Hints and tips:
...Sarah Burton’s last show at the helm of Alexander McQueen cited the influence of female anatomy and Elizabeth I – bringing to mind the monarch’s rousing words to the troops at Tilbury....
...Shares in London-based boot brand Dr Martens, which was also owned by Permira, have lost almost 80 per cent of their value since debuting on the London Stock Exchange in 2021....
...I wore a leopard-print Alexander McQueen pencil skirt with a black jumper. A belt was cinched around my waist....
...Dr Martens leather Azreya Max platform boots, €329. Mawé Attaher silver and ebony earrings, €245. Justine Clenquet brass-dipped palladium necklace, €150....
...Then a serendipitous swerve into Oxfam on my way home yielded a great pair of wide crepe Alexander McQueen trousers that I would never have stumbled across online (£100)....
...celebrated by artists, from Dalí to Damien Hirst, and by fashion houses who revel in a certain flamboyance, such as Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana and – coupled with a touch of avant-gardist’s macabre – Alexander McQueen...
...And then there’s the one I discovered watching Lovers Rock, the second in the Small Axe series of movies by Steve McQueen. It’s an old song called “Silly Games” by Janet Kay....
...It’s a sentiment all of us film lovers can get behind as we look forward to Cannes 2021, but he could also have invoked another centenary, that of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari....
...After Sacha Baron Cohen and Philomena Cunk, academics such as Exeter’s Dr Nick Groom should surely smell a rat when a TV crew arrives wanting to talk about vampires....
...Dr Singha’s Mustard Bath, £10, goop.com This old-school bath formula is made of certified-organic powdered mustard seed and pure-grade essential oils of wintergreen, eucalyptus, rosemary and thyme....
...Likewise, Dr Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, whose 2006 exhibition Love and War: The Weaponized Woman took Joan of Arc as its starting point...
...My style icons are three stars of the past: James Dean, Steve McQueen and David Bowie. They all wore clothes in a highly individual, authentic way and carried themselves with confidence....
...,” says Alistair McQueen, head of savings with Aviva, a pension provider....
...The people I rely on for wellbeing are Dr Jerome Malzac and his wife Dr Beatrice Cosi, both homeopathic doctors based in Milan....
...The designers are responding intuitively, he adds: “Stella McCartney, Valentino, Alexander McQueen and JW Anderson do it particularly well.”...
...Albarn would become an MIF regular, returning in 2011 with Dr Dee, and this year with wonder.land, a musical update of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, made with Moira Buffini and Rufus...
...Her role as a bright, knowing schoolgirl involved with an older man brought an Oscar nomination; she went on to work with the Coen Brothers on Inside Llewyn Davis and with Steve McQueen in Shame....
...For Frieze, Rose consulted Dr Martin Stevens, Associate Professor in Sensory and Evolutionary Ecology at Exeter University....
...In fact it used to be called Rose Street (once a hotbed of radicalism) and its name was changed to reflect its fictional inhabitant, Dr Manette....
...Dr No’s lair is the work of the brilliant, German-born production designer Ken Adam and it bears the traces of a glamorous post-expressionism....
...Items range from an Alexander McQueen bell-sleeved top (£1,295) to an Emilio Pucci onesie and Charlotte Olympia’s velvet Kitty pumps (£465)....
...Taken from the private portfolio of philanthropist Dr Gustav Rau, its sale profits will go to Unicef – the cause to which Rau bequeathed his considerable art collection before his death in 2002....
...“Handbags and accessories have usually played only a supporting role in fashion exhibitions,” says Dr Valerie Steele, director and chief curator for the museum at FIT....
...FIT, for example, works with both fashion houses and private collectors; acquisitions this year have included two Alexander McQueen pieces, a new Rodarte dress, an Isabel Toledo dress from the 1980s and...
...For this is a Dr Pangloss world, in which “taking the politics out of things gives you a truer sense of perspective”. She does not read newspapers....
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