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Not just a bag: Fendi fetes its famed ‘Baguette’ in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — You’d have thought it was a film premiere, with the hoopla converging exterior midtown Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom. However inside, regardless of the superstar presence, the true star was a purse.
Not simply any purse, however the “Baguette” — the ever-present Fendi bag created 25 years in the past and named for the lengthy French loaf of bread and the best way it, too, is carried beneath the arm of the discerning purchaser. The Fendi present on Friday night time was an enormous celebration for the bag and its long-lasting declare to pop-culture fame.
However why New York, when Fendi normally reveals in Italy? The bag had early success and pop-culture resonance in New York, most memorably immortalized in a 2000 episode of “Intercourse and the Metropolis,” when a mugger had the temerity to attempt to take one from Carrie Bradshaw when he apparently didn’t know what it was known as.
“Gimme your bag,” the thug within the alley demanded. “It’s a baguette!” Carrie admonished him as he made off along with her shiny purple model.
It’s secure to say everybody knew their baggage from their baguettes on Friday night time, when about 600 individuals packed into the ballroom — some on the principle flooring and others in excessive balcony seating — to have a good time the bag and its many iterations through the years.
The night marked a three-way collaboration. Fendi girls’s designer Kim Jones had introduced in his good friend and onetime boss, Marc Jacobs — the quintessential New York designer — to lend his distinctive romantic streetwear vibe to a collection of 10 or so ensembles starring, in fact, the baguette. (“I’m by no means one to shrink back from an iconic bag,” Jacobs was quoted as saying in a theater-style program.) And jeweler Tiffany & Co. introduced its personal baguettes in signature robin’s-egg blue.
Within the entrance row sat Kim Kardashian, in blonde locks and a figure-hugging sheer and sequined costume, however the baguettes have been the deal with the runway. There have been large baguettes, small baguettes, nano-sized baguettes. Shiny baguettes, fluffy baguettes, sparkly and clean baguettes.
There have been fanny-pack baguettes, and typically double baguettes — two sizes stacked collectively. Pockets have been reimagined as baguettes. There have been tiny baguettes in satin common onto tube socks — an ideal place to place little devices — or when you needed them nearer to your head, hooked up to a satin baseball cap. The vibe was a mixture of fancy and informal, of sequins and sweatshirts.
Because the present started, an enormous drape on the wall dropped to the bottom to disclose a large mirror, abruptly permitting your entire room, balconies and all, to see itself. The fashions snaked alongside the ground, however once they have been carried out, the mirror abruptly disappeared and the fashions have been standing in an enormous show case, as if at a retailer.
Linda Evangelista, in an enormous Tiffany blue cape and robe, got here out with the designers for a last bow. They applauded her, in what was a really public second for the ’90s supermodel, now 57, after her latest ordeal with what she has described as a disastrous body-sculpting process that left her disfigured.
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Christmas in Puerto Rico is a 45-day celebration with caroling, festive decorations, family feasts and more
Christmas, Navidad in Puerto Rico, extends far beyond Dec. 25.
The island proudly proclaims itself as having the “longest holiday season in the world,” according to the website Discover Puerto Rico.
On average, the holiday festivities in Puerto Rico last about 45 days, per the source, commencing right after Thanksgiving, and stretching all the way through mid-January.
The Christmas season in Puerto Rico typically lasts around 45 days. (iStock)
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The holiday season in Puerto Rico is full of rich traditions beloved by families.
One tradition those who visit Puerto Rico will immediately notice during the holiday season is decorations.
In Puerto Rico, decorations are typically put up by Thanksgiving, and kept up until the season concludes in mid-January, with opportune picture moments at every corner.
Parrandas, Christmas caroling, is a holiday staple.
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Carolers choose houses of family and friends to visit, typically starting around 10 p.m., performing aguinaldos (traditional Christmas songs), with not only their voices, but often with instruments as well, according to Discover Puerto Rico.
The group you begin caroling with is likely not the same group you end with.
In Puerto Rico, when carolers visit a house, they’ll often stop inside for conversation, food and drink before moving to the next residence.
Coquito is a popular beverage enjoyed during the holiday season in Puerto Rico. Coconut, vanilla and rum are among the ingredients. (Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
Usually, the residences of the house visited will join the group for the next house, according to Discover Puerto Rico.
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A night of serenading loved ones can last quite a while, often stretching into the early morning hours of the following day, according to the source.
The biggest day of the holiday season in Puerto Rico actually isn’t Christmas, but instead, the night before.
In Puerto Rico, Dec. 24 is Nochebuena. On that day, loved ones gather for the exchange of gifts, caroling and a large feast.
Many families will also attend a midnight Mass on the day, known as Misa de Gallo.
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After Christmas passes, the festivities go on in Puerto Rico.
Another big event in the holiday lineup is Three Kings Day on Jan. 6, a holiday that “commemorates the visit that the Three Wise Men paid to Jesus after his birth,” according to Discover Puerto Rico.
On the eve of the day, children fill up a shoebox with grass to be left for camels to munch on while the Three Kings leave behind gifts for them, according to PuertoRico.com.
For a particularly festive Three Kings Day, Juana Díaz is the place to go, as it hosts the largest celebration in Puerto Rico for the holiday. In Juana Díaz, there is an annual festival and parade in honor of Three Kings Day that brings together over 25,000 people every year, according to Discover Puerto Rico.
Gifts are primarily exchanged between loved ones on Christmas Eve in Puerto Rico. (iStock)
Then, eight days later is Octavitas, a post-holiday celebration where families get together and celebrate one last time for the season.
The end of the holiday season is marked with the San Sebastián Street Festival.
This festival, spanning over multiple days, takes place in Old San Juan, and is filled with live music, dancing, shopping and parades.
Twin-engine plane crashed in largely residential neighborhood of Gramado shortly after takeoff, authorities say.
A small plane has crashed into a tourist hotspot in southern Brazil, killing all 10 people on board and injuring more than a dozen people on the ground, officials have said.
The twin-engine Piper PA-42-1000 hit the chimney of a home and the second floor of a different house before crashing into a shop in a largely residential neighbourhood of Gramado shortly after takeoff from Canela, Brazil’s Civil Defense agency said on Sunday.
Rio Grande do Sul Governor Eduardo Leite told a news conference that the aircraft’s owner and pilot, Luiz Claudio Galeazzi, was killed along with nine members of his family.
Leite said that 17 people on the ground were injured, 12 of whom were still receiving treatment in hospital.
Galeazzi’s company, Galeazzi & Associados, confirmed that its CEO and Galeazzi’s wife and three daughters had died in the crash.
“Luiz Galeazzi will be forever remembered for his dedication to his family and for his remarkable career as a leader of Galeazzi & Associados,” the company said in a post on LinkedIn.
“In this moment of immense pain, Galeazzi & Associados is deeply grateful for the expressions of solidarity and affection received from friends, colleagues and the community. We also sympathize with all those affected by the accident in the region.”
Gramado, located in the Serra Gaucha mountains, is a popular destination for vacationers, especially during the Christmas season.
The crash comes a little more than a year after Brazil suffered its worst air disaster in nearly two decades when a twin-engine plane crashed in the southeastern city of Vinhedo, killing all 62 people on board.
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