Just weeks before the Ritz closed last July, Mr. Field created cocktails to go with a three-course meal hosted by the bootmaker Berluti to unveil its prêt-à-porter line in the gardens of the Palais Royal.
With 10 Grammys, three solo albums, four movies and a pret-a-porter line under her belt, it's no surprise Beyonce Knowles blows away the rest of the list, raking in $80 million–almost double the $44 million runner-up Justin Timberlake pulled in this fiscal year.
The exhibition features approximately 140 ensembles, mainly from the designer's couture collections, but also from his pret-a-porter line, along with their accessories.
We tipped our expectant porters, who lined up to bid us farewell.
And then Fitzgerald pauses to notice, at the station, a "very young porter," who is "lining up the milk-churns," and the information begins to sing: "A certain amount of milk always got spilled on the platform, giving it a faint smell of a nursery sink, drowned at the moment by the bean-flowers and the meadowsweet".
The fifth day saw an ant line of porters, film crew and climbers trailing up the mountain on what was to be my most arduous test.
A funny montage by Thomas Nast, from Harper's, parodies the hotel's celebrity: it shows a giant trunk arriving at the Mountain House, burying a porter beneath it, staff lining up for tips, artists clustering under umbrellas to paint "unspoiled" nature and hotel guests stumbling around nearby Kaaterskill Falls.
The Thea Porter-designed empire-line dress displayed in the show – "demure but flirty" as Ehrman puts it – in devore velvet, is quintessentially 1970s.
One 16-year-old Kachin boy explained how he and his 14-year-old brother had been tortured by the Burmese Army for information about the K.I.A., and then forced to porter supplies on the front lines.
A line of smiling porters in crisp blue-and-gold uniforms is waiting there, and they will not take no for an answer when they offer to carry your bag.
A few days before Afghanistan's new government was sworn in, a line of Afghan porters, crossing the Salang Pass high in the Hindu Kush, trekked through rock and snow as an American warplane passed overhead.
