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...“He took the codes of the classic bourgeois shoe and made them his own by adding this punk attitude,” says Geert Bruloot, former co-owner of Antwerp’s cult designer shoe store Coccodrillo (now closed), and...
...The nautical striped Chibbles (£225, charlknitwear.co.uk) is my bag and works with shorts, jeans and chinos....
.... ★★★☆☆ Shoe Lady Royal Court (Jerwood Downstairs), London Everyday objects also conspire to thwart Viv in Shoe Lady, E.V. Crowe’s surreal new comedy....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Eitz chayim hee la’machazikim ba, my remembrance sings, “A tree of life for those who hold on to it …” Somehow I still do....
...He starts as a shoe-shine boy but his talent is quickly recognised and he becomes chief counsellor to the land of Shearson....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
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