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...At Joyau, drinking a beautiful 2020 Maison En Belles Lies Aligoté as trains to Barking rumbled overhead, it seemed I’d found what I was looking for....
...I let the last tune drift and in perfect timing “La Belle Vie” comes on. I go to fill his glass. I notice that another guest has managed to slip in unannounced....
...De Wolfe was close friends with Lady Duff-Gordon, better known as Lucile, another pioneering Belle Époque couturier, and a survivor of the Titanic....
...Anna Berkeley is a London-based personal stylist and style columnist for FT Weekend....
...But I will have more frivolous reading on hand, from Kirstin Chen’s Counterfeit, a smart take on complicated friendships and murky tales in the world of counterfeit handbags, to Amy Odell’s biography of Anna...
...Anna McMorrin, Labour shadow minister, was recorded telling activists: “I hope eventually that we will get back into the single market and customs union.”...
...Proprietor Anna Tobias is a Rochelle Canteen and River Café-alumna, and the menu features accordingly clever and straightforward food: egg mayonnaise crowned with an anchovy, roast chicken with tomatoes...
...Tod’s neon tote bag is transformed into a citrus Victoria sponge; Valentino’s vivid green printed gown as a pistachio bavarois with Amarena cherry; while editor Anna Wintour has been immortalised as an iced...
...Graduates of the local Belle Arti academy, tattooed and dreadlocked in paint-splattered overalls, stood on ladders, meticulously cleaning final sections of spectacular scenes: languid maids in translucent...
...off Canal Saint-Martin, this cosy spot remains one of the best for its house blends with food prepared by its co-founder, the English chef and St John alumna Anna Trattles....
...The part-Belle Epoque, part-prairie-style frock is by Batsheva Hay, a former New York lawyer whose brand emerged from an effort to coordinate with her husband’s conversion to orthodox Judaism....
...At the time, the painter was a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Bologna. Blessed with connections in the ministry of education, he was released within a few days....
...came to terms with revolution, lost the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 — when Kaiser Wilhelm had himself crowned in the Hall of Mirrors, provoking Clemenceau’s desire for vengeance — triumphed during the Belle...
...And in The Belle of New Orleans, the slaves will even have lines....
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...Unusual vertical figures with luxuriant folds of flesh — “Seated Nude”, “La Belle Romaine” — arrest us with startling arabesque poses....
...Earlier this month death threats were levelled against Anna Gabriel, a member of the Catalan parliament from the anarchist pro-independence CUP party....
...Its director Amma Asante also made Belle, the story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, 18th-century daughter of a British Naval officer and an enslaved African woman, raised in London’s Kenwood House....
...Directed by Catherine Corsini, 2015 Curzon It’s France, it’s la belle saison, it’s 1971, and Delphine (Izïa Higelin) escapes drudgery on her parents’ Limousin farm to head for Paris....
...artbasel.com/miami-beach/events Photograph: Anna Huix...
...“If they want to bring that model here, they have to explain why,” says Albert Rivera, leader of the centre-right Ciudadanos....
...cried Anna Dello Russo, the Bari-born editor-at-large of Vogue Japan and herself quite the modern embodiment of the Italian abroad....
...His not-so-grand finale took the slickly sensational form of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Anna Nicole, presented to relatively small audiences and limited acclaim in Brooklyn six weeks ago....
...Look out for Francisco Nicolas’s Magritte-inspired “picture windows”, Chris Otley’s graphite draughtsmanship, Maria Konstanse Bruun’s witty self-portraiture and Anna Savvina’s surrealist photography....
...Around the same time, he also bought a Belle Époque house in via Donizetti, from Leonardo Mondadori of the Milanese publishing family....
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