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...“It’s the rare colour diamond that no one else can get,” says longtime British Vogue jewellery editor and podcast host Carol Woolton, or “very chic gold — not demi-fine”....
...We’ve come straight from a filthy house in Cornwall and I am wearing the only shoes I have with me, which are caked in mud, and there is further mud on my coat from where I’ve fallen over....
...“They get ’em up here, and I get ’em up there,” is how Carol Forth explained her mission....
...Botterill removes his hard hat, protective coat and apron, and we go back for a final cup of tea before the flocks are gathered in from the fields....
...“But I don’t think you should sugar-coat the darker side of it. It’s important that we emphasise what a really awful year this has been....
...There were wreaths and shimmering lights and the sound of carols filling the air....
...In the high‑jewellery workshop of Dolce & Gabbana, minutes from the centre of Milan, 40 or so goldsmiths and jewellers in couture-made white lab coats are silently hunched over their benches, so engrossed...
...I bought one, and, while it has not become a coat stand, it’s still a struggle to get on it, even though I work in the same room as the machine. Any excuse not to use it will do....
...The 78-year-old lawyer has been more active than ever in recent months, hosting royalist lunches and dinners, and holding Christmas carols....
...“I must have met Carol’s dogs at least twice,” he says....
...Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon rsc.org.uk A Christmas Carol The Old Vic’s lovely, carol-wreathed staging of Dickens’s Christmas classic returns, this time with Paterson Joseph as the old...
...Private White VC, then Cooper & Stollbrand, survived by designing and making high-end coats and jackets for Paul Smith, Burberry, Aquascutum and other upmarket labels....
...Incidentally, rumours are currently abounding that said Mr Ossendrijver, who left Lanvin last November, is heading to Kenzo, replacing outgoing creative heads Humberto Leon and Carol Lim....
...At the same sale, the centrepiece of a Bulgari necklace of similar style was an ancient bronze coin depicting King George III; inscribed “Georgivs III Rex”, the reverse shows the King’s coat of arms....
...Chucking your coat over a chair to nab one was banned and so was eating at them. Snacking from a toilet seat was more hygienic, I was told....
...A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist are peppered with harrowing accounts of homelessness, squalid working conditions and urban crime....
...And conservation questions go beyond whether to encase a work in acrylic sheeting or to coat it with a preservative agent....
...Tuesday midday, Tokyo Christmas was in full swing in the Japanese capital, with carols and pop classics playing from every available speaker....
...As the meeting broke up, the delegates began to sing a Christmas carol which even I could hear from my bedroom....
...Clinging to the coat-tails of a trail blazed by craft brewers and boutique coffee roasters, enthusiasts are becoming much more aware of the tea opportunity....
...coats and parkas and Mitford-sister era gowns....
...Adjusted profits before tax fell £35m to £421m as weakening Asian growth choked off demand for swanky bags and coats....
...Established in 1856 as purveyors of gabardine coats and outerwear, Burberry is about to disrupt a decades-old model of fashion retail in which clothes have traditionally trickled in store months after their...
...“I put on a big hat, and a big coat, and we left the hanger inside it, because I was a skinny little bugger in those days.”...
...“I made a joke, something like, ‘Shall we start with Christmas carols?’ No one thought it was funny.” For sanitation workers, snow is no joke....
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