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...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...
...One whose reputation has suffered is Salo Flohr, the world No2 behind Alexander Alekhine in the early 1930s....
...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...
...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...
...She enrolled in an illustration course at Goldsmiths, where she met her future husband, Alexander Plunket Greene....
...Fashion writer Caroline Young, author of Style Tribes, has called tartan “the most politicised of fabrics”....
...Puzzle 2498 Gyula Breyer v Kornel Havasi, Budapest 1918. White to move and win. Both kings are exposed, but White can strike first. Click here for solution...
...For Mugrabi, meanwhile, the chief joy of the gift is “just platforming young designers and artists”....
...It’s a destination for high-end, investment-level kimonos, three of which feature in the V&A’s show....
...Simons is transforming not just garments, but our perceptions of tailoring into something that feels simultaneously old and young, borrowed yet new, timely yet strangely timeless....
...In due course, the young Habsburg army officers of 1914 became the Wehrmacht generals of 1941....
...in Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium — though not, alas, in the UK. 2341 Anish Giri v Wesley So, Bucharest rapid 2019....
...I was there for a sneak preview of a lavish and compelling book, due to be published this month, charting his 36 years as a designer-jeweller and his work with Alexander McQueen, and a new collection that...
...“One o’clock on a Tuesday and there are loads of people attending an art gallery,” says the young male vlogger, one half of the “Twins Talk K-pop” YouTube channel, standing in the rain outside London’s Serpentine...
...Reese Witherspoon, in a sheer black dress, nestles in the curl of an elephant’s trunk; a young Carey Mulligan, en plein air, is shyly luminous in colour-drenched ruffles; Robert Pattinson executes tailored...
...The early 2000s saw a proliferation of young American designers in New York trumpeted as the next Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein or Michael Kors - designers such as Alexander Wang, Derek Lam and Proenza Schouler...
...She was pleased to report sales of works by the artist duo Vika Begalska & Alexander Vilkin, including the large-scale “Hunter” (2017) for €6,500....
...Alexander McQueen also has a soft ruffled knit dress with tiered skirt and a V-shaped neckline (£4,195, alexandermcqueen.com). Want an edgier look?...
...A new Alexander McQueen store hosts museum-quality exhibitions and workshops to promote the Kering-owned label’s work....
...So when the V&A opens its brilliant, overdue show based on Quant treasures in their collection, I won’t be budgeting much time for the stuff of the 1970s....
...They showed me pictures of young men, some of whom were wearing face masks or brandishing umbrellas (on a rainless day) and glaring at the camera....
...(NYT) Cambridge Analytica’s fantastic but flawed salesman Alexander Nix, suspended by the board of the company at the centre of the Facebook data scandal, was a fantastic salesman, but was “not technical...
...May 26-November 25, labiennale.org V-A-C Foundation Oligarch and collector Leonid Mikhelson has established a Venice branch of his Moscow-based V-A-C Foundation, which he launched in 2009....
...“There are plenty of young designers and makers who could work to any price point in many different materials.”...
...Under his watch, the V&A also produced a series of innovative and hugely popular exhibitions on contemporary subjects, such as the fashion designer Alexander McQueen, rock icon David Bowie and the revolutionary...
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