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PH: Sebastian Boettcher
Christine d’Ornano talks personal taste: Part One. Christine d’Ornano is global vice president of her family-owned beauty brand Sisley.
"My personal style signifier is a necklace that is hung with the baptism medals of my three daughters and a coin with our family crest on the back. It sort of brings me luck..."
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PH: Sebastian Boettcher
Christine d’Ornano talks personal taste: Part Two. The Sisley vice president concludes her list of likes...
"My style icon is Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. I knew her husband, John F Kennedy Jr, as we were related, but I never met Carolyn. She represents to me the essence of the Calvin Klein style of the 1990s..."
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PH: Kate Martin
The Aesthete: Hakan Rosenius talks personal taste.The artistic director of Asprey leads the company’s product design and curates its fine and rare books department.
“My personal style signifier is my distinctive footwear. My shoe cupboard is like a Tardis; I have no idea how many pairs I have. Recently one of the racks actually collapsed..."
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The Aesthete: Kilian Hennessy talks personal taste. The scion of the Cognac family is the founder and creative director of the cult perfume brand By Kilian.
“My personal style signifier is a white shirt. I have them made for me in soft poplin by JLR in Paris. They all have the same collars but some are designed for cufflinks for black tie events and some with two-button cuffs, which I like to roll up..."
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PH: Léa Crespi
Natalia Vodianova talks personal taste: Part One. Model and founder of the Naked Heart Foundation...
"My personal style signifier is a gold Georgian coin set as a medallion that a dear friend gave me. Her father carried some coins from Belgium to England when he fled the Nazis and he gave them to his children..."
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PH: Léa Crespi
Natalia Vodianova talks personal taste: Part Two. The Russian model concludes her list of likes with the view from her Paris balcony...
“My style icon is my grandmother. At 86 she is beautifully groomed; she wears pearls, gloves, her red hair in a chignon and always red lipstick..."
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PH: Stephanie Jayet
Pierre Hardy talks personal taste: Part One. Pierre Hardy’s eponymous line is loved for its sculptural shoes and colour-block bags...
“My personal style signifier is my glasses, which I have made-to-measure by Hervé Domar. I think there are two schools of thought with glasses: either you change them every day like an accessory..."
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PH: Stephanie Jayet
Pierre Hardy talks personal taste: Part Two. The French designer concludes his list of likes with the elegance of La Nouvelle Vague, cake and caviar in Le Marais...
“My style icon is the actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. I love the 1950s and 1960s French elegance of La Nouvelle Vague; everyone was so free and effortless in the way they dressed..."