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...“Children have always chosen animals,” says Katy Canales, project curator at Young V&A, which reopens today in east London following a £13mn renovation....
...James’s response was to make a snow-hardy garden of 28 concrete structures, some to house his menagerie of an ocelot, a small monkey, parrots and boas....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...In the 1960s, Rabanne’s designs were worn by some of the stars who defined the age: popular French singer Françoise Hardy, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin....
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...And Topo Designs, a Colorado brand known for its hardy backpacks, is about to launch its Mountain Series collection of colourful, retro-looking carriers made from 100 per cent recycled nylon....
...Davidson quotes Thomas Hardy’s poem “Seen by the Waits”, in which startled carol singers witness a squire’s wife dancing alone with “delinquent joy”....
...When organisers brought this to the general assembly, the crowd was not “fussed”, Colvin recalls with a chuckle. “Nobody cared. They just weren’t interested in engaging with it at all.” V....
...From Julian Fellowes to Nicholas Coleridge, chair of the V&A museum, they are full of interest....
...This year, the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg confirmed that “for the first time since 2001, there are more autocracies than democracies in the world”....
...Meanwhile, in the V&A’s Blavatnik Hall, Bali-based designer Elora Hardy has assembled an installation of miniature bamboo buildings. Free, September 14-22; vam.ac.uk ....
...From where I work, I can see a thin “V” in the hills leading to the beach at Seatown. We walk to it often, meeting friends for summer swims and barbecues, or for fish and chips at The Anchor Inn....
...These clothes, by contrast, will last a lifetime: in hardy wools, canvas-lined, they were substantial....
...The V&A acquired fragments of the building, including the exterior façade and interiors of two flats....
...We are pleased and proud to add this significant upstream asset to our infrastructure and downstream Nigerian investments,” said Vitol chief executive Russell Hardy in a statement....
...(FT) Schwarzman v Urbano Cairo Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive of the world’s largest private equity firm Blackstone, has found himself in a legal battle with one of Italy’s...
...The firm expedited a case, League of Women Voters v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to push for a decision in time for the midterm elections....
...‘V’ by Wooden Shjips is out now on Thrill Jockey. Oh Sees play UK shows in August and September....
...He flips through family photographs showing Hardy-esque scenes of harvest and festivity....
...‘Game Plan: Board Games Rediscovered’ is at the V&A Museum of Childhood in London until April 23 Photographs: V&A; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge...
...The more buoyant and hardy plastics leave the shore and accumulate in the gyres....
...Photographs: Rebecca Lupton; Christopher Furlong/360; Craven Dunill Jackfield; V&A/DeMorgan...
...It makes sense: London’s design roots are embedded in the principles of a couture-like craftsmanship, from Savile Row to Charles Worth and Hardy Amies....
...A textiles expert at the V & A is helping to prepare a book on Tibor Reich’s life and work....
...From £960; thewordtravels.com Hardy in Dorset HF Holidays runs a week-long tour through literary Dorset, exploring Thomas Hardy’s roots, as well as sites associated with Jane Austen....
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