With such associations, it's no wonder the designer's clothes are often described as rock, punk or Goth.
Before the uprising, the Assads were photographed wearing designer clothes and hobnobbing with celebrities at fancy parties around the world.
They are also freer from the numerous "status competitions" (the social pressure to drive a fancy car, wear designer clothes, enroll the children in private schools and take European vacations) that further drive up the cost of living in big cities and suburbs.
Two years later Women's Wear Daily and Vogue Japan ran spreads showing the doll wearing miniature designer clothes.
Maybe it was the fact that my friend was dressed from head to foot in designer clothes that aroused the officer's suspicions.
Before the uprising, the al-Assads were photographed wearing designer clothes and hobnobbing with celebrities at fancy parties around the world.
The designer says she likes her clothes to make the wearer feel at once defiant and protected.
Her muse, Marguerite, was now an adult, and the designer channeled her energies into creating clothes for young women: drop-waisted, loose gowns with copious beading and embroidery.
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On a single morning at Roman Road market in Bow, you'll pass designer clothes, donuts the size of your head, pirate DVDs, and the stall whose chief product appears to be thermal socks (my personal favorite), before nipping into east London institution G.
The heck with the peer pressure of the haves and have nots based on designer clothes.
The firm has been criticized for copying designer clothes and has been sued about 50 times for copyright infringement.
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They say they crossed the Sahara on foot, but many cruise the camp decked in gold chains, designer clothes and mobile phones.
Her home was crammed with designer clothes, fancy glassware and the latest CDs.
Or, you can skip the brand names and get well-made, attractive clothes, shoes and handbags for a lot less than the designer labels.
In the end, Obama posed for the magazine wearing clothes from both a young American designer she helped discover, Jason Wu, and J.
Although designer clothes are not cheap anywhere in the world, Mrs Alfonso says that her prices depend on the client that she is working for.
"She's in my head all the time, " says New York designer Sophie Theallet, whose clothes Mrs.
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She is now an internationally recognised, extremely successful clothes designer: a bone fide member of the fashion elite who prefers being part of the manufacturing world of designer dresses, and not that of manufactured environment of girl bands.
Ms Bruni worked for several years as a super-model, earning accolades from British clothes designer John Galliano who described her in the film as being "like a silent movie actress with her body language - the dress is her script".
China is one of the world's largest producers of counterfeit products, ranging from designer clothes, to pirated films and music, to luggage.
The designer showed dresses, pants and swimsuits with oversized roses clothes that easily called to mind the collection of Raf Simons for Jil Sander just this past spring.
Women with a taste for designer clothes and a handsome clothing budget are not left out of the shop-at-home experience.
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Three-time Academy Award-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood avoided the classic outfits that made Audrey Hepburn such a style icon when she designed the clothes for an adaptation of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" that opens this week.
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