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“Is that what we’re calling it these days?” asked a colleague as I rattled off my day’s schedule. No, no, not Balmain. Pierre Balmain—as in the younger diffusion line sibling of the bling-ed out and be-shouldered über-babe’s fave label. World, meet Pierre.

Actually, PB, which debuted yesterday in Paris in a presentation, is supremely low-key and understated. There’s not a sequin in the mix. But there is quite a bit that the girls who obsess over Balmain season after season will want to buy and wear—whether they can only aspire to the big-sister line’s demographic or not. For girls, the look is Paris Voguette Casual. The line’s signature jeans are plain,Replica Abercrombie Outlet, black, and skinny with trapunto motorcycle panels and silver zips at the pockets and ankle. They’re perfect with a little metallic leather bomber or black motorcycle jacket. A little body-con black jersey dress seems almost modest despite the slash at the bustline. Though there’s a fun bit of trash and splash in zebra-print jeans and a gingham top, not to mention the PB logo writ large on the back of a baseball jersey. The line has a unisex-y echo. For boys, the black jeans and motorcycle jacket get repeated, and a few more tailored blazers and sharply cut button-downs are in the mix.

On loop at the label’s Second Arrondissement showroom was a video shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin of model Abbey Lee Kershaw, her boyfriend, Matthew Hutchinson, and their band Our Mountain racing around Manhattan all kitted out in the line. They look, appropriately enough, like grunged-out rockers. They also look, appropriately enough, pretty cool. It’s not hard to imagine new Balmainiacs being minted after a viewing or two. That makes it the rare fashion film that actually makes sense.
—Meenal Mistry

Photos: Courtesy of Pierre Balmain

LONDON (Reuters) Christie’s held a highly anticipated auction of old master paintings in London on Tuesday night, with one of the star works selling for more than 2 million pounds ($3.12 million) above the pre-auction estimate.

“The Battle between Carnival and Lent” by Pieter Brueghel II sold for almost 6.9 million pounds to an anonymous buyer, Christie’s said on its website.

The sale price exceeded the pre-auction estimate of 3.5-4.5 million pounds and set the world record price for the artist at auction, Christie’s said.

The second highest-priced painting on the night was a Willem van de Velde II work, “Dutch men-o’-war and other shipping in a calm,” which sold to a European private collector for nearly 6 million pounds, also a world record price for the artist at auction,Cheap Ed hardy underwear, Christie’s said.

However, the auction’s star attraction “Portrait of Juan Lopez de Robredo,” by Spanish painter Francisco Goya remained listed on the auctioneer’s website as unsold, with an estimated sale tag of 6.2-9.3 million pounds.

The total sale of 24 million pounds, which did not include a sale for the Goya painting, as well as a Nicolaes Maes work that carried an estimated price of 1.5-2.3 million pounds, was just shy of the pre-sale estimate for all the lots of 26 million pounds.

Much of the interest in this week’s series of old master and British art auctions in London has been generated by a Velazquez original that was first valued at 300 pounds ($470).

The portrait of an unknown gentleman goes under the hammer on Wednesday and is set to fetch up to 3 million pounds at Bonhams.

($1 = 0.6410 British pounds)

(Reporting by Stephen Mangan; Editing by Michael Roddy)

McALLEN,wholesale Ed hardy belts, Texas (Reuters) Police fatally shot a 15-year-old student armed with a pellet gun at a middle school in Brownsville, Texas, on Wednesday after he pointed it at officers, police said.

Brownsville police received a call of a student with a handgun at Cummings Middle School about 8 a.m. local time Wednesday, department spokesman J.J. Trevino said.

The boy, eighth-grader Jaime Gonzalez, aimed at officers after they confronted him in a hallway, police said.

Police ordered Gonzalez to drop the gun, but instead he pointed it at the officers, who shot the boy twice, police said.

“The subject pointed the weapon at officers, which in turn, the officers had to use deadly force,” Trevino said.

The gun, a .177-caliber pellet pistol, resembles a Glock semi-automatic handgun, police said.

The student was rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, said Cameron County Justice of the Peace Kip Johnson Hodge.

A preliminary investigation indicated Gonzalez assaulted a student before officers arrived and told witnesses he was going to “engage officers with the weapon,” a police news release said.

No other students, school staff or police were injured. Students were evacuated to a nearby high school and classes were dismissed for the day.

The Texas Rangers will assist city and school police in investigating the fatal shooting.

Brownsville is at the southern tip of Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border.

(Reporting by Jared Taylor and Jim Forsyth; Editing by Daniel Trotta)

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VIDEO: Brandi whines about how the other women perceive her

Kyle Richards ambition always have her sister Kim’s back — even now that means putting herself in the peppery seat.

While Glanville’s critique may have been out of line, Kyle realizes she could have knob the position differently.

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“Last night’s episode was difficult apt penetrate, and I think I was ashore brim ahead the nightfall had begun,” Kyle tells Us Weekly exclusively.

On Monday’s episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, the 42-year-old leaped to her sister’s defense when Brandi Glanville, 38, informed Kim, 47, of being under the affect during game night at Dana Wilkey’s house.

“I love my sister and was emotion very protective of her and I achieve that did not send out the best in me. I am not proud of my action,” she tells Us. “I am not a mean human, and neither namely my sister Kim, which made this all the more tough to watch.”

“It was filmed during a period while my sister and I were working quite hard on retouching our relationship,” Kyle adds. “It was hard for me to see my sister come below bombard.”

For more of Kyle’s take on the epsidoe, visit her official website.

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Today’s D&G runway show in Milan will be the final from the Dolce & Gabbana line, WWD reports. The company announced it ambition instead merge D&G into its signature line. The designers say they hope it will bring “even more strength and stamina to our accumulation.”

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