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...The brand is small, with 32 employees; it has two standalone stores in London and Tokyo, two further mono-brand stores in South Korea and more than 250 stockists worldwide....
...They were a fixture in the wardrobes of young boys and girls (see Shirley Temple and, later, a young John F Kennedy Jr)....
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...A long V-shaped fissure which cuts dramatically through the backrest, when seen from the front, reveals the silhouette of Batman’s horned mask....
...A favourite near-fixture is the “faux gras”, a lentil-based terrine without the ethical shortcomings of its duck-liver equivalent. gauthiersoho.co.uk Maxine Kelly Roots by Patina Maldives, Fari Islands...
...And now next door to the furniture shop is Household, a home furnishing and decorative accessories store....
...“I said, ‘Oh it’s wonderful darling, it doesn’t look real so I can wear it all the time,’” she says. “I don’t think [Jonathan] was terribly impressed by that response.”...
...that could easily be mistaken for a homely offshoot of the V&A....
...In Dundee, the most pro-independence city in Scotland, a new £80m V&A Museum opened in 2018, part of a dockside redevelopment....
...The Kaufmann Office has been in store for most of the time since it was presented to the V&A museum by Edgar J....
...These brands specialised in luxury daywear distributed through hundreds of department and speciality stores....
...Starbucks and Virgin redefined coffee and music stores by essentially branding the experience, not the product....
...A set of neoclassical interior glass doors were once part of the Whiteleys department store in Bayswater....
...Before becoming the darling of Sotheby’s, the graffiti artist Banksy was also a regular fixture on Chalk Farm walls....
...For the next 80 years, the models in Soane’s collection were distributed around the house or kept in store. The cut-down stand ended up in the basement....
...While founder Nick Hart enjoyed a coffee break in the restaurant, Oscar nominee Cate Blanchett and actors Mark Ruffalo and Jodie Foster wandered in and out; Blanchett’s young sons in the hotel lobby added...
...“John Lewis has stolen the crown as the darling of the high street,” says Mr Saunders. Once a fusty department store, John Lewis was also quick to spot the potential of the internet....
...The actress Cate Blanchett, for one, is a “friend” of IWC who often attends its SIHH dinner and is also a frequent presence at the Paris shows....
...“I ran out of the store crying,” she says. Still, she adds, “It seems like a missed opportunity” for designers....
...“James v UMG Recordings” is a dispute about how much money musicians should receive from digital downloads of their work....
...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...
...Now, 30 years and many ownership changes later, the chain remains a fixture on the high street....
...Today this looping, jagged-edged pattern still appears on the pirate shirts that continue to sell at Westwood’s World’s End store at 430 Kings Road....
...After four years on Savile Row he set off for Milan with a one-way ticket and an ambition to work for Romeo Gigli, then the darling of the fashion world, which he succeeded in doing....
...Thus I found myself last week with two invitations to pre-fall 2009 shows, which is to say shows of clothes that will appear in stores in mid-2009....
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