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...Gabriela Hearst leather Eloise boots, $1,490 Courrèges viscose-mix sweater, $660, modaoperandi.com Isabel Marant leather studded belt, £325, mytheresa.com Soledad Christie stoneware Soñar el Agua sculpture...
...Opera now brings higher-value and more recognised artists to a more open-minded market and has recently appointed Isabelle de la Bruyère, a Christie’s long-timer, as its chief executive based in London....
...We also learn how Armstrong once sent poisoned chocolates to a rival solicitor named Oswald Martin (who lived to tell the tale)....
...Inès Cross 15 to 16 March, from £15; ladbrokehall.com BID The Pattie Boyd Collection at Christie’s This month Christie’s will offer a glimpse into the world of Pattie Boyd, the British model and photographer...
...Yang came to London from Hong Kong 10 years ago, aged 18, and went on to study fashion at Central Saint Martins. “I already knew that my passion was digital technology and innovation,” she says....
...Next season, Anna Sui’s autumn/winter 24 collection — inspired by Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple and first editions of Virginia Woolf and recently shown at the Strand’s Rare Book Room in New York — is all...
...Only one work flew far ahead of expectations: Agnes Martin’s “Grey Stone II” (1961), which was estimated between $6mn and $8mn and hammered for $16mn ($18.7mn with fees)....
...That bust shape reappeared again at the British Fashion Awards last year, on Deacon’s life partner, actor Gwendoline Christie, who wore a chocolate-brown gown with exaggerated versions of the wired bust...
...At 34, Ffrench is no stranger to the whims of celebrity clients; her artistic approach to make-up has been called upon by everyone from Björk, Rihanna and Gwendoline Christie to Kate Moss and Kendall Jenner...
...TIM AULD Aston Martin DB5: the secret agent’s choice Also unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1963 was the Aston Martin DB5....
...Writing about the Orient Express is almost impossible without acknowledging Agatha Christie....
...He lived there in extraordinary eclectic splendour, surrounded by historical tapestries and bronzes as well as contemporary works by Konstantin Grcic and Martin Szekely....
...Also this month, Bonhams has an online sale of 12 works by Hoyland from the collection of the winemaker Martin Krajewski, a friend of the artist....
...People no longer dressed for dinner on the night trains, and soon after the war Agatha Christie was bitten by bedbugs on the Simplon Orient Express....
...Even though Christie dies horribly, Bateman’s fate is somehow worse. In so far as he can fit in, not only he but his murders, even amid confession, are invisible....
...Seven-figure sales were reported on opening day, including “We Mourn Our Loss #2” (1997) by Kerry James Marshall, which sold for $2.8mn (Jack Shainman Gallery) and a 1998 Agnes Martin for $7mn (Pace Gallery...
...is still at the Royal College.” foundart.co.uk See also: Emily Tsingou, emilytsingoufineart.com Headshot credits: Amelia Allen, Bonnie H Morrison (2), Emilio Madrid, Getty Images, Joshua Geyer, Kate Martin...
...And, third, that “Central Saint Martins was just a lot of fun in the ’90s for a creative. It was less about the business of fashion and more to do with the making....
...I also had a lively Lunch with the FT with Chris Christie, the most anti-Trump of Republican presidential candidates, in last weekend’s paper....
...Directly across from Knorr is a wall of Daniel Meadows and Martin Parr: June Street (1973), an early project they photographed as students....
...Industrial action is also planned by Unite members at South Central, South East Coast and West Midlands ambulance trusts plus workers at Christies NHS Foundation Trust, the Christie Pathology Partnership...
...Christie’s auction house calls it the first collaborative fine art NFT to come to auction. And when it hit the block, it sold for $525,000....
...“The world doesn’t seem to create characters like that anymore,” Philippe Garnier, former head of international photographs at Christie’s, tells Boynton. “There’s no room for them....
...He did a summer course at Central Saint Martins aged just 14 and, after graduating high school at 16, went on to study accessories at London College of Fashion....
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