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...The Sawiris, who are Coptic Christians, were targeted with tax grabs and a travel ban under former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, who swept to power in 2012 in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings but...
...Three of Gunning’s buys feature in the V&A’s blockbuster exhibition Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto....
...It puts him in a tough place when talking to evangelicals, when talking to Christian nationalists that form part of his base....
...“It levels things out,” he says, referring to the couple’s division of chores. Christian Edelmann, managing partner and co-head of Europe at Oliver Wyman, is paying for a PA himself....
...He adds that the postwar rise of the Commonwealth — an organisation of the UK and British colonies, many either newly independent or campaigning for independence — was also responsible: “A lot of those architects...
...Having seen sales of vintage Christian Dior rise on the back of a V&A exhibition in 2019, Caplan expects the upcoming show to affect the “very robust” market for vintage Chanel costume jewellery....
...Model, Igor V at Tomorrow Is Another Day. Casting, Tiago Martins at Ben Grimes. Hair, Rimi Ura at Calliste Agency. Make-up, Mayumi Oda at Bryant Artists. Photographer’s assistant, Christian Varas....
...Forsythe’s Blake Works series, inspired by the musician James Blake, has also had its fair share of developments: Just last month, La Scala Ballet unveiled Blake Works V, a new variation....
...Invented by Henry Cole, founder of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the museum that would become the V&A, Christmas cards have been commercially available since 1843....
...For the art-led Parisian apartment of Hugo Marchand, studio director of shoe designer Christian Louboutin, architect Laure Gravier commissioned the tongue-flickering snakes of green and gold, made by Delphine...
...Ramachandra Guha’s books include ‘India after Gandhi’ and ‘The Commonwealth of Cricket’....
...There might be a slight queasiness about such a manifestly religious pop-up — it is difficult, for instance, to imagine the curators being too enthusiastic if these were elements of Christian architecture...
...A dramatic row of portrait heads curving across the centre of the space, saints and sinners alike jostling for prominence, wonderfully recalls typical V&A fashion shows....
...Owning only a handful of the bags in her lifetime, Birkin’s original Birkin went on display at the V&A last year as part of their exhibition Bags: Inside Out....
...The designer’s love of wood is explored through simple lines: his Ode chair references the tradition of workshop chairs with its generously rounded back and an inverted V-style base, while the archetypal...
...The Christian service, led by the most senior clerics of the Church of England, has other faith leaders present....
...The Secretary-General of the Commonwealth read a lesson from 1 Corinthians....
...Christian Lewis....
...The whole of Britain, let alone the Commonwealth, could not fit into the coronation. Britain is not simply the gleam of the orb; it is the gloom of the sky outside....
...Kerala’s fisheries minister V Abdurahiman on Tuesday slammed the protests as “anti-national”, warning there was a “limit” to the government’s patience, according to the Press Trust of India....
...She started the tradition of televised messages to the country in 1957, although her grandfather George V made the first royal Christmas broadcast on radio in 1932 — with a script by Rudyard Kipling....
...Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen extended her “deepest condolences to the British government the people of the Commonwealth, HM King Charles III and the royal family”, her office said....
...“With gratitude we remember her unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth....
...The monument replaced a statue of King George V, the Queen’s grandfather....
...For most of them, however, the real faux pas seems to be paying full price for authentic products when replicas, allegedly of comparable quality and at one-tenth of the cost, are just one click away....
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