The Prada Paradox - Julie Kenner

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Kenner wraps up her smart and stylish Game series by looping back to The Givenchy Code (2005), now the title of a movie that Devi Taylor hopes will restart her acting career. Instead, it could very well end it permanently. Based on a very deadly, real-world version of the computer game Play.Survive.Win, The Givenchy Code is slated to become a box-office hit. All Devi has to do is finishing filming the romantic thriller with her costar and ex-lover.

The Givenchy Code (Code, Book 1)-Julie Kenner

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Everyone has weaknesses. Graduate-student Melanie "Mel" Prescott's happen to be haute couture shoes and complex codes, and who knew one would be the key to staying alive. When Mel first received a coded message from the tall, dark, and scary stranger, she thought one of her friends was kidding her, especially after she decoded the message, which read, "Play or die."

Balenciaga and His Legacy: Haute Couture from the Texas Fashion Collection

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How to connect a famous Spanish-French couturier with exhibits at the University of North Texas? Via Dallas-based department store founder Stanley Marcus and family and a prominent local socialite who spearheaded, first, a multipronged collection. Curator Myra Walker narrates, through interviews with Balenciaga descendants, students such as Hubert de Givenchy, and donor biographies, the life and times of an artist who shunned the concept of ready-to-wear clothing for women.