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...September sees an exhibition of sculptor Cyril Lancelin, while the year ends with British artist’s Lucy Sparrow’s trompe-l’œil creations at a pop art-inspired Christmas market....
...Nods to founder Franco Moschino’s playful looks came via trompe-l’oeil tops, oversized trenches and shirts and dresses plastered with peace symbols and slogans....
...Head pastry chef Jérémy Prakhin has hand-crafted the creature – which is filled with hazelnut gianduja – from chocolate supplied by Valrhona, a luxury French chocolatier based in the small town of Tain-l’...
...Other retailers have responded by closing outlets altogether, with REI and Nordstrom following Starbucks in shutting stores in West Coast cities....
...Mary, Stella, their brother James and half-sister Heather spent their formative years on the farm, first going there when their father, Paul McCartney, was in the midst of The Beatles’ split....
...Second, his designs tend to be less challenging than those of subjects of past monographic shows (only a handful of guests at the 2017 Met Gala, honouring Rei Kawakubo, wore her brand Comme des Garçons)....
...“It’s to give consumers confidence that it’s something that we really believe in,” says Reis....
...Founded on the “rigours of masculine tailoring”, the brand updates sleek silhouettes with twists such as contrasting textures and trompe l’oeil illusions....
...As they smile for the camera, a few make an “L” sign with their thumb and forefinger....
...Georges Braque’s “L’Oiseau volant vers son nid” is a small collage and gouache version of the Pompidou’s grand 1955 painting....
...designersguild.com Between the Sheets candle by Goldfinger £32 This natural soy wax candle draws on nature with floral top notes of cotton flower and fresh vanilla. goldfinger.design Cubism candle by L’...
...Inside, I find myself in an open-plan, L-shaped, single-storey space, characteristic of the Usonian homes Wright envisaged for Middle America....
...It all started with a roll of old wallpaper I bought in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in France when I was 14 and has grown from a suitcase to stables to containers full – it’s got a bit out of control....
...16,266: Wilbur Heenan, Ireland; Dr Mike Ewart, East Lothan; Ali Linton, London Polymath 1,038: P Sharratt, Midlothian Crossword 16,260: Yoganandhini Janarthanan, California; Jon Zigmond, Middlesbrough; Heather...
...An elegant, uplifting production, it’s a meeting of the minds between Merzouki and the baroque ensemble which accompanies the dancers onstage, Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu....
...L Brands’ billionaire founder Leslie Wexner, who was Epstein’s only known client for decades, is in talks about giving up his role as chief executive....
...And I have two from his first own-label couture line, furiously fought over by customers and department stores, with aprons of taffeta and fichus worn à l’Arlésienne, like 19th-century portraits....
...Heather Cox Richardson’s provocatively titled How the South Won the Civil War (OUP RRP$27.95/£18.99, April) upends common assumptions about the outcome of the conflict as the US enters election year....
...Rei Kawakubo dedicated her Autumn/Winter 2019 Comme des Garçons menswear show to “finding beauty in the dark”....
...Restaurant Pertinence, 29 Rue de l’Exposition, 75007 (restaurantpertinence.com). The best book I’ve read in the past year is Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom....
...Steele points to the work of Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, who, she says, has long employed styles that are sweet and girlish and turned them on their heads....
...Last year it was won by the Hepworth in Wakefield, which plays to its nucleus of works by Ben Nicholson, L.S....
...These are carpeted in purple and yellow wild flowers, in some places so thick that it looks like heather and gorse....
...Heather McGregor professor of management and executive dean, Edinburgh Business School I bought Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond, at JFK airport about a week before...
...Bomad financing is, in short, not sustainable, particularly as the L&G research suggests that more than half of it is gifted. That money is gone forever....
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