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...Milan, for all its chic cosmopolitanism, is also a place of snobbishness and bourgeois judgmentalism....
...He insists it’s still a good idea – he has actually donated the best of his collection to the V&A and the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. But “I do swing dramatically”, he admits cheerfully....
...He is wearing a pale pink V-neck jumper under a suit, with a Burberry scarf and a large watch....
...Fifty years ago, on July 4 1971, Michael S Hart typed the text of “The Declaration of Independence” into a Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the University of Illinois....
...I can glimpse a red-and-white gingham shirt under a V-neck navy jumper and a pair of antique drop earrings — her “uniform” of the moment — against a room wallpapered in mossy green velvet....
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...Business groups and think-tanks are making a mistake to cast Uber v London as a totemic fight to preserve capitalism....
...By contrast, the Bourgeois Monts Damnés 2017 Sancerre seemed a bit heavier on its feet....
...It was the work of Prouvé’s contemporary and sometime collaborator Pierre Jeanneret, who designed them, along with the V-leg Committee chair on which I sat and the easy chairs by the picture window, for...
...In coming years, today’s winners v losers divide may be replaced by a split over climate action....
...But also something seedily glamorous, a reluctance to be bound by the bourgeois rules of domesticity....
...Superb 1630s context demonstrates by contrast just how unusual the bourgeois full-length was....
...Bourgeois housewife!”) shows that in 1934 the ancient themes of love, jealousy and revenge still flourished in the new Soviet reality — although Stalin didn’t like to think so....
...And she has parlayed the house’s fabled legacy for haute bourgeois elegance with a wearable aesthetic that incorporates the sticky business of sneakers and sweatshirts....
...Circulations were transformed by images and, now, by pictures of the royal round, a crown still selectively removed from the everyday, yet somehow connected to the basic instincts of bourgeois family life...
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...Nearly 500,000 people saw the Alexander McQueen spectacle Savage Beauty during its 21-week run at London’s V&A in 2015: 661,509 saw it at the Met....
...“We were young, full of life and wanted to break with bourgeois traditions,” said Lomazzi....
...It also hosted the unforgotten England v Argentina match of the 1998 World Cup....
...Andrew Wyeth’s “Flood Plain”, once owned by Charlton Heston, is also at Sotheby’s, estimated to fetch $2-$3m....
...They are one of only two families to have three generations of work represented in the Smithsonian (the other is the Wyeth family of painters)....
...Albert V was a Catholic and a key figure in a Counter-Reformation which aimed to restore Bavaria’s Catholic tradition and power....
...Now it embarks on a tour, and is the starting point in Margate for a show exploring how concepts of history, celebrity and gender shaped recent self-portraiture, including works by Louise Bourgeois, Antony...
...V-A-C Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London The Whitechapel’s admirable programme of bringing international collections to London continues with Mike Nelson’s selection of sculptural highlights from a...
...Its airy iron and glass structure has been beautifully restored, and its new 250-seat theatre is likely to be welcomed with open arms by the bobos, the bourgeois bohemian crowd that is now prevalent in the...
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