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...The burgeoning fashion industry of the early 20th century was a haven for queer creatives, from the American-English designer Charles James onwards....
...Jean Paul Gaultier viscose The Body Morphing minidress, £600, doverstreetmarket.com Large Triangles, 2022, by Jesús Pedraglio, $16,000, artsy.net Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1970s wood revolving bookcase...
...chestnut-handle umbrella, £320 Daks wool suit, £595 Elizabeth Gage gold, amethyst and grey-pearl Kiss pin, £26,400 Sophie James Mayfair limited-edition The Crown candle, £65 Purdey tweed vest, £475, net-a-porter.com...
...When silversmith Colin Morrison-Ignatieff stood with six other craftsmen to present the new Elizabeth Sword to King Charles III in July, it brought full-circle a story which began over two centuries before...
...He then worked for [French fashion designer] Jean-Charles Castelbajac, “handling ties and accessories for the Japanese and Korean market....
...The precise history of the phenomenon is hazy, but quizzes became popular in the 1970s after a company called Burns & Porter began putting the “organised” in “organised fun” in venues across the country....
...Charles Schwab’s war on fees has come home to roost, as rising interest rates sour the largest US broker’s big bet on customer cash....
...Chanel pre-owned leather and nylon Canebiers Net bag, 2010-11, £6,659, farfetch.com Alaïa laser-cut nylon swimsuit, £350, net-a-porter.com Mediterranean Objects MDF Suau long pendant lamp, €649, 1stdibs.com...
...other clothes and put it in your suitcase,” says Jess Collett, the London-based milliner who created the headdresses worn by Catherine, Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte at the coronation of King Charles...
...The pub is named in honour of Charles FitzRoy, who was the first to lay out this section of the capital during the 18th century and whose father was an illegitimate son of Charles II....
...A new biopic, starring Billy Porter as Baldwin, was announced this year....
...There’s also the ornate Thom Browne black cape jacket with gold embroidery Lizzo wore to last year’s Met Gala, and the gold beaded catsuit in which Billy Porter was famously carried into the Met Gala in...
...“And Charles Street on Beacon Hill has beautiful boutiques. One I love is December Thieves where they do art-driven wearables and jewellery.”...
...This was among the cuts Verdi made before the premiere that were discovered by, among others, Andrew Porter, who in the 1950s made this newspaper a force in classical music criticism....
...Crisp became close friends with the critic Mary Clarke when the publishers Adam and Charles Black brought them together to co-write Ballet: An Illustrated History (1973)....
...The carry-on essentials I’m never without include my Porter-Yoshida & Co briefcase, a black nylon model with plenty of compartments....
...Cole Porter’s popular 1922 song “The Blue Boy Blues” gave the boy a voice, lamenting how “a silver dollar took me and my collar/to show the slow cowboys” across the Atlantic....
...Today its 7,000-plus subscriber base includes most of the art world’s biggest players, from gallerists Larry Gagosian and David Zwirner to Christies chair Marc Porter....
...She applauds the prominence of people using fashion for self-expression, such as actor Billy Porter wearing dresses on the red carpet, or Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy making an LGBT+ statement in a custom...
...Tiffany & Co launched its first diamond engagement ring designs for men with the Charles Tiffany setting, named after its founder, in May....
...Famous attendees of Ye Old Cheshire Cheese have included PG Wodehouse and Charles Dickens, who obliquely mentions it in A Tale of Two Cities....
...Composer Cole Porter was originally paired with writers PG Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. Their book had to be rewritten drastically in 1934 after a passenger-ship disaster before opening night....
...“At its core, this is a question of SEC jurisdiction,” said Charles Whitehead, professor at Cornell Law School. “The question is whether these loan accounts are securities....
...Even Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s chairs are thought to have come from him....
...The town is also home to The Bookshop Band, a folk duo of Beth Porter and Ben Please, who write songs inspired by books....
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