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...Alexander Melnikov was the fortepiano soloist in the Piano Concerto No 23, K488, nearly inaudible in this huge hall....
...Alexander Pym, Wellcome’s head of infectious diseases, said it had taken so long to take M72 into a large-scale clinical trial partly because the pathogen’s complex lifecycle — lying dormant in the patient...
...She enrolled in an illustration course at Goldsmiths, where she met her future husband, Alexander Plunket Greene....
...David Bowie’s vast collection of personal items — including flamboyant Ziggy Stardust costumes, handwritten lyrics and the Stylophone used in “Space Oddity” — has been donated to the UK’s Victoria and Albert...
...The latest collections prove that cobalt is as exciting as ever – be it a mud-stained clog at Balenciaga or via Alexander McQueen in a double-breasted suit....
...Hair, Alexander Soltermann at Home. Make-up, Ruben Masoliver at Walter Schupfer. Photographer’s assistant, Vassili Boclé. Digital Operator, Sarah Reimann at Imagin....
...But last weekend, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a new exhibition opened that champions and celebrates not another city, but an entire continent: Africa....
...Round on the Links The link was Only Fools and Horses Trotter Lyndhurst Rodney Marsh Raquel Welch Royal Albert Hall Costa del Sol Jason (Momoa and Alexander) Cassandra “Grandad” Millionaires...
...Georgacopoulos points to Alexander McQueen and Simone Rocha as early instigators....
...After Prince Albert died in 1861, Queen Victoria set a fashion for mourning jewellery made from the black gemstone jet. “Jet was very expensive,” says Katz. “ . . ....
...My father [Albert Yaying Xu] designed the acoustics in these spaces....
...I visited Alexander Pope’s grotto beside the Thames near Strawberry Hill, Twickenham....
...If such statements had been made and recorded with reference to the disputed death of the Czar Alexander I in 1825, plenty of historians would have been ready to take them seriously.”...
...The archive in Levi’s San Francisco headquarters keeps a letter alongside artefacts including Steve Jobs’ 501s and Albert Einstein’s tobacco-stained jacket....
...Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 19 March–6 November. In partnership with Gucci. Casting, Sarah Booth at Ben Grimes Casting....
...As the economist Albert O Hirschman argued more than half a century ago, the ease of exit weakens voice and loyalty....
...Nineteenth-century autocrats were sufficiently threatened by the flourishing of Ukrainian writing to pay it the backhanded compliment of a ban issued by Tsar Alexander II in 1876 on all Ukrainian-language...
...Burn after reading Remember the texts that commission president Ursula von der Leyen exchanged with Pfizer boss Albert Bourla last year when trying to secure doses of its vaccine?...
...My first post-pandemic red carpet, at the Royal Albert Hall premiere for the latest Bond instalment No Time to Die, made me realise just how much evening dress has changed in recent years....
...Protective and transparent, the latter are used in many “working archives” such as those of the fashion house Alexander McQueen, where garments need to be seen....
...A selection of such regal eggs will go on display in November in an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London....
...the past two decades, including Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (2015) and Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up (2018)....
...The author, Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, a 23-year-old German Jew, wrote it at vertiginous speed in exile in 1938....
...Cecil Beaton acquired one of his satin jumpsuits for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s costume collection and included his work in the groundbreaking 1971 exhibition Fashion: An Anthology....
...The list of artists she exhibited over 40 years is extraordinary, and includes Georges Braque, André Derain, Henri Manguin and Albert Marquet, as well as many unknown today....
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