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...She dressed Édith Piaf and Leslie Caron, as well as Parisian traffic wardens and Eurostar staffers, whose uniforms she designed. She died in 2015, aged 105....
...Jean-Luc Godard filmed here with Jean-Paul Belmondo, while Edith Wharton wrote her poem, Mistral in the Maquis, observing the distant island from her château in Hyères....
...Her first foray into recording was at the invitation of famed songwriter and composer Michel Rivgauche, who wrote for Édith Piaf, Nana Mouskouri and Maurice Chevalier among many others....
...It’s probably l’air du temps — catwalks, the streets and popular culture are full of mini skirts....
...In Antoine Laurain’s recent novel Vintage 1954, the residents of a grand Parisian townhouse are transported back to the era of Edith Piaf courtesy of a bottle of Beaujolais, while in Céline Sciamma’s beguiling...
...Vargas Llosa’s latest novel opens in a New York PR agency, where we meet Edward L Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew and the world’s first PR mogul....
...Edith Wharton (then Edith Jones) was married in the church. Visitors to certain lots on Sixth Avenue were required to pay a fee to get in, usually a dollar....
...Claude Monet: ‘Le déjeuner sur l’herbe’c. Gustave Caillebotte: ‘The Parquet Planers’ d. Caravaggio: ‘The Young Bacchus’ e. William Hogarth: ‘The Rake’s Progress’ 5 Mellow fruitfulness a....
...Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, was born Edith Helen Chaplin in 1878 in Lincolnshire....
...His wife, Edith Chabre, is the chief executive of Sciences Po in Paris....
...Eric Cantona — the actor and philosophical sketch artist perhaps better known as one the finest and most combustible footballers in history — closes his eyes and starts whistling Edith Piaf’s “Hymne à l’...
...Woolf pops up as a famous Modernist female (along with Edith Sitwell) but Taylor concentrates on her highbrow strictures rather than her seminal feminist essays A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas...
...L’Autre Pied, 5-7 Blandford Street, London W1 (020-7486 9696). The best gift I’ve received recently was a necklace Greg gave me....
...Introducing the Ancient Greeks, by Edith Hall, Bodley Head, RRP£20/WW Norton, RRP$26.95 In a book that is both erudite and splendidly entertaining, classics professor Hall identifies 10 defining attributes...
...A year later, L&M Arts Los Angeles closed as well, leaving Sprüth Magers’ artists Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer in the same position....
...The tourist’s Paris of the Champs-Élysées, the Étoile and the Avenue de l’Opéra is largely the work of Haussmann....
...Mount Etna is fading into a velvet gloom across the straits of Messina and the painted fishing boats on the beach of Lazzaro are catching the last rays of sunset....
...Secrets of Some Wiltshire Housewives, published in 1927, also one shilling, was compiled by the novelist and folklorist Edith Olivier who lived at the Daye (dairy) House in the Earl of Pembroke’s park at...
...Also in Montmartre are the much-photographed steps of Rue Drevet, which feature in the Edith Piaf biopic La Vie en Rose (2007)....
...A hit for The Cheers, “Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots”, was covered by Piaf, translated into “L’Homme a la Moto”....
...Edith Piaf professed: “My real job is to sing, to sing no matter what happens”; while Jean Cocteau noted: “At no price should one let oneself be distracted from serious matters by the dramatic frivolity...
...The whole is an extremely carefully constructed composition that sits within a trompe l’oeil frame within the picture frame....
...“Temporary” barracks built after the 1908 Messina earthquake – Europe’s worst ever – are still occupied....
...“Temporary” and primitive barracks erected in the wake of the 1908 Messina earthquake – the most devastating to hit Europe in modern times - are still lived in by 3,100 families, according to a recent report...
...In Americans and Europeans – Dancing in the Dark, American academic Dennis L....
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