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...The mesmerising “What Floats Beneath” was beautifully poised, and the finale steadily built in volume before fading to a whisper....
...it was a fitting finale to what had been an epic Commonwealth Games....
...“Bluesit” is the finale, a rollicking shuffle with solos for all and a dead stop ending. ★★★☆☆ ‘The Heavy Hitters’ is released by Cellar Music Group...
...For that reason — and in homage to the superstitions of Christian Dior the man — the finale was composed of starry night prints taken from deep space images from Nasa....
...The finale couture outfits were inspired by Africa and made from natural materials such as bark and branches (Rousteing’s birth parents come from the Somali Peninsula)....
...MM6 Maison Margiela, Alexander McQueen and Staud have everything you need from mini to maxi, or you could go for the full Canadian tuxedo with matching sets from Self-Portrait.”...
...Then, designer Lee McQueen surprised guests with a haunting finale that featured models floating above a bed of nails....
...For the finale, two art handlers placed an oil painting on the stage as a model stuck her painted face through a cut-out and stepped through the frame to wear the artwork like a poncho....
...Styles draws on numerous androgynous pop culture pioneers for his image — David Bowie and Freddie Mercury obviously, but also contemporary talents such as Olly Alexander....
...The 40 or so Valentino couture clients present for the occasion roared their agreement at the show’s finale. Find out about our latest stories first — follow @financialtimesfashion on Instagram...
...The on-form male corps power through their precision-drilled routines and the lusty peasant finale....
...The Queen returned to her eye-catching colours with a surprise appearance at the grand finale of Sunday’s pageant....
...“I remember being 11 years old and watching the ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’ video for the first time,” says 31-year-old actor and musician Olly Alexander, who released the single “A Second to Midnight...
...Saudi Arabia’s unexpected supply cuts are likely to be cheered by rival producers, with Russia’s Opec+ representative, deputy prime minister Alexander Novak, describing it as a “great new year present” to...
...But then came the glorious grande finale: a chocolate panettone bread-and-butter pudding with orange custard. I don’t even like custard....
...They dress Beyoncé and Madonna, and as of Friday night Sister Sledge, who came out singing “We Are Family” at their show finale against a backdrop of images of the designers with their family of fans, after...
...The unravelling of the American global order is explored in Exit from Hegemony (OUP RRP$29.95, February/RRP£22.99, May) by Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon, who lay out how US global power is changing...
...Sitting in his customary box, superintendent Alexander Pereira, whose contract was not renewed following a recent funding scandal involving the Saudi government, surveyed the extravaganza for his last time...
...Elsewhere, there was a Louis Vuitton branded inflatable castle, and models in the finale toted logo-ed red balloons. Which made me think of Nena’s “Luftballons”, and of the movie It....
...The finale played out to Erasure’s “A Little Respect”, whose lyrics felt telling: “why’re you making me work so hard, that you give me no soul.” Indeed....
...British Swan Lake s favour a three-Kleenex finale in which the lovers hurl themselves into the lake....
...But perhaps the most fascinating part of Dos à la Mode is its finale, with the back as message-bearing billboard....
...The finale of Vuitton found bags and shoes illuminated with shifting, rainbow lights. Then another finale, of show models....
...Alexander Vinogradov makes a likeable, somewhat ineffectual Zaccaria, Géraldine Chauvet a sweet-toned Fenena, Oksana Dyka a bitter, sharp-tongued Abigaille....
...Once on stage, vocalist Elaine Mitchener whooped and growled, drummer Mark Sanders confirmed the New Orleans beat and Alexander Hawkins’s percussive piano abstractions exploded over Neil Charles’s malevolent...
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