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...The late Vogue editor André Leon Talley was in the audience and took Smith under his wing....
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...“It puts you in a spot where you don’t use the same techniques, as perhaps you’d sketch around a stone, or you’d make a specific design for a necklace....
...But rather surrealism in the sense the writer André Breton intended it....
...“Due to my track record as an athlete, if I were infected by the virus I would not need to worry, I would feel nothing, or at worse, I’d be affected by a little flu or sniffles,” he said....
...Alexander McQueen’s creations, for example, always have something special....
...Other Hamilton alumni include Brian D’Arcy James, Josh Andrés Rivera and Ariana DeBose, who plays the key role of Anita....
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...I went back through the resource room and found a display case I’d missed on my first lap....
...You’re anything but a plain man yourself, and the very raison d’être of you all is that you’re little demons of subtlety.” We try to be, God knows....
...Singapore — André Chiang Chef at Restaurant André Raw cake batter Christmas is not big in Chinese culture — yet during this period, every household bakes cakes, all kinds of cakes....
...“I’d hit balls every couple of weeks and I’d think, ‘What am I doing out here?’ ” he recalled....
...“Fifteen years ago Alexander McQueen gave me a black denim tailored frock coat he’d made. It was immaculate — I’ve still got it....
...Turning his back on Marxism, he sided with Russian dissidents including Alexander Solzhenitsyn....
...It’s amazing, beautiful, crazy and very dramatic – I’d love to use it in my next show....
...The capital’s inhabitants grew used to living among works by Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger and local artists such as Jesús Rafael Soto and Alejandro Otero....
...The December sale features Newson’s “Extruded Table” (2008) alongside Ron Arad’s early prototype “D” sofa (c1994), a pair of “Two Curve” chairs (1989) by Scott Burton and Finn Juhl’s “Chieftain” armchair...
...Team Katusha’s Alexander Kristoff won two stages in last year’s edition and had started 2015 strongly, but he crossed the line in Paris on Sunday without a stage win to his name....
...You’d never know it. Her ear for American dialogue is flawless, her historical details spot on. The quality of the writing, too, is astonishing....
...His St John Passion project follows his similarly meticulous love letters to the B Minor Mass, the Magnificat in D and to various Bach cantatas....
...But the subject matter of Charlotte Salomon, a new opera commissioned from French composer Marc-André Dalbavie, is as much political as personal....
...“I’ve worked with a lot of classical musicians,” he says, reeling off a few names – Georg Solti, André Previn, the Three Tenors....
...“In terms of foreign retailers I’d say we are only missing a Walmart.”...
...Reporting by Geoff Dyer and Richard McGregor in Washington, Charles Clover in Moscow, Andres Schipani in Bogotá, Josh Noble in Hong Kong and Kathrin Hille in Beijing...
...Bollettieri trained Andre Agassi, Maria Sharapova, Monica Seles and Anna Kournikova. “I was desperate to go,” Watson recalls....
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