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...However, during last year’s Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève — the Oscars of the watch world — a new type of home-build kit beat the established ready-made creators, such as L’Epée 1839, Matthew Norman...
...I’ve often steered friends and visitors to its gloriously un-chic bar for the Taylor-and-Burton patina it gives. But the 75 rooms were always a bit too tired to warrant recommendation....
...We subsequently agreed that they would create an office for themselves in one part of the ‘L’ and a studio for Marloe in the other.”...
...So, Ophelia by [John Everett] Millais, and the drawings of Arthur Rackham – particularly Undine, the book he illustrated in the early 1900s, with the pixies and goblins in the margins....
...“You can’t be nude [in public], but you can wear costumes with trompe l’oeil body parts,” she says. “Absurd! Here, I’ll show you.”...
...waist chain, £338, silver keychain, £111 Dolce & Gabbana sequin-embellished mini tubino dress £1,660 Throughout: Khiry sterling-silver Khartoum ring and stacking ring, both £186, sterling-silver Khartoum l...
...Hip hop’s pulse and creative palettes have always had a presence in the work of US musician/songwriter/producer Danger Mouse (aka Brian Burton), though his varied projects — and bands including Gnarls Barkley...
...All profits from the sale go towards the programme. michaelkors.com; wfp.org L is for LemlemModel Liya Kebede has made social change central to her fashion brand Lemlem, which she founded in 2007 to preserve...
...On the day of my visit alone, the multimillion-pound line-up of classic Ferraris awaiting meticulous, ground-up rebuilds included a rare Dino L-series (one of the very first made, and the actual car displayed...
...covinovenezia.com Disappointment An invitation to lunch at Girafe, the sought-after seafood restaurant in Paris’s Cité de l’Architecture, promised a treat....
...Auditioning for a top role in a film by Tim Burton, he discovers he’s been cast for a mere 10-line cameo; he pukes Guinness over an ineffably sweet and voluntarily unpaid co-star of the Wilde film, Colin...
...Brits love a bath, none more so than the actor and writer Rupert Everett....
...Mostly, when I look back on my relationships with homosexuality, I recall most clearly mooning over flop-haired individuals such as Hugh Grant in Maurice, Rupert Everett in Another Country, and Daniel Day-Lewis...
...This season the retailer is stocking voluminous silk-blend opera skirts by Erdem, from a collection inspired by the belle époque costumes in Luchino Visconti’s 1976 film L’Innocente....
...Online fashion rival, Boohoo, whose chief executive John Lyttle was once in charge of buying at Arcadia, is likely to acquire Topshop stablemates Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis....
...highly sociable start to the winter season [that it usually is],” says Helen Maixner, a Brussels-based Bostonian who bought an apartment in Gstaad nearly 50 years ago, when Hollywood stars such as Richard Burton...
...dug out the classic 1966 film version starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton....
...Those that are already in insolvency processes, such as Debenhams and Arcadia, owner of the Topshop, Burton and other chains, will close more stores....
...His career at La Scala began in 1953, designing sets and costumes for Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri....
...The closest it got this time was a quiet off-piste presentation by Sarah Burton of her Alexander McQueen menswear collection (the designer herself was absent; the clothes were fine, painstakingly tailored...
...Two Dickens volumes are given a prominent position in one of his portraits in the show, “L’Arlésienne” (1890)....
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...(The designer returned to dance for his SS15 menswear show, which was inspired by Ballet Russes’ L’Après-Midi d’un Faune.)...
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