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LUXOR
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The largest open-air museum in the world
BEFORE THE SUN begins to shed its light - and ridiculous heat - over the many wonders across Luxor, the city's residents are busy preparing for the day ahead. Tourism is their livelihood, involving many thousands of foreign visitors annually to the city that is home to 25% of the world's ancient sites.
On most days, Mahmoud will have opened his small souvenir shop on the East Bank of the Nile -home to the famed Karnak and Luxor temples - as early as 5am, depending on the season and the heat. Although business, he says, has been improving, he and many ...
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Paul Poiret Bucked, Pioneered Fashion Trends
Transcript from: NPR Weekend All Things Considered
; ...Weekend All Things Considered 07-22-2007 Paul Poiret Bucked, Pioneered Fashion Trends Host: JACKI...attended a ball inaugurating an exhibit called "Paul Poiret: King of Fashion." Paul Poiret opened his couture house in Paris in 1903...
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Azzedine Alaia on Paul Poiret's influence: one hundred years after Paul Poiret ruled the Parisian fashion scene, longtime admirer (and fellow innovator) Azzedine Alaia sheds light on why Poiret is having a renaissance.(Biography)
Magazine article from: Harper's Bazaar
; ...history is truly mystifying." If Paul Poiret's ghost is in the fashion machine...did it all first." The story of Paul Poiret--indulged in his childhood by...system. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Paul Poiret came to dominance on a wave of...
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A MODERN VIEW OF PAUL POIRET.(Poiret: King of Fashion exhibition)
Magazine article from: WWD
; ...Institute next week. Beyond the importance of Denise Poiret during Paul Poiret's creative peak in the 1910s, the show highlights...belonged to her. "When people normally talk about Paul Poiret, they refer to the fact that he liberated women...
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Exhibition at the Met celebrates designer Paul Poiret's influence on modern fashion.
Newspaper article from: Newsday (Melville, NY)
; ...Byline: Ariella Budick May 14--Paul Poiret earned the sobriquet "King of Fashion...his loose, liberating silhouette. Poiret is best known today as the man who...of Art's current celebration of Poiret explores his radical innovations...
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Paul Poiret: the revolutionary designer was one of the many lively characters who helped shape Bazaar's 140-year history.(Harper's BAZAAR 140th)
Magazine article from: Harper's Bazaar
; ...arrived on the scene. Frenchman Paul Poiret, who launched his label in 1903...Parfums de Rosine. A true innovator, Poiret delivered the first designer perfumes...self-confident modernity. The Paul Poiret exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum...
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Paul Poiret
Magazine article from: Artforum
; Paul Poiret METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART May 9...Koda To understand the radicality of Paul Poiret's designs, you have to compare...illustrations by Georges Lepape and Paul Iribe, furniture by Poiret's atelier, and a coffeetable...
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GOLDEN AGE.(Cate Blanchett and Nicolas Ghesquire attend Costume Institute gala celebrating Paul Poiret)
Magazine article from: WWD
; ...the Costume Institute gala celebrating Paul Poiret. She, in ropes of gold, captured the...soft, and that's a perfect match with Poiret's draping," said Blanchett. "We...the Costume Institute gala celebrating Paul Poiret.
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Pasha of fashion: in January 1974, Denys Sutton described the decadent Paris life of costumier Paul Poiret and his revolutionary effect on early-20th-century fashion.(FROM THE APOLLO ARCHIVES)(Paris, France)(Reprint)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; Poiret's innovations were astonishing. He abolished...breasts were more in evidence than they are in Poiret's clothes. He caused a furore when he...which the Romans had summed up as decorum. Poiret was greatly influenced by Greek art and...
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A STUDIED LOOK AT POIRET.(Paul Poiret)
Magazine article from: WWD
; ...Balenciaga was born 16 years after Paul Poiret and in another country, but the...exhibition in Dallas and I kept seeing Poiret." Koda noted Balenciaga's formative...gay, be an artist and not like Paul Poiret?" Balenciaga and Poiret both favored...
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Poiret's 1002 nights: couturier Paul Poiret both inspired a revolution in the presentation of clothes and wrote a new language of fashion for modernism, as Sanda Miller explains.(Poiret: King of Fashion)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; 'Paul Poiret: King of Fashion', Costume Institute...Doucet, Paquin, Redfern, Worth--and Paul Poiret, whose work is being celebrated at the...either by work relationships, such as 'Poiret, Paul Iribe and Georges Lepape', or stylistic...
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