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It was all meant to come together on a night in Moscow but since that cruel jilting the club's owner has haunted that cobweb-strewn corner of Chelsea's trophy room like a designer-stubbled Miss Havisham mourning her lost love.
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Black lace stockings, paneled corsets and dresses conjured images of a sexed-up Miss Havisham while tailored jackets and dresses fell somewhere between daytime and dominatrix.
Marissa Bronfman: Toronto Fashion Week: Fun Fashion and Glamorous Garb Rules the Runway Marissa Bronfman 2010
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Like Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, Munch appears in these late works as if frozen in psychological time and space.
David Galenson: Edvard Munch and Personal Art David Galenson 2011
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Indeed Prabal's vocalization of how much he loves Charles Dickens' Great Expectations at a recent dinner came full circle; the entire collection was inspired by Miss Havisham: romantic, decayed elegance in a deluge of feathers, dyed minks, beads, silks, leather and taffeta.
Anisha Lakhani: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff's Wonderland: NYFW 2011 Reflections and Fashion at Lincoln Center Projections Anisha Lakhani 2011
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Indeed Prabal's vocalization of how much he loves Charles Dickens' Great Expectations at a recent dinner came full circle; the entire collection was inspired by Miss Havisham: romantic, decayed elegance in a deluge of feathers, dyed minks, beads, silks, leather and taffeta.
Anisha Lakhani: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff's Wonderland: NYFW 2011 Reflections and Fashion at Lincoln Center Projections Anisha Lakhani 2011
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Like Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, Munch appears in these late works as if frozen in psychological time and space.
David Galenson: Edvard Munch and Personal Art David Galenson 2011
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I see some people have been moaning that Gillian Anderson isn't old enough to be Miss Havisham, that she's a cougar rather than a crone, too ravishing for Havisham.
TV review: Great Expectations; Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me 2011
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"That's incredible," says the Pussycat, dressed, for some reason, like Miss Havisham.
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And, more importantly, she feels like Miss Havisham – not overdone like a pantomime witch but quietly sad, bitter and vengeful, cruelly manipulative, and more than a little potty.
TV review: Great Expectations; Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me 2011
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Indeed Prabal's vocalization of how much he loves Charles Dickens' Great Expectations at a recent dinner came full circle; the entire collection was inspired by Miss Havisham: romantic, decayed elegance in a deluge of feathers, dyed minks, beads, silks, leather and taffeta.
Anisha Lakhani: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff's Wonderland: NYFW 2011 Reflections and Fashion at Lincoln Center Projections Anisha Lakhani 2011
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