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...I don’t doubt that there are plenty of people that this drives crazy, but it’s not by design....
...Website; Directions Castel Sant’Angelo Back in the centre, stop by the gardens of Castel Sant’Angelo (where, at the end of Puccini’s Tosca, the titular heroine famously throws herself off the rooftop)....
...It’s something I’ll never grow out of – I almost don’t see it as a career, it’s become a second part of myself....
...For the artist, the originals merit fuller exposition in museums: “I don’t believe they should all be knocked down,” he tells me, any more than “that all books I don’t like in the library should be banned...
...“Virgil passed away the day before it opened,” says Ross of his mentor Virgil Abloh, the Chicagoan who trained as an architect and became the first African-American artistic director at Louis Vuitton....
...Instead, we had to slum it with the likes of Salon, Krug, Bollinger RD, Pol Roger’s Cuvée Winston Churchill and Philipponnat’s single-vineyard Clos des Goisses....
...You can find everything from old Cartier lighters to the De Sede sofa and Christofle cutlery at Serpent à Plume....
...It is rumoured Gaga was paid almost £7mn to don the diamond, a figure not unheard of in the industry....
...“People want the original, not a copy,” said De Lange....
...LJ: I love a good film soundtrack – great when you don’t have time to make a playlist....
...I don’t collect anything; I don’t like the idea of accumulation or being focused on one item. I love the idea of desiring something, but I find sometimes it’s better if you don’t have it....
...“The rank and file at OpenAI don’t dispute those are important. The dispute is that OpenAI doesn’t own a piece....
...I also recently bought a bunch of Comme des Garçons at the Dover Street Market sale that kicked off my fall wardrobe. I’m obsessed with Japanese fashion....
...“It gets lots of sun, but don’t expect much après-ski.”...
...“I don’t think, after this event, anybody can survive....
...recyclable-PED Picto birdhouse, €69 From top: Harry Winston platinum and diamond Couture Diamond bracelet and necklace....
...“De Chirico would walk to the Litografia once a week, stopping en route at Bar D’Angelo to buy two mont blanc pastries,” Romolo recalled, “and then he would eat them here so his wife wouldn’t see him.”...
...Don’t be like the exiled Dutch prime minister in London during the second world war, who, when he finally got a moment with Winston Churchill, is said to have greeted him with, “Goodbye!”...
...Boodles embarked on a European tour, naming its high-jewellery suites after cities; the title of Harry Winston’s Majestic Escapes collection says it all; Louis Vuitton thrust us back billions of years to...
...The Blahnik home was distinctly Anglophile, not least because Winston Churchill was, to Blahnik’s father, “like God – he saved Europe”....
...He had a stint in Beijing at Zhong De Securities, a joint venture between Deutsche Bank and a domestic company, Shanxi Securities....
...“I don’t have men in suits going, ‘No, you can’t do that’, or [telling me] what sort of targets they need. It’s very free in terms of that....
...Her blue-grey eyes focus on the poster for the Sam Szafran exhibition currently on at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris....
...It is a theme that pays homage to the late Ambaji Shinde, one of Harry Winston’s celebrated designers, who epitomised the glamour of the ’50s and ’60s when a cocktail watch was de rigueur....
...“You don’t argue.”...
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