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...The Tate Britain show features many of Sargent’s portraits of men dressed, including “W Graham Robertson” (1894)....
...Mode cotton jersey top, £93, net-a-porter.com Jordanluca x Seletti porcelain tea cups, £110 for set Wax Atelier beeswax Groundnut Collection Stubby candles, £21 for set Dior cotton gabardine trench coat...
...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....
...For Charlie Porter of the online vintage and antique shop TAT, pewter is the perfect starter metal....
...“[W]e are committed to fully providing continuity of operations to our partners and customers [and] the openai/microsoft partnership makes this very doable,” Altman posted on X....
...Top-billing is John Singer Sargent’s 1891 “Egyptian Woman (Coin Necklace)”, $1.2mn-$1.8mn, while the collection also includes Frank W Benson’s glamorous portrait of one of his sisters, “Firelight” (1893)...
...The story of women in western intelligence services is finally having its moment, first with a piece a year ago by my colleague Helen Warrell about female spies at Britain’s MI6, and now a book by American...
...There is lovely quiet work too from Priyanga Burford as Florence’s wise, besotted friend Helen and Hugh Ross as her long-suffering husband....
...Giorgio Armani crochet top, £2,900 Akris laser-cut leather and canvas tote, €1,850 Lafayette 148 laser-cut suede jacket, £1,300, modesens.com A.W.A.K.E....
...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....
...(See excellent explanations of the context by my FT colleague Helen Thomas and longtime Trade Secrets favourite “Big Sam” Lowe.)...
...Part W argues that a lack of visibility makes women’s absence in meetings, boardrooms and senior positions seem normal....
...But if they are picked up by early adopters and get some sales traction, we might be looking at an item that builds in popularity across two to three A/W seasons.”...
...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....
...I’m afraid I won’t be heeding Paris Hilton’s 2017 recommendation to W magazine that “skirts should be the size of a belt. Life’s short, take risks.”...
...Two decades ago, the Taliban’s refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden and his fellow al-Qaeda leaders provided the justification for US president George W Bush to launch the American-led invasion of Afghanistan...
...Almost two decades ago Tony Blair, then UK prime minister, pledged to his American counterpart George W Bush “I will be with you, whatever”....
...‘What Artists Wear’ by Charlie Porter is available on May 27 Follow @financialtimesfashion on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...who died during the conflict, and hailed the fact that no terrorist attacks had been mounted against western targets from Afghanistan since 9/11 — the atrocity which prompted former US president George W...
...“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?...
...Carola Long Daniel W Fletcher Reality TV helped cast the designer into the spotlight In 2019, Daniel W Fletcher took part in Netflix’s reality series Next in Fashion, competing against 17 other designers...
...Much of it centres on the broader economic and political picture, but the former economic adviser to President George W Bush does address businesses as bridge builders....
...George W Bush, former US president, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, Barack Obama, former president, and his wife Michelle arrive for the inauguration....
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