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Marsai Martin arrives at the premiere for Cruella. Emma Stone arrives at the premiere for Cruella. Kirby Howell-Baptiste arrives at the premiere for Cruella.

and gratitude, remembering the smile of the final days we spent together, where she felt Italian she had come home,” said La Scala Director Dominique Meyer. Elegant to the last and Jean Paul Gaultier returns always dressed in white, the dancer known in star Carla Fracci Italy simply as “La Fracci” died in after suffering for some time from a tumour, La Repubblica newspaper reported. “Farewell, to ready-to-wear fashion dies age 84 lady of infinite grace,” tweeted Nazzareno Carusi, a member of La Scala’s board of directors. ean Paul Gaultier is returning to ready-to-wear fashion, six years after arla Fracci, Italy’s most celebrated bal- A New York Times profile in 1981 revealed J he stopped designing off-the-peg let dancer, has died at the age of 84, that Fracci’s early start was not promising- C she wanted to be a hairdresser, not a dancer, clothes to focus on haute couture, the Milan’s La Scala theatre announced house said on Wednesday. The “enfant yesterday. Best known for her performances and almost failed the entrance exam. “School was a crashing bore and a terrible chore, terrible” of French fashion bowed out after as , Fracci danced with some of the five decades in the business with a final biggest names in the business, notably until one day when I was cast as the girl with the mandolin in ‘Sleeping Beauty’,” she told Paris haute couture show 16 months ago. . A tram driver’s daughter, she The house still bears his name and is entered the ballet school of La Scala in 1946 the newspaper back then. “Once on stage, next to , I suddenly changed owned by Barcelona-based Puig and will before rising to become one of its top stars. work with rotating teams of young collabo- She formally parted ways with the theatre in my mind. Dancing to an audience was some- thing entirely different from dancing at school. rators for new collections. The first collec- 1963, in search of more money and opportu- tion-which reinterprets his trademark nities, but was always drawn back, most I started working very hard to catch up for the lost time.”—AFP striped sailor tops-will be available online recently giving two online masterclasses at the end of the week. there in January. It arrives just in time for the LGBTQ “We will always think of her with affection Pride festival season, the house said. US model Bella Hadid features in the collec- tions campaign, sporting the new “unisex, inclusive” collection “that exudes sea air”, the house said. The creative team have Jean Paul Gaultier “revived” Gaultier’s ready-to-wear lines, it added. Nicola Lecourt Mansion has cre- ated a black body mesh, strassed with stripes, while Spanish stylist Palomo also with guest stylists, will resume in Spain designed a floral corset. Paris in July, a spokeman for the house And German house Ottolinger has told AFP. The first guest designer for reworked the sailor shirt in a tight-fitting Gaultier’s couture collection is Japan’s jumpsuit with distorted zebra stripes. The Chitose Abe, of the Sacai brand. The cat- conical bra made famous by Madonna walk was supposed to have taken place has been reinterpreted by London-based last July, but was cancelled due to the Brazilian punk jewelry designer Alan coronavirus pandemic.— AFP Crocetti. Frenchman Marvin M’Toumo is in In this file photo taken on September 08, 2007 dancer Carla Fracci pays her homage to charge of the “shellfish and crustaceans” Luciano Pavarotti at Modena’s Romanesque cathedral. — AFP accessories. The haute couture shows,