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...“The growing awareness around botanical provenance follows on from the farm-to-table food trend — it’s taking its time, but the floral world is finally following suit.”...
...He was looking at Victorian botanical artist Marianne North, and there was a strong Victorian influence to high necks, long skirts and long sleeves....
...in recycled PET (formerly plastic bottles)” and Livia Firth wore “a sustainable tuxedo with a stunning trouser suit made from ethical and organic New Zealand wool and silk (in conversion to organic) to...
...“It’s more than one marriage,” she says in her thick Italian accent, of their professional and private partnership....
...Roberts arrives shortly afterwards, looking very banker-like in a pinstriped suit with a pink shirt and an aubergine silk tie....
...With this in mind I am a little surprised when Roitfeld picks up her menu and says, in her heavy Parisian accent, “Me, I love the herrings.” Herrings just don’t seem all that chic....
...Embossed on leather, woven into velvet and silk, they are surprisingly extravagant. “Aubrey Beardsley used to do our illustration,” says Renwick....
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