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...Statement Sleeves, a new exhibition drawing on the museum’s permanent collection of 50,000 garments with nearly 80 examples from fashion history, including pieces by Balenciaga, Tom Ford, Elsa Schiaparelli, Ossie...
...“Dale and Mo” hug on Hockney’s bed in Notting Hill....
...But there is something for everyone.” 245 Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill, London W11 2SE Portobello Market, Notting Hill, London “Friday morning is the best,” says Garnett....
...For a dozen years he occupied its epicentre, living in a minimal white duplex in Notting Hill Gate with fashion designer Ossie Clark around one corner and David Hockney around another....
...On the day it was painted, we went round to David’s studio in Powis Terrace, Notting Hill....
...Andrew Hill, FT management editor ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… History The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, by David Abulafia, Allen Lane, RRP£30 An outstanding study of one...
...Their friendship proved lasting, and when Hepburn left Europe for America to star in the Broadway production of Gigi in 1951 – having cut her acting teeth in Ealing comedies such as The Lavender Hill Mob...
...I bought the property for its spectacular views of Cardiff Bay, the hills and the city. Recently, my neighbour’s house was on sale for £750,000. Have you made any pension provision?...
...He means the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style, a series of plaques awarded to fashion and style legends that are embedded into a Beverly Hills pavement. “Yes, the Walk of Style....
...A few minutes away are the Wolds, the rolling hills and broad pastures of agricultural land that Hockney calls “the least changed bit of England that I know”....
...They too form a manifesto of sorts, for they depict the far horizons, low skies, tumbling hills and tapering, unpeopled roads of an unchanging English landscape in ways that deliberately emphasise paint’...
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