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...The style looked grown-up and flattering on Brad Pitt, who wore a V-neck sweater over a crisp white shirt in the Inez and Vinoodh-directed short film shown during the Chanel show in March....
...It’s also the most immaculate curation I’ve seen since visiting the Chanel show at the V&A....
...“If you don’t wear the shoe,” he says, describing the way the leather is intended to erode and peel away, “it doesn’t tell the story.”...
...You wanted to know how to find a mid-range shoe? She says just buy the expensive shoe and then resole it for years....
...A quick scan of its website shows a variety of styles that you might not associate with a Northampton shoemaker, including high-platform studded Oxfords, perforated leather finishes and even, yes, sneakers...
...“Surviving shoes show a variety of solutions to this problem, including a wedgelike construction under the shoe to reinforce its arch,” says Savi....
...The year was 2017, I had been away at the menswear shows, I was exhausted, and I was regaling her with luggage-related horror stories from my month-long trip....
...“They've managed a V-shaped recovery in the Chinese economy.”...
...Lang, shoemakers Church’s and Car Shoe, and Jil Sander (which Simons was hired to design)....
.... ★★★☆☆ Shoe Lady Royal Court (Jerwood Downstairs), London Everyday objects also conspire to thwart Viv in Shoe Lady, E.V. Crowe’s surreal new comedy....
...footwear brand Crockett & Jones, which is beloved by the suited set....
...his autumn/winter 2020 show....
...The consultancy predicts revenues across Europe’s Big Five leagues will drop by €1.5bn this season, but make a V-shaped recovery next season....
...Virgin Louis V on my back, baby. Living fast, dying slow, that's the catch, baby. Suicide doors, [MUTED] around and crash, baby. I do the dash, baby....
...In the years since, people have queued for all manner of things: for the Savage Beauty show at the Met, and later the V&A; they have camped outside Wembley Ikea for Off-White designer Virgil Abloh’s homeware...
...Crockett and Tubbs may have been responsible for persuading a generation of men that a mullet haircut and white espadrilles are the last word in muscular virility, but the only man worth emulating round...
...New research shows that the same alteration introduced to the babies’ DNA not only makes mice smarter but also improves human brain recovery after a stroke, and could be linked to greater success in school...
...His womenswear shows garnered unanimous critical praise and brought audiences to their feet....
...Even the shoes were adorned, dazzling court shoes with faux-fur trim linings and a chunky black croc-like shoe with a spring heel had crystals and beads on the front....
...’s outrageous shoe rosettes, at striking right angles to each other; and especially in psychology of movement and expression....
...For her autumn/winter 2012 show, she created a vast purple carpet. She followed that, for S/S15, by piling the show space with 150 tons of lavender-dyed sand....
...In her nightmares, Cheryl Boone Isaacs must see the Oscars as a TV show in a world that doesn’t watch TV, devoted to movies no one makes any more. And then came #OscarsSoWhite....
...Instead, the event was at the V&A, a museum of the decorative arts two miles from Whitehall....
...This is an edited extract from ‘Magical Objects’ by Hilary Davidson, which appears in ‘Shoes: Pleasure and Pain’, published by the V&A....
...conquest of the Wild West) and nourished by the frontiersman myths of characters such as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett....
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