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...(There is an apocryphal tale that Marie Antoinette, after being presented with a silk rose, fainted at the sight of it.)...
...“I think in her time off, she got to be herself,” says the film’s costume designer, Charlese Antoinette (her full name is Charlese Antoinette Jones but she usually drops the Jones), when we meet for coffee...
...Dr Antoinette Sarasin Gianduzzo oversees the clinic’s nutrition programme, which micro-manages every meal (cooked by each villa’s live-in chef)....
...While I have never stayed in a hotel in Northampton, I can vouch for the shoeshining services in London hotels, and, in particular, at The Ritz (which endearingly adds a little Marie-Antoinette flourish...
...In Marie Antoinette’s case, only a few close confidantes would have been privy to her escape route....
...Prada, Gucci and Dior based collections around the two‑piece: at Dior in particular, Kim Jones mined a rich seam of historical referencing, borrowing from the brand’s midcentury haute couture heritage and...
...He was, perhaps, destined to fail: the market conditions that created Lacroix vanished precisely on 19 October 1987, when the Dow Jones plummeted 22.6 per cent, the largest one-day drop in history, plunging...
...Wyndham’s Theatre, London to June 13 leopoldstadtplay.com Pass Over Antoinette Nwandu’s searing play fuses poetry and politics to deliver a potent message about race relations in the US....
...Donmar Warehouse, London to April 4 donmarwarehouse.com Pass Over Antoinette Nwandu’s searing play fuses poetry and politics to deliver a potent message about race relations in the US....
...He is striding through the Kent town of Ramsgate towards the Royal Victoria Pavilion, a former assembly rooms built in 1903, with an ornate interior based on Marie Antoinette’s Trianon theatre in Versailles...
...We have always had figures like that throughout history, such as Marie Antoinette....
...would steal the plants for themselves; he had famous people eat potatoes in public; he hosted a banquet in which all 20 courses contained potatoes (including coffee made of spuds); he even persuaded Marie Antoinette...
...Grace Jones is present, and a handful of Americans, with proceeds from the ticket sales given over to an opera house that, as a tick-box on every tourist’s itinerary, deserves to be protected....
...Was Thalberg art’s gift to Hollywood, with his well-bred epics (Romeo and Juliet, Marie Antoinette)? Or was he a mogul playing to the middlebrow?...
...Of Marie Antoinette he observes: “Major goodwill breakdown. Instead of making her constituents believe that their interest was her sole concern, she let her ethos suffer with that quote about cake.”...
...We learn that Washington held Louis XVI in high affection and kept a portrait of him prominently displayed in his office (next to one of Marie Antoinette), and that the birthday of France’s monarch was one...
...AUSTRALIA Sorry By Gail Jones Harvill Secker £12.99, 218 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 The sixth novel from Booker Prize long-listed author Jones is an elegantly written lament for white Australia...
...Not a Box By Antoinette Portis HarperCollins £10.99, 28 pages FT bookshop price: £8.79 What is Rabbit doing in that cardboard box?...
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