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...“And I think the V is about a superhero.”...
...In the liberated 1960s, alongside revivals of Art Nouveau and a vogue for the graphics of Aubrey Beardsley (who illustrated Wilde’s Salome) following a 1966 V&A retrospective, peacocking young men of various...
...Victoria Beckham cotton V-neck top (worn underneath), £390. Santoni leather Penny loafer shoes, £505. Pantherella cotton ribbed socks, £16....
...One whose reputation has suffered is Salo Flohr, the world No2 behind Alexander Alekhine in the early 1930s....
...Puzzle 2552 Keres v Laszlo Szabo, Budapest 1955. White to move and win. How did Keres defeat the top Hungarian player of his time? Click here for solution...
...Domestic manufacturing was central to the foundation of the US, with Alexander Hamilton convincing the first Congress that “the price of American economic and political independence” would be a combination...
...Jonathan Anderson chopped out V-shaped peepholes on fleshy chests and based many of his clothes on “the mundane object” — weird moulded shoes designed to recall the claw feet of Georgian furniture, wide...
...When a V-neck is deep enough to show a bra’s centre gore, she can steal fabric from a deep hem to fill it in....
...🤠 HMRC v Premier Foods Ltd (2007) is an epochally important case that considered whether a fruit bar was confectionery....
...s archive includes letters, set designs, thousands of slides, contact sheets and transparencies from photographers such as Terry O’Neill and Helmut Newton, as well as costumes made by fashion designers Alexander...
...Or being given a Mk V Spitfire and doing a village fête display,” says Romain excitedly. “It’s fantastic.”...
...In the UK and the USA it is illegal. Users such as Cox don’t consider it to be “drugs” but “medicine”. “It’s not recreational,” he points out. “It is deep, healing, transformative work....
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...“The USA has recognised what they have to do for their [country] — Germany and Europe must do the same”, she said, referring to the US Inflation Reduction Act....
...The V&A show aims to reclaim the word by focusing on the power of star performances, where image is often key....
...“The USA has recognised what they have to do for their [country] — Germany and Europe must do the same”, she said, in reference to the US Inflation Reduction Act, which includes $369bn of subsidies for green...
...Alexander McQueen appeared with Sarah Jessica Parker, both rather awkwardly swathed in yards of tartan, at the Met Gala in 2006. And so much more....
...“Africa fashion, rather than African fashion,” asserts Dr Christine Checinska, curator of African and African diaspora fashion at the V&A and lead curator of this exhibition....
...“Losing the shirt gives you a really clean V-section. It’s quite subversive but sophisticated. Showing a bit of skin in summer is about as racy as a man can get.”...
...She enrolled in an illustration course at Goldsmiths, where she met her future husband, Alexander Plunket Greene....
...Vintage gloves were appliquéd to elbows and the back of jackets — they flashed a V-sign, either for victory or peace. Simons achieved both....
...Decades ago Hugh Alexander, the FT columnist and Bletchley and GCHQ codebreaker, used to say that backward diagonal queen moves were the easiest to overlook. Evidently Alexander was right . . ....
...Puzzle 2479 Danyyil Dvirnyy v Judit Polgar, Yerevan 2014. Black to move and win. How did the all-time No1 woman exploit White’s exposed king?...
...The USA’s Hans Niemann, 19, famously defeated Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, sparking an ongoing saga of withdrawals, accusations and lawsuits that remain unresolved....
...creative input on which designer is asked to take part; instead, she thinks her main contribution, other than the money, is to get the programme (which started in 1999, and has also showcased Philip Treacy or Alexander...
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