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...These new Irish brands are following in the footsteps of the likes of Magee 1866, a fifth-generation family tweed-maker based in Donegal (Sarah Jessica Parker, who has a home in the county, is a fan), and...
...Also Jahleel Weaver, Rihanna’s stylist since 2014, who, along with Mel Ottenberg, has helped to cement the musician as one of the red carpet’s edgiest dressers with looks that meld sportswear and high fashion...
...The glamazon became an ideal of feminine corporate empowerment: consider Grace Jones’ razor-sharp black jacket on the cover of Nightclubbing (1981); Signourney Weaver in Working Girl, with big hair and even...
...Archibald and Mary Boothroyd were both textile workers — a weftman and a weaver — prominent voices in Dewsbury’s close-knit community and active supporters of the Labour party....
...Other pieces include log baskets by weaver Lin Lovekin from willow grown on her withy beds on St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall; and crystal glasses handblown in Emsie Sharp’s Devon studio....
...“I believe that fashion can create jobs,” says LVMH prize finalist Kenneth Ize, who works with weavers in Nigeria to create vibrantly striped textiles for his collections....
...Passementerie Jessica Light is widely known as the “The Tassel Queen of Bethnal Green”....
...“My weavers and I come together – they help me with picking the yarn or arranging what the patterns should look like,” says Ize....
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...So Jessica kept going to work. One Tuesday, her manager called to say that a vendor she had been interacting with had fallen ill....
...Black-owned businesses reel from a triple blow Like most in her industry, optician Jessica McClain was looking forward to the year 2020....
...Follow Courtney Weaver and Demetri Sevastopulo on Twitter: @courtney_ft and @dimi...
...De Gournay recently designed a site-specific wallhanging (from £900 per panel) with a very painterly aesthetic for a client in New York, commissioned by the Los Angeles-based designer Jessica Ayromloo....
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...room to a schoolteacher (Jessica Barden) with a hidden life....
...Jessica Ramos, a lawyer at the Ohio non-profit Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, said an estimated 40 women and 120 men remained in detention following the two Ohio raids....
White House responds to Florida shootings with proposal to outlaw bump stocks
Document could be made public as soon as Friday
...Additional reporting by Jessica Dye in New York...
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...“The Trump administration has taken a 180-degree turn on immigration policy from the Obama administration in general,” said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies...
...Additional reporting by Demetri Sevastopulo and Courtney Weaver in Washington, Kathrin Hille in Moscow and Jessica Dye in New York...
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