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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....
...Fittingly, it’s called Fendi F Affair. Before we go, Chiave has something else to show me....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F•ck by Mark Manson....
...“It was scandalous at the time that a black woman had been painted with such precision and beauty,” says Jackson....
...‘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....
...Royal v Koepke: 1 Qxh7+! Kxh7 2 Rh4+ Kg8 3 Rh8 mate. Chess 24941...Rg4+! 2 Kxg4 Qg2+ 3 Kh5 Qf3 mate. Chess 24931 Re8+! Rxe8 2 Qxg7+!...
...V. About two dozen people attended the final hearing in Ganieva’s civil action against Black, in a harshly lit room inside an Italianate office building in Tribeca. It was May 2023....
...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....
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
...“I’m not here to tick boxes, to say, ‘We’ve got 10 pieces from 10 black people.’ That is not good enough for me....
...leading to 7 Qf3 Bg6 8 Bxf6 Qxf6 9 Qxf6 gxf6 10 Nf3 when Black has doubled f pawns....
...“The beauty of African fashion is that it is as varied as the continent itself,” says Dr Christine Checinska, who curated the V&A’s recent exhibition Africa Fashion (now at the Brooklyn Museum until October...
...The beauty here is in the simple silhouette. Tommy Hilfiger’s white version (£91 on sale, uk.tommy.com) is crying out for a clean black T-shirt, silky black vest or dark shirt....
...For a climate-worried generation especially, there’s a stability in older generations — a beauty in the simple idea of getting old — that brands are tapping into....
...From below, the ALTIUS-600M looks like a black cross sailing through the sky. It has a slender fuselage and a stretched wingspan that makes it twice as wide as it is long....
...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....
...“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....
...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....
...José Manuel Albesa, president of the beauty and fashion division at Puig, said of Rabanne: “He made transgression magnetic....
...Next day at an auditorium on Times Square he talked about the need to take risk, much more risk ‘we need you all to take $100m of daily V@R’ just like Goldman does....
...For even more than culture, what Extremadura offers is natural beauty and biodiversity in spades....
...Munch must be the original Norwegian black metaller,” he says, smiling. “The true nature of black metal is when it’s unlimited.”...
...Throughout his prolific career Lindbergh brought an otherworldly beauty to his black-and-white portraits – from Kate Moss to Linda Evangelista – for the likes of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar....
...It was, he said, a “brutal beauty”. It has been 10 months since Virgil Abloh died from a rare heart cancer, and Louis Vuitton has yet to announce his replacement as artistic director for menswear....
...She is openly jealous of London’s V&A museum, to which the Bowie archive was donated in February. “I knew very young, as a teenager, that I was going to work in art, but I was quite a movie buff . . ....
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