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Various theaters in Germany are getting involved: Workers in the costume department of the Theater Bonn, for example, plan to sew around 1,000 face masks per week and make targeted donations to fire-fighting brigades and the police force. Employees of Berlin's Bühnenservice (theater service), who normally provide props and costumes for opera houses and state theaters, are also currently sewing protective masks for old people's homes and nursing homes. … [Read more...] about The doctor wears Prada: How fashion designers and TV series support hospitals

The audience were arranged around the edge of a playing field-sized space with a low ceiling, lit by harsh strobing. There were no photographers in the room to create competing noise or light or movement. (“I know you have all got used to having them them there, but having them in the same space makes it difficult to create the ambience we want.”) … [Read more...] about Balenciaga’s autumn-winter show blends chic with touch of reality

Gvasalia’s unorthodox approach – staging his last show at a branch of McDonald’s on the Champs Elysees, full of cynical jokes about capitalism and branding – has made him one of the most influential creators in record time. … [Read more...] about Demna Gvasalia quits Vetements: ‘I have accomplished my mission’

Gvasalia was born in 1981 in Sukhumi, Georgia. The strict Soviet aesthetic of his childhood was obliterated in 1989, with the fall of the iron curtain: suddenly, there was pop music, Coca-Cola, Vogue magazine, a collage of clashing visuals. The most recent Vetements show was “closer than ever to my eastern European background”, Gvasalia says. “It was 100% me, 100% my aesthetic.” The cast included a 16-year-old girl “from the area of Georgia I grew up in – it was a coincidence, we cast her from Instagram, but when I put her in a red jacket and flowery dress, with a headscarf and boots, she looked just like one of the women from the area I grew up”. When Gvasalia was 10, civil war broke out and the brothers fled with their mother and grandmother through the Caucasus mountains. Forced by the terrain to abandon their car, they continued on foot, selling a Kalashnikov to buy a horse for their grandmother, and settled in Georgia’s capital, … [Read more...] about ‘I don’t think elegance is relevant’: Vetements’ Demna Gvasalia, the world’s hottest designer

And because she was previously convicted for driving under the influence in 2012, the new offence constituted a violation of her three-year probation sentence but she was let off the hook for the September 2014 DUI arrest. … [Read more...] about Amanda Bynes looks happy and healthy as she makes a rare public outing for fashion launch