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...Along with the powerhouses of LVMH, Kering et al, niche indie designers are also carving out an aesthetic mixing west and east in a way that is both credible and commercially viable....
...He went from a world of nightclubs and scrawling his ‘SAMO’ slogans on city walls, to being the exotic dreadlocked darling for Warhol et al....
...I’d queue in Paris for . . . A piece of 24-month-old Comté. If you go to only one food or drink shop, it has to be . . . Pain et des Idées (34 rue Yves Toudic, 10th)....
...“It’s very simple,” says Jean-Marc Puissesseau, president of the Côte d’Opale Chamber of Commerce, which runs both the ports of Calais and Boulogne....
...figures including Truman Capote, Flannery O’Connor, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor and Louise Brooks – each representing a facet of the complex social construct Als calls the “white girl”....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Even as the fashion shops fill up with the mean-looking structured shoulders of Balmain et al, she is already self-conscious about her “swimmer’s shoulders”: “I know I’d look like Krystle Carrington,” she...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
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