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...stages peppered across the city....
...The Elizabeth Line is as impressive a piece of 21st-century transport infrastructure as any in the world, but Camden Town’s Northern Line station patently is not....
...She is one of the owners of my building, and she spends a lot of time outside of the city....
...co-curator of Foot Print: The Tracks of Shoes in Fashion at the city’s Fashion Museum, where several of Cox’s designs featured....
...“This city was built to export, but that’s never been my interest,” says Emma Bridgewater, 62, the company’s creative director and founder....
...By the time they reached the actual show, held in the colonnade of the British Museum on the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral, those veils assumed an elegiac air....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...Liz Truss’s government will host the largest gathering of foreign leaders and dignitaries in London for decades, as they arrive in the capital for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday....
...who holds the traits of Elizabeth II....
...“He gets enormous pleasure out of gardening. He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...Gift shop windows display T-shirts with It’s a Wonderful Life quotes beside shirts bearing the face of suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton....
...African Diaspora Fashion at the V&A....
...It is typical of the decadent-but-decaying colonial buildings occupied by some of the city’s upper-class families, a renovation decades overdue....
...One of Savi’s key talking points is a burse for the state seal of Elizabeth I, made from embroidered velvet and satin. It dates from 1558, and was carried by a man....
...The Elizabeth linen dress by British brand NRBY has a similar feel (£125, nrbyclothing.com) Footwear? Sandals, of course....
...Other highlights include a drawing of him by David Hockney (est £4,000-£6,000) — “We were watching the telly, I had no idea he was doing it,” he says, and a wax seal of Queen Elizabeth I designed by the...
...Cars: Accelerating the Modern World Edited by Brendan Cormier and Elizabeth Bisley, Abrams, V&A, RRP£30/$45 The show at the V&A might have shut early, a victim of the lockdown, but the most fascinating...
...College of Fashion, V&A East and a UK outpost for the US’s Smithsonian Institution....
...Pre-recorded videos and live panel discussions with museums including the V&A, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Hong Kong Museum of Art will also feature....
...the V&A, UCL, Sadler’s Wells and the BBC....
...Donna Rotunno, Weinstein’s head defence attorney, has become a character of the trial in her own right....
...This piece explains how the Batman spin-off, out this week, managed to put nationwide cinema chains and several US cities on high alert. (Vulture) The lives of Ronald Pinn....
...Supreme Court ruled to end the separation of students by race in the landmark Brown v Board of Education case in 1954....
...He sleeps in a Savile Row dress shirt and V-neck sweater. He shaves daily, has pedicures monthly and maintains the immaculate haircut of a navy admiral....
...I love that you can find a green spot like that right in the middle of the city. The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Rua do Alecrim 21, Lisbon....
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