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...“I was stuck at the checkpoint for a couple of hours with no phone service . . . ” Why?...
...Much ink has been spilled on the supposed demise of Savile Row, yet The Deck, Daisy Knatchbull’s women’s tailoring brand, shows that there’s still plenty of life in London’s golden mile....
...This is the first collection entirely conceived to be worn by men and women.”...
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Now that golden age is ending, giving way to a new era of deletion and censorship....
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...Co-founder Tan Chun Chiat says Malaysia has a “golden opportunity” to exploit....
...“Losing the shirt gives you a really clean V-section. It’s quite subversive but sophisticated. Showing a bit of skin in summer is about as racy as a man can get.”...
...“They’re all chasing this golden chalice of ‘we are the best in class’,” she says....
...Each of these pieces references an image in the V&A’s collection: these were records from Europeans who went to the Islamic world and brought back images....
...And finally A charming exhibition at the Wallace Collection in London explores our devotion to four-legged friends across the centuries....
...“I hate that word – collection,” says McKillen when asked how he describes La Coste’s array of art and architecture. He simply “asked our best friends to design amazing spaces....
...“It is about black Britain and what it is to be working class,” he says of his Converge gilet, for example, which was acquired by the V&A for its collection in 2021. “It is descriptive of urban life....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...Nicknamed “the Mick Jagger of art auctions”, he has been profiled in a BBC documentary, The Man with the Golden Gavel, and played a cameo role in Emily in Paris....
...It has been talking with investment banks including Evercore, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley over its future strategy at a time when a golden era for private equity fundraising and dealmaking has ended...
...And they are based very much in the physical and the collaged layers of collection....
...Her look at the 2019 Golden Globes was described as a “misguided leopard travesty”....
...It’s a bit like Labour saying it’s gonna fill the hole created by the Tories nicking their non-dom policy by increasing the rate of tax collection....
...It’s a figure the company is keen to emphasise in its current dispute with rail regulators over safety directives that has led to a temporary suspension of the service....
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...He’s taking in the V&A’s south Asian collection and the 16th-century Ardabil carpet on to which my brother and I have manoeuvred a low table. He grins at me: “Man. All this stolen shit, huh?”...
...The extensive range of magazines include Dry and Self Service....
...“We’re bringing back the golden age of luxury travel.”...
...The golden age of Netflix and Apple brought life-changing consumer technologies. But by the 18th version of the iPhone, the gains seem marginal compared to marketing copy promising magic....
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