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...There were also cheesy 1970s eruptions of garish colour: a doe-eyed Bambi in the snow and kittens beside Christmas trees....
...“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....
...Wigdor has accused Black of trying to “humiliate and retaliate against [Doe] for her decision to speak out against his sexual abuse”....
...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”....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George 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 ....
...“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...
...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....
...‘V’ by Wooden Shjips is out now on Thrill Jockey. Oh Sees play UK shows in August and September....
...Star Kumail Nanjiani (of TV’s Silicon Valley) based the screenplay, co-written with wife Emily V. Gordon, on their own life. He was, and in the film is, a struggling stand-up comedian....
...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...
...Museums are holding special shows, from Performing for the Camera at Tate Modern to Paul Strand at the V&A, while many commercial art galleries have put on photography: for instance, Shigeo Anzaï at White...
...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...
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