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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...There they found two adjacent steel posts, wired together and chained with a padlock, each bearing an identical red and white sign: NO TRESPASSINGElk Mountain Ranch307-348-7140 Between the posts and embedded...
...They are even allowed to sell their French wines direct to American consumers....
...News round-up Freshfields’ former tax partner sentenced to 3½ years in jail (FT) Zurich’s sale of $20bn life insurance book to PE-backed group collapses (FT) Sotheby’s cleared of art fraud in Russian...
...and 18th centuries, women’s corsets in Paris were exclusively made by men; husbands laced their wives into them both as assertion of the brute force needed to whittle the waist down, and as an apocryphal insurance...
...April 5 to 14; further information here OUTshine A post-Pride film festival dedicated to perspectives on the LGBTQ+ experience....
...“It is about black Britain and what it is to be working class,” he says of his Converge gilet, for example, which was acquired by the V&A for its collection in 2021. “It is descriptive of urban life....
...With affable co-owner Gabriel Stulman front of house, Sailor’s ambitions are every city dweller’s dream: an intimate, neighbourhood spot that also happens to be world class....
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...With Life Magazine and Picture Post, the photo essay was born. Photographers working during this period shaped the aesthetics of war photography for decades to come....
...This hyper-techno-optimism consumes Luckey’s personal life too....
...Haley’s Palm Beach billionaire donors include Citadel’s Ken Griffin, Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone, KKR co-founder Henry Kravis and former Goldman Sachs banker and private equity investor Chris Flowers...
...It’s an example of a new type of “anti-cancel culture” university, whose backers are united in the view that American education is defective....
...But they offer a snapshot of how workers have been able to command higher wages in the US’s post-pandemic economy....
...As a result, she says, the V&A has acquired works including the Beautiful ring from the A Beautiful Life series by London-based American jeweller Jacqueline Rabun and an Ebony Revolution necklace by Simone...
...The recently-completed Dangote refinery in Nigeria is purchasing American crude oil, described as “a sign of just how competitive American barrels have become in the global market.”...
...Later, Li co-founded the Asian American Foundation, raising $1.1bn to counter an outpouring of anti-Asian racism in the wake of the pandemic....
...Richard Beech is co-founder of Electroheads, a London-based e-bike and scooter ecommerce brand....
...The Americans did a lot of diplomacy on this. The truth of the matter is we have not seen it at all in the south. On the contrary, we’ve seen it grow more.”...
...The OK Foundry, an industrial iron foundry near Richmond, Virginia, was a recent collaborator, while the RCP2 chair by British designer Jane Atfield — the first chair produced from post-consumer recycled...
...Yoojin Choi was co-curator of “Hallyu!...
...It’s just exploring what I want in life right now.”...
...And two, that yes, that will make life easier for some industries like food and drink or chemicals or cars, etc....
...In this version of London, Soho House members club has turned Richard Rogers’ former Lloyds Insurance building into a multistorey, 24-hour nightclub....
...Ethan WuSo Michela and I are going to be co-hosting today, asking questions to our two esteemed Unhedged panellists....
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