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...But as conservation upholsterer Heather Porter explains, “tack hole history and brass nail history is critical”....
...“Over the past year we have seen a continued focus on heritage-brand bags and accessories, with customers looking to purchase investment styles,” says Heather Gramston, head of womenswear buying at Browns...
...As a teenager, Tim Bowen worked as a porter in a small auction house near his home in rural west Wales. “At my very first sale, about 35 years ago, someone brought in a dilapidated chair,” he recalls....
...The latter includes “convenient purpose”, “purpose-as-disguise” (of which disgraced start-up Theranos is given as an example), and “purpose as win-win only”, a dig at Harvard colleague Michael Porter’s concept...
...British menswear label SMR Days has a wonderful embroidered option in faded cobalt cotton (£325, smrdays.com), while for something a little warmer, Italian brand Aspesi and Mr Porter’s in-house label Mr...
...The recasting of the cannabis consumer from stoner on the sofa to yoga-mat-toting Whole Foods shopper is delightfully chronicled in Heather Cabot’s book The New Chardonnay....
...Heather Gramston, head of womenswear buying at Browns Fashion, confirms: “It comes as no surprise that wardrobe essentials have continued to perform well throughout the pandemic,” she says....
...On day three, Barratt’s lost bag suddenly materialised, carried up from Mutwanga by a relay of porters....
...Maureen, a small, red-headed IT administrator, is assigned to play the secretary of state in charge of the 30 officials in the imaginary state of Porter....
...Kym Ellery of the eponymous brand Ellery counts Dover Street Market, Browns and Net-a-Porter among her stockists....
...Dame Heather’s award is a vote of recognition and also of support....
...Those becoming dames include Carolyn McCall, chief executive of easyJet; Natalie Massenet, founder of Net-a-Porter; Heather Rabbatts, a Football Association non-executive director; Lin Homer, chief executive...
...I would hurry down to the porters’ lodge in the morning to see if brown parcels containing skeins in heather and mossy green had arrived. Jamieson & Smith of Lerwick, it would say on the label....
...Haider Ackermann’s model muses were given the same shorn hairstyles as Ms Swinton, and something of that porcelain complexion, in a show whose palette could be described as Scottish heather....
...The Coltrane gig was followed by a storming set from artist-in-residence Gregory Porter....
...The actors, led by Topher Grace as Porter and Olivia Thirlby as Heather, move through a rapid pile-up of scenes: Porter attempts to speak with his Latvian cleaning lady; Heather upbraids her office assistant...
...I’m also reading Henry Porter’s The Bell Ringers....
...Rothschild’s confection was framed between Haslam singing two songs to a party of friends at Bellamy’s in Mayfair: the first Cole Porter’s “You’re the Tops”, the second a lachrymose rendering of Jules Styne...
...On November 5 the collection launched on Net-a-porter.com and sold out within 24 hours. It was the same story at Barneys New York and Colette in Paris....
...Victoria Woodcock, a 26-year-old magazine staffer, receives regular mail shots from glossy online shops such as Net-a-Porter but, like many of her friends who prefer customisation and shopping from markets...
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