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...Since the death of Princess Diana we have all seen the prurient horror bubble this family endures....
...“But you can buy a vintage issue of Harper’s Bazaar edited by Diana Vreeland and art directed by Alexey Brodovitch.”...
...captures a fascination with artists, sex, history, publishing and intrigue that is on display on every other wall: cartoons and sketches by the people who lit up her magazines’ pages, from Art Spiegelman to Cecil...
...Diana Vreeland, Billie Holiday, Georgia O’Keeffe, Peggy Guggenheim, Cecil Beaton, Carmen Miranda, Diaghilev, singer Miriam Makeba, Lourdes de Oliveira in Black Orpheus and French photographer Dora Maar all...
...Cecil Reuben, a reggae music promoter who has lived in Brixton since arriving in the UK from Jamaica aged 15 in the early 1970s, says the area has “lost its culture”....
...Godfrey Kneller’s streamlined “Hampton Court Beauties” — “Diana de Vere”, “Margaret Cecil” — are identikit as the giant Chinese porcelain vases displayed alongside them....
...Bass Dong-Hwan Lee was a dramatically restrained but smooth-voiced and appropriately bureaucratic Lord Cecil, who convinces Elizabeth to sign Mary’s death warrant....
...A Junoesque trouser-suited woman, the confident set of her features framed by salon-perfect tumbling ash-blonde hair, it is hard to detect the vulnerability in her features captured by Cecil Beaton when...
...See also, the late Princess Diana’s willingness to hug out the stigmas surrounding Aids, disability and illness....
...Society photographer Cecil Beaton elevated the status of Land Girls to style icons....
...Cecil Parkinson, British politician. Roland Peugeot, industrialist. Mustafa Koç, scion of Turkish business clan. February Harper Lee, novelist ‘Secret Harper Lee certainly was....
...So Walter the dentist now has at least a sense of what it must have been like to be Cecil the lion even if he will make for a less impressive wall-mounting....
...In her memoirs, she described Evelyn Waugh as “a difficult guest and when he drank too much, impossible”, Cecil Beaton once condemning her border planting as a “retina irritant”, and Rose Kennedy as thinking...
...Diana, my wife. What is your most memorable holiday? The first time I took Diana to Rome. What are holidays for? and how have they changed?...
...In the 1990s, both before and after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the monarchy went through an extremely rocky patch, when sympathy for the institution waned....
...Moments of triumph – the Coronation, “Hey Jude” – and the odd lapse in judgment – the week following Diana’s death, “Mary Had a Little Lamb” – have been underpinned by dogged resilience....
...Immordino Vreeland, is superlative down to the picture captions (“Vreeland wore clothes like no one else – here in a Schiaparelli jacket…”) but the photographs and illustrations by Andy Warhol, Irving Penn and Cecil...
...So have the weekend visitors, Maria Callas, Marlene Dietrich, Henry Ford, Cecil Beaton and the others who brought Saturday nights at Le Moulin de la Tuilerie to life....
...Cecil Beaton introduced me to Dalí when I was 14 and we went to lunch. I had a taste for haute cuisine very young – I would have crêpe suzette, filet mignon....
...● Mid-century, Vogue featured the work of photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Lord Snowdon, Horst and Norman Parkinson. Lee Miller was another notable contributor....
...She had, editor Diana Vreeland said, “the elegance of the damned”. Born in 1890, as a young woman she was sketched by John Singer Sargent....
...Heartbreaking, humorous and filled with wondrously precise prose, the novel centres on Cecil Valance, a mediocre poet killed in the first world war....
...Churchill’s wedding to Clementine Hozier; Wallis Simpson, eternally ruthless in Chanel; Vivien Leigh, before and after the madness; and the dawn of Diana....
...Mario Testino’s breezy shots of Jennifer Aniston and Princess Diana are alluring but tell us little of their subjects – which is probably the point....
...Among a cluster of Sutherlands, the sober, monumental, monotone “Cecil Harmsworth” makes McCartney look even more like a breath of fresh air....
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