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...Cecil Beaton, the great society photographer, used all sorts of tricks to flatter his subjects after replacing what he called “hazardous candid camera shots”....
...Founded in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1951 by warlock and screenwriter Cecil Williamson, it moved to the Cornish coast in 1960....
...Napoleon III’s portraitist was not Manet, the era’s radical figure painter, but the tame Franz Winterhalter, also lured to Britain by Prince Albert....
...It described the idealisation of Scottish culture perpetuated by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, after the latter bought Balmoral Castle in 1852, rebuilt it and bedecked it in a pastiche of Scottish baronial...
...Through family connections she was already close to fashion photographer Cecil Beaton and writers Evelyn and Alec Waugh, but during her studies she met other students who also went on to have illustrious...
...Everything changed in 1962 when the search for a macho pin-up to play Fleming’s spy hero ended with producers Harry Saltzman and Albert “Cubby” Broccoli tapping Connery....
...Cecil Beaton acquired one of his satin jumpsuits for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s costume collection and included his work in the groundbreaking 1971 exhibition Fashion: An Anthology....
...Significant influences wind through the story, from Cecil Beaton, the subject of Sir Roy’s famous exhibition at the Portrait Gallery, to the reclusive poet and garden maker Ian Hamilton Finlay at Little...
...Nicholas Coleridge, the former media executive who chairs the board of the Victoria and Albert Museum, says he is “unashamedly grateful” for the £2bn pandemic rescue package for the arts and comfortable...
...Over in strategy, SocGen’s Albert Edwards continues to be Albert Edwards....
...Later, Cole Porter, Cecil Beaton, Le Corbusier and the beau-monde beauty Catherine D’Erlanger were visitors....
...Bernard’s record of these sittings is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum....
...No surprise that this season, and only days before a huge Dior retrospective opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, her attention was drawn to the designer’s first show in Britain, in 1950....
...The economist Albert O Hirschman loved to reintroduce forgotten historical thinkers in his writing, and he delighted in the discovery of the invisible, those hidden intellectual currents running beneath...
...“We are very excited about being a part of 100 years of movie and TV history at The Culver Studios,” said Albert Cheng, head of Amazon Studios....
...‘Ocean Liners: Speed and Style’ is at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, until June 17 Follow @FTProperty on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...She points to recent focused exhibitions that have sparked a wider interest in the genre at the Barbican and the Victoria and Albert Museum, which has its own fashion illustration collection....
...advance guard for what London’s former mayor Boris Johnson windily christened “Olympicopolis”: a cultural and educational district that will also include outposts of Sadler’s Wells and the Victoria and Albert...
...The recent announcement of the retirement of Sir Nicholas Serota from the directorship of Tate, hard on the heels of Martin Roth’s resignation as director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and not long...
...The acquisition of Gill’s images was made possible through funds generated by the royalties on Cecil Beaton’s photographs, generously donated to the museum in 1968 and again in 1980: a wonderful example...
...A photograph of Lucian Freud and his then-wife Caroline Blackwood at Coombe Priory in April 1956, courtesy of The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s, sold for £7,000....
...And your coupon card will still be intact”, runs the editorial alongside a Cecil Beaton portrait. A shamelessly romantic gown is still a symbol of confidence, determination and pluck....
...Rufus Norris will take over from Sir Nicholas Hytner as director of the National Theatre in April 2015, while Alex Beard, former deputy director at the Tate, took the reins at the Royal Opera House last...
...And here’s a story from Floyd Norris in the New York Times of a mini-tender gone horribly awry. In the case of TRC Capital, there is no obvious indication that they are violating 14(e) or 14E....
...I tried, following on from Cecil Roth’s narrative....
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