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we look back at a recent interview that Nowness conducted with the great designer Sir Terence Conran. a 26-year-old American model, took the stage at the prestigious TEDx series of talks , and delivered a nine-minute lecture in which she said her success was the result of "winning the genetic lottery" and called herself a "pretty, skinny, white woman" who was a v Louis Vuitton cruise 2011beneficiary of a "legacy of gender and racial oppression", she caused more than a few ripples in the fashion pond. Russell has been a high-ranking model for over a decade now, fronting advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein , Ralph Lauren , Armani and Prada ; she has stalked the catwalk for Victoria's Secret and, earlier this summer, was shot by Steven Meisel for the cover of Italian Vogue - one of the most coveted spots in modelling. But, funnily enough, it is her TEDx talk that has really propelled her into the limelight.

 It's had almost 2.4 million views since it was posted online in January. By contrast, a talk at the same event by Colin Powell, the former US Secre We just don't talk about how great design plays into the way we travel enough, and they've asked Conran specifically about his Louis Vuitton epi leatherinterior designs for a refit of the Concorde, plans that were never realized since the planes were grounded in 2003 after safety concerns.he-grid looks that were winning her contracts in her late twenties; she’s been recruited by Klein, DKNY, Prada and the discerning Tom Ford to front campaigns. “To me, Lara is part Marlon Brando, part Thelonious Monk and part Robert Mitchum. She’s big, bad and beautiful,” photographer Bruce Weber has said of her unique look. Discovered at 15 on the Paris Metro while on a holiday with her parents, Stone didn’t

 immediately find success, almost giving up Louis Vuitton monogram idyllebefore she caught the eye of Ricardo Tisci, who booked her exclusively in 2006 for the Givenchy fall couture collection. Since then, the now 29-year-old mother has been on a continuous upward trajectory, one that shows no signs of levelling out. Conran, whose sleek, often mid-century modern furniture designs are classics and who is behind some of our favorite stores, The Conran Shops, was all set to revolutionize aircraft interior design with the Concorde refit. His work on the project referenced classic Eames designs to make all 100 privileged Concorde passengers feel more comfortable as well as more stylish, just by sitting there as they flew at a height of 60,000 feet above the Earth. The brief interview—read all of it HERE—also touches on his idea to change the lighting of the plane once it broke the sound barrier, and what is his concept of modern luxury. It's a beautiful little piece of reading for a snow day like today; it's only too bad w