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...“When a kid draws a bird, they do a V. And you don’t want to ski alone, you want to be in a group....
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...She was an excellent pairing for Pérez’s darker colour, extroverted where Blanche is always turning inward and wrestling with fear and doubt....
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...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...Deakin & Francis has used this emblem for one of its eight designs for sterling silver commemorative cufflinks....
...London is simultaneously home to a network of piece workers in the garment industry and to the Francis Crick institute, with 1,250 scientists, one of Europe’s largest biomedical research centres....
...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....
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...London’s exhibition season began with psychedelic tea parties and disappearing rabbits in the V&A’s immersive wonderland Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and ended with translucent, spidery, electricified...
...On Salman’s Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie has posted another episode of his running serial, The Seventh Wave — 49 chapters about the relationship between Francis, a film director, and his love, Anna, a...
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...It is thanks, in part, to Miami’s Mayor, Francis Suarez, a corporate lawyer who has pushed the city’s appeal through rousing speeches, billboard advertising and social media campaigns....
...BachurewiczEdward Lipinsky Foundation, University of Warsaw Andreas MaschkeUniversity of Leeds Ines HeckUniversity of Greenwich José Pérez-MontielUniversity of the Balearic Islands Sue KonzelmannBirkbeck...
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...César Pérez Ruiz, chief investment officer at Pictet Wealth Management, prefers a symbol: a mirror image of a square root....
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