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...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...And a reciprocal invocation of Article V — if, say, Europe was attacked by Russia — is at best untested and, at worst, a bluff....
...My beauty guru is my fantastic friend Sam Bryant, a make-up artist who I go to for honest beauty advice; she normally tells me not to bother....
...But otherwise, give me a V-sweet C-suite job any time. As if anyone would....
...And Ayana V Jackson uses photography to build “historical allusions” of African and African-American identities....
...For Wilde, “the beauty of dress, as the beauty of life, comes always from freedom” — and this was written a good century and a half before athleisure....
...‘F-111’, 1964–5, by James Rosenquist (Room 418) Rosenquist’s eruption of joyous vulgarity is tinged with an oddly bright and shiny form of pessimism....
...Victoria’s Secret, the American retailer that once parlayed a “sex sells” strategy into a $7bn-revenue empire of underwear, is heading back to TV screens....
...I became a fan again, with a capital F. Instead of watching the show and thinking, say, about the production, I was completely immersed in it....
...The state’s luxuriant landscape attracted James, heir to a vast American railroad and timber fortune and poet-patron of Surrealist painters....
...For example, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor introduced in 2005 was the first jet fighter to incorporate advancements in digital computation and mobile networking in the 1990s....
...As a result, she says, the V&A has acquired works including the Beautiful ring from the A Beautiful Life series by London-based American jeweller Jacqueline Rabun and an Ebony Revolution necklace by Simone...
...per cent of its revenue outside Spain.In addition to its 25 per cent stake in Heathrow airport, Ferrovial operates airports in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton and manages a terminal of New York’s John F...
...Seaside life in the modern style was just being discovered then by Americans....
...“In American society, we worship youth to the point of detriment,” says Black. “Showing the other side of that is valuable.” It’s a different kind of aspiration....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...As Prince Harry prepared for his wedding to Meghan Markle in May 2018, he not only had to ask his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, for permission to marry the American actress, but also for permission to...
...Undeterred, Ukraine on Friday made a formal request to the Netherlands for the transfer of F-16 fighter jets....
...“I just can’t wait for everyone to shut the f*ck up,” says Wasson, who is very warm and chatty, as she sticks her bowl in the microwave....
...Taken from shoots throughout Walker’s career, in locations including Mexico, Japan and India, the photographs revel in the drama and beauty of dressing up and playing make-believe....
...In 2020, fewer than half of Americans belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque, down from 70 per cent in 1999....
...We see “die-ins” and other attention-grabbing protests at institutions such as the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan museum and the V&A....
...That’s like Gordon Gekko and Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, Money by Martin Amis. It’s, like, it really is that sort of textbook caricature villain....
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
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