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...In the liberated 1960s, alongside revivals of Art Nouveau and a vogue for the graphics of Aubrey Beardsley (who illustrated Wilde’s Salome) following a 1966 V&A retrospective, peacocking young men of various...
...The V&A’s exhibition gives plenty of food for thought about all this....
...“The beauty of African fashion is that it is as varied as the continent itself,” says Dr Christine Checinska, who curated the V&A’s recent exhibition Africa Fashion (now at the Brooklyn Museum until October...
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...The outside walls are covered in frescoes, still unretouched, depicting different characters painted with vegetable dyes and ground stones....
...What really interests both designers is reinterpreting classic menswear staples such as varsity jackets, skinny jeans, pea coats and V-neck sweaters through craft and manipulation....
...Their 1932 advertisement for the hair dye Komol hangs right next to Kepes’s “Juliet”, as if to assure her that ageing is a manageable problem....
...Sam’s in his late forties, maybe early fifties, heavyset, wearing a tie-dye shirt and an elasticated skirt — for the heat, he says, which is oppressive....
...It’s a destination for high-end, investment-level kimonos, three of which feature in the V&A’s show....
...“Historically, tie-dye is associated with the 1960s, hippies, free love, freedom and protest,” says Elisabeth Murray, fashion curator at the V&A....
...In 2017, a German appeals court in Hamm agreed to hear a case brought by Saul Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer who claims that RWE should be held accountable for climate change, specifically the melting...
...Nearly five years after its release, Grand Theft Auto V keeps kicking into high gear, bolstering publisher Take-Two Interactive’s quarterly revenue and sending its shares to an all-time high on Friday....
...The South Dakota v Wayfair ruling, handed down last month, will open the door for states to pass legislation to require online merchants to collect and pay sales tax for sales within their borders....
...One of his most consequential votes was on Bush v Gore, the controversial ruling that handed George W Bush the White House in 2000....
...A top might have a cut-out detail, and there were deep V necklines and some short skirts, but most of the women’s looks were sleeved, midi-length and long....
...V-10 Terrazzo Pierre Pekin, €125, veja-store.com Rock the kaftan Pippa Holt’s cult brand of holiday-wear now offers fabric belts and children’s kaftans....
...announced the hire of Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg, who had served as presidents at Sony Pictures Television since 2005, where their roster of programming included hits like Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul...
...The company said in a statement that it had been informed by chairman Cheah Cheng Hye and non-executive honorary chairman Yeh V-Nee — who co-founded Value Partners in 1993 — that they were had been approached...
...This year, 21 teenagers will get a hearing in the California appeals court for their claim in Juliana v US that the government failed to protect their rights to life, liberty and property by promoting the...
...Key issues: Religion – Judge Gorsuch was part of the 10th Circuit’s ruling in Sebelius v Hobby Lobby, over a controversial mandate in the Affordable Care Act that required employee health insurance to cover...
...She attended Temple University and married her brother’s friend, Saul Windsor, after graduating with a bachelors degree in 1950. The marriage lasted less than a year....
...Trivago, which began as German start-up, said it will issue American depository shares representing class A shares of its affiliate, Travel B.V., which will be listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under...
...Perhaps because its discovery is quite recent: it was invented as a dye only in the late 1850s....
...He dismissed colour as a dye without “body or texture or density”, favouring gelatin silver and platinum prints, often adding extra platinum to the paper to achieve greater tonal variation....
...‘The Fabric of India’ runs at the V&A in London until January 10 2016 Photographs: V&A...
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