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The Beauty of Film In a world now dominated by digital photography, camera phones, Instagram and Photoshop, the creation of a photographic image is virtually within anyone’s capability. But there is still no questioning the beauty and detail of an image captured on film. The Peninsula takes an exclusive look back at some iconic fashion photographs taken prior to the digital age.
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Parallel Lives There are many parallels between the lives of empress of fashion, Coco Chanel, and the Expressionist artist Lita Cabellut. Both women began their lives in poverty, both found a core of expression that raised the stature of the feminine mystique, both fearlessly confronted a world in the arts controlled by men and inexorably changed that vantage with their own style and temerity, and both are exceptional voices in their chosen expressive fields. Though the words may be Coco Chanel’s, they could as easily be Lita Cabellut’s: “My life didn’t please me, so I created my life”.
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Piecing It Together Boy meets girl, blade meets paper, art is made. That’s the combination of Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimermann, collectively known as artist duo Zim and Zou, in a nutshell.
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The Art of Travel In keeping with its origins, Louis Vuitton recently launched a new collection of furniture and accessories, ‘Objets Nomades’, a limited edition series intimately linked to the world of travel.
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Past and Present With the Spring/Summer fashion season in full swing, The Peninsula presents an exclusive portfolio of portraits of a selection of modern fashion’s forerunners, from the original founders of some of the world’s leading Maisons to the Creative Directors of today whose work keeps their respective companies at the forefront of the fashion world in the 21st Century.
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The Dynamic duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are the two iconic Italian designers behind the luxury and cutting-edge fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana. Immaculate tailoring and sophistication are intertwined with sensuality and the essence of ‘ la dolce vita’ to form one of the most famous fashion labels in the world. The Peninsula speaks with the Co-Founders about beauty, inspiration and the future.