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...Shirts frequently come with more than one layer of collar and multiple sets of buttons, and trousers with a wide V-shaped opening at the front, with a tied fastening, creating an effect that is elongating...
...“I saw the kimono exhibition at London’s V&A before things closed down – I often go there for inspiration,” she says....
...Don’t expect a straightforward retrospective of the fashion photographer’s work at the V&A, but do expect magic....
...and women, and that young men in the Edo period often wore garments that were just as bright and eye-catching as women of the same age,” says Anna Jackson, Keeper of Japanese textiles and dress at the V&...
...There are swaths of claret velvet worthy of cabinet displays at the V&A or the Met, swirls of painstakingly embroidered gold and crystal, and thousands of hand-painted feathers....
...“We rallied from weak levels and came really far really fast,” said Jack Flaherty, investment director of GAM....
...“It was playful, imaginative, inviting, fun and at the same time functional,” says Victoria Broackes, head of the London Design Festival at the V&A....
...In addition to Miyake’s own definitive private archive in Tokyo, his work is in the permanent collections of the V&A in London, MoMa in New York and key museums worldwide....
...And while it pays to invest in expensive black (high-street shades can often wash and wear badly), affordable Halloween solutions can be found with H&M’s Morticia Addams-inspired deep V-neck black maxi dress...
...As with Bush v Gore and Citizens United, the healthcare ruling could have a substantial impact on the direction of a US election....
...“His Thin White Duke seemed conventionally masculine,” says Glenn Adamson, co-curator of the V&A’s current Postmodernism exhibition, “but it referred to the cabaret styling of Weimar Berlin.”...
...As Sonnet Stanfill, curator of 20th-century and contemporary fashion at the V&A, points out: “As distinctive as the print was, you could only buy the pirate collection at World’s End, so when one travelled...
...Eric Chadwick, co-portfolio manager of US-based Flaherty & Crumrine, who manages $4bn in preferred securities, understands the potential of investing in the non-paying RBS shares....
...“When the Japanese arrived in France, western fashion was surprisingly conventional,” says Claire Wilcox, fashion curator at the V&A . “They had a huge impact, creating a disruption of construction.”...
...When Jim Flaherty, Canadian finance minister, gave a speech after the Busan meeting, his ambitions for the Toronto summit were distinctly modest and a far cry from earlier hopes....
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