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...The New York Times had called him “the Lady Gaga of Design”. But sitting across from Chiave was intimidating....
...When she conceived DIVA, the new show at London’s V&A, curator Kate Bailey had a central question in mind: “How have we gone from the idea of the diva as a goddess and the honouring of exceptionally talented...
...Featuring the initials ER modelled in the late queen’s handwriting, it belonged to Lady Moyra Campbell....
...“She is totally fearless, she will stand up to the government and the judges,” said Kate Cassidy, a criminal defence lawyer at Morvillo Abramowitz, who worked with Necheles and defended liquor heir Clare...
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...The eldest child of the former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Prince Albert....
...Blade, a US helicopter shuttle company, offers a five-minute trip from Manhattan to John F Kennedy airport, starting at $195 per seat....
...Prince William’s marriage to Kate Middleton, who became the Duchess of Cambridge, also provided the three who rank highest among her great-grandchildren....
...There is a 1978 photograph of Kate Bush that encapsulates many of the era’s style contradictions....
...The creators of Sweet F.A. (★★★★☆) have scored the perfect venue for their musical lesson in footballing history....
...Meanwhile, Australian artist and author Shaun Tan became the first person of colour to win a major children’s book award, the 2020 Kate Greenaway Medal....
...London Crossword 16,278: Peter Bromwich, Birmingham; James Reid, Fife, Scotland; EASherratt, Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F...
...Like forevs,” says one lovelorn young lady. Filled with near-impenetrable teenage slang and references, it risks collapse from the first, bathetic line: “The whole thing was a f***ing disaster.”...
...September at the age of 74, had a long, illustrious and trusting relationship with the house, built upon both advertising campaigns – from J’Adore, with a sashaying Charlize Theron draped in golden silk, to Lady...
...“It’s the most wonderful f***ing thing in the world. And, yes, your entire pelvic floor crumbles and you get f***ing hot and no one cares, but then you’re free....
...F&B has a lot to answer for. But it cannot claim credit for its best-known paint name — Elephant’s Breath....
...This accounts for the contortions that successive presidents from William McKinley (war v Imperial Spain) to Wilson (war v Wilhelmine Germany) and FDR (war v Nazi Germany and Japan) went through in the search...
...Classical music and opera by Richard Fairman Opera: Passion, Power and Politics, edited by Kate Bailey, V&A Publishing, RRP£25 A strong coffee table is needed for this handsome volume....
...“So that’s Kate Bush off the retro playlist, then!” said another. “Kate Bush is a Tory — another one for the gulag,” said a third. Which to me only suggests that they weren’t real fans....
...“The value of having a relationship is that it goes both ways,” says Kate Black, chief of staff at Emily’s List, a liberal non-profit that seeks to get more Democratic women elected to public office....
...They included selling a number of freehold stores to a company controlled by Lady Green, which then proceeded to levy rents on them....
...“One lady brought me a chandelier and asked me to make a second, so that she had a pair,” Wilkinson says....
...Le Nôtre’s great gardens include many V-words, words such as Versailles or Vaux le Vicomte....
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...mistress Lady Hamilton by George Romney (valued at £350,000) and a bronze-cast, gold leaf sculpture of Kate Moss by Marc Quinn (£1m)....
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