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...“And the famous Affair of the Necklace — which hastened Queen Marie-Antoinette’s execution [after her name was falsely used in a theft] — is said to have contributed to the revolution.”...
...“It’s had very bad effects,” concurs Marie Helene Pereira of the Dakar-based RAW Material Company....
...If you encounter a silk square embroidered with “I’ve been to Hell and back and let me tell you it was wonderful”, it’s quite hard not to send it to Liza Minnelli....
...Two of the film’s characters – Betty Catroux, a model, friend and muse of Saint Laurent, and Anne Marie Muñoz, one of his closest collaborators – were entirely dressed and accessorised in original Saint...
...historical gallery, objects are displayed in dark wood-framed cupboards that evoke Victorian cabinets of curiosities, alongside mannequins and drawers: some containing lingerie bags that belonged to Queen Marie...
...Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World By Liza Mundy Allen Lane £20, 406 pages FT bookshop price: £16 A folksy romp through the US fertility industry and...
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