Hints and tips:
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Zegna’s colours are great too: mint, powdery slate blue, shades of brown, blood-orange and a peach the brand calls flamingo....
...The first downward shift was in 1989, when I quit my job, climbed into my little brown Mini and drove all the way from London to Ibiza....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...Hans Mielich’s earnest “Albrecht V of Bavaria” has brought his wide-eyed pet lion....
...Classical music and opera by Richard Fairman Opera: Passion, Power and Politics, edited by Kate Bailey, V&A Publishing, RRP£25 A strong coffee table is needed for this handsome volume....
...Photographs: Rebecca Lupton; Christopher Furlong/360; Craven Dunill Jackfield; V&A/DeMorgan...
...Without Kent, he doubted the capability of Lancelot Brown. Kent matured his gardening talent at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, in the 1730s....
...The Roman empire had atrophied long before it was sacked by the Visigoths. Likewise, America’s potential fall can be measured by its failure to bring down the national debt....
...Worn with stone or beige chino shorts, a beautiful pair of mid-brown leather sandals is a fail-safe summer option,” says Sanderson, who believes sandals work as well with jeans....
...But the director with whom Leonard collaborated most fruitfully was Quentin Tarantino, in Jackie Brown, an adaptation of the 1992 Rum Punch....
...Benedict surprised millions of Catholics when he announced on February 11 that he would abdicate, making him the first pontiff to step down voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...What we know is that his brother Edward IV died in 1483, leaving 12-year-old Edward V as his heir....
...He’s taken the famous Portland Vase, an exquisite black and white Roman glass vessel from AD25 that was reproduced by Wedgwood in 1790....
...My wife was impressed because the brown toast for her foie gras was also served piping hot, as if just out of the toaster like at home....
...But it could be a hot summer for chief executive Martin Roman and colleagues....
...Nearby are three of Lacroix’s famous “poof” skirts, including a heavy brown satin number with an olive-green bow....
...For Veltroni, a son of the capital, v Berlusconi, read Roma v Milano....
...(Blue, brown, amber, purple and white were other Roman colours.)...
...In the decades after the War, with Brown v....
...Anyone hoping to see the future should catch the latest instalment of Chelsea v Barcelona in the Champions League....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...In the bestseller charts at the moment - squashed between domestic goddesses (of the fictional and the culinary variety), between Su Doku and diet, Dan Brown and Harry Potter - are a handful of good, old-fashioned...
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