Spain’s Puig Shares Jump on Lauder Merger Talks
Shares of the Spanish beauty group surged around 16 percent on Tuesday, on track for their best trading day on record, after announcing they were in talks over a potential merger with Estée Lauder.
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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2001, September 26, 2000
BoF’s editor at large revisits the beauty in the horror and the horror in the beauty that were the tentpoles of McQueen’s aesthetic.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2001, September 26, 2000
BoF’s editor at large revisits the beauty in the horror and the horror in the beauty that were the tentpoles of McQueen’s aesthetic.
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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Thierry Mugler Autumn/Winter 1995, March 26, 1995
BoF’s editor at large travels to Cirque d’Hiver, a 150-year old circus in the funky 11th arrondissement of Paris, where Mugler used fashion and film’s past to mould a vision of a fierce sci-fi future.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Thierry Mugler Autumn/Winter 1995, March 26, 1995
BoF’s editor at large travels to Cirque d’Hiver, a 150-year old circus in the funky 11th arrondissement of Paris, where Mugler used fashion and film’s past to mould a vision of a fierce sci-fi future.
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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Kim Jones Autumn/Winter 2005
BoF’s editor at large remembers one of Jones’ earliest collections, ‘a celebration of youth’ where the future took a sharp edge.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Kim Jones Autumn/Winter 2005
BoF’s editor at large remembers one of Jones’ earliest collections, ‘a celebration of youth’ where the future took a sharp edge.
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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Undercover Autumn/ Winter 2020
BoF’s Editor-at-Large goes back to Jun Takahashi’s dark, idiosyncratic obsessions with his 'Fallen Man' show.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Undercover Autumn/ Winter 2020
BoF’s Editor-at-Large goes back to Jun Takahashi’s dark, idiosyncratic obsessions with his 'Fallen Man' show.
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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Umit Benan Autumn/Winter 2012, January 16, 2012
BoF's editor-at-large travels back in time to January 2012, when the menswear designer made his stellar debut on the Milan runway, taking the suit back to its sartorial roots in the military.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Umit Benan Autumn/Winter 2012, January 16, 2012
BoF's editor-at-large travels back in time to January 2012, when the menswear designer made his stellar debut on the Milan runway, taking the suit back to its sartorial roots in the military.
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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All Time | Jean Paul Gaultier, Spring/Summer 1994, October 1993
BoF’s Editor-at-Large journeys back to a show that fused Indian mysticism, 18th century silhouettes, 13th century martyrdom, haute couture, punk, fetish wear, denim and the body — tattoo-ed, scarified, pushed on and on to the ‘(un)limits’ of Gaultier’s imagination.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All Time | Jean Paul Gaultier, Spring/Summer 1994, October 1993
BoF’s Editor-at-Large journeys back to a show that fused Indian mysticism, 18th century silhouettes, 13th century martyrdom, haute couture, punk, fetish wear, denim and the body — tattoo-ed, scarified, pushed on and on to the ‘(un)limits’ of Gaultier’s imagination.
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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All Time | Comme des Garçons Autumn/Winter 2012, March 3, 2012
BoF’s Editor-at-Large revisits a Rei Kawakubo riddle that took years to decode.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All Time | Comme des Garçons Autumn/Winter 2012, March 3, 2012
BoF’s Editor-at-Large revisits a Rei Kawakubo riddle that took years to decode.
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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Balenciaga Autumn/Winter 2006, 28 February, 2006
BoF’s editor at large looks back at one of Nicolas Ghesquière's most memorable collections for the house — one that would influence fashion for years to come.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Balenciaga Autumn/Winter 2006, 28 February, 2006
BoF’s editor at large looks back at one of Nicolas Ghesquière's most memorable collections for the house — one that would influence fashion for years to come.
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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Helmut Lang’s Finale, 6 October, 2004
BoF’s editor at large travels back in time to the towering designer’s last show before stepping away from his namesake label.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Helmut Lang’s Finale, 6 October, 2004
BoF’s editor at large travels back in time to the towering designer’s last show before stepping away from his namesake label.
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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2014, September 26, 2013
BoF’s editor at large travels back in time to the designer’s affecting celebration of stepping culture.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2014, September 26, 2013
BoF’s editor at large travels back in time to the designer’s affecting celebration of stepping culture.
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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2005, July 3, 2004
BoF’s Editor-at-Large time-travels back to the Belgian designer’s tenth anniversary collection for his namesake label, entitled ‘History of the World,’ which delivered a poignant spirituality: Angel Youth!
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2005, July 3, 2004
BoF’s Editor-at-Large time-travels back to the Belgian designer’s tenth anniversary collection for his namesake label, entitled ‘History of the World,’ which delivered a poignant spirituality: Angel Youth!
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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Prada Autumn/Winter 2013, February 21, 2013
For BoF’s Editor-at-Large, it was a ‘gun-to-my-head challenge’ to pick just one Prada outing for his top shows of all-time, but there was something ‘extra’ about Autumn/Winter 2013 that had instant, primal resonance.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Prada Autumn/Winter 2013, February 21, 2013
For BoF’s Editor-at-Large, it was a ‘gun-to-my-head challenge’ to pick just one Prada outing for his top shows of all-time, but there was something ‘extra’ about Autumn/Winter 2013 that had instant, primal resonance.
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Puig, Estée Lauder Companies Considering Merger
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