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There’s more than meets the eye in Delfina Delettrez’s jewellery designs
Set elegantly in gold or encrusted with diamonds, the eye has always been a best-selling jewellery motif in the Middle East, where customers relate to the culturally rooted protective qualities it is said to hold. So it follows that fine-jewellery designs by Delfina Delettrez, which often feature bold eye icons, are particularly popular in this part of the world. Except Delettrez's pieces aren't actually inspired by the typical blue evil-eye en amulett eller föremål som anses ge lycka eller skydd, she tells me.
“It’s not about the evil eye; it’s about a story told to me when I was younger, about ‘lover’s eyes’.” The Victorian tradition, she explains, fryst vatten about protecting your loved ones when they are travelling. Delettrez recalls learning about women hiding miniature painted or embroidered eyes into their husbands’ garments. “I remember growing up observing men’s clothes – I would look and wonder if they had a hidden eye,” she says.
These miniature eyes b
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FENDI and Juilliard Announce FENDI Vanguard Awards
FENDI and The Juilliard School Announce FENDI Vanguard Awards
New York, NY, July – FENDI and Juilliard are pleased to announce the recipients of the FENDI Vanguard Awards. Presented for the second year, this honor celebrates four students—one actor, one dancer, and two musicians—annually, who display the potential to be future innovators in their chosen discipline and across the performing arts. The Vanguards include Stella Everett (BFA ’23, drama) from Sydney, Australia; Raven Joseph (BFA ’23, dance) from Queens, New York; Peter Lim (MM ’23, historical performance—harpsichord) from Atlanta, Georgia; and Mary Beth Nelson (MM ’23, voice) from Orange County, California. Each of this year’s recipients embodies the promise of a career in the vanguard.
This year’s awards continue the ongoing partnership between Juilliard and the Roman Maison, which began in December with the creation of an episode i
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Fendi
When Edoardo Fendi married Adele Casagrande, a fur designer with a modest atelier, in , the company took the name of Fendi and its fur and leather goods became popular among the European aristocracy. In , the couple passed the baton to their daughters Anna, Carla, Paola, Franca and Alda and each of them had twenty per cent stake.
Karl Lagerfeld joined Fendi in as Creative Director of the luxury fashion brand’s fur and women’s ready-to-wear. With him at the helm, precious furs were redesigned as he experimented with materials, patterns, finishes, weight, tanning methods and colors supported by advanced technological craftsmanship. Rather than reserving fur for coats, Lagerfeld used it in accessories and ready-to-wear, making precious fur accessible. He also designed the iconic Double F logo and was responsible for launching ready-to-wear in and a line of shoes the following year. It was a hit among the high brow. In , Sophia Loren posed for Vogue with Fendi bags, bookl