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...Paul Smith cotton shirt, £250. Gianvito Rossi leather Harris loafers, £514....
...The prestige of the Oscars means that some of the rarest or custom-made pieces — for example, the bespoke Louis Vuitton silk organza gown that took 1,000 hours to make, worn by 2023 best actress nominee...
...At 20 she interned with Alexander McQueen. By 24 she was fashion director of arts and culture magazine BlackBook....
...Sister Solange also came to support her son Daniel Julez Smith Jr on the runway, where Luar founder Raul Lopez sought to challenge the term “metrosexual” and whether at times it has been used as a defence...
...Paul Smith wool jacket, £850, and matching trousers, £360. Sandro cotton mesh shirt, €225. Loro Piana cotton T-shirt, £590....
...Cate Blanchett, another Best Actress nominee, bucked the trend in a liquid blue top and long black skirt from Louis Vuitton....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...A couple of years ago, I received a phone call from Henry Louis Gates Jr, director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard (and a friend), telling me that he had just...
...crepe Gaia minidress, £159, endource.com Shhhowercap The Stir shower cap, £40, net-a-porter.com The Elder Statesman cashmere rainbow cushion, £512, farfetch.com Alexander McQueen spray-paint poplin shirt...
...Alexander McQueen leather The Bow bag, £1,490 Akris cashmere pullover, £690 Anest wool-mix trousers, £590 Chanel patent-leather slingback pumps, £750 Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Classic Duoface Small Seconds...
...Backpack, stylist’s own William wears Paul Smith cotton shirt, £325, wool trousers, £400, and shearling bucket hat, £235. Cutler & Gross acetate glasses, £365....
...Adam Smith may be the patron saint of libertarian economists but he was a great enthusiast for the Navigation Acts, which attempted to enforce an English shipping monopoly....
...For the Financial Times’s men’s fashion critic Alexander Fury, the essential backpack is “always Prada, honestly – it’s a design classic”....
...Russia’s new commander in Ukraine Alexander Dvornikov was promoted to an army general by Vladimir Putin after overseeing Russia’s brutal military operations in Syria....
...And Virgil Abloh’s collection for Louis Vuitton found head-to‑toe lime, fuchsia and electric blue suits merging tradition with early rave culture....
...You Don’t Know Us Negroes, a new collection of Hurston’s essays, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr and Genevieve West, demonstrates once again how ill suited she was to the role of a solemn and respectable...
...Mr Warnock, the senior pastor of Martin Luther King Jr’s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, was declared the victor by the Associated Press in the early hours of Wednesday morning....
...The famed scholar, film-maker, journalist and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates Jr tells a gripping story of African-Americans’ struggle for equality after the civil war, and the violent counter-movement...
...British designer Paul Smith, who has built his business on suits, this time paired lightweight, deconstructed jackets with knit trousers....
...teamed hers at Givenchy with stetsons, for drifters of the JR Ewing variety....
...A takeover of Tiffany by LVMH, the owner of Louis Vuitton, Dior and Moët Hennessy, would expand the French group’s footprint in the US, the world’s largest market for luxury goods....
...McQueen, Vanessa Beecroft and Yeezy creator Kanye West, or Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton....
...I love the Paul Smith episode. My style icons are Gilbert & George. I love their unwavering commitment to elegantly tailored tweed suits....
...The opposite case held a period map of Union Minière’s concessions and a small statue of an African man in a smith’s apron....
...Alexander Walder-Smith, proprietor of the Games Room Company in Surrey, is especially passionate about pre-1970s examples....
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