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...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...A star-studded jury featuring Alejandro González Iñárritu, Elle Fanning and Yorgos Lanthimos is ready to ascend the red-carpeted stairway of the Palais des Festivals....
...Made from three boosters of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle strapped together, it would be the biggest rocket to make it to space since the final launch of Nasa’s monster Saturn V in 1973....
...“Embroidery is special because it’s freehand, almost like painting with a needle,” says Clare Browne, co-curator of the V&A exhibition....
...At a time of unprecedented production of and access to images fanning prejudice and terror, Bozar provocatively unpicks how we construct, and must deconstruct, visions of the Other....
...Some of that was beautiful – sheath dresses with felted wool and satin appliquéd on the front like arts of abstract art; a simple V-neck sweater over a skirt given shape not through pleating, but rather...
...MasterCard has said it benefited from a rebound in consumer spending, particularly in Asia and Latin America but slowly fanning across the globe....
...Here, the Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez is Giacomo (James) V, Colin Lee – praised for his Narciso in the Royal Opera’s recent production of Rossini’s Il turco in Italia – is the Highland chieftain Rodrigo...
...This Rotax-built V-Twin unit is much more sophisticated and powerful than the Harley-based engines, but refined it is not....
...Hence, salmon pink V-necks over silver shirts at Kors, lime beading on white kaftans at Matthew Williamson and vibrant floral print jumpsuits at Stella McCartney....
...Yet when the approach works – the mud-caked verismo of Henry V, the Tuscan sun and skittishness of Much Ado About Nothing – the singleness of purpose intensifies the energy and vision....
...So there were Chinese pyjamas abstracted into pastel organza without a single straight line, the trousers fanning out under the knee in a delicate trumpet; knit 1970s-inspired trouser long john “suits”;...
...From Hawthorne’s Hiawatha to Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, the structure is the same: familiar, known worlds and characters are brought into conflict with unfamiliar, ancient civilisations....
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