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...by archivist Cecil J Sharp....
...While reading about them gallivanting across Europe, you can imagine the pair wrapped up in this season’s voluminous belted trench coats from Ami, billowing over Oxford bags....
...“I was in a big fur coat and my hair was really curly. I think they really signify me,” Leahy says of the artworks, which remain her favourites....
...Vaquera are fantasists in the vein of American greats such as Cecil B DeMille rather than Tommy Hilfiger....
...This was Peter Coats (or “Major Coats”, as he reminded me on a near-weekly basis). I would pass him The Times; he would pass me, without looking up, his letters to post....
...The latter has been working closely with curator Robin Muir on the National Portrait Gallery’s upcoming Cecil Beaton exhibition, and the society photographer’s tinfoil and graphic backgrounds found their...
...“In reality however Lucian inherited only his grandfather’s fur-collared coat and a part shar . . ....
...Yet for every transparent, gossamer-tulle pleated dress camping up an homme fatale, there were another three or four trench coats breaking with kilt pleats, or hardy tartan suits and coats (the best of the...
...Great patrons like Leicester, Essex, and Robert Cecil as well as his father-in-law bailed him out. Since he outlived them all, he spent time in a debtor’s prison at the age of 70....
...In South Africa, a Cecil Rhodes statue was taken down in 2015, but another still stands at Oriel College, Oxford, after the college rejected calls for its removal....
...Yet as a record of a life fuelled by flair and dedication, a highly original vocation which pitches the author somewhere between Cecil Beaton, Anna Pavlova and a Benedictine monk, Fashion Climbing: A New...
...The photographer Cecil Beaton spent much of his early career encouraging hammy-armed young debutantes to dress up as “soapsuds” and “sea mist”. Truman Capote had his Black and White Ball....
...Made of ball gowns that once would have suited a Cecil Beaton sitting, Burton had slashed them up and re-stitched them in a seductive composite of flapping corsetry and chiffon folds....
...A vast emerald embroidered opera coat for starters, or long cream goatskin gloves and sparkly kitten heels....
...Every detail of his costume contributes to the bedazzlement: the pale grey checks and razor-edge crease of his trousers, paralleled by an arrow-thin walking stick; the flank-hugging tails of his morning coat...
...Society photographer Cecil Beaton elevated the status of Land Girls to style icons....
...Piccioli had wanted to explore the spirit of the gowns captured by his childhood idols Cecil Beaton and Irving Penn, the photographers who introduced him to the idea of couture....
...Coat with the rest of the mayonnaise and garnish with chopped eggs, a dash of caviar or tapenade, parsley and tomato quarters....
...When she sat for Cecil Beaton, Ansel Adams, Bruce Weber, Yousuf Karsh, Mary Nichols and Philippe Halsman, she often faced away from the lens....
...Hurst has designed and sourced everything down to the coat hooks and the china in the kitchen cupboards....
...npg.org.uk, 020 7306 0055, to October 18 Titian at Apsley House, Apsley House, London The three paintings of young women: “Titian’s Mistress” semi-nude in a fur coat, “Danaë” being showered with gold and...
...If you have ever worn a reversible coat, shoes covered in fur or painted a wall shocking pink, you have benefited from the legacy of Elsa Schiaparelli....
...“A bright turquoise coat jacket that I’d got from Joseph and a black skirt.”...
...Their ginger coat – and their love of mud-bathing – also protects them from sunburn....
...He studied the work of his rivals for commercial success, be they Irving Penn and Richard Avedon in the US, or Norman Parkinson and Cecil Beaton in the UK....
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