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...H&M’s head of design Ann-Sofie Johansson explains why Rokh attracted the chain’s interest, saying: “We have been keeping an eye on the brand for several years now....
...A few years later, and fresh out of art college, Hulanicki was ready to reject the stifling life that her aunt represented....
...Aged 19, he started working in the men’s suit department of the Beams store in Osaka. “That’s where I fell in love with classical tailoring, and that’s when I decided to go to Savile Row.”...
...In Saar’s sculpture “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima” (1972), a figurine of a “mammy” — a racist stereotype of a head-scarfed black servant, the enduring mascot of Aunt Jemima-brand pancakes — clutches a rifle...
...(In 2020, she and her sister took over the running of the business from their father Romolo and aunt Rosalba, two revered master printers in their day.)...
...A key role was taken, too, by the fabled Den Permanente store, then a hub of 1960s Danish craft and design. A poster for the store also featured in Torn Curtain....
...They also remind her of her mother, aunt and grandmother, other glasses aficionados....
...During her time living in Harlem, New York, in the 1930s and ’40s, Neel painted soul-stirring portraits of children, neighbours, store clerks and other people she encountered....
...“One day she made my mother and my aunt fight with sticks. She punished the loser! ‘If you can’t beat a girl, how will you beat a man?’’’...
...Kukas returned to Lisbon, she worked as an interior designer to support herself, while experimenting with painting silks and ceramics, including plates, candlesticks and vases, which she sold at the Lisbon store...
...Over the years I have built up a store of plastic rectangular hats which fit over several pots or an entire seed box....
...Visualising the use of rosewater sprinklers, receptacles for kohl and bottles to store perfumes and oils helped her connect the timeworn objects to the present....
...There are also abundant private art galleries, with leading curators like Sofie Van de Velde drawing some 500 visitors every weekend....
...He buys jewelry for his girlfriends at the Graff jewelry store, and jokes to his friends that he has a motto “No Graff, no love”....
...Or pick up your hot cross buns and bread like the locals do – still warm from Glynde Village Stores, where co-owner Steve Grogan will parcel up your order with a quip and a smile. flintowlbakery.com Helen...
...Most of the time the numeraries gave her things from a store room. When she was permitted to go to a shop — once or twice a year — she returned, as instructed, with receipts....
...“It’s like… your great aunt knitting a terrible outfit for your lovely little baby, and you have to dress her up in it to keep everyone happy.”...
...In the two years since oswalde’s inception, department stores and fashion and hospitality brands have attempted to court her with offers of pop-up spaces, collaborations and design jobs....
...His father and aunts escaped to England in a horse-drawn trap....
...She’d explain what happened at the store....
...Gleneagles’ long history, however — as a place both for afternoon tea with great-aunts and grannies and as a byword for rods, guns and golf — means there’s excitement rather than antipathy towards the arrival...
...My aunt Sharon had a closet filled with these amazing high heels and I just loved them....
...Her aunt sympathises and recalls her youth, a time before gift-giving became excessive. “Presents did not fly about in those days as they do now.”...
...She sources her books from Omnivore Books in San Francisco and Bart’s Books in Ojai, California, and stores them “alongside all my beloved art and poetry books....
...Readers move with Carney from his home to the store to his aunt’s house on 129th Street, where he spent at least two years of his life....
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