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...This is partly why so many Modernist buildings are now being (shortsightedly, I’d suggest) demolished and replaced with generic contemporary buildings that, ironically, use a range of similar materials and...
...As well as working as a make-up artist for designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Junya Watanabe, brands including Hermès and Versace, and a stint as the beauty editor of i-D magazine, Ffrench has consulted...
...As a young man I’d look in the windows of Mappin & Webb and wonder how anyone could ever afford what’s there.”...
...When it came to telling the story behind the ‘Naissance d’une Montre 2’ [Birth of a Watch] project, Phillips decided to film the independent watchmakers who collaborated on the unique piece ahead of its...
...“I’d never even thought about being an MP until a few years ago. I was a bit overwhelmed about being asked to go into the cabinet. I’ve never even thought of becoming a PM.”...
...The flavours and fragrances of the cardamom pods and spices were completely different to what I’d been able to get in London or New York....
...“He reminded me of myself,” says Leane, who is also classically trained, having completed a seven-year apprenticeship in Hatton Garden, London’s jewellery quarter....
...“I’d love to see a true mentorship programme established, to help foster long-lasting businesses.”...
...“We’d discovered the accessibility features of Zoom and Microsoft Teams long ago,” says Ms Hatton. “The technology is there already — it’s just a question of using it in a way that’s inclusive.”...
...climbed the narrow, winding staircase in a Dickensian building on Hatton Garden to reach an attic crammed with workbenches....
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...So Silvertown in the Docklands became Vietnam in Full Metal Jacket; London’s Hatton Garden became Manhattan in Eyes Wide Shut....
...Gainsborough’s two paintings of couples posed in landscapes are contemporaneous, circa 1748, and in the former the artist, a struggling 21-year-old living in cramped Hatton Garden lodgings, and Margaret,...
...Emma Hatton has a faint echo of Elaine Paige in the title role: her voice on “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” is captivatingly pure and clear, and within a couple of numbers she’s belting lines out without losing...
...You’d lose all your client base.”...
...“I don’t even know how we’d get by.”...
...“That’s a different skill and we’d have to bring the expertise in, so we’d have to work out whether it would be worth it.”...
...He left school at 15 and took an apprenticeship in Hatton Garden but it wasn’t until he was 30 that Barnard felt experienced enough to set up on his own....
...We would end up nicking people . . . and because it was the only thing they knew, we’d nick them a second time, and so it went on....
...If we’d had any idea we wouldn’t have done it . . . because it’s incredibly complicated and nuanced.”...
...Following the Hatton Garden theft some of the stolen goods were subsequently recovered....
...“They know the better the retail and food and beverage offerings they have, the more value they’d have too.” Yet Chancery Lane is not about to shake off its commercial cloak just yet....
...“For its core market — that’s buyers from the creative industries — I’d say Shoreditch arrived about five years ago; now it’s attracting people from the mainstream markets, who want to attach themselves...
...The biggest news in diamond land is still April’s audacious heist of a Hatton Garden safety deposit company and the theft of up to 70 boxes worth of diamonds....
...“And I’d be up all night wondering how the hell to create it,” he laughs. But however fantastical the idea or seemingly impossible the task, Leane would always deliver....
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