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Fashion Show Chicago's Palmer House Ballroom to benefit the RUSH MEDICAL CENTER October< 14 2010 |
TOSCA NEW YORK participated in a fashion show-on October
14 2010 - in Chicago's Palmer House Ballroom to benefit the RUSH MEDICAL
CENTER. For 86 years already Celebrity Women of Chicago participate in
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Leslie Uggams wearing Tosca Couture June 14, 2010 |
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By STEPHEN HOLDEN April 1, 2010 Leslie Uggams wearing TOSCA COUTURE at her cabaret performance in the Cafe Carlyle, in New York City |
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AUGUST 30, 2009 |
The Liz Smith Column Speaking of opera, the great, glam soprano Renée Fleming is touring South Africa, performing in gowns designed by Henry Schickerling of … Tosca Couture!
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AUGUST 27, 2009 |
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'N FLADDER-VLINDER Dit was so byna-byna of dié plan het deur die mat geval omdat Fleming se konsert- en operaskedule só ongelooflik druk is dat tyd vir aanpas tussen die konserte en lughawens van Ecuador na New York en na waar ook al baie knap is. ’ n Verligte Schickerling het ná ’n pas-sessie in haar “reuse-apartment” in New York per e-pos laat weet dat alles goed afgeloop het. “Sy sal albei rokke in elke konsert dra.”
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AUGUST 22, 2009 |
The “People’s Diva” Renée Fleming in concert with the KZNPO: Durban (27/8), Pretoria (29/8) and Cape Town (01/9)
The inspiring world renowned soprano Renée Fleming –stunning in her vocal talent, beauty and versatility -- brings an historical concert visit to South Africa at the end of August 2009. Ms Fleming is one of the most celebrated and prominent sopranos of the 21st century. She participated in the Unisa International Voice Competition in Pretoria in 1984, but has not visited the country since. The “people’s diva” as the American soprano with “the voice of liquid gold” is widely known, will give only three exclusive concerts with the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra (KZNPO) on her first ever South African concert tour. She performs in Durban on 27 August in the City Hall, in the State Theatre in Pretoria on 29 August and in the Cape Town City Hall on Tuesday 1 September 2009. The two-time Grammy winner and ten times Grammy nominated artist, will come to South Africa on the heels of performing at London’s Covent Garden in La Traviata and filming in the palaces of St Petersburg in Russia. Ms Fleming has a wide repertoire and performs from baroque to bel canto and opera, and lighthearted songs. Her programme will include a number of her signature operatic arias, such as ‘Visi d’arte’ from Puccini’s Tosca and ‘O mio babbino caro’ from Gianni Schicci, ‘Summertime’ from Porgy and Bess and ‘I could have danced all night’ from My Fair Lady. Renée Fleming will also give a master class during her South African visit and will engage in other community initiatives. She will be wearing two creations during her concerts, designed by the South African fashion designer, Henry Schickerling, who has been living in New York for the past 25 years. He is a regular designer for opera stars. The soprano is the author of The Inner Voice, an intimate account of her career and creative processes. Her biography was published by Viking Penquin in 2004, and released in paperback by Penguin in 2005.
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AUGUST 2009
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OPERA-STER RENEE FLEMING SE MODE-ONTWERPER GESELS Die befaamde Amerikaanse sopraan Renée Fleming tree binnekort in Suid-Afrika op. Die Suid-Afrikaanse mode-ontwerper Henry Schickerling, wat reeds die afgelope 27 jaar in Amerika woon, het die uitrustings vir haar ontwerp. Hy het per e-pos uit New York met Marguerite van Wyk gesels.
Hoe lank ontwerp jy al vir Renée Fleming?
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AUGUSTUS 16, 2009
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 SA ONTWERPER KLEE OPERA-STERRE Die Amerikaanse sopraan Renée Fleming het 'n Suid-Afrikaanse konsertries later vandeesmaand. Die mode-ontwerper Henry Schickerling, wat sy geboorteland 'n kwarteeu gelede vir New York (via London, Milaan en Rome) verruil het, het twee van die rokke ontwerp wat Fleming op haar konsertreis sal dra. Schickerling is 'n groot operaliefhebber (sy onttwerpateljee is Tosca Couture, genoem na die gelyknamige Puccini-opera) en ken Fleming goed. Hy vertel hulle moes vir haar sketse van ontwerpe stuur terwyl sy in Convent Garden in London in die opera La traviata opgetree het. Vanwee haar vol program het sy haar eerste passing gekanselleer en hy het gemeen die tyd wat oor is, raak te min om die rokke betyds klaar te maak. Een oggend het haar kantoor geskakel en gese sy het 45 min. om aan te pas voordat sy na Suid-Amerika vertrek.
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AUGUST 30, 2009 ULT NEW YORK KOM DIE TOSCA COUTURE Skepping deur Henry Schickerling, Suid-Afrikaans gebore ontwerper. Die romp is met swart en wit voistruisvere versier - elke veer is met die hand vasgewerk. Die bostuk is met swart en wit kristalle geborduur, met enkele tarentaalvere tussenin.
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August 28, 2009 August 27, 2009
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 THRILLS AND TRILLS IN SOUTH AFRICA COUTURE World-renowned opera diva Renée Fleming performed in the Durban City Hall last night wearing gowns by a South African courturier. One of the most celebrated classical singers of our time, soprano Renée Fleming is known for her fashion sense, wearing clothes by designers such as Dior, Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Lacroix, Vivian Westwood, Oscar de la Renta and Bill Blass. But for her South African tour of Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban, she has chosen to wear gowns by South African designer Henry Schickerling, who now lives and works in New York. Those who can remember the 1970s and early 1980s and were vaguely interested in local fashion will recognise the name. Schickerling left for an international career in the mid-1980s. For the past decade he has been establishing his own line, Tosca Couture, in the US. A passionate opera follower, he can also be heard on local radio (RSG) on Sunday nights talking about opera and his operatic designs for another Metropolitan star, mezzo soprano Susan Graham. For the local concerts, Schickerling has designed two spectacular gowms for Fleming, one that she will wear onstage at the start of her performance, and the other, after the interval. It's a coup for this fashion veteran. He describes her as one of the best-dressed women in the US. He praises the diva as one of his easiest clients. "Because she's used to fitting costumes, she knows exactly what she wants and is easy to please," he says. If your company is called Tosca Couture, how could Fleming resist? DIVA: Soprano Renée Fleming in the Henry Schickerling creation that she wore on stage in the Durban City Hall last night.
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JUNE 27, 2009
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 SUSAN GRAHAM AT THE CARAMOOR INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL WEARING TOSCA COUTURE Caramoor International Music Festival, Katonah, N.Y. on Saturday with the mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and David Robertson conducting.
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NOVEMBER 16, 2008
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  THE FOURTH ANNUAL OPERA NEWS AWARDS AT NEW YORK'S HISTORIC PLAZA HOTEL On November 16, renowned American mezzo soprano SUSAN GRAHAM, 2005 Opera News Award-winner and star of the Met's new production of Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, and celebrated American baritone THOMAS HAMPSON, 2007 Opera News Award-winner and star of the Met's upcoming new production of Massenet's Thaïs, co-hosted the Fourth Annual Opera News Awards at New York's Historic Plaza Hotel. Susan Graham is wearing Tosca Couture on the cover of the OPERA NEWS as well at the OPERA NEWS AWARDS dinner.
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April 7-11, 2008
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 February 26, 2008
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TOSCA AS HENRY SE MUSE Henry Schickerling het Suid-Afrika 25 jaar gelede verlaat om 'n loopbaan in Amerika se modebedryf uit te kap. Johanna van Eeden het tydens 'n onlangse besoek aan sy geboorteland met dié ontwerper gesels.
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February 26, 2008
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 SUSAN GRAHAM WEARING "TOSCA COUTURE" AT CARNEGIE HALL The Chicago Symphony came to Carnegie Hall on Monday and Tuesday. On Tuesday it was the mezzo-soprano Susan Graham in Berlioz’s “Nuits d’été” opening up a vast range of expressive singing, from full-throttle outbursts to the most delicate wisps of sound.
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ANNUAL BARBARA SINATRA FASHION LUNCHEON A delicious luncheon and a beautiful fashion show have made the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center Luncheon, held during the Feb.22-24 Countrywide Frank Sinatra Invitational, one of the desert's most popular events. Part of the success of the luncheon held at the Renaissance Esmeralda in Indian Wells is the planning by a group of volunteers including Nelda Linsk, luncheon chairman, who has assumed this responsibility for the past 20 years. More than 800 men and women (the ladies were in the majority) attended this year's luncheon featuring the couture collection from Tosca Couture by Henry Schickerling available at Chantelle on El Paseo.
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January 24, 2008
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SUSAN GRAHAM CO-HOSTS THE 2008 OPERA NEWS AWARDS Susan Graham and Deborah Voight at the Opera News Award Grand Ballroom at the Pierre Hotel Manhattan. Ms. Graham is wearing our brown tafetta jacket and black and brown lace gown. Watch video clip from Bloomberg News
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 December 20, 2007 |
 Judge Judy Scheindlin & Cindy Adams - both wearing TOSCA at the American Women Radio & Television Awards
Judge Judy Scheindlin wearing an olive - gold laser cut TOSCA jacket over a matching satin backed silk crepe gown at the Children of Chernobyl benefit.
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December 18, 2007 |
  
WINDOWS AT SAKS FIFTH AVENUE IN PALM BEACH Evening trunk show featuring the Spring 2008 Collection
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Leslie Uggams @ The Emmy's October 1, 2007 |
 
ROOTING FOR ROOTS @ The Emmy's
Leslie Uggams wearing Tosca Couture gown to the Emmy's "The
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April 19, 2007
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SAKS HOSTS TOSCA COUTURE TRUNK SHOW Saks Fifth Avenue in Utica Square will host a trunk show of Tosca Couture on Thursday and Friday featuring designer Henry Schickerling. Henry Schickerling seems a bit tired of black. "It gets a bit drab when you walk around in New York and everyone wears black," said Schickerling, the designer behind Tosca Couture, during a recent phone interview from New York. Perhaps that's why his spring collection brims with vibrant color in luxe European fabrics, which you can see for yourself when Schickerling comes to Tulsa this week. Saks Fifth Avenue in Utica Square will host a trunk show of Tosca Couture on Thursday and Friday, during which time customers can meet the designer. A native of South Africa, Schickerling came to New York via London, Milan and Rome. A graduate of the Tailor & Cutter Academy of London, he worked in Italy as an assistant to Mila Schon and Pino Lancetti. Once in New York, Schickerling met Marion Milenovic, a sales executive who worked at Oscar de la Renta for 18 years. Together, they opened Tosca Couture, a collection of glamorous special occasion and black tie gowns and cocktail dresses. The key colors are rich and sumptuous -- champagne, raisin, navy and chocolate, said Jessica Penner at Saks. Custom beadwork in jewel tones figure into the collection, as does ever-luxurious black. Fabrics are European re-embroidered lace, dreamy chiffons, figure-flattering taffetas and silk, Penner said, and the silhouettes are body-conscious. "Tosca creates your own pattern for you, so the size is yours, not what the designer says is an 8, which is amazing," Penner said. "They can do any size and will measure you themselves in a private consultation."
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SUSAN GRAHAM: AMERICAN MEZZO SOPRANO Susan Graham as she appears in the French magazine "Madame Figaro" (March 2007). She was photographed by the French photographer Richard Schlang wearing Tosca Couture and Van Cleef & Arpel jewelery. Miss Graham will be appearing at the Opera Garnier in March wearing Tosca Couture for her recital.
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 TAKING A TWO-CENTURY VOYAGE THROUGH THE MUSIC OF FRANCE Susan Graham, American Mezzo soprano wearing Tosca Couture gown for her recital on Monday Janaury 29, 2007 at the Carnegie Hall- New York City. She will sing a concert of French songs... The Merlot Irridescent Silk Tafetta gown took 20 yards of fabric. She ordered the dress last Monday and we had a week to make the gown. She had her first fitting this afternoon and it must be delivered on Monday afternoon to the Carnegie Hall.
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By CINDY ADAMS
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April 20, 2007 ... And greeting Larry King, surrounded by his producer Wendy, his wife, Shawn, his son, brother, aunt, probably even his bookie, was Judge Judy in a $500,000 necklace and mismatched suit. "Would you believe Henry Schickerling of Tosca custom-made my suit? It was four fittings," she said. So God knows I wouldn't say anything, but why black silk pants that don't match the black silk top? "Because I grabbed the wrong hanger." Only in New York, kids, only in New York. ... |
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December 17, 2004 ... The First Libby told me: "And for the presidential inauguration I'm wearing TOSCA. Emerald green taffeta gown, low scoop neckline. I haven't seen it yet. TOSCA's designing it for me specially..." |
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| September 2, 2002 ... George Pataki introduces George Bush tonight. Cameras will be trained on Libby. What's she wearing? "A bright color, teal blue, because that pops. It's made by TOSCA." - At the GOP convention
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NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA HONORS HURRICANE RESCUE HEROES AND MOST OUTSTANDING ANIMAL CHAMPIONS OF 2005 Awards to be Bestowed at 5th Annual Lewyt Humane Awards Luncheon on October 26 Along with the awards ceremony, luncheon attendees will be treated to a private viewing of Tosca Couture's 2005 Fall and Holiday Collection. Taking part in the fashion show will be some of the adorable cats and dogs rescued along the Gulf Coast. There will also be silent and live auctions and a raffle. Beth Ostrosky, Model and Actress, shown here in a stretch velour dress by TOSCA Couture. Beth is the spokesperson for the North Shore Animal League and was honored at the TOSCA Couture's 2005 Fall and Holiday Collection Fashion Show. Models wearing designs from TOSCA Couture's 2005 Fall and Holiday Collection.
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January 18, 2005
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 IT'S SHOWTIME IN THE BELTWAY
WASHINGTON — Inaugural week kicks off today and veterans of this event had some wardrobe advise, especially for those who aren’t going to be squired around in VIP motorcades that choke city streets at this time... Libby Pataki will wear an emerald green taffeta TOSCA Couture gown with a boned bodice and a plunging ruffled neckline. "This is really a case where less is more," she said. "The gown is formal, but not in a 'Gone With the Wind' sort of way - in a stately way."
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November 2004
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  JUDITH LIGHT DRESSES FOR GILDA! Cover shot of Actress Judith Light wearing a Black and Pink Lazar Cut One Shouldered Gown by TOSCA Couture. Judith Light wearing an opulently beaded bordeaux gown by TOSCA Couture.
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December 31, 2002
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 BEYOND RISQUÉ BUSINESS Dressing the women of New York is risky business, says Henry Schickerling, who has just opened a showroom, TOSCA Couture, in Manhattan. "You have to learn about them," he said. "It is quite different than the European look." Mr. Schickerling, who has worked in Milan and London, added that European women do not really care as much about their bodies," while New York women are fairly obsessed with them. When he was asked to design the dress that Libby Pataki, will wear at her husband's inauguration this week, Mr. Schickerling faced a different problem, he said. "You have to make sure you don't offend anyone," he said. "It can't be cut too low, too daring or too fitted." Mr. Schickerling pointed to the disasterous outfit Princess Diana wore on her first public outing with PRINCE CHARLES. She was wearing a black velvet dress,and when she got out of the car, "you could practically see her navel," he said. Fortunately, he said, Mrs. Pataki had a good idea what she wanted. She will be wearing a Bordeaux-colored suit of woolen silk with a burgundy velvet collar and matching cuffs.
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