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...They stitch through weakened silk with a mix of embroidery cottons, which are stronger and a better colour match than new shiny silk....
...In response to the crisis, Aspinal of London’s Ukrainian creative director Mariya Dykalo has designed a silk sunflower scarf, a copy of her own oil painting using the colours of the Ukrainian flag....
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...Nor was there much to see nearby: just a gaudy temple called Kosanji, a stylish museum commemorating the local Silk Road painter Ikuo Hirayama, lemon groves everywhere....
...Written with impressive speed, given the research needed to describe all the ceremonies, guest lists and costumes (“made from ivory silk with gold embroidery . . . they looked sublime”), Lady in Waiting...
...The daughter of the Earl of Harrington and the wife of the 7th Earl and 25th Thane of Cawdor, she, like Tennant – who she first met over 20 years ago when she booked her for a photo shoot in Arizona – has...
...It originated in the Crimean war, when the Earl of Cardigan charged ahead of the Light Brigade, kitted out in the sensible extra layer of a collarless, knitted jacket....
...The style is both classic and contemporary, the palette palely neutral but sumptuous in its use of silks....
...Blonde, groomed, glamorous, the woman in dark, full-length silk at a rain-battered party on a Friday evening on the endless lawns of a country house was ebullient....
...Although Milne spends only a couple of nights a week here, retreating to his Earl’s Court flat in west London the rest of the time, he is at the house early each morning and leaves late every night....
...On a sweltering Saturday afternoon in early July, I’m sitting in the leafy garden courtyard of the Mosaic Rooms in London’s Earl’s Court interviewing William Wells....
...Among those he furnished with paintings by Canaletto were the Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Carlisle and Sir Robert Hervey....
...Tailored suits and silk pocket squares are for insecure guys on Wall Street. But towards the end of his life, Jobs ordered himself a lavish yacht designed by Philippe Starck....
...There’s no danger of over-clarification in the Earl's Court exhibition....
...One of the highlights of this exhibition is his 1755 portrait of Lady Anne Somerset, the wife of the Earl of Northampton who would become ambassador extraordinary to Venice....
...diorite vase from first-century BC Roman Egypt, acquired by the fifth Earl (£400,000-£600,000)....
...The tale of a mulberry tree, near Battersea Bridge, and its link with the 18th-century silk industry, is one of many narratives that will be divulged on the nocturnal trail....
...The apogee of luxury fabrics, cloth of gold, made with real gold thread, was only worn by royalty, though if you were a duke or an earl you might get away with wearing a discreet panel of the stuff....
...Usually held in New York, the move to London’s Earl’s Court is being seen as a bid to increase the US brand’s presence in the UK....
...Erected between 1664 and 1667 by the first Earl of Clarendon on land granted to him by Charles II, it cost the stratospheric price of £50,000 to build during one of the most hellish chapters in London’s...
...Chippendale’s greatest piece of work at Dumfries is the earl’s magnificent bed, its restored blue silk drapes and cornice set against deep mahogany posts that are fluted with expensively tricky spiral garlands...
...Look out for the entrance hall designed by Kit Kemp and inspired by Asia and the Silk Route – the theme of the whole show....
...Thomas Stanley, first Earl of Derby, was the king’s stepfather....
...I met the party in the drawing room, whose walls were covered in green silk by Lady Almina in 1895....
...remarked the Earl, exactly as the first Earl would have wished. His stunning house was placed so as to dazzle vulgar travellers on the road below....
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