But not even Chanel

High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. the squares added vitality and spatial interest to those simplistic looking cylindrical dresses, and the dresses in turn gave Mondrian's work a new 3-D lease of life. Last weekend at a Sotheby's dinner to launch its Contemporary Auction, I met hermes kelly walletAlain Tarica, the man who helped Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge form their art collection. Saint Laurent and Berge took both art and Saint Laurent's work very seriously (they ultimately acquired five Mondrians as well as Picassos and other major art), yet Tarica thinks Saint Laurent never quite considered what he did as art, even though it helped change the way women dressed in the second half of the 20th century. London auctions capitalise on Frieze week That seems as good a definition as any of a great designer, just as a painting or statue that alters the way we think or see is the hallmark of a great

 artist. But not even Chanel - the other designer who changed the way women dressed in the last century - considered herself an Artist. Both her work and Saint Laurent's look as modern today as Duchamp's or Picasso's. But fashion has always come undtos published in Iran, so she hermes kelly 22cmdesigns wallpaper, bathroom tiles, lampshades and other household decor while her modeling career is on hold. On the rare occasion she gets depressed over the state of Iran's fashion industry, Badloo drags out her colored pencils and sketchpads and designs colorful alternatives to the country's traditionally dowdy chadors. She calls Angelina Jolie her fashion icon, but her first inspiration comes from home. The garments she designs jingle with antique coins from the Shah's era, shine with ancient Turkmen buckles and move like

 the skirts of whirling dervishes. An image chanel reissueof Cyrus the Great adorns one of her first batik patterns. "If you look at these clothes, you see the geography of Iran," Badloossic top-handle bag, the only really acceptable tote to, well, tote when one’s outerwear does not include sleeves. From Lady Dior bags boasting Andy Warhol’s signature heel sketches (£5,157), to Giorgio Armani’s black nappa structured box bag (£1,866) and The Row’s slightly elongated single-flap polished leather top-handle (£1,902), there’s a top-handle bag for almost every taste. Louis Vuitton’s new rigid Capucines top-handle (£3,000) has even been nicknamed “the finance bag” by store associates.