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...“Painter and dressmaker” is how Sargent once described himself, after he decided to change the frock in the 1904 portrait “Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess d’Abernon”....
...Thirty years later and more than 20 years after the launch of Net-a-Porter, a significant chunk of luxury shopping has switched to online....
...Always “a big hat woman”, she invested in “the perfect wide-brim straw hat” from Australian designer Helen Kaminski about 10 years ago, and has worn it on flights to Tuscany and Corfu ever since....
...There’s also the ornate Thom Browne black cape jacket with gold embroidery Lizzo wore to last year’s Met Gala, and the gold beaded catsuit in which Billy Porter was famously carried into the Met Gala in...
...Charlie Porter’s 2021 book What Artists Wear has drawn attention to how artists dress. Pollard finds it amusing — “It’s really weird!” — though she clearly enjoys clothes....
...Shy by Max Porter (Faber/Graywolf Press)Slim but multi layered, this new novel from the author of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers revolves around the life of a tormented teenager....
...‘What Artists Wear’ by Charlie Porter is available on May 27 Follow @financialtimesfashion on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...“Brush Up Your Shakespeare” is a song from which Cole Porter musical? What’s the name of the glass company founded in St Helens, Lancashire, in 1826?...
...The influential retailer Lane Crawford dropped the label, and Net-a-Porter removed its wares from its Chinese website....
...And, of course, I also use them to listen to music. £249, apple.com The last item of clothing I added to my wardrobe was a warm pair of socks by John Smedley, from Mr Porter....
...The Australian novelist Helen Garner’s diaries were comradely: stylish, high-spirited, sometimes wild. I wondered what she’d make of me....
...Its website currently serves 150 countries, can be browsed in Japanese and Chinese as well as English and French, and generates an average of 76 million page views per month (by way of comparison, Net-a‑Porter...
...Earlier in the day, the jury had been presented with a joint letter from the nominees — Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani — asking not to be “pitted against each other, with...
...Gingerbread , by Helen Oyeyemi, Picador, RRP£16.99/Riverhead, RRP$27 One of literature’s most fabled foodstuffs lies at the centre of a darkly magical tale that spans three generations: Margot, Harriet...
...In Mr Corbyn’s own constituency of Islington North, Helen Mooney, a local NHS worker, said that her family’s 50-year record of backing Labour was trumped by her priority of staying in the EU — her husband...
...“They have made a way of making their brand work for millennials without changing their DNA, which is pretty genius,” says Helen David....
...Jill Dawson fictionalises the Lord Lucan case in The Language of Birds (Sceptre, April), while Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers follows that uncategorisable gem with Lanny , a novel...
...It has two stores of its own in LA, and is stocked in Barneys New York, Net-a-Porter and Mr Porter. What defines a good blanket for him? “The baseline is the quality of the yarn,” he says....
...Bingham Hotel in Richmond for nearly five years, said three-quarters of his 58 staff were from other countries in the EU, and he had never had any British applicants for the most junior job of kitchen porter...
...Responding to the announcement, Dr Mark Porter, chair of the British Medical Association’s council, welcomed the government’s admission that it had “failed to train enough doctors” but said the initiative...
...“We’re getting a lot [of buyers] in their thirties looking to purchase $1.5m-$3m homes,” says Helen Geer of William Means Real Estate....
...Massage Graeme Risby CEO and Co-Founder, HiyaCar Graham Cooke CEO, Qubit Greg Marsh Co-Founder and CEO, onefinestay Guy Blaskey Founder, Pooch & Mutt Guy Levin Executive Director, Coadec Helen...
...“We looked to the artists Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Morris,” they said. “We were drawn to the spontaneity and looseness in their work — it felt so instinctual and unplanned.”...
...Now previewing The Audience, Apollo Theatre, London Kristin Scott Thomas succeeds Helen Mirren in the recast return to the West End of Peter Morgan’s comedy about the private audiences between the Queen...
...It is sold globally by multi-brand and online retailers, including Net-a-Porter....
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