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...In truth, though, Crisp’s amazing scholarship was very largely his own: he could tell you which shelf at the Victoria and Albert Museum to visit when researching Renaissance dance....
...Albert encouraged them to tend the plots with the bribe that he would buy their produce for Osborne’s kitchen. Like the other garden-obsessed power brokers Albert’s interest was more than an escape....
...call on him at the tall, narrow house in Notting Hill Gate, west London, where he lived with the scholar and art historian, John Pope-Hennessy, then the formidably imperious director of the Victoria and Albert...
...Number three was singer Roisin Murphy, appearing at Swarovski’s Fashion Rocks at the Royal Albert Hall. And the clothes worn by (1) and (3) were, well, clothes – not costumes....
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