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...and in Alexander Calder’s studio in the French Indre-et-Loire Valley....
...He points to two small watercolour paintings by his mother Betty that depict the landscape of Australia’s Magnetic Island....
...He was adopted just before his second birthday by Alexander Wheeler, a decorated former Army officer and heir to a banking fortune, and his wife Betty, daughter of a baronet....
...Tsvirko, a pupil of Alexander Vetrov and Petukhov, was dream casting for Basilio....
...Alexander McQueen For a long time after the premature death of its founder, in 2010, Alexander McQueen was frozen in the image of Lee McQueen....
...The opening episode tells the tale of David Alexander and Jessie Olsen....
...Reader Rosie Saffell recommends free yoga classes put on by sportswear retailers Lululemon and Sweaty Betty inside their shops....
...Again, African-American artists are very much on the agenda: deceptively naive paintings by former slave Bill Traylor, who died in 1949, feature at Betty Cuningham ($50,000-$140,000), while Donald Morris...
...“Total soup eating is increasing,” says Mark Alexander, president of Campbell’s simple meals and beverages unit in the Americas....
...Cod came with wild Alexanders, sea cabbage and tarragon. And, as a rhubarb enthusiast, I was particularly impressed by Long’s pairing of the seasonal Yorkshire variety with a mousse of crème fraîche....
...Sarah Burton’s SS15 collection for Alexander McQueen was built around a collection of antique kimonos amassed since her first working trips to Japan in 1997....
...The Betty bag, a black suede version with a gold chain, was the only bag worn in Hedi Slimane’s debut Saint Laurent catwalk show last October....
...Michael Carney, an Irish immigrant, lives with his English wife, Betty. His father and four brothers come to stay....
...FIT, for example, works with both fashion houses and private collectors; acquisitions this year have included two Alexander McQueen pieces, a new Rodarte dress, an Isabel Toledo dress from the 1980s and...
...This time last year ready-to-wear designers such as Alexander Wang and Marc Jacobs were unveiling their take on sports, and now sports wear makers have reciprocated....
...You’ve heard it before: Betty Draper, the Hitchcock blonde from the US television series Mad Men, wears a sumptuous piece of 1960s clothing on screen and, before you can even utter “suppressed housewife”...
...These were “variety” all-rounders, such as Betty Knox (of the Wilson, Keppel and Betty triple-act) and Lily Wood, famous for her comedy songs....
...Betty Roe-Bishop, composer. Gary Brown, fiscal crime liaison officer, British embassy, Bucharest. Peter Brown, director, Fairfax House. Laraine Callow, director, Deafworks....
...But beyond the standard jeans, fashion designers are still investing time and effort in alternative denim – see Betty Jackson for a denim smock, Chloé for a classic denim shirt, Diesel Black & Gold for...
...The death of Alexander McQueen, one of the UK’s finest fashion designers, was a reason to reflect on the past....
...“Alexander Wang sales went up 200 per cent, and British designer clothing sales are up 60 per cent,” she says....
...Helen Alexander, first female president of the CBI, the UK employers’ body, says diversity is needed to prevent “groupthink” by white male boards....
...It was there on the catwalk of Alexander McQueen, where wild slashes of kohl, outlining eyes and eyebrows, were mixed with turquoise eye shadow....
...Indeed, some say the event, which is underwritten by Gucci Group’s Balenciaga, will be worthy of some of the catty fashionistas featured in the hit television show Ugly Betty, which Hayek has both executive...
...I particularly enjoyed Ruth Alexander-Rubin as the worldly-wise pianist, able to improvise beautifully while keeping a lighted cigarette in her left hand....
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