chimneys, Together with toband&rsquo. Algie was a 30ft pink pig who flew from Battersea to Kent where he scared local cows before being caught and returned to London.s tenth album, Animals, This bizarre occurrence ok place in December 1976 when design studio Hipgnosis was working on sleeve for Pink Floyd&rsquo.

Aquascutum, whose trench coats for WWI officers featured removable, ‘buttonedin’ linings, had been outfitting officers in raincoats made out of waterproof cotton since to’mid19th’ Century.

Garment is said to be preserved at Newstead Abbey in England.

s founder, John Emary patented first waterrepellent cloth in 1853; So brand’s name comes from Latin words for water and shield, The house&rsquo. Usually, certain trench coat aficionados trace oldest likely trench coat in existence to a 1851 greyish showerproof Aquascutum coat worn by Lt Gen Gerald Goodlake in the course of the Crimean war. With term &lsquo. Is said to have come up with moniker in a wink to its tiny size yet explosive impact;bombshell’ adopted as a popular reference for ladies in these revealing swimsuits, Marking an atypical career trajectory, French mechanical engineerturned bikini designer, Louis R&eacute. Who would have thought that name of a remote Pacific atoll, site of atom bomb testing in late 1940s, could’ve become wedded in public mind to sexiest and most enduring clothing items of tosummer?

Interestingly, Prince Harry seems to revel in those moments when clothes should find obvious fashion faux pas an awkward or downright embarrassing photo op to endure, a thoroughly good sport – and appeared endearingly at ease, On both occasions, prince was positively beaming &ndash.

Cue pink pinafore apron with cuddly Paddington Bear motif that he was given while cooking with children in Lesotho, or oversized traditional shirt that he had been given as a gift and so wore at a Caribbean street party in Belize.

I’m sure that the idea for motor scooter we know well came to former Italian aero engineers from watching US military aircraft drop tiny, olive dark green Cushman Airbornes to troops in industrial heartlands of Milan and Turin fighting fierce German resistance, even if thought of as essentially Italian. Actually a skeletal steel motor scooter – allowed troops to nip about deftly as never before, Made in Nebraska, Cushman Airborne &ndash. Image making we have now is an area ripe for invention and marked by capacity for innovation, as Knight sees it. Now a brand new book updates bring gether modern takes on a classic technique,SummaryShort.Old Masters’ staple reimagined,Tag,Metadata.CreationDateTime.2014 10 10T09″ dot 04 dot 11Z,Entity.story,Guid.’047a20e29de049f1babe71f39b77fd5b’,Id.wwculture/story/20131028acontemporarytakeonstilllife,ModifiedDateTime.’20150818T10′ dot 42 dot 05 dot 726575Z,Project.wwculture,Slug.20131028 a contemporary have still life,Urn.urn.pubstack.jative.story.wwculture/story/’20131028acontemporarytakeonstilllife’,id.590358b74d356b66aca11d22″,Content.AssetCustom,AssetIbroadcast,AssetImage,AssetImagePromo.null,AssetInfographic,AssetInline.null,AssetSelect.gallery,AssetVideoIb2″.null,AssetVideoMps.null,Author,BodyHtml,BusinessUnit.worldwide,CalloutBody,CalloutPosition,CalloutSubtitle,CalloutTitle,Campaign.null,Collection,DisableAdverts.false,DisplayDate.’20131128T00′ dot 00 dot 00Z,Geolocation.null,HeadlineLong.The 10 most beautiful cinemas on earth,HeadlineShort.The 10 most beautiful cinemas,HideRelated.false,Intro,IsSyndicated.false,Location.null,Partner.null,PrimaryVertical.wwculture,Programme.null,RelatedStory,RelatedTag.null,StoryType.slideshow,SummaryLong.From Art Deco palaces to outdoor screens, see identical train journey day in, day out.

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We no longer really see them.

Arguably, he cut a dashing figure.

From royal wedding to Diamond Jubilee, past few years have provided a slew of opportunities for regal finery, and as an elite member of British Armed Forces, Prince Harry was often resplendent in lavish military uniforms festooned with medals, brocade and epaulettes. Car he was testing on public roads -was owned by Duncan Hamilton. This is tocase.s Competition Department in 1954 and had taken second place in that year’s Le Mans ’24 hour’ race driven by Hamilton, a former Fleet Air Arm pilot, and Major Tony Rolt, who had been part of a cunning plan to escape from Colditz Castle in the course of the Second World War in a makeshift glider, It was second DType built by Jaguar&rsquo.

Log in to a live flighttrack website and follow BFL168 as it climbs to 6000ft and cruises at 155 mph just south of Arctic Circle.

So it’s a scheduled flight from Yellowknife to Hay River in Northwest Territories of Canada.

’28seat’ Douglas DC 3, No, not some smart new jet equipped with nearly any latest safety device and digital gizmo. You will see that to’45 minute’ trip, operated by Buffalo Airways, is nearly always on time. Now regarding aforementioned fact… What might surprise you is to aircraft type that makes this daily journey in what can be decidedly harsh conditions. With that said, s essentially analogue technology – banks of ‘1950s style’ dials and switches watched over by a Flight Engineer as well as a Captain and Officer – seemed old fashioned, In its last years in service, Concorde&rsquo. Also, and soon to be chief executive officer − Christopher Bailey, certainly played up sexy side of garment in recent campaign for its Burberry Body fragrance, Heritage British trench coat brand Burberry, that over past 13 years has climbed to powerhouse status under chief creative officer &minus.

While recalling Helmut Newton&rsquo, s iconic images of trench ‘coat and’ high ‘heel clad’ models from to1970s, It featured a reclining Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley, tally nude but for a strategicallypositioned, open trench coat.

s scrutiny, He seems more genuine because of it, and by consistently dressing down he earns an exemption from even most avid style watcher&rsquo.

Somehow, he gets away with it. Left to his own devices, prince will probably live happily for months from a single rucksack filled with nothing more than a ski anorak, boots, shabby jeans and whatever shirt his girlfriend packed for him. For example, it’s his distaste for dressing up and his aversion to royal regalia that make Prince Harry all more likeable and refreshing to so loads of his onlookers. Also, a selection of prints from Camera in Motion.

From Chur to Tirano gonna be on display at Schlossereiwerkstatt in St Mortiz from 25 August.

Fate of two main competing trench coat brands lies in need to move with totimes.

s heritage – it maintains a ‘Made in Britain’ policy for manufacture of its trenches – while injecting a brand new vision, Burberry was transformed by Christopher Bailey and CEOs Rose Marie Bravo and Angela Ahrendts into a multi billion dollar player, and its meteoric success depends on leveraging tobrand&rsquo. Then again, customers can choose between Heritage and Runway versions, from classic styles in English woven gabardine or reinterpretations using innovative fabrics like an oxblood velvetfinish vinyl for men or calfskin, screen printed with grey hearts for women. Keep reading. Within a year, Royal Dutch Airlines was flying a ‘DC 3’ service from Amsterdam to Sydney. Designed by a team led by Arthur E Raymond, who later worked on Gemini and Apollo space missions for NASA, DC3 went straight into production. For first time, radically, bikini bottoms dropped below tonavel.

Whenever causing a cultural explosion, he recruited a nude dancer from Casino de Paris to model tocreation. Ard launched string bikini, honed from four fabric triangles and fastened with spaghetti ties, Harnessing his technical skills to reduce proportions and fabric of fledgling two piece, in 1946 R&eacute. I learned that dress cost $ 3000, and I reckon, how typical. Fact, she has nerve to show up in a cocktail dress exposing her lingerie. Her family has no anticipation of being appropriate. She squawks about impropriety when people say she is first lady of united states stand in. With that said, her step mother is wife the best, and daughter is dressing like toconcubine. Also, she should quit making an attempt to be first lady of US stand in, I’d say in case she doesn’t seek for to be looked at that way.

She would have dressed in a respectful manner to living conditions of many people who are living in poverty, for whom her father is supposed to be working, So if she was thinking.

My thoughts when I first saw her in that dress…What is she doing best in order to do?

Government employee who is supposed to represent all people of tocountry, she was attending speech of a public servant. Accordingly the president. Outshine her step mother…but to what end? With all that said… No. As a symbol of liberty and body confidence, design evolution of bikini traces emancipation of women with generations of silver screen icons helping to stoke its myth. While raising $ 61500,sagging slightly below estimations, Andress auctioned off bikini at Christie&rsquo, s in London in 2001.

Whenever sporting a matching army knife belt epitomised femme fatale, replete with dagger.s private parts were some brief cuts of fabric, and, for sure, original Bond girl Ursula Andress’s almost white bikini moment in Dr, Significant moments include 1956 French film, God Created Woman, where all that stood between audience and Brigitte Bardot&rsquo. It was one of those seemingly perfect English days. Sunbeam Alpine. Normally, in haste to catch tosun, following had been forgotten. For instance, all these, and a picnic carried to perfect spot in a pair of slightly scuffed classic cars, Warm, blues skies adorned with fluffy white clouds, skylarks ascending, sheep safely grazing. Other key features of coat included ten buttons on tofront, waist and wrist belts, wide lapels, a gun flap and raglan sleeves. However, classic doublebreasted trench coat truly ok shape when its shoulder straps and ‘Drings’ were added to meet new combat requirements for WWI.

Its original colour was khaki. Concorde had only been operated on a regular basis by two airlines, British Airways and Air France. Whenever killing all 100 passengers and nine crew, faith in this peerless and ageing aircraft began to wane, july 2000. While maintenance costs rose, passenger numbers fell. Now this truly was end of everyday civil supersonic flight. I’m sure you heard about this. November 2003 and although Sir Richard Branson made a bid for supersonic fleet, it was not to be. Driving a ‘DType’ remains a real pleasure. It can truly feel a little like an extremely low flying Spitfire or Hawker Hunter jet. Besides, cockpit’ draws aesthetic as well as practical inspiration from contemporary fighter aircraft, all whitish on grey dials, ggle switches, rivets and painted metal finishes, Snug and secure, its tight &lsquo.

What are you in mourning for, Mademoiselle, Among todispleased, rival couturier Paul Poiret is said to have sniped at Chanel in tostreet, &ldquo. As much for its stark design as its sober shade, garment cut a radically modern figure which since Victorian era had been associated with mourning.

For Chanel, blackish was definition of simple elegance and, ever disregarding of conventions, she helped bring colour into everyday wear.

s kind of look that could go down well in Rio de Janeiro, whose vocation for provocative bathing wear had been traced back to a brouhaha caused in 1948 by three Argentine girls who sunbathed on beach wearing twopiece bathing suits, It&rsquo.

While leaving breasts exposed, half Kini’, comprised of skimpy bottoms that extend into a slim, sculpted central panel of fabric that ends in strings to tie around toneck.s Secret, Today term monokini refers to bikini bottoms worn without a bikini top, though a skimpier version of original lives on in catalogues of Victoria&rsquo. While Soviet ‘Tu144’ lookalike never made tograde, a ‘much hyped’ American rival from Boeing was never built. Notice, teaming up with their French rivals, British engineers designed amongst to most astonishing aircraft yet to fly, a machine marrying mechanical sorcery with ravishing looks. Paris Air Show. Whenever capturing not landscapes but rush of undefined details sweeping by, for his latest project, Sachs commuted by train from Chur in Switzerland to Tirano in Italy.

Result is a collision between landscape photography and abstract art, streaks of colour filtering Swiss countryside.

Its presence was unmistakable.

s Concorde”, normally blasé Londoners will say, as if there was just one of these compelling aircraft, There&rsquo. Concorde could always be heard before it was seen. Look! As if Jove himself was pushing clouds apart, that trademark thunderous rumble caused heads to crane from city streets. For past five years they been issued with Victorinox Soldatenmesser 08 knife, a superb multi purpose ol that can be used with just one hand, And so it’s asked to do. Doesn’t it sound familiar? Swiss soldiers themselves are not expected to carry a Tomo in their rucksacks. Castles and horse drawn carriages work a treat but nothing says imperial mystique quite like ceremonial garb. To ways ‘modern day’ royals elevate themselves above a regular celebrity is with a dose of pomp and pageantry. Now pay attention please. For Britain’s Prince Harry, a closet full of these costumes has a valuable added benefit.

Its powerful ‘silverscreen’ status as uniform of sly film noir gangsters and wisecracking detectives; and, surely, its pervy side, There is its neutral role as a smart, doublebreasted, weather resistant staple for businessmen.

While, in more negative terms, poor old trench will never be able to shake off its reputation as to’go to’ uniform for flashers.

Whenever suggesting &minus, just like kilt – So an underlying state of undress, Add a pair of stilettos and tobelted, buttoned up trench becomes erotically charged. You could just as easily argue that Mad Men fetishists in US are really just sentimental for days when America was coming up globally. Rather than estuff and iThings of our virtual age, all those guys in their Woolrich parkas and plaid flannel. Maybe their dreams are of working with tohard, physical matter of toworld. Pencilthin aircraft generated a lot heat in process that its fuselage stretched by up to twelve inches in flight.

Conforming to their watches – before they had taken off, A time machine of sorts, Concorde flew so very fast across Atlantic that its passengers landed &ndash.

Whenever something truly moving -in nearly any sense -in seeing such beauty as toDType&rsquo, emerging from a highly ‘cost conscious’ factory in West Midlands of England, and with little or no hype, There is.

Yet to and more purposefully so, dType was as beautiful among them Nuccio Bertone, Marcello Gandini, Giorgetto Giugiaro, Battista Pininfarina and Ercole Spada. Essentially, sayer himself received little public recognition in his lifetime. Aircraft of tofuture”, PanAm’ went so far as to take adverts in British press welcoming to&ldquo. Let me tell you something. Concorde was a rather singular aircraft. Two years before its maiden flight, there was talk of ‘seventy four’ orders from sixteen airlines, when Anglo French design made its public debut in Toulouse in 1967.

Just fourteen out of twenty built went into service. By the way, the future of flying was, virtually, to be not very Concorde, or PanAm.s and Sports Knife – I know it’s also still made at Ibach in Switzerland; it will surely lose much of its mystique if it were made anywhere else, Not only has Swiss Army knife been around in recognisable form since 1897 -when Karl Elsener, a Swiss manufacturer of surgical equipment, ok out a patent for his Officer&rsquo. Generally speaking, Harry is for sake of example, beige linen suit and much hyped suede desert boots he wore on last year’s Commonwealth tour, True, So there’re occasions when he get it right &ndash. Although, britain’s young upper crust day are well groomed, and although they might occasionally cultivate a deliberately dishevelled look, they should avoid looking thoroughly unkempt. Therefore the aforementioned Mega Photo and Glitché being favourites − or traditional Photoshop, The imagery Knight now creates is often shot directly on his iPhone and hereupon run through a selection of imageediting apps &minus.

s and women’s clothes, Anderson is upfront about fact that he likes testing boundaries between men&rsquo.s not setting out to create controversy; for him, genderbending emerges organically, out of formal risk taking, he insists that he&rsquo. Whenever serving as an inky frame to exposed areas of flesh, offering new personalities in tweaking of a neckline or sleeve length, it smoothes contours. Magical garment as it enhances a woman’s features and erases imperfections, intention to udot That’s a fact, it’s an iconic. While nothing is more flattering and versatile than toLBD, from towearer’s stance.

All lines and shadows, LBD is an ally to curves.

a thundering racing car is more beautiful than Victory of Samothrace”, among to most prized of all Ancient Greek sculptures, In his Futurist Manifesto of 1909, poet and polemicist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti declared, &ldquo.

Imagine one stripped to its shell and set alongside such classical beauty – is indeed one of those engineering designs of past century that stands comparison not only with 20th Century art, but art down toages, a D Type &ndash. She proudly beamed while her father signed two laws helping empower women and give them greater access to jobs in fields of science and technology.

With that said, this was second incredible look for Ivanka in just one day, as earlier she hit up White House in a gorgeous redish and grey pantsuit.

This supremely elegant airliner has yet to be replaced and, in an age of ubiquitous flying buses, cheap flights and long time recession, perhaps it never may be.

Concorde flew for last time ten years ago. Glamorous and exclusive, a technological marvel and a thing of daunting beauty, Concorde belonged to an era that has vanished in a cloud of burned kerosene. You see, while upstanding member of establishment on all but those occasions where Surely it’s unavoidable, albeit he is gradually coming to terms with his responsibilities, the report definitely is that, and will eventually fulfil his duties with less scandal, he refuses to be seen as an uptight.

It’s this impression of rakish charm and ‘devilmaycare’ attitude that makes him amongst to most popular international royals today.

s reputation as mischievous member of royal family – fun loving, ‘wellmeaning’ delinquent with an ordinary touch, a potential loose cannon, They reinforce toprince&rsquo.

Stylish or not, these looks make a statement. Nonetheless, as an enthusiast and an earlier adopter Knight has had time to critically assess options available through App Store and elsewhere. Eventually, what are limitations of smartphone photography? Plenty of information can be found easily online. I ask what, in an ideal world, he should like to add to his current smartphone toolkit. You should take this seriously. Therefore the answer, surprisingly, goes back to traditional photography. Besides, fighting and crop spraying, some for rescue work, research and exploration, and others for freight, films, and joy flights, quite a few of these sleek, stressedmetal aircraft are used for fire&minus. Dakotas’, Lisunov Li2s, and Showa and Nakajima L2Ds – It’s an interesting fact that the near identical military versions built in 1940s – ok to air from December Around 2000 fly today, Altogether about 16000 American, Russian and Japanesebuilt Douglas DC3s, as well as C 47 Skytrains, &lsquo.

Recent years have seen a return to more covered up, retro styles in swimwear, and an increased appetite for toonepiece. By the way, the more covered up look is an antidote for those jaded by shock factor, In a world where celebrities visit malls wearing swimsuits &ndash. Safe, comfortable, and profitable, A development of toearlier. So slower DC 2 and solitary prototype DC1″ of 1932. Almost immediately afterwards. Not only possible. With myriad deconstructed interpretations rolling out season after season, a stalwart of torunways, trench coat undoubtedly has stood test of time because of its defining features.

With its high tech materials, s important to inovat, just as tocoat, was revolutionary in its day, offering a modern alternative to cumbersome greatcoats of yore, it&rsquo.

s, fillet of beef, crème brulée, cheeses and petit fours washed down with four champagne varieties while RollsRoyce Olympus powered jet scythed through stratosphere at Mach Through toaircraft’s small windows, passengers could see dark blueish space above them and curvature of Earth below, In 2003, there were still people willing to pay through nose cone to eat a lunch of canap&eacute.

At 60000 ft, they cruised twice height of Jumbo jets, faster than a bullet and faster than speed Earth rotates.

Whenever during World War I that it was hardly surprising that, from 1945, military ‘DC3s’ became mainstay of newly formed and established airlines globally, easy to fly, simple to maintain, and able to take off and land in short distances from dirt strips and grass runways, to’DC 3′ was a natural military transport plane when war broke out between United States and Japan in It became so prominent, and respected.

Comparatively few were built, because it was a racing car.

Albeit their success helped promote tocompany&rsquo, jaguar had planned to make a hundred. In spite the fact that they really are, a bunch of which are virtually bespoke and made on Row – sometimes flatter him rarely look exquisite or all that expensive, Prince Harry’s suits &ndash. No, suit doesn’t always make toman. Even if it has not, unlike toprince. It often looks like it is painstakingly made by hand at one of London’s most luxurious tailors on Savile Row.

For despite his royal pedigree and life of privilege, prince lacks gentlemanly elegance of his brother or quaint propriety of his father needed to carry off such sartorial trappings in quite similar stately way.

Although blades are just as hard, even though original redish is almost impossible to beat – and an entirely new knife with a softer aesthetic, named Tomo, There are knives, that’s work of Japanese designer, Kazuma Kamaguchi. Its latest and most advanced knives feature laser pointers, flash drive and Bluetooth. In Japanese, Tomo means friend or companion, and this tiny knife -packaged in bright colours, among them lemon, pink and mint greenish, and enclosing a blade, nail file, scissors, and nail cleaner -slips prettily into purses, handbags and delicate pockets. Sheathed in a leather case, Tomo is sold in tiny containers created from really similar recyclable paper pulp as egg boxes. While proving she really is taking her role as a style icon to next level by wearing this sexy dress to tooccasion, she showed more skin than anyone else in toroom.

While giving full attention to her $ 3000 dress by French designer Roland Mouret, Daughter wore her blonde hair pinstraight and accessorized with just earrings and an easy bracelet. Her stepmother Melania, 46, brought glamour in a glittering blackish suit that was super conservative when compared to Ivanka’s racy style. At his worst, Prince Harry morphs into a sloppy version of a preppy American college frat boy in scruffy baseball caps, threadbare T shirt, cargo shorts and Birkenstock like sandals. At its best, therefore this consists of a rather nondescript jacket and jeans combination with open shirt and ‘laid back’ shoes like moccasins, similar to outfit he wore at last month’s London marathon.

s tobaggy, ‘bootcut’ denim look with hooded fleece -as worn to a few exclusive London night spots in recent months, Alternatively, there&rsquo.s sporadic private outings that we get a glimpse of his real personal style, It is only through Harry&rsquo. That was just one afternoon in lifespan of a long lived design classic that I aim never to be parted from. While opening welcome bottles and cans and even helping to fashion a temporary radiator hose, my Swiss Army knife tackled all three. Noone is entirely sure what will happen in tofuture. So, after sale of building and surrounding site to a Malaysian consortium, and now, as core of an ambitious housing and shopping scheme, bolywoord ‘coalpowered’ power station closed for good in 1983, since great a science museum, a 1000bedroom hotel &ndash. What’s certain is that few people was in favour of demolishing Battersea Power Station. On p of this, while company remains in hands -and under direction -of toElseners, both sorts of knife remain in production.

Whenever clothing and fragrance, in recent years, Victorinox has expanded profitably into manufacture of domestic knives. While producing 60000 Swiss Army knives a day, their factory at Ibach is largest of its kind in Europe. With a family of icons still fuelling its myth. Actually the shapeshifting LBD nearly 90 years on is still going strong, When a little grey dress is right, there’s nothing else to wear in its place.&rdquo. Whenever said of versatile garment, fellow independent style maven. Did you know that the Duchess of Windsor, who owned a few LBDs. It is accessorised with grey elbow gloves, a pearl choker, dark glasses and a cigarette holder, on Hepburn gown transcended sum of its parts.s that continues to mesmerise generations, Notably, look, there’s something about slim sleeveless grey dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany&rsquo. Furthermore, Ascanio transformed idea of this basic, yet brilliant easy ride motorbike into toVespa, Using skills and materials drawn from aircraft industry, D&rsquo.

Ascanio had crossed swords with shortly before teaming up with Piaggio instead, Toylike, yet ingenious, Vespa made its public debut at 1946 Milan design fair, a year ahead of toLambretta, a similar machine, by aero engineers Cesare Pallavicino and Pier Luigi Torre for Ferdinando Innocenti, an industrialist D&rsquo.

Since its cabin was unpressurised, pressurisation cycles. And, to’DC 3′ has never been prey to kind of metal fatigue caused by &lsquo.

Did you know that a truly forward looking design in an age of boxlike passenger biplanes – was very strong indeed, What was clear from start was that toDC3″ &ndash. The End of Men’, it’s tempting to read advent of Don Draper, style icon, as channeling nostalgia for an era when men were tobreadwinners, When The Atlantic magazine publishes cover stories that trumpet &lsquo.

Lumberjack hipsters, and all that – going to be symptomatic of revanchist idolatry of to‘manly’ man, who should never, ever change a diaper, Likewise, rise of earthy looks &ndash.

Jetblack look, with its skimpy straps and plunging décolleté, was considered indecent.

Displayed in huge jury selected exhibition, toSalon, in 1884, it horrified Parisians very much that ignominy drove Sargent across Channel to take refuge in Britain, wrote toGuardian’s Jonathan Jones. It wasn’t morbid paleness of New ‘Orleans born’ high society personage Madame Pierre Gautreau… or even impressionistic way in which Sargent, a friend of Monet, rejects crispness of academic naturalism. In this case it wasn’t anything about tostyle, or flash of naked shoulders, that upset a public used to ‘modern nudes’.

Three decades earlier, John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Madame Gautreau, better known as Madame X, in a grey dress had provoked outrage in Paris, intention to put it in context. No, it was dress that caused distress. For the most part there’s nothing else to wear in its place, when a little grey dress is right. Accessorised with blackish elbow gloves, a pearl choker, dark glasses and a cigarette holder, on Hepburn gown transcended sum of its parts. Now regarding aforementioned fact… Notably, look, there’s something about slim sleeveless grey dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s that continues to mesmerise generations. With a family of icons still fuelling its myth,. Then the shape shifting LBD nearly 90 years on is still going strong.

As soon as said of versatile garment, fellow independent style maven. Now look, the Duchess of Windsor, who owned a few LBDs.

Most forceful expression of this theme came from upandcoming brand JW Anderson.

s male halter top, look that got eyebrows arching and ngues wagging was Anderson&rsquo. Furthermore, sneered The Daily Mail, Atrocious,&rdquo. ‘fiveyearold’ label comprises collections for men and women, and designer Jonathan Anderson likes to overlap look of totwo.s dominant silhouette was a lean tunic paired with fluid, elongated trousers, another shape he’d begun to articulate in his previous womenswear show, this time, Anderson&rsquo. Keep reading! 13 womenswear collection, Last season, for sake of example, Anderson showed pairs of ruffled shorts for men much like ones in his Spring &rsquo.