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...Kylie Minogue’s Diesel dress had trompe l’oeil breasts and a trompe l’oeil belly button....
...De Profundis: Oscar Wilde at L’Hotel, 75006 Paris, 18 to 22 October, by appointment at wilde@danielmalarkey.com danielmalarkey.com...
...The film has impressed critics and festival juries: awarded the L’Œil d’Or documentary prize at Cannes last year, Four Daughters is now competing for an Oscar in the best documentary feature category....
...However, during last year’s Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève — the Oscars of the watch world — a new type of home-build kit beat the established ready-made creators, such as L’Epée 1839, Matthew Norman...
...Until March 3; further information and tickets here ‘Loading: L’art urbain à l’ère numérique’ (Loading: Urban Art in the Digital Age), Grand Palais Immersif An exhibition exploring the evolution of urban...
...Which American financial crisis of the 1980s and 90s was commonly abbreviated to the “S & L crisis”? Click here for the answers...
...A tank dress in putty-coloured sequins and baguette rhinestones presented a more wearable option for the Oscars, (perhaps minus the trompe l’oeil outline of boxer shorts)....
...A three-month internship at Oscar de la Renta (where she worked with Adam Lippes) became a five-year job, before she went on to work at Alberta Ferretti and Bottega Veneta (with Tomas Maier)....
...Blanchard was first introduced to Lemmons through a friend when she began searching for a composer for her 1997 directorial debut Eve’s Bayou, a gothic drama starring Samuel L Jackson....
...A golf buggy pulls up to the whitewashed curvilinear Oscar Niemeyer pavilion, and in swaggers the artist Damien Hirst....
...His appointment is already paying dividends: in September, the orchestra announced it had received an endowment of $40mn from its co-chair Oscar L Tang and his wife Agnes Hsu-Tang in Dudamel’s name — the...
...But it’s worth it, to quote L’Oréal.” The film’s scale is such that we also now see a trace of history repeating in real time. For much of the shoot, modernity was mostly defined by Covid....
...Curiosities include Afuega’l Pitu, whose chalky texture and piquant taste you either love or loathe, and the strange Casín, a tiny, rock-hard, powerfully flavoured cheese rescued from imminent extinction...
...Although the port of Le Havre, in northern France, is a modern concrete grid, at the harbour it is easy to imagine the schoolboy Oscar-Claude Monet, a short, wiry, restless child who went completely off...
...March 30 to July 28; further information here Performance ‘Salome’, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Richard Strauss’s operatic adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play....
...Oscar Wilde put a similar sentiment another way: “It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.”...
...There are embossed and gilded friezes, trompe l’oeil painted doors, William Morris wallpapers and ceramics arranged on a plate rail in the dining room....
...The last podcast I listened to was Picasso: Séparer l’homme de l’artiste, an episode from Julie Beauzac’s feminist podcast series. It really upset me. I had no idea the guy was such a monster....
...“You can’t be nude [in public], but you can wear costumes with trompe l’oeil body parts,” she says. “Absurd! Here, I’ll show you.”...
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...Of course, the Oscars red carpet isn’t just about self-expression....
...Marlee Matlin, who stars in Apple TV’s Oscar-winning movie CODA, has insisted that “deaf is not a costume” and has argued that only deaf actors should play deaf roles....
...Images of it appeared on romantic postcards (L’Artillerie de L’Amour) and on postcards the military gave to servicemen to send home from the front....
...The Grammy and Oscar-winning singer used the technology in October 2020 to perform 13 songs in a virtual concert titled Where Do We Go?....
...Scheufele reckons that 17,000 man-hours went into developing and making the brand’s first minute repeater, 2016’s Full Strike, which carried off the Aiguille d’Or prize at the 2017 watch industry Oscars,...
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