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...Opening this weekend at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is a new installation: a reinterpreted, restaged 19th-century room....
...“Bass Goin’ Crazy”, composed by pianist Albert Ammons and recorded at Blue Note’s first studio session, was followed by unthemed extemporisations....
...Cries of “Betty” in heavily accented English evoke for one mad moment a sort of Some Mutters Do Hev Zem, and occasionally Genius does have its silly moments....
...Fifty-nine companies have been shortlisted for overall winner in their category, with the winners to be announced at an event at the Royal Albert Hall in London on July 8, and published in the Financial...
...Erdem’s inspiration came from infantas painted by Velázquez, costumes from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s archive at Blythe House – many with corseting – and French It girls such as Anna Karina and Betty...
...In the past, costume exhibitions were chiefly the province of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York or Victoria & Albert Museum in London....
...by Sir Thomas Lawrence and Sir Henry Raeburn as well as a significant number of Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian paintings by Sir John Everett Millais, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt and Albert...
...Betty Foster, one of the seamstresses of the gown, caught it best: “With all that austerity, it was spectacular.”...
...Finally, he is beaten up by a gang of traditional liberals and refused service at Bettys tea rooms....
...And that’s before we’ve even brokered the subject of Mad Men’s Betty Draper or – you can’t ignore her – Michelle Obama....
...We work on our products with the creative industry and designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Betty Jackson, and the museum has relevance to the commercial world.”...
...(available online and at the Victoria & Albert museum) in the summer of 2007....
...They are called the Nose Jury and their olfactory senses are to waste treatment what Betty Grable’s legs were to cinema – vital tools for delivering customer satisfaction....
...“There was a wonderful woman called Betty Horne, who looked after the furniture floor at John Lewis in Oxford Street,” Conran recalls....
...In the 1953 film “How to Marry a Millionaire”, Marilyn Monroe (in glasses), Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable rent an uptown New York apartment nicknamed “the bear trap” and pretend to be rich in order to snag...
...A screening of Anita and Me will follow, co-starring Meera Syal, screenplay by Meera Syal, from the Betty Trask Award-winning novel by Meera Syal....
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