“解构之美” 装饰艺术与制表技艺的精妙邂逅 江诗丹顿19世纪至今典藏名作展

·         江诗丹顿臻选12枚品牌典藏名作,呈献“解构之美”主题展览,彰显品牌在制表艺术中对细节与生俱来的入微关切

·         202288日至1023日于上海南京西路旗舰店展出

202288日,上海——若没有精湛的技艺,钟表便无法可靠而巧妙地实现时间度量的首要功能;若失去艺术大师的奇思妙想,钟表创作或将被桎梏于机械科学的疆域。当装饰艺术与制表技艺相遇,方能孕育出自成一派的时计艺术,而这正是江诗丹顿的专长所在。自创立以来,江诗丹顿融合精妙美学与超卓技艺,不断打造杰出的时计作品,于入微细节处尽显美感。解构之美主题展览即聚焦于美学与技艺的紧密交织,展现出品牌始终坚守的制表之道。

19世纪,欧洲制表业欣欣向荣。深得各国皇室信赖的制表大师们打造出航海天文时计,成为海上征程中不可或缺的工具;高居于钟楼之上,搭载天文复杂功能的时钟则被微型化至小巧的表壳内,可贴身收纳于马甲口袋;随着冶金技术的优化,以及新型擒纵系统的问世,时计精准度不断提升,而这一切都离不开人们对先进技术的倾慕和对复杂精妙杰作的向往。

全新的客户群体

欧洲各国的皇室贵族一度是制表大师们的座上宾。然而,随着工业领域的蓬勃发展,资产阶级崛起,他们对时间的掌控极为重视。这一新兴的社会阶层不仅关注当时的技术革新,亦注重日常用品的装饰性。江诗丹顿由此迎来了全新的客户群体——无论男士或女士,他们都热衷于新颖的装饰设计、别具一格的佩戴方式,乃至独创的机械构造,希望能透过时计来彰显当时兴起的个性化追求。

 新品位和新需求的出现,伴随着对于主流美学规范的大胆突破。在此之前,高级工艺领域仍严谨地奉行着彼时王公贵族们所推崇的低调奢华风尚。1820年代,审美解放的风潮开始盛行。装饰艺术、建筑乃至制表领域无不呈现百花齐放的景象。鲜活的创作灵感取代了传统规范,复古造型被赋予重新诠释,东方文化大放异彩,此外亦不乏这两者的巧妙交融。这一崭新的审美风格承载着人们对异域风情的向往,以及对于孕育了经典美学的文艺复兴乃至古典时代的无限追思。此时,江诗丹顿敏锐地意识到,可以充分施展精湛技艺,采用金工般细致的打磨工艺,打造出华丽装饰的时计杰作。

艺术追寻之旅

及至20世纪,制表业风云巨变。最初以珠宝时计的形式出现于女性腕间的腕表逐渐取代怀表,成为日常生活中不可或缺的工具。由于腕表相较怀表更显露于外,容易引人注目,因此被赋予了全新的情感表达,成为展现创意的舞台。彼时,江诗丹顿已凭借品质非凡的基本款机芯及复杂机芯享誉盛名,并由此在构造及装饰美学方面展开了对于特殊造型时计孜孜以求的创新探索。精妙的艺术工艺绽放出瞩目魅力,通过机刻雕花、珐琅彩绘、手工微绘、珠宝镶嵌、漆绘工艺、手工镂雕等技艺,呈现出丰富的装饰效果。这些传承悠久并不断精进的艺术工艺与深厚的机械制表造诣共同造就了江诗丹顿的品牌精髓。

 江诗丹顿此次举办的展览,正是为了彰显这一美学精神,致敬装饰艺术与制表技艺的精妙邂逅。展出的时计臻品涵盖了品牌200余年来的非凡制表传承和超卓技艺,将江诗丹顿自1755年创立以来不断传承与革新的艺术探索历程娓娓道来。

综述

江诗丹顿倾力呈献“解构之美”主题展览,汇集12枚品牌典藏时计,展现在时计创作中精湛制表技艺与装饰艺术的紧密交织。自1755年成立以来,江诗丹顿不断将品质非凡的先进机械技艺与创新艺术工艺和谐交融,两者共同成就了细致入微的解构之美。

解构之美” —— 江诗丹顿典藏名作展

时间:2022年8月8日至10月23日 10:00 – 22:00

地址:上海市南京西路1159-1165号,上海南京西路旗舰店

“解构之美”

江诗丹顿对于细节有着与生俱来的敏感与专注。从设计师每一次深思熟虑的美学抉择,到手工匠人细致入微的装饰打磨,无不彰显出对细节的执着追求。每一枚时计作品的各个部件都饱含匠心,即便是隐于机芯内部的细节也一丝不苟。放眼细看,可欣赏到表盘上精致的机刻雕花图案, 还有镶嵌珠宝的分钟刻度圈、线条优美的经典马耳他十字造型表链链节、陀飞轮框架上指示秒钟的精巧蓝钢螺钉,以及镜面抛光的三问报时音锤、夹板和板桥上精细的倒角打磨,更有以微绘珐琅工艺生动呈现风暴下破浪前行的船只。江诗丹顿深信,对细节的入微关切成就了解构之美,美在此真正得以显现。

珐琅黄金怀表,银色表盘 – 1826

这枚女士黄金怀表诞生于19世纪初期,融合多种装饰工艺,尽显华美珍贵。表壳由雕刻师采用浮凸雕刻工艺,以雕刀精心雕琢而成装饰图案。实金材质镂雕后,可以欣赏到精美的阿拉伯式花饰,经由锉刀精心打磨并经过抛光处理,呈现亮面与哑光交替的装饰效果。所有的纹饰图案均以黑色和白色大明火珐琅制成,中央的里拉琴亦采用这一工艺,致敬希腊神话中的信使之神赫尔墨斯(Hermes)。里拉琴也是诗歌的永恒象征。

双面黄金怀表,具备48个月万年历及月相显示功能,珐琅表盘 – 1884

19世纪,江诗丹顿是当时极少数设有专门工坊用于打造复杂功能和超卓复杂功能怀表的制表品牌之一,由此问世的时计作品往往需历经数年研制而成。这枚怀表便是明证:看似简约的珐琅表盘下,隐藏着精妙复杂的内“芯”。打开表底盖,即可一览表背万年历机芯的三重日历显示,在白色大明火珐琅表盘的映衬下格外清晰。这枚怀表曾在1884年的日内瓦天文台大赛中荣获一等奖。

圆形镂雕白金珐琅怀表,水晶表底盖 – 1926

1920年代,时间显示被赋予巧妙“旋”机,制表技艺可以与外观一样引人入胜。为彰显这一制表理念,江诗丹顿在当时推出首批装饰艺术(Art Deco)风格镂雕怀表。精心装饰的镂雕机芯展现出品牌非凡的技术造诣,与精妙的美学设计相得益彰。这枚怀表采用构造通透的表壳搭配水晶表底盖。为了不影响通透美感,分钟刻度圈和12个阿拉伯数字时标均以珐琅工艺装点于表圈之上。

魔术手(Arms in the air)怀表,采用黄金搭配白金材质,银色缎面拉丝表盘 – 1931

19世纪起,极具原创性的读时方式成为了江诗丹顿时计作品的特色之一,其中就包括逆跳显示以及由此推出的魔术手(Arms in the air)显示机制。这枚怀表便是一款典范之作,表壳以白金与黄金打造,表盘中央饰有一位印度魔术师人偶,以镀镍银质打造,以雕刻和珐琅工艺装饰。在装饰艺术(Art Deco)风潮的鼎盛时期,珠宝商渴望丰富其作品类别,这类时计因此深受他们的青睐。

女士红金袖带表,银色调表盘 – 1946

19世纪,腕表最早被用作可显示时间的女性专属配饰,但随着它越来越常见于女性腕间,腕表开始成为挥洒蓬勃创意的舞台。表壳从最初的圆形转变为更多大胆不羁的造型。腕表呈现出别具个性的美学魅力,江诗丹顿于1946年推出的这枚金质袖带表便是如此。顺应这一浪潮,江诗丹顿锐意创新,自由释放各种奇思妙想。

黄金怀表,表底盖装饰微绘珐琅画作《恋人》,银色拉丝表盘 – 1947

Carlo Poluzzi(1899-1978年)是制表史上最伟大的珐琅彩绘大师之一。多年来,他为江诗丹顿时计作品绘制了众多珐琅画作,其中不乏再现或重释经典名画的精妙之作。这枚怀表上的微绘珐琅画作《恋人》(Les Amoureux)便尽显这一复杂工艺的精髓。17世纪以来,微绘珐琅工艺为日内瓦赢得了显赫美誉,如今通过江诗丹顿Les Cabinotiers阁楼工匠部门得以传承,由艺术大师凭借娴熟工艺为时计赋予细致美感。

Saltarello枕形腕表,机刻雕花粉红金表盘 – 2000

跳时显示设计是为了方便读时,这一复杂功能往往与逆跳分钟显示功能搭配,1998年推出的Saltarello 腕表便是如此。进入千禧年后,这两项功能成为江诗丹顿制表技艺中的重要组成部分。这款Saltarello 腕表问世于2000年,时间显示方式灵感源于20世纪初的电梯楼层指示,表盘上的精美手工机刻雕花纹饰仿佛随着指针的转动迤逦铺开,搭配枕形表壳和阶梯式表耳。

Métiers d’Art艺术大师系列Les Masques面具 “日本面具”黄金腕表,蓝宝石水晶表盘镶贴金质雕刻工艺装饰而成的面具图案 – 2008

2007至2009年,江诗丹顿推出题材恢弘的Métiers d’Art艺术大师系列Les Masques面具腕表,重现巴尔比耶-穆勒(Barbier-Mueller)博物馆馆藏的12张著名面具,致敬璀璨的原始艺术。此枚腕表中以金质雕刻镶贴工艺精心刻画出日本佛像面具。蓝宝石水晶表盘上,中央面具的周围以真空镀金技术镌刻法国作家米歇尔·布托尔(Michel Butor)的短诗,诗句以螺旋状排列。表盘边缘四个角落的视窗分别显示小时、分钟、星期和日期。

 

Métiers d’Art艺术大师系列La Symbolique des laques莳绘 “梅莺”粉红金腕表,搭载镂雕机芯,漆面表盘 – 2010

Métiers d’Art艺术大师系列彰显了江诗丹顿对不同地区艺术及文化的热爱。其中,La Symbolique des laques莳绘腕表旨在致敬日本的传统漆器装饰工艺 – 莳绘(Maki-e)。此工艺指在还没干透的漆面 (通常是黑漆) 上喷撒金粉或银粉,以描绘出精美的装饰图案。这一系列腕表由江诗丹顿与1661年创立的日本京都著名漆器品牌象彦(Zôhiko)独家合作推出。这枚双面腕表配备正反两个漆面表盘,透过两面均可欣赏到镂雕机芯的精密构造。 

 Métiers d’Art艺术大师系列Chagall & L’Opéra de Paris夏加尔与巴黎歌剧院 “向著名作曲家致敬”黄金腕表,大明火微绘珐琅表盘 – 2010

1964年,法国绘画大师马克·夏加尔(Marc Chagall)应时任法国文化部长André Malraux的委托, 为巴黎加尼叶歌剧院(Opéra Garnier)重新绘制穹顶。50年后,江诗丹顿邀请微绘珐琅艺术大师安妮塔·波尔谢(Anita Porchet)挑战一项前所未有的创举——将夏加尔的这幅名画重现于方寸表盘之上。表盘的边缘设计以巴黎歌剧院的第二帝国风格镀金装饰为灵感,以手工雕刻工艺刻画出12位姿态各异的仙女。

 

Malte马耳他系列镂雕陀飞轮铂金腕表,具备指针式日期和动力储存显示功能,蓝宝石水晶表盘 – 2014

自2012年以来,江诗丹顿便将Malte马耳他系列的酒桶形设计与闻名遐迩的机械结构相结合。这枚腕表正是经典代表,搭载通体经过悉心装饰的镂雕复杂功能机芯。主夹板以及每个板桥均运用雕刀镂空, 并手工雕刻装饰图案。雕刻手法需极为精准,有时精细到只有十分之一毫米。时针和分针轴心上移,为下方的陀飞轮留出更多空间。陀飞轮框架呈品牌标志性马耳他十字造型,设有小秒针。

 

Métiers d’Art艺术大师系列Les Univers infinis无限宇宙 “骑士”白金腕表,表盘采用细工镶嵌和金质雕刻工艺装饰 – 2014

这是Métiers d’Art艺术大师系列Les Univers infinis无限宇宙推出的第二组时计作品之一,灵感源自荷兰艺术家莫里茨·科内利斯·埃舍尔(Maurits Cornelis Escher,1898-1972年)的几何艺术杰作。细工镶嵌工艺大师运用实金和珍珠贝母这两种截然不同的材质,创作出极为繁复的表盘图案。他们先雕琢出每个骑士的形象,然后犹如拼图般在黄金底盘上将它们仔细拼接出来。每件图案之间没有明显的缝隙, 要在方寸间实现这种极为细致的工序绝非易事。最后,雕刻大师以雕镂工艺逐一刻画出骑士和马匹身上的细节线条。

 

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白色缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

黑色弹性双层斜纹棉Tattersall格纹长裤,配同色羔羊皮及镀钯金属搭扣腰带

黑色高科技斜纹布Tattersall格纹防水长裤,饰反光带

大号银质Alphakelly长项链

黑色Togo小牛皮三合一Birkin包袋,无手拿包内袋

黑色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 8

黑色真丝和羊绒Tattersall格纹漏斗领套头衫

黑色聚酯纤维乔其纱褶裥裹身裙,饰同色羔羊皮细节和镀钯金属Médor铆钉按扣

黑色Swift小牛皮和镀钯金属项链

Apple Watch Hermès Series 6太空黑不锈钢表盘,配44毫米黑色Swift小牛皮双圈表带

黑色小牛皮靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 9

黑色亮面羔羊皮长款流苏装饰马甲

黑色斜纹棉Tattersall格纹拉链衬衫

黑色缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

黑色羊毛华达呢直筒长裤

黑色Box小牛皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

黑色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 10

黑色双面聚酰胺纤维和羊绒披毯式大衣,饰同色羔羊皮条纹装饰

白色缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

黑色亮面羔羊皮高腰长裤,配同色羔羊皮及镀钯金属搭扣腰带

黑色Swift小牛皮和镀钯金属项链

黑色Togo小牛皮和H帆布三合一Birkin包袋-手拿包

黑色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 11

米白色羊羔毛和白色绗缝棉质华达呢马术风格短大衣,配白色羔羊皮束带

黑色缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

黑色亮面羔羊皮高腰长裤,配同色羔羊皮及镀钯金属搭扣腰带

黑色Epsom小牛皮、Swift小牛皮和Box小牛皮Hermesway手机包

黑色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 12

黑色斜纹棉Tattersall格纹绗缝衬衫式大衣,配卷边袖

黑色斜纹棉衬衫

黑色真丝和羊绒Tattersall格纹漏斗领套头衫

黑色亮面羔羊皮高腰长裤,配同色羔羊皮及镀钯金属搭扣腰带

黑色Box小牛皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

黑色Swift小牛皮和镀钯金属双圈宽手链

Apple Watch Hermès Series 6太空黑不锈钢表盘,配44毫米黑色Swift小牛皮双圈表带

黑色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 13

黑色粒面山羊皮和光滑粒面羊皮Tattersall格纹双面大衣

黑色亮面羔羊皮和聚酯纤维乔其纱无袖褶裥直筒裙,饰镀钯金属Médor铆钉

黑色Box小牛皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

黑色小牛皮靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 14

黑色光滑小牛皮绗缝夹克,饰镀钯金属Médor铆钉

白色缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

黑色弹性双层斜纹棉Tattersall格纹长裤,配同色织带和羔羊皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

黑色Box小牛皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

黑色Epsom小牛皮、Swift小牛皮和Box小牛皮Hermesway手机包

黑色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 15

黑色双面羊绒Tattersall格纹短款拉链夹克,配同色羔羊皮衣领

黑色斜纹棉Tattersall格纹拉链衬衫

白色羊绒加丝Tattersall格纹风漏斗领套头衫

白色棉质华达呢Tattersall格纹风长裤,配黑色织带腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

白金镶钻Kelly Gavroche双圈戒指

黑色Epsom小牛皮、Swift小牛皮和Box小牛皮Hermesway手机包

黑色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 16

黑色山东绸衬衫,饰镀钯金属Médor铆钉

白色缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

黑色全粒面小牛皮拼羊驼毛针织半裙,饰镀钯金属Médor铆钉

黑色Swift小牛皮和镀钯金属项链

Apple Watch Hermès Series 6太空黑不锈钢表盘,配44毫米黑色Swift小牛皮双圈表带

黑色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 17

黑色羊绒绒面呢无袖拉链羽绒夹克,饰同色羔羊皮装饰黑色丝质提花罩衫式波尔卡圆点连衣裙,饰“佐阿夫与龙骑兵(Zouaves et Dragons)”刺绣图案

黑色丝质提花20 × 20厘米小方巾,饰“佐阿夫与龙骑兵(Zouaves et Dragons)”刺绣图案

黑色Box小牛皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

大号银质Alphakelly双圈手链

Apple Watch Hermès Series 6太空黑不锈钢表盘,配44毫米

黑色Swift小牛皮双圈表带

黑色小牛皮靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 18

酒红色丝质提花罩衫式波尔卡圆点连衣裙,饰“佐阿夫与龙骑兵(Zouaves etDragons)”刺绣图案

酒红色丝质提花20 × 20厘米小方巾,饰“佐阿夫与龙骑兵(Zouaves et Dragons)”刺绣图案

爱马仕红Swift小牛皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

爱马仕红Swift小牛皮和镀钯金属双圈宽手链

大号银质Alphakelly双圈手链波尔多红Epsom小牛皮、爱马仕红Swift小牛皮和爱马仕红Box小牛皮Hermesway手机包

紫色小牛皮靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 19

木星红羊毛华达呢防寒衣式夹克,饰同色羔羊皮装饰和可调节腰部束绳

粉色缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

木星红棉质华达呢直筒长裤,配同色羔羊皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

波尔多红Epsom小牛皮、爱马仕红Swift小牛皮和爱马仕红Box小牛皮Hermesway手机包

紫色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 20

木星红高科技斜纹布风衣,配同色羔羊皮衣领,饰镀钯金属Médor铆钉按扣

粉色缝线细节针织漏斗领迷你连衣裙

爱马仕红Swift小牛皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

太妃色猪皮、金色Swift小牛皮和浅黄褐色Barénia小牛皮Hermesway手机包

紫色小牛皮靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 21

木星红羊毛华达呢绗缝衬里拉链夹克

粉色缝线细节针织圆领套头衫

木星红棉质华达呢直筒长裤,配同色羔羊皮腰带和镀钯金属搭扣

爱马仕红Swift小牛皮和镀钯金属项链

檀木棕Epsom小牛皮、檀木棕Swift小牛皮和金色Swift小牛皮Hermesway手机包

紫色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 22

木星红高科技斜纹布防水夹克,配同色羊皮衣领和羔羊皮装饰

粉色缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

木星红棉质华达呢直筒长裤,配同色羔羊皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

木星红高科技斜纹布Tattersall格纹风防水长裤,饰反光带

浅黄褐色Barénia小牛皮Kiss Holder口红包

紫色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 23

大地棕色高科技帆布防水夹克

松绿色缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

大地棕色弹性双层斜纹棉Tattersall格纹风长裤,配泥棕色羔羊皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

大地棕色高科技帆布防水长裤,饰反光带

姜饼色Chamkila山羊皮Kiss Holder口红包

红木棕小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 24

大地棕色防水法兰绒和高科技斜纹布运动风大衣,饰泥棕色羔羊皮及镀钯金属Médor铆钉按扣

松绿色缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

大地棕色弹性双层斜纹棉Tattersall格纹风长裤,配泥棕色羔羊皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

檀木棕Swift小牛皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

椒红色Epsom小牛皮、爱马仕红Swift小牛皮和椒红色Swift小牛皮Hermesway手机包

泥棕色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 25

大地棕色羔羊皮短款拉链夹克,配大地棕和檀木棕色防水法兰绒、弹性双层斜纹棉与高科技罗缎绗缝衣袖,大地棕色毡制羊皮衣领,及大地棕色弹性双层斜纹棉可拆卸拉链兜帽

松绿色缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

大地棕色亮面羔羊皮高腰长裤,配大地棕色羔羊皮腰带和镀钯金属搭扣

金色Swift小牛皮腕带,配镀钯金属弹簧扣

红木棕小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 26

泥棕色双面羊绒披毯式大衣,配可拆卸围巾式衣领和檀木棕羔羊皮装饰

泥棕色缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

檀木棕聚酯纤维乔其纱褶裥迷笛半裙,配同色羔羊皮腰带

大象灰Tadelakt小牛皮Kiss Holder口红包

泥棕色小牛皮靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 27

泥棕色毡制双面羊毛和羊绒针织短裁V领套头衫

土星橙缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

泥棕色全粒面小牛皮流苏装饰半裙,配同色全粒面小牛皮腰带和镀钯金属搭扣

泥棕色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 28

泥棕色全粒面小牛皮流苏装饰拉链斗篷,饰同色羔羊皮装饰

土星橙缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

泥棕色全粒面小牛皮流苏装饰半裙,配同色全粒面小牛皮腰带和镀钯金属搭扣

泥棕色小牛皮靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 29

泥棕色双面羊绒流苏装饰拉链派克大衣,饰同色羔羊皮装饰和可调节腰部束绳

泥棕色缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

泥棕色全粒面小牛皮拼羊驼毛针织拉链连衣裙,饰镀钯金属Médor铆钉

泥棕色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 30

泥棕色全粒面小牛皮流苏装饰无袖连衣裙,饰同色羔羊皮细节

檀木棕Swift小牛皮和镀钯金属项链

泥棕色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 31

泥棕色双面全粒面小牛皮流苏装饰派克大衣

泥棕色全粒面小牛皮拼羊驼毛针织圆领套头衫,饰镀钯金属Médor铆钉

泥棕色全粒面小牛皮流苏装饰半裙,饰镀钯金属Médor铆钉

檀木棕Barénia Faubourg小牛皮和Militaire帆布三合一Birkin包袋

泥棕色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 32

檀木棕亮面羔羊皮和聚酯纤维乔其纱无袖褶裥直筒裙,饰镀钯金属Médor铆钉

檀木棕Swift小牛皮和镀钯金属双圈宽手镯

泥棕色小牛皮靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 33

泥棕色粒面山羊皮大衣,饰镀钯金属Médor铆钉按扣

土星橙缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

泥棕色粒面山羊皮高腰长裤,配同色粒面山羊皮腰带和镀钯金属搭扣

檀木棕Swift小牛皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

檀木棕Epsom小牛皮、檀木棕Swift小牛皮和金色Swift小牛皮Hermesway手机包

泥棕色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 34

波尔多红双面羊绒流苏装饰短款夹克,配同色羔羊皮衣领

波尔多红缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

波尔多红双面羊绒流苏装饰半裙,配同色小牛皮腰带和镀钯金属搭扣

中号银质Alphakelly双环手镯

泥棕色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 35

波尔多红亮面羔羊皮直筒短款夹克,饰镀钯金属Médor铆钉按扣

波尔多红缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

波尔多红聚酯纤维乔其纱褶裥裹身裙,饰亮面羔羊皮细节和镀钯金属Médor铆钉按扣

波尔多红小牛皮靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 36

波尔多红亮面羔羊皮Tattersall格纹风围裙式拉链连衣裙

波尔多红缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

木星红和波尔多红Ex-Libris印花斜纹真丝20 × 20厘米小方巾

大号银质Alphakelly双圈手链

波尔多红小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 37

波尔多红亮面羔羊皮流苏装饰连衣裙,配同色羔羊皮腰带和镀钯金属搭扣

波尔多红Swift小牛皮和镀钯金属双圈宽手镯

波尔多红小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 38

荞麦米色防水羊绒绒面呢长款大衣

晨曦粉缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

荞麦米色粒面山羊皮高腰长裤

黏土色Tadelakt小牛皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

金色Swift小牛皮腕带,配镀钯金属弹簧扣

黏土色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 39

荞麦米色双面全粒面小牛皮流苏装饰短款夹克,配同色可拆卸羔羊皮衣领

晨曦粉缝线细节针织漏斗领套头衫

荞麦米色全粒面小牛皮高腰长裤,配同色小牛皮腰带和镀钯金属搭扣

大象灰Tadelakt小牛皮Kiss Holder口红包

黏土色小牛皮踝靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 40

晨曦粉山东绸罩衫式连衣裙,饰珍珠和 “佐阿夫与龙骑兵 (Zouaves et Dragons)”图案 刺绣

小号黄金镶钻Kelly Chaîne双圈手镯(作颈链佩戴)

晨曦粉小牛皮靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 41

荞麦米色聚酯纤维乔其纱罩衫式褶裥连衣裙,饰珍珠刺绣

黏土色Tadelakt小牛皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

黏土色小牛皮靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 42

波尔多红聚酯纤维乔其纱褶裥连衣裙,饰同色亮面羔羊皮袢扣和镀钯金属Médor铆钉按扣

波尔多红Swift小牛皮和镀钯金属双圈宽手链

波尔多红小牛皮靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 43

波尔多红聚酯纤维乔其纱罩衫式褶裥连衣裙,饰珍珠刺绣

波尔多红Swift小牛皮腰带,饰镀钯金属搭扣

波尔多红小牛皮靴,饰染色边线与马鞍式明线缝制

Look 44

黑色亮面羔羊皮和聚酯纤维乔其纱无袖褶裥直筒裙,饰镀钯金属Médor铆钉

黑色Swift小牛皮和镀钯金属项链

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2021年日内瓦钟表与奇迹表展,爱马仕发布全新腕表系列——爱马仕H08腕表,爱马仕福宝Polka腕表,爱马仕Arceau procket Aaaaargh!怀表,爱马仕Slim d’Hermès C’est la Fête工艺腕表。

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爱马仕始终阐述着一种对时间的独到见解:时间是一种灵动的材质,爱马仕的设计师和工匠们将其作为物件精雕细琢。基于对创新与精准的执着追求,爱马仕从一开始便将卓越的制表工艺与独特的创造性表达相结合。全新爱马仕H08腕表以略带神秘的名称,暗示着其与图形、数学和形而上学的关联;在对立与对比之间引发互动。灵感源自于爱马仕2014年的精巧之作Faubourg腕表,在今年的作品中将表带进行了全新演绎,由闪亮原点和矩形块拼接而成,一条条曲线仿佛延伸成笔直的切线,而直线仿佛又可以偏离轨迹。

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领跑新竞争时代,荣耀品牌全新升级亮相

独立后的荣耀正式对外亮相,以成为全球标志性科技品牌为定位,以创造属于每个人的智慧新世界为愿景,保持“1+8+N”的产品战略,以万物互联的智慧科技,推动你与世界共同向前,坚持创新如一、品质如一、服务如一的战略,领跑新竞争时代。

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荣耀品牌理念全新升级:以“创新”“高级”“自由”“可信赖”作为关键词,坚持底层创新,探索全新角度,以国际化的普世审美,关注人文与社会。荣耀将全力打造包括高端产品在内的全系列智能手机,和智能生态产品,为全球消费者带来设计惊艳、性能卓越、体验超凡的产品与服务,致力于成为全球标志性的科技品牌。

荣耀依旧如一:创新如一、品质如一、服务如一,一如既往的重视对研发和前瞻性的技术投入。而且,新荣耀继承华为基因,但比之前更加灵活高效,无疑将使荣耀更具竞争力。

创新如一,荣耀近一半员工是研发人员,有五大研发基地,100多个创新实验室,研发团队完全具备全系列手机及智能生态产品的研发能力,他们曾经打造出创新的Magic 系列、V系列,获得欧洲影音协会奖(EISA)大奖的HONOR系列,深受喜爱的X系列,以及MagicBook笔记本、荣耀手表、手环、平板、智慧屏等优秀产品;面向未来的技术储备和能力上,荣耀也做好了充分的准备,提供更高价格段覆盖和新技术迭代更新的产品提供创新弹药,如一碰传技术、超级快充技术、GPUTurbo、RYYB、Link Turbo、EROFS超级文件系统等。

品质如一,荣耀拥有世界级的质量控制能力,400+严苛测试标准,20+全球认证标准,为高品质产品保驾护航,荣耀品质,经得住千锤百炼。

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过去的三年,荣耀凭借着强大的研发能力和产品口碑,获得越来越多消费者的青睐,荣耀一直保持着中国市场手机线上的第一品牌,荣耀并非从零开始,而是继往开来,更进一步。

荣耀CE0赵明表示:“市场不是说出来的,是打出来的”,无疑表明荣耀对接下来在市场上必胜的信念。

据悉,独立后的荣耀将突破过去的品牌定位,成为完全商业化的独立个体,新荣耀不再有战略包袱,产品布局上不再有任何限制,将会面向全场景、全渠道以及全人群来打造品牌和产品,满足更多的人群对于未来的智能全场景身份的需要,以万物互联的智能科技,创造属于每个人的智慧新世界。

2021新品首发,荣耀后续将爆发性突进

此次荣耀发布多款产品,包括荣耀V40、全新的MagicBook 14/15系列产品和荣耀手表GS Pro秘境星空新配色。

荣耀V40手机,采用一块支持10亿色、120Hz刷新率、300Hz触控采样的视网膜级超感屏,搭配重构秩序的先锋ID设计、全新升级的黑科技GPU Turbo X图形加速引擎、66W有线+55W双超级快充、X+Z轴双线性马达,致力于为消费者带来前所未感的使用体验。售价方面:荣耀V40有8GB+128GB,8GB+256GB两种配置,颜色有幻夜黑、钛空银、蔷薇金,分别售价为3599元、3999元、将于1月22日12:00开启全渠道首销。

荣耀还带来了全新的MagicBook 14/15系列产品,以屏幕、性能和提升生产力为核心卖点,充分覆盖个人消费用户中的主要群体;荣耀手表GS Pro联合Discovery探索频道,推出秘境星空新配色,重新定义腕上时尚。

本次品牌亮相和产品发布仅是荣耀市场迈进的一小步,据悉,2021将是荣耀的爆发之年,后续荣耀将进一步推出更多爆款机型,在高端市场、大众市场全面突击。

But Rie Yoshihara, 33, who works dressing tourists in kimonos, still feels unable to show her father her full back tattoo.

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image captionShodai tattoos Rie

Her tattooist, Shodai Horiren, says: “Your house gets old.

“Your parents die.

“You break up with a lover.

“Kids grow and go.

“But a tattoo is with you until you’re cremated and in your grave.

“That’s the appeal.”

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Bookkeeper Mina Yoshimura, 40, says of her husband, Hiroshi: “If I had tattoos and he didn’t, he’d be able to go places that I couldn’t.

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image captionMina touches her husband’s latest tattoo, at home, in Tokyo

“But since we’re both the same, we can go anywhere together.

“I think that’s nice.”

Mari Okasaka, 48, had her first tattoo 20 years ago.

Now, her son, Tenji, 24, is working towards having his whole body covered in colour.

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image captionMari and Tenji at home, in Niiza, Saitama

“Some people get tattoos for deep reasons,” she says.

“But I do it because they’re cute, the same way I might buy a nice blouse.”

But when Mari leaves the house, she wears long sleeves so her neighbours won’t talk.

Tenji says: “Some people probably look at me funny.

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“Yes, there are times when people think I’m part of a gang.

“But I don’t worry about it that much.

“I’ll keep on going until I don’t have any skin uncoloured.”

Office worker Hideyuki Togashi, 48, whose leg was amputated in March 2019, says: “I think that because of the tattoos, part of me became stronger psychologically.

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image captionHideyuki at a park near his house, in Tokyo

“And because I was so strong, I was able to recover quickly.”

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why germans love getting naked

After four years of living in Berlin, I’ve learned to embrace Germany’s anything-goes sprit and more casual approach to nudity than where I grew up in the Midwestern US.

You never forget your first time confronted by public nudity

While nudity in mainstream American culture is generally considered to be sexual, here in Germany, stripping down isn’t uncommon in certain everyday situations. I’ve grown used to nude-by-default saunas; taken dips in pools where swimming suits were birthday suits; and surprised a massage therapist when I disrobed unprompted before a treatment, leading him to remark that Americans usually need to be asked to take off their clothes.

In Berlin and many other German cities, it’s not uncommon to stumble upon nude sunbathers in parks (Credit: ImageBroker/Alamy)

But, as the saying kind of goes, you never forget your first time confronted by public nudity. My introduction came during a jog through Hasenheide, a park in Berlin’s southern Neukölln district, when I came across a cluster of nude bodies taking in the bright afternoon sun. Later, after speaking with friends and acquiring a fairly questionable Google search history, I found out that stumbling across an au naturel enclave in a city park or beach is practically a rite of passage in Berlin.

Stripping down to your essence in the natural world has historically been an act of both resistance and relief

What I’d seen wasn’t part of Berlin’s hedonistic side, however, but an example of Freikörperkultur, or “free-body culture”. FKK, as it’s usually shortened to, is associated closely with life in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany or “GDR”), but nudism in Germany as a public practice stretches back to the late 19th Century. And unlike, say, taking off your top at a beach in Spain, FKK encompasses a broader German movement with a distinct spirit, where stripping down to your essence in the natural world has historically been an act of both resistance and relief.

“Nudism has had a long tradition in Germany,” said Arnd Bauerkämper, associate professor of modern history at Freie University in Berlin. At the turn of the 20th Century, Lebensreform (“life reform”) was in the air, a philosophy that advocated for organic food, sexual liberation, alternative medicine and simpler living closer to nature. “Nudism is part of this broader movement, which was directed against industrial modernity, against the new society that emerged in the late 19th Century,” Bauerkämper said.

Free-body culture – or “FKK” – is practiced at many designated beaches, campgrounds and parks across Germany (Credit: Ageofstock/Alamy)

According to Hanno Hochmuth, a historian at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, this reform movement took particular hold in larger cities, including Berlin, despite its romanticising of country living. During the Weimar Era (1918-1929), FKK beaches populated by “a very, very small minority” of sunbathing members of the bourgeois sprang up. According to Bauerkämper, there was a “sense of new freedom after the authoritarian society and suffocating conservative values of Imperial Germany (1878 to 1918).”

In 1926, Alfred Koch founded the Berlin School of Nudism to encourage mixed-gender nudist exercise, continuing the belief that outdoor nudity promoted harmony with nature and wellness benefits. And while Nazi ideology initially prohibited FKK, viewing it as a spring of immorality, Hochmuth explained that by 1942 the Third Reich had softened its public nudity restrictions – though, of course, that tolerance wasn’t extended to groups the Nazis persecuted, like Jews and communists.

But it wasn’t until the decades after Germany’s post-war division into East and West that FKK really blossomed, particularly in the East – though embracing getting naked was no longer restricted to the bourgeois class. For Germans living in the communist GDR, where travel, personal liberties and sales of consumer goods were curtailed, FKK functioned in part as a “safety valve,” according to Bauerkämper; a way to let off tension in a deeply restrictive state by providing a bit of “free movement”.

FKK culture blossomed in East Germany, where it served as an escape from the repressive communist government (Credit: ImageBroker/Alamy)

Hochmuth, who visited nude beaches with his parents as a child growing up in East Berlin agrees. “There was some sense of escapism,” he said. “[East Germans] were always exposed to all these demands of the Communist Party and what they had to do, like going to party rallies or being asked to perform communal tasks on weekends without pay.”

There was some sense of escapism

While rogue East Germans continued bathing in the buff in the GDR’s early years – while keeping an eye out for patrolling policemen – it wasn’t until after Erich Honecker took power in 1971 that FKK would officially be allowed again. According to Bauerkämper, under Honecker the GDR began a process of opening up foreign and domestic policies, a tactic meant to make itself look more favourable to the outside world.

“For the GDR it was quite useful to argue that, ‘OK, we are allowing and even encouraging nudism, we are kind of a free society’,” said Bauerkämper.

In the 1970s and ’80s, the strict East German government allowed residents to practice FKK as a way to appear more open to the world (Credit: Kuttig/Alamy)

Since East Germany merged with the larger West in 1990 and restrictions lifted in the former communist state, FKK culture has declined. In the 1970s and ‘80s, hundreds of thousands of nudists packed campgrounds, beaches and parks. In 2019, the German Association for Free Body Culture counted only 30,000-plus registered members – many of whom were in their 50s and 60s.

Yet today, FKK continues to leave an impression on German culture, particularly in the former East. It even manages to make the occasional viral headline, such as when a naked man in an FKK-designated area at a Berlin lake this summer was forced to give chase to a wild boar that had run off with a bag containing his laptop.

In fact, FKK and Germany’s longer tradition of nudism has left a widespread tolerance across the country for clothing-free spaces and public nudity as a form of wellness. As I discovered, FKK spaces can still be found without looking too hard, and they’re often tied to health pursuits.

If you are used to seeing people naked, you don’t give much thought about appearances

The listings site Nacktbaden.de offers a well-organised list of beaches and parks throughout Germany where you can sunbathe nude; strip down at saunas and spas; or go for hikes in the buff in places like the Harz Mountains, Bavarian Alps or the forests of Saxony-Anhalt. Or, if you want to be a bit more formal about it, the sporting club FSV Adolf Koch offers nude yoga, volleyball, badminton and table tennis in Berlin.

In many ways, the FKK legacy gives travellers an insight into values that still unite many East Germans. For Sylva Sternkopf, who grew up going to FKK beaches in East Germany, the country’s free-body culture has both reflected and imparted certain values that she’s passing down to her children, particularly the country’s open-mindedness towards their own bodies.

Today, Germany’s history of public nudity has fostered a broader open-mindedness towards body positivity (Credit: NurPhoto/Getty Images)

“I think this is still very deeply rooted in my generation in East Germany,” she said. “I also try to give this on to my children, to raise them in this way of being open towards your own body and not being ashamed of being yourself and being naked, of showing yourself naked.”

For Sternkopf, seeing nude bodies in a non-sexualised way also helps people learn to see others beyond their outer appearances. By baring it all, it makes it easier to see not just a body, but the individual.

“If you are used to seeing people naked, you don’t give much thought about appearances,” she said. “I think this is something that is more widespread in East Germany in general: we try to judge people not for their outer appearance, but we always try to look underneath.

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Kamala Harris in a White Suit, Dressing for History

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This wasn’t about fashion, it was about politics, past and future.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris wore a white pantsuit with a white pussy-bow blouse when she and President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke on Saturday night.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times

On Saturday night, when Kamala Harris stepped onto the stage and into history at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del., as Vice President-elect of the United States, she did so in full recognition of the weight of the moment, and in full acknowledgment of all who came before. Of the fact she is so many firsts: first woman to be vice president, first woman of color to be vice president, first woman of South Asian descent, first daughter of immigrants. She is the representation of so many promises finally fulfilled, so many hopes and dreams.

How do you begin to express that understanding; embody the city shining on a hill? For the next four years, that will be part of the job.

She said it — “while I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last” — and she signaled it, wearing something she had not worn in any of her moments of firsts since she joined Mr. Biden as his No. 2 (or, indeed, in the months before when she was running for the Democratic nomination herself): a white pantsuit with a white silk pussy-bow blouse. Two garments that have been alternately fraught and celebrated symbols of women’s rights for decades, but which over the last four years have taken on even more potency and power.

The white pantsuit: a nod to the struggle to break the final glass ceiling, stretching from the suffragists through Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and the women of Congress. A garment in a color meant, as an early mission statement for the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage published in 1913 read, to symbolize “the quality of our purpose.” Latterly redolent with frustration; now, finally, transformed into a beacon of achievement.

Hillary Clinton, after accepting the nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in 2016.Credit…Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

The pussy-bow blouse: the quintessential working woman’s uniform in the years when they began to flood into the professional sphere; the female version of the tie; the power accessory of Margaret Thatcher, the first female British prime minister. And then, suddenly, a potentially subversive double entendre in the hands of Melania Trump, who wore a pussy-bow blouse after her husband’s “grab ’em by the pussy” scandal.

The point was not who made the clothes; it wasn’t about marketing a brand (though, on the subject of “building back better,” the suit was by Carolina Herrera, an American business). The point was that to wear those clothes — to make those choices — on a night when the world was watching, in a moment that would be frozen for all time, was not fashion. It was politics. It was for posterity.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1987, with her trademarks: wool skirt suit, tie blouse, pearls and handbag.Credit…John Redman/Associated Press
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., on Friday.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times

And it was the beginning of what will be four years in which everything Ms. Harris does matters. Obviously, what she wears is only a small part of it. But in her first-ness, in her ascent to the highest realms on power, she will become a model for what that means. How, as a woman, as a Black woman, you claim your seat at the highest table. Clothes are a part of that story. In some ways, they are how those at faraway tables connect to it.

Yes, what Mr. Biden wears matters, too. His aviators have become practically his doppelgänger; the blue tie he wore on Saturday night, representative both of his party and the blue skies to (they hope) come. Presidents have always used clothing as part of their political toolbox. John Kennedy distinguished himself from the generation that came before by opting for single-breasted suits instead of the more formal double-breasted styles favored by Roosevelt and Truman.

Barack Obama did the same by often abandoning the tie. George W. Bush wore his cowboy boots as a badge of origin and attitude. Donald Trump used his overly long, five-alarm-red ties to signal masculinity and send everyone down a master of the universe wormhole.

But what Ms. Harris wears, and will wear, could matter more. Why should we pretend otherwise?

(A website, WhatKamalaWore, has already sprung up to keep track.)

As Dominique and François Gaulme wrote in the 2012 book “Power & Style: A World History of Politics and Style,” clothing, from its earliest origins, was developed “to communicate, even more clearly than in writing, the social organizations and distribution of political power.”

And when the person possessed of that power is a pioneer, when she is defining a new kind of leadership, understanding those lines of communications and how to employ them is key. Not because she is a woman, but because she will be the first woman vice president.

Hillary Clinton came to understand this, over a career in which at first she seemed to dismiss fashion and then, as first lady, to resent it, before finally embracing it as a useful tool.

Democrats in the House before the State of the Union address on Feb. 5, 2019.Credit…Erin Schaff for The New York Times
Nannie Helen Burroughs (left, holding banner, circa 1910) was an advocate for women’s suffrage.Credit…Library of Congress

It began when she joined Twitter in 2013 with a biographical note that included the descriptors “pantsuit aficionado” and “hair icon,” along with “FLOTUS,” and “SecState.” When she started her Instagram account in 2015, her first post was a photo of a clothing rail with an assortment of red, white and blue jackets and the caption, “Hard choices.” During an Al Smith dinner before the 2016 election, she joked that she liked to refer to tuxedos as “formal pantsuits.” She weaponized her clothing as necessary.

This is an option of which Ms. Harris herself is well aware. She has embraced the political pantsuit tradition presaged in 1874 at the first National Convention of the Dress Reform League, when, as reported in The New York Times, one attendee declared: “This reform means trousers. They are freedom to us, and they afford us protection! Trousers are coming.” But she did not partake in the Crayola-colored pantsuit tradition of the generation before: Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel.

After Election Day, speaking in Wilmington, Del.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times
After Election Day, before the victory.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times

Though Ms. Harris has been lauded for her love of Converse (and talked about her Chuck Taylors more than any other item of clothing), and for her Timberlands, when it comes to professional situations, she has usually favored a uniform of dark colors — black, navy, burgundy, maroon, gray — with matching shell blouses, pumps and pearls. Those were the suits she wore at the Democratic National Convention and at the debates.

Often they were by New York designers (Prabal Gurung, Joseph Altuzarra), but they never looked overly fashion. They looked serious, prepared, no-nonsense. She even wore a black suit to the 2019 State of the Union, when many of her fellow congresswomen had banded together to wear white.

So her choice, this time, to finally join that tradition could not have been an accident. (Her two young grand-nieces, one of whom had recently featured in a YouTube video talking about her desire to be president, also wore white.) It was deliberate. Not to credit that is to give her less credit than she is due.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her grand-nieces celebrate after she spoke at the Chase Center.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times

Perhaps, rather, it is a signal of what to expect. That she will go on as she has, with practical, elegant suits that don’t get in the way of her day or require much response from the peanut gallery. (We, in turn, can get back to Kimye.) That the details — the pearls, the pumps, the sneakers — will matter. And that then, every once in a while and when the situation and theater calls for it, she will deploy a sartorial surgical strike that hits everyone where it counts.

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Trump and Biden pictured through the year

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President Donald Trump, 74, and Democratic challenger Joe Biden, 77, each have more than seven decades of personal and professional experience behind them.

Here is a selection of photos that span their lives.

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image captionJoe Biden, aged 25, in 1967

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image captionSenators Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings

 

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image captionPresident Donald Trump points to his son Barron on inauguration day in Washington in 2017, with First Lady Melania

It was not until June 2015 that Mr Trump formally announced his entrance into the race for the White House. His campaign for the presidency was rocked by controversies, including the emergence of a recording from 2005 of him making lewd remarks about women, and claims, including from members of his own party, that he was not fit for office.

But he consistently told his army of supporters that he would defy the opinion polls, which mostly had him trailing his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. He said his presidency would strike a blow against the political establishment and “drain the swamp” in Washington.

He took inspiration from the successful campaign to get Britain out of the European Union, saying he would pull off “Brexit times 10”. Despite almost all the predictions, Mr Trump was victorious in the 2016 election. He was inaugurated as the 45th US president on 20 January 2017.

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image captionBarack Obama and Joe Biden react as the prime minister of Ireland, Brian Cowen, speaks during the annual St Patrick’s Day Reception in the White House in 2010

In a surprise ceremony in the final days of his presidency, Mr Obama awarded Mr Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the nation’s highest civilian honour.

“To know Joe Biden is to know love without pretence, services without self-regard and to live life fully,” the then president said.

It had been a successful partnership, but a period not without trauma for Mr Biden, whose son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46. The younger Biden was seen as a rising star of US politics and had intended to run for Delaware state governor in 2016.

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image captionPresident Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on 5 October, after spending three days hospitalised for coronavirus

Mr Trump’s re-election campaign has been conducted against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, in which 230,000 Americans have died, and seen the president himself become infected. First Lady Melania Trump and their son Barron caught the virus too, along with a number of staff at the White House.

In the days before the election on 3 November, Trump urged states to shun lockdowns, whilst continuing his schedule of rallies in battleground states.

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image captionJoe Biden speaks to the press at the Erie International Airport in Pennsylvania before returning to Delaware on 10 October

The two presidential rivals’ divisions over the coronavirus have been deep, with Mr Biden having said the president’s handling of the worsening coronavirus crisis was an “insult” to its victims.

“Even if I win, it’s going to take a lot of hard work to end this pandemic,” he said. “I do promise this – we will start on day one doing the right things.”

More than 90 million Americans have voted early, many of them by post, in a record-breaking voting surge driven by the pandemic.

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