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...The endeavour has come at a cost to the company of “an extra $1.5mn above what we’d normally pay for the cotton”, according to Williams....
...“I’d always had a close affinity to Borde Hill, but motherhood was a real catalyst for change,” she says....
...“The bauble really is the spirit of her; she would always bring weird and wonderful things that she’d find to decorate the tree....
...It’s the kind of thing I’d wear to an onstage panel discussion or a drinks party....
...“I’d often have to knock on neighbours’ doors to retrieve wallpapers that blew off the washing line.”...
...Carole Hübscher, chief executive of Swiss pencil company Caran d’Ache, puts the “renewed interest in stationery” down to the fact that it “appeals to our senses, sight or touch — with paper and its texture...
...Toogood’s latest collection includes oversized dresses, trousers and shirts made from an exploded gingham check; one of the highlights of the collection is a wide-strapped dress (£785, t-o-o-g-o-o-d.com)...
...After a virtual consultation, The Seam connects users with local dressmakers and tailors, with prices starting from £3 and most services completed within 10 days. theseam.uk Jessica Salter Rixo, London...
...This is the heart of the appeal — and has got me rooting through my wardrobe experimenting with a look I never thought I’d revisit....
...“Sprinting isn’t anything we’d ever really geared our programme for before.”...
...Early results from a survey by Erskine Analysis in partnership with UAL indicate a majority of leaders of creative industries companies in the UK believe their sectors have lost competitiveness over the...
...When asked what they’d love to acquire, Shrigley calls out: “Philip Guston, but it would be hard justifying spending a million pounds to my wife.”...
...The company reports that its most significant revenue stream continues to come from a vitamin D antibody known as vitD3.5H10 – which is used to test for vitamin D deficiency....
...I also loved Dance Move, a book of short stories by the Belfast-based author Wendy Erskine. The characterisations are exceptional....
...While I’d seen plenty on Instagram, I hadn’t seen a rain bonnet in the wild, until on a rainy day in Hackney Wick, east London, I bumped into the antiques dealer Charlie Porter arriving at a vintage furniture...
...“I’d be lost without it,” he says....
...That opportunity was another that presented itself without Motion pursuing it when the poet Mary Jo Salter, who teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, “took me to supper and asked whether I’d...
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...“His passion and extensive knowledge of French métiers d’art, including French ceramics — porcelain and faience — was extensive,” Zoë de Givenchy says....
...The film was directed by James Erskine and produced by Passion Pictures....
...Both worked on 2017’s Harry Styles and 2019’s Fine Line, whose songs cast the once-puppyish leader of 1-D in the mellow glow of 1970s rock....
...Finally, I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I’ve recently taken over from Murad as the FT’s sports editor, so you’ll be hearing plenty more from me in due course....
...“The term ‘heroic’ building has been interpreted in the negative, but I’d say the world desperately needs heroic ideas in all forms, including architecture.”...
...I’d spent the previous summer in an artist’s studio in Tribeca, New York, and liked the idea of finding something similar in London, where loft living was not yet the phenomenon that attracted the attention...
...In my case, I was already on the books of the Eden Private Staff agency because I’d previously hired a maternity nurse with them....
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