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...Both are known for a quintessentially French vision and heritage, and with the Olympics starting in Paris in July, all eyes are on the image of the capital city presented to the world....
...“She was very proud of her Czech heritage and loved any excuse to talk about her country of origin,” says Krieg. As well as antiques, Albright “had books everywhere”, says Hause....
...He lived there just two years, “a very short period in his very short life”, explains Rob Shakespeare, head of heritage and museums for the City of London Corporation, which manages the site....
...one executive put it, to help tell the “amazing stories that are part of the heritage of our brands”....
...Anti-Christian, even. This is probably incorrect. Look in your shopping basket, and you will see that most product logos are being stripped of their visual complexity. Mr Pringle has lost his hair....
...In January, Marc Jacobs was highlighted in LVMH’s 2023 full year report for its “remarkable performance”, alongside heritage brands Christian Dior, Celine, Fendi, Loro Piana, Loewe and Jacobs’ former house...
...For Raf Simons’ debut couture show at Christian Dior in 2012, Colle created a spectacular wall of 17,000 carnation stems....
...Its shiny crystals became a favourite of designers such as Coco Chanel and Christian Dior in the 1920s....
...In addition, there are many more people with East or South Asian heritage in the west than a century ago....
...I like to think of the Miranda Priestly model of ideology: you may not realise the heritage of your lumpy cerulean sweater, but that does not mean it doesn’t have one....
...Stay: The Spanish Parador network of heritage hotels is a national treasure; the Parador de Segovia (paradores.es, from €92) is an extraordinary example, in that – unlike most of the others – it’s modern...
...Abstract motifs, sparkling with Italian glass smalti, reference the area’s commercial heritage....
...Taking it off my wrist and handing it back to the brand’s style and heritage director Christian Selmoni, I muttered the rhetorical question “36mm?” To my surprise I was corrected....
...She is no Christian saint, however....
...Five pieces – ranging from a stool to seating and lighting – pay homage to Christian Liaigre’s décor at Hôtel Costes, the A-list haunt on Rue Saint Honoré....
...Ukrainian television showed local residents rushing to rescue icons and other religious artefacts from the building, which is part of a Christian following linked to the Russian Orthodox church....
...It reminds me of the gilded halos that crown holy figures in Christian art....
...One even featured a miniature Pope, a Christian conundrum that defies logic....
...On November 1, Israel’s minister of heritage, Amichai Eliyahu, posted “The North of the Gaza Strip, more beautiful than ever. Everything is blown up and flattened, simply a pleasure for the eyes.”...
...Vacheron Constantin was among the first to put the retrograde in a wristwatch in 1940 with the Don Pancho, which had, says the brand’s heritage and style director Christian Selmoni, “a minute-repeater combined...
...Yet their skills turned to Christian art....
...But Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, 46, the justice and security minister who is of Turkish heritage, won more personal votes in the last general election....
...But although that is often couched in nationalist terms, it is based in a larger concern about a unique western heritage, where ancient Greece and Rome are easily hijacked as a sign of European cultural...
...Christian Adofo is the author of ‘A Quick Ting On: Afrobeats’, published by Jacaranda Books...
...Elsewhere, Vermehlo pays homage to Louboutin’s Egyptian heritage: in the massage suite, the walls are covered in alabaster from Luxor, backlit to cast a soft caramel glow....
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