HALF BYRON / HALF TARZAN – Bob Colacello on Beard in “Holy Terror” + {b, 1938} Who wouldn’t want to be Peter Beard ? The “wayward wasp” from New York City was born to wealth, coming from an aristocratic family (his great grandfather founded the Great Northern Railway in 1857; his grandfather, Pierre Lorillard III, a…
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Balenciaga: A Man For All Seasons . . .
{Alexander Wang by Sebastien Kim} It was announced on the 3rd of December that the high fashion label Balenciaga had appointed Alexander Wang as the new creative director of the historical and revolutionary brand. Chief executive of the brand, Isabelle Guichot cites Wang’s “modernity and his individual and cosmopolitan vision of design” as just some…