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...John Alexander Skelton’s spring collection features jackets and coveralls with substantial, diagonally placed pockets, inspired by the idea of the urban allotment....
...The latter has a starring role in John Gray’s apartment in 9½ Weeks and vintage editions sell for around £2,000....
...If Sexton’s tailoring, which is being carried on by his team, is the PG Wodehouse of the fashion world, then John Alexander Skelton is the DH Lawrence, with his handwoven wool waistcoats and broad trouser...
...John Matheson, archivist and founder of the @McQueen_vault Instagram account, began collecting Alexander McQueen ephemera such as VHS tapes and show invites after stumbling across the designer’s 1996 Dante...
...ensemble will finally launch this summer, but every detail has been considered, including the stately setting for the photography shoot, London’s Pitzhanger Manor – once home to the neoclassical architect Sir John...
...Aesthetically and intellectually it fits into a no-nonsense box with St John, Labour and Wait, Ercol, Jasper Morrison et al....
...Orkney also resonates with designer John Alexander Skelton, who presented a collection last month with a film made there, capturing clothing decorated with symbols found on Neolithic sites....
...Results: Adobe, UK retailer John Lewis and advertising group M&C Saatchi report. Five more top stories 1....
...His first successes came writing for John Legend and Justin Bieber. Then around 2010 he met future close friend Tyler, The Creator, and his career accelerated....
...Characters taken from life include Sir D’Arcy Osborne, an arch and flamboyant British ambassador to the Vatican; John May, his wideboy fixer from London’s East End; Delia Kiernan, a popular singer and wife...
...Dame Prue Leith and her husband John Playfair were never going to go monochrome when they built their dream Gloucestershire home....
...He cut Elton John’s most extravagant suits for years, Jarvis Cocker and Bobby Gillespie are loyal customers, as is Harry Styles....
...“My brother John looks after all of the tortoiseshell pieces with my father, who is the master,” says Franck. “John makes sure all remnants are upcycled, and we waste nothing....
...The Royal Society hosted lectures on science and paint composition, “where Mr Turner — not the artist — created Turner’s Yellow, which wouldn’t oxidise, which [architect] John Soane used.”...
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...Mark C O’Flaherty gets the grand tour in this week’s issue, while Jake Curtis takes the shots....
...So have Elton John, Diana Ross, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Madonna and Judy Garland....
...“I went to Baltimore and took a tour of the city with John Waters, who made the original film....
...As John O’Ceallaigh, director of luxury travel consultancy LUTE, says: “A lot of the travel restrictions have become a smokescreen for governments’ failings at home....
...“John’s perspective has a Rembrandt feel to it. I got him to take me around the Rembrandt show at the National Gallery when it was on, because his knowledge is incredible.”...
...Additional reporting by Eleni Varvitsioti, Dan Dombey, Joe Miller, Leila Abboud, Samuel Agini and Sam Jones Letter in response to this article: Do not mimic Moscow by boycotting artists / From John O’Flaherty...
...John O’Flaherty Singapore...
...Mark C O’Flaherty 307 Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central; thearmoury.com Husbands, ParisThis is no ordinary tailor’s shop....
...Mark C O’Flaherty thefrenchhouse.co.uk Luca Workshop, Florence If a Hollywood art director was creating an “Italian antique shop” set, the result would no doubt resemble Luca Rafanelli’s store....
...Ian MacKillop Ilminster, Somerset, UK Letter in response to this article: UK immigration requires an element of deterrence / From John O’Flaherty, Singapore...
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