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...“The emeralds were put in the Paris tiara that she wears in the Beaton portrait,” Rourke explains. Remade by Cartier Paris? Sacrilege!...
...Roy Strong, once director of London’s National Portrait Gallery and the V&A, has about 480 items from his former home for sale at Chorley’s Auctioneers in Gloucestershire on Tuesday....
...Cecil Beaton acquired one of his satin jumpsuits for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s costume collection and included his work in the groundbreaking 1971 exhibition Fashion: An Anthology....
...When he came to the V&A, he saw it as “a place to which the upper classes could go without losing face”....
...On display at the V&A is a panel of floral marquetry attributed to Marc Simon that once decorated the ship’s deluxe Beauvais suite....
...She also treated her own body like a canvas, swathing some areas in grey and leaving the great white V of a neck exposed....
...The acquisition of Gill’s images was made possible through funds generated by the royalties on Cecil Beaton’s photographs, generously donated to the museum in 1968 and again in 1980: a wonderful example...
...“If Beaton was about filling the picture with lavish details,” says Brown, “Horst was about stripping things back.”...
...So does the Imperial War Museum, with an exciting show devoted to the war photography of Cecil Beaton....
...Described recently by the V&A curator Susannah Brown as “contemplative and timeless”, it was first exhibited at Sir Roy Strong’s great Cecil Beaton exhibition in 1968....
...Beaton understood that....
...Subtitled Fifty Years of Photography in Britain and timed to coincide with the V&A’s forthcoming British Design 1948-2012, Island Stories is a very rich show....
...FIVE TOP FLORISTS Shane Connolly (UK) From a studio in west London Shane Connolly is floral designer to HRH The Prince of Wales; last week his flowers opened the Cecil Beaton exhibition at the V&A....
...Beaton is often called the greatest political satirist in the country....
...Forget mother-of-the-bride over-the-topness, and do not attempt to outdo Cecil Beaton’s costumes in My Fair Lady: just get some good basics....
...‘Collaborators: UK Design for Performance, 2003-2007’ at the V&A until November 18 www.vam.ac.uk...
...Home Depot, the home improvement retailer that sponsors the US national football team, is also backing Univision’s match coverage, along with McNeil’s Tylenol and Allstate Insurance....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...Q: Your thoughts please on positioning v branding and perhaps the former requiring much more attention and effort?...
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