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...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Piazza Umberto I, 21, 80073 Capri The best souvenir I’ve brought home is a crystal necklace of the Virgo of the Sea from Bahia, which was given to me by the spiritual mother of the Brazilians at the time, Mãe...
...In one of the show’s opening images, from Carrie Mae Weems’s “The Rivington Place Portfolio” (2006-7), the artist haunts the British Museum portico in a spectral black dress....
...The Tennessee-born singer, who has died aged 83, brought the tradition of blues and gospel shouters into the loudly amplified world of rock ’n’ soul in the 1960s....
...I always get a neutral shade, Mademoiselle by Essie: same for my toes. It used to be a deep red, but now I’m a Mademoiselle lady....
...the story of flight, I was glad to encounter the story of Bessie Coleman, who in 1921 became the first African-American woman to gain a pilot’s licence; in 1992 her photograph was carried into space by Mae...
...Nellie Mae Rowe’s “Pocketbook” (1982), in paint and pencil, was her final drawing after a cancer diagnosis, its indigo purse aglow with memories....
...On one cassette, Vanessa-Mae plays her violin thigh-deep in the sea’s waves. “Die poor or/Give them what they want,” Ajudha sings in her a cappella blues composition “Demons” in her room....
...It is part peach-pink and part deep-sea blue, the gendered colours not unintentional. “I was thinking about the dynamics of two people sitting together,” Lai says....
...Essie Original nail varnish in Pillow Talk The Talk in Baby Pink, £8 Gucci wool mohair jacket, £1,740, and poplin shirt, £750. Margaret Howell linen tie, £95....
...His work from this sojourn, flush with acid reds, blues, yellows and oranges, resembles that of Bob Thompson, his black colleague who died at 28 in 1966....
...The play opens with two characters contemplating the painting: Essie (Rochelle Rose), a teacher trying to educate her class about this shameful episode in British history, and Lou (Kiza Deen), an actor starring...
...Indie labels Mara Hoffman and Sideline recently debuted collaborations with natural dye artists Cara Marie Piazza and Ellen Mae Williams, respectively....
...LA Moca has bought a two-sided quilt from 1973 by Essie Bendolph Pettway (b1956), Mary Lee Bendolph’s daughter....
...For one thing, she was married but had a female love, Dussie Mae (played in the film by Taylour Paige)....
...The report acknowledges the difficulties in simultaneously appealing to blue-collar workers in pro-Brexit traditional Labour heartlands while also enthusing young, liberal urban graduates....
...Indoors and out, red plastic sofas shaped like hot lips recall Dalí’s sofa modelled on Mae West’s pouting smile....
...Mae Karwowski, chief executive of Obviously, an influencer agency, said interest is already “unprecedented” from the world’s biggest lifestyle, beauty and parenting companies to partner with the couple....
...(Portland is a blue city in a red state that is still struggling to adapt to economic shifts, which have brought more minorities and immigrant families to the area.)...
...The first dealer to sign a permanent lease for Pollen Estate’s ambitious redevelopment on the thoroughfare — historically a home to blue-chip galleries — the new outpost will take up 5,730 sq ft across the...
...Robert Halfon, a prominent “Blue Collar Conservative” MP, says he relishes the challenge from the “very impressive” Starmer....
...The Seychelles, a coral reef-rich archipelago in the Indian Ocean, last month issued the first “blue bond” — so named because the aim is to support marine and fisheries projects....
...The apartments sit just inside the smart Akasaka district, the prestigious location of major embassies as well as offices of many of the international blue-chip firms and financial institutions....
...Blue-chip corporate borrowers such as AT&T and Microsoft have led the way, as companies accounted for more than 55 per cent of the $6.8tn raised in 2017 through bond sales organised by banks, according to...
...Now, look at a true star: Fannie Mae.” The star went supernova in 2008. But it was not only Fannie that failed to live up to its billing as a safe dividend payer....
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