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...“I had a motorcycle accident in Florence that resulted in the loss of a leg, meaning I could no longer ride a normal bike,” she explains....
...In a Cinderella-blue colour, with a deep V neckline, the look called back to the Prada gown Nyong’o wore when she took home the Best Actress award a decade ago....
...Florence however upholds the attribution for that and for others which the V&A demotes — notably the affecting scene of angels weeping over the dead Christ, “Imago Pietatis”, almost universally accepted...
...She also often collaborated with writers such as Jan Morris and VS Pritchett – most famously shooting the photographs for Mary McCarthy’s seminal literary study The Stones of Florence....
...— which has travelled from Florence’s Bargello and Palazzo Strozzi via Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie....
...Her enveloping wool coats and handsome V-neck jumpers, tucked into full skirts, had a cosiness and casualness that made them appealing for the office, something Wickstead said her customers are increasingly...
...In reduced version, Donatello is at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie (to January 8), then arrives at London’s V&A in February; both museums contribute key loans....
...Happily, reduced iterations of Donatello: The Renaissance are planned for the V&A and Berlin but, if you can, catch Florence’s once-in-a-lifetime presentation — expansive, inclusive, definitive and thrilling...
...There is no better profile-raiser for a dress than cool-girl endorsement, and in 2018, Vogue called the Falconetti the “Dress of the Year” after famous faces including Tilda Swinton, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Florence...
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...I like Veja’s V-10 in white (£115, matchesfashion.com). I keep coming back to white because, well, I like white, but also because my number one rule is don’t pack the rainbow....
...The Florence Nightingale Museum at St Thomas’s Hospital in London said earlier this year said it would close indefinitely....
...And there's a lot about it in our FT colleague Charles Glover's book about Eurasianism, Black Wind, White Snow, about the weird history books Patrushev reads....
...According to the curator, Clark is not seeking to emulate his hero David Bowie by cranking up his mystique (Bowie also declined to give interviews for his 2013 career retrospective at the V&A)....
...WHAT TO READCostume Jewelry for Haute Couture by Florence Müller. Jewelry by Chanel by Patrick Mauriès. WHERE TO SEEThe Jewellery Gallery at the V&A, London....
...Eventually, he was stabbed to death in a conspiracy backed by Charles V, and his body was hung from the window of his Piacenza palace....
...Potentially the most spectacular revelation, however, occurred in Florence in March....
.../ From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...Offered a choice of the V&A’s galleries, he chose to site the piece under the sandstone pilasters and carved marble angels of the 15th-century chapel from the Santa Chiara convent in Florence....
...“Our mission is to dream up and deliver design-led paper products,” adds Atighetchi, who counts the V&A, fashion brand Mother of Pearl, interiors wunderkind Matilda Goad and Gucci-endorsed illustrator Fee...
...., some of which debuted at the Pitti Uomo menswear fair in Florence. “My sweater obsession must be rooted in the many childhood years I spent around my family while they knitted,” explains the artist....
...All the V&A will say at the moment is that it “welcomes [the] ongoing discussion”....
...The guest bedroom decor that WJ Bassett-Lowke had commissioned for his Northampton home was so striking that his wife, Florence, worried it might disturb their visitor’s sleep....
...Glover says this distinction allows conglomerate brands such as Gucci to feel safe signing its pledge: “That level of trust is there.”...
...And a floor-length kaftan with a deep V-neck in silk viscose. And a camel-coloured trenchcoat in vicuña — again. Absolute heaven, at astronomic prices....
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