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...Designer Clare Vivier, founder of accessories brand Clare V, has been crazy about tennis since high school and has collaborated on a capsule collection with tennis magazine Racquet....
...Now this rare masterpiece, “The Deposition from the Cross”, has been sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in a transaction brokered by Sotheby’s....
...Only a handful of trucks have managed to safely cross that area in recent days....
...instead of the electrifying blue that Lee introduced for his debut....
...Stanley was subsequently able to identify 37 of the V&A’s tiles as having originated from the Çinili Hamam....
...There are everyday staples such as shirts in cotton poplin and sandwashed silk, cashmere jumpers and vests in pastel shades of lemon yellow, dusty pink and sky blue, navy jumpsuits and a trench coat – as...
...It is a bijou study in period opulence: royal blue and deep green velvet and silk, embroidered with dragons and orchids, and cross-hatched marquetry....
...Rider’, Tate Modern The movement known as the Blue Rider was made up of some of the most important experimental artists of the early 20th century, including Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, Paul Klee...
...Both Sheikh and Pakistani artist Zahoor ul Akhlaq studied at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s, and were astounded by the V&A’s originals after muted reproductions at home....
...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...
...as the naked run, which rewards nude competitors who cross the finish line with a free ticket for the following year....
...And actually lots of Britain is concerned about the sort of immigration, not least because of the human cost of the people who are trying to cross the Channel and cross the Mediterranean and endlessly losing...
...Vasconcelos, in a big pink jumper festooned with a pink butterfly brooch, nicely complements Lord R, smart in a pale blue shirt and aquamarine V-neck, when they convene in Waddesdon’s Dairy....
...Northern Irish designer Jonathan Anderson has that kind of confidence in spades....
...Sotheby’s is holding a cross-category online sale, between April 21 and May 4, of items relating to the British monarchy past and present....
...In Dolpo, guests spend 13 nights trekking, from the tiny airport at Juphal to the village of Ringmo, beside the startling blue waters of Phoksundo Lake....
...The colour of Greenough’s V-neck stripe has gone from green to blue. “Going to plan?” I ask. “Errr no,” comes the reply. Mike Thomas, the race director, has a distant look in his eyes....
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...Dressed in a pale blue shirt and navy blue jacket, the 62-year-old sitting across the table from me at the Ristorante Cesarina in Bologna could be any British visitor enjoying the city’s medieval architecture...
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...In a collection inspired by the progressive artists of Berlin in the 1930s, Erdem offered a more modest take on the trend, with a series of embroidered V-neck slip dresses paired with long, sequin neck scarves...
...She was dressed elegantly in a V-neck white linen blouse, white trousers and a pair of trainers. But the signs of her injuries were everywhere....
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...The new flag had a St Andrew’s cross designed in gold and green (symbolic perhaps of hoped-for rebirth) and black (in recognition of the hardships of Jamaica’s slave plantation past)....
...One cross-cultural moment deserves special mention....
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