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...It was natural to Libbie Scher Mugrabi that she should end up sponsoring the V&A’s Fashion in Motion programme, which stages catwalk shows by designers in the museum’s hallowed halls....
...It looked a bit grand under the dome of Westminister’s Central Hall, but the admirably age-diverse cast of models again kept it grounded....
...During the 1950s, Austin Reed valiantly attempted to resurrect the smoking jacket by rebranding it as the television jacket — it did not catch on....
...Few visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London will have missed his “Rotunda Chandelier”, which hangs in the grand entrance hall....
...That reverie of a disaffected child reminds me of the boy’s room that turns into a jungle in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are....
...As visitors arrived for the first 10pm slots, Latin American music was drifting through the halls from an earlier salsa dancing event, another innovation for the V&A....
...Figures of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, stand alongside pictures of King George V....
...For more than half a century, choreographer Maurice Béjart filled concert halls across France with the same ease as the biggest names in music; in the eight years since his death, however, his name has slipped...
...Maurice Minno from Windermere Real Estate estimates that prices fell up to 60 per cent (with the highest falls for new homes) when the property market collapsed after 2007, but things are on the turn in...
...Today, the shady, reed-fringed Suffolk wetlands that once captivated Constable have offered refuge to such a remarkable line-up that Snap can bill itself as an exhibition of local artists yet deliver art...
...The plant employs about 3,000 people and makes its CR-V, Civic, and Jazz models. Honda is due to reach a decision shortly....
...Inside the cavernous exhibition hall, delegates milled round booths, inspecting white papers from exhibitors such as Novell, AT&T and Imperva....
...The two other works are Sonate à trois (inspired by Sartre’s Huis clos ) and Webern Opus V ....
...Peter Reed, Olympic rower. Simon Richardson, Paralympic cyclist. Rebecca Romero, Olympic cyclist. Antonio Silvestro. London bomb hero. Eleanor Simmonds, Paralympic swimmer....
...Martin Hall , director-general, Finance Leasing Association, the finance industry body. Andy Hamilton, jazz musician and teacher....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...A Hundred Highways: American V Johnny Cash Lost Highway Cash’s final album, made in the months between June Carter Cash’s death and his own, is a fitting epitaph....
...Greenberg represented C.V. Starr & Co. Role reversal After years of serving as a top consultant to the world’s largest media groups, Michael Wolf is joining one....
...Reed Elsevier’s 2003 profit margin for LexisNexis was 22.8%....
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