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...combined with the spirit of Jean Patou’s sportswear; instead of a couture ballgown, you have a sweatshirt and a bubbly pouf skirt, or a T-shirt with a gargantuan lace collar that looks as if it came from a Van...
...Backstage at Dries Van Noten’s masterful show, after both designers had taken a bow to a throng of well-wishers, I found Monsieur Lacroix. He was beaming....
...Dutch property in Franschhoek $1.5m A manor house in Franschhoek valley with a hectare of vines $3m A six-bedroom estate with a pool near Stellenbosch More homes at propertylistings.ft.com Photographs: Blaine...
...We discuss penmanship and they ask to see my handwriting, which is good, and when they see me do it I feel like David Blaine emerging from a buried coffin. “You can actually do that?”...
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...Van Gogh Up Close, edited by Cornelia Homburg, Yale University Press, RRP£60, 306 pages We know some but not all of the many paintings where Van Gogh zooms in at a close-up, cropping, flattening, experimenting...
...Most poignant Verdians: René Pape and Dmitri Hvorostovsky (whose breath control outclasses David Blaine) in Don Carlo. Most intellectual crooner: Thomas Hampson in “Pierrots Tanzlied”....
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