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...Acts announced so far include Andrea Bocelli and Robbie Williams — with plenty more to come. 2023’s line-up included Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Guns N’ Roses....
...True blue denim was a big feature throughout — Hedi Slimane’s Celine show included 18 pairs of jeans, usually slightly faded and cut wide at the leg; at Givenchy, designer Matthew Williams paired simple...
...Givenchy designer Matthew Williams is very much feeling the need to push boundaries — or at least to define what the LVMH-owned house stands for in the wake of Clare Waight Keller’s departure last year....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...On November 22 the judge in the case, Matthew Brann, dismissed the lawsuit in a scathing 37-page opinion....
...“The future is here,” William Gibson has said, “it’s just unevenly distributed.”...
...Though the estate belongs to the National Trust, the house, former home of William Waldorf Astor, is operated as a hotel by Iconic Luxury Hotels....
...On the night of victory, he quoted from Henry V to his rapturous disciples. Hannan may be a cerebral speaker but he could not have run a winning campaign. Enter Matthew Elliott....
...So Shakespeare wrote a speech for another play in that year of 1599: Henry V, in which the day of Crispin and Crispinian is reclaimed for God, for King Harry, England and St George....
...(NYT, TNR) Hillary Clinton v herself No one in Camp Clinton thought this campaign would be a cakewalk. But does it have to be this hard? A long look inside the former secretary of state’s campaign....
...Serena v Venus....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...Neil Williams, group chief economist, Hermes Investment Management Not much change....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...George V is described as “The Unexpected King”....
...V and the as-yet-unnamed little one – that may well last into the 22nd century....
...If Murray’s window of opportunity shuts, the next champ may have to wait until William V. Janowicz took the first set on a tie-break. Murray broke serve at the start of the second and clung on....
...Butterfield tells us that the first winner of the prize, Thomas William Allies, is best remembered for this precocious achievement; nothing in his subsequent career matched it....
...John V. Orth, William Rand Kenan, Jr Professor of Law, University of North Carolina, US...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...The banner-writers got their wish eventually when Fara Williams came on as substitute. In the 88th minute. Better luck next time, Fara....
...Matthew Engel is an FT columnist...
...There is a looming problem for the putative William V, too. What if his first child is a daughter, who could then be superseded by a son?...
...matthew.engel@ft.com Matthew Engel ’s Dispatch appears fortnightly....
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