Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...People call it Chez Denise, though La Tour de Montlhery is emblazoned on the plates....
...It certainly seems to be standing still for Louise Lecavalier whose mesmerising solo, Minutes around late afternoon, supplied the evening’s centrepiece....
...Lee Curran’s slightly hyperactive lighting is a combination of sidelights and roving spots which create an ever-changing series of zones on the black floor, like the markings for an unknown game....
...The corps supply a band of black-masked, black-suited Shadows who charge about, directing or blocking the action and performing collective lifts on the main characters, like the “invisible” stagehands in...
...His harmonious stage pictures are achieved with a palette of gilded earth tones — oxblood, copper, burnt sienna — offset by flashes of turquoise and delphinium and sooty touches of matt black — rather as...
...The event was held in aid of the Liberal International Anti-Racialist Appeal Fund and allowed the Liberal party’s flamboyant new leader Jeremy Thorpe (in black tie) to pose with Hendrix (in blue velvet by...
...Clad in sodden black shirt and jeans, his “dressed man” is the guardian of a strange and soggy dreamscape....
...To that end, black and navy tones will remain consistent across collections, so that a client who buys a blazer one season can come back for a coordinating trouser the next....
...Suzuki shines brighter still in the evening’s finale: 2019’s Agora by Brazilian dancemaker Cassi Abranches, co-creator of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s recent Black Sabbath tribute, set to a rhythmic drip-feed...
...For What It’s Worth, by Ballet Black’s Mthuthuzeli November, made zestful use of a high-kicking Mayara Magri and under-exploited soloists such as Leo Dixon — a vision in Yann Seabra’s fuchsia silk pyjamas...
...Franzen makes his first appearance perched at the very top of the craggy black set then scuttles, batlike, between the hidden handholds, his bare chest aglow in Jean Kalman’s honeyed moonbeams, abs shimmering...
...Black Sabbath — The Ballet was the brainchild of Birmingham Royal Ballet director Carlos Acosta, who cannily surmised that joining forces with one of the city’s greatest exports would prove a natural audience...
...More than a movement, it was a sensibility: urban, novel and proudly Black....
...If the sofa were flat-pack, the props and costumes could probably fit into the back of a black cab. And it’s terrific: fast-moving, witty and zestily danced....
...— impressed once again as the mercurial Conductor (aka her husband, Daniel Barenboim), sheathed in Bechstein black....
...Last week, the healthcare technology entrepreneur was reported to have said in 2019 that looking at Diane Abbott, Britain’s first female Black MP, made “you just want to hate all Black women”....
...The dress’s owner, Denise Poiret, died in 1982, the year I was born — we have never met, and yet here I am, smelling her armpits....
...It was a moonless night, pitch black and, as it’s a fast-flowing river, quite a dangerous thing to do....
...The black-clad chorus of Opera Holland Park formed a human palisade stage right....
...“All these references and fragmented memories are present, but then I find a spider doodle on a school desk, and I think of Louise Bourgeois,” he says. “That, for me, was magical.”...
...Throughout his prolific career Lindbergh brought an otherworldly beauty to his black-and-white portraits – from Kate Moss to Linda Evangelista – for the likes of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar....
...Denise met “rich white women” who “were into coke” through the venture. They did not know where to buy it; Denise did. “She seized her opportunity,” her son says....
...The walls in the restricted-access conservation rooms at the very top of the National Gallery, in London, are painted darkest matte black....
...The removals black market operates through low-budget subcontractors and rogue man-and-van services, cautioned Studd....
...Then, from Delroy, Michael’s black friend, appalled at being arrested because of crude racial profiling....
International Edition