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• The kings and queens of couture – and their most dazzling dance creations

  16-01-2018 17:45
  From Chanel’s Riviera bathers to Alexander McQueen’s cross-dressing spywear, we explore the spellbinding results when giants of fashion cross into danceAlexander McQueen always resisted the idea of working for dance. Even when invitations came from the Paris Opera Ballet, the fashion designer worried about being reduced to the status of “costume department”. But in 2009, he broke his rule – for Eonnagata, a poetic piece of dance theatre about the Chevalier d’&
  
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• The dancer wears Prada: how couture went from catwalk to ballet and beyond

  16-01-2018 17:45
  From Chanel’s Riviera bathers to Alexander McQueen’s cross-dressing spywear, fashion has pushed dance to dazzling heightsAlexander McQueen always resisted the idea of working for dance. Even when invitations came from the Paris Opera Ballet, the fashion designer worried about being reduced to the status of “costume department”. But in 2009, he broke his rule – for Eonnagata, a poetic piece of dance theatre about the Chevalier d’Éon, a notorious 18th-cen
  
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• Onesies for everyone: Mona's summer festival makes Launceston debut

  16-01-2018 03:25
  With Violent Femmes, Gotye and a block party – and a cameo from a psychic convention – city is a fun fit for Mona FomaThe sandwich board outside a charity shop in central Launceston reads: “Dear David, Thanks for sharing Mona Foma. Kind regards, Launceston.”And why wouldn’t the owner of Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art, David Walsh, want to share the museum’s summer festival with Tasmania’s second city? Related: ‘Now I am what I used to cri
  
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