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...“And I think the V is about a superhero.”...
...In the liberated 1960s, alongside revivals of Art Nouveau and a vogue for the graphics of Aubrey Beardsley (who illustrated Wilde’s Salome) following a 1966 V&A retrospective, peacocking young men of various...
...Victoria Beckham cotton V-neck top (worn underneath), £390. Santoni leather Penny loafer shoes, £505. Pantherella cotton ribbed socks, £16....
...One whose reputation has suffered is Salo Flohr, the world No2 behind Alexander Alekhine in the early 1930s....
...Puzzle 2552 Keres v Laszlo Szabo, Budapest 1955. White to move and win. How did Keres defeat the top Hungarian player of his time? Click here for solution...
...From there, Johnsen narrowed the list down to four fragrances, with two last-minute submissions coming from Epinette (Lesedi La Rona III and V)....
...Jonathan Anderson chopped out V-shaped peepholes on fleshy chests and based many of his clothes on “the mundane object” — weird moulded shoes designed to recall the claw feet of Georgian furniture, wide...
...When a V-neck is deep enough to show a bra’s centre gore, she can steal fabric from a deep hem to fill it in....
...s archive includes letters, set designs, thousands of slides, contact sheets and transparencies from photographers such as Terry O’Neill and Helmut Newton, as well as costumes made by fashion designers Alexander...
...Or being given a Mk V Spitfire and doing a village fête display,” says Romain excitedly. “It’s fantastic.”...
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...The V&A show aims to reclaim the word by focusing on the power of star performances, where image is often key....
...Alexander McQueen appeared with Sarah Jessica Parker, both rather awkwardly swathed in yards of tartan, at the Met Gala in 2006. And so much more....
...“Africa fashion, rather than African fashion,” asserts Dr Christine Checinska, curator of African and African diaspora fashion at the V&A and lead curator of this exhibition....
...“Losing the shirt gives you a really clean V-section. It’s quite subversive but sophisticated. Showing a bit of skin in summer is about as racy as a man can get.”...
...She enrolled in an illustration course at Goldsmiths, where she met her future husband, Alexander Plunket Greene....
...Vintage gloves were appliquéd to elbows and the back of jackets — they flashed a V-sign, either for victory or peace. Simons achieved both....
...Decades ago Hugh Alexander, the FT columnist and Bletchley and GCHQ codebreaker, used to say that backward diagonal queen moves were the easiest to overlook. Evidently Alexander was right . . ....
...creative input on which designer is asked to take part; instead, she thinks her main contribution, other than the money, is to get the programme (which started in 1999, and has also showcased Philip Treacy or Alexander...
...Puzzle 2498 Gyula Breyer v Kornel Havasi, Budapest 1918. White to move and win. Both kings are exposed, but White can strike first. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2488 Nikita Vitiugov v Vladimir Kosyrev, Wroclaw 2014. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...As always you can reach me at sid.v@ft.com....
...Alexander Parkes, who mixed camphor and nitrocellulose to make solid mouldable sheets, exhibited knife handles made of his new material, branded Parkesine, at the International Exhibition of 1862....
...Even the lighting design (blood red, acid green and molten gold flooding the brutalist set) and the band’s instruments (a circular keyboard, Flying V guitars) seemed fantastical....
...Highlights include the miso cucumber with seaweed caviar and the black sangohachi aubergine – both are well worth getting lost for. cookiescream.com Alexander Tyndall Café Gratitude, Los Angeles As someone...
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