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...The 16 dancers sport unflattering outfits by fashion designer Giles Deacon, who jettisons the thrifty minimalism of the Balanchine aesthetic in favour of photo-printed Lycra, embellished with ruffs, cuffs...
...Naturalists — such as John James Audubon in his book The Birds of America (1827-38) — used those who worked on plantations as uncredited sources....
...The iconographic pile-up, and the fleshless, porcelain countenance half-strangled by its ruff, displeased David and failed to find favour with those responsible for recommending it to its subject....
...Meanwhile, set in Buckingham Palace’s White Drawing Room, John Wonnacott’s fluent, loosely painted 12-footer “The Royal Family: A Centenary Portrait” (2000), also looks back, to John Lavery’s 1913 royal...
...La Belle Créole will get on famously with Michel de Montaigne, the French Renaissance writer who arrives, wearing a neck ruff, doublet and red cape slung over his shoulder....
...Ruffs and bodices collide with sci-fi chic and outfits that nod towards Sun Ra and Marvel’s Black Panther....
...While they trip about in ruffs and farthingales, Hamlet is channelling every disaffected youth down the ages: smart, scornful, miserable and infuriatingly self-indulgent....
...At Maison Margiela, John Galliano trusted his instincts to deliver a bravura collection of men’s and women’s clothes designed via “the heart not the head”....
...Ruff’s How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (1979)....
...Henri J Ruff Bournemouth, UK...
...In observing without cleaning up what he sees, Sternfeld follows the example of his hero, the 19th-century English critic John Ruskin, who admonished artists to “go to nature in all singleness of heart ....
...There are siblings hard-working, errant, vain: sober vicar “Humphrey Gainsborough”; disheveled failed inventor “John Gainsborough” (“Scheming Jack”); ornately coiffed, greying “Sarah Dupont” lording it over...
...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Letters in response to this article: So few lessons learnt / From HJ Ruff, Bournemouth, UK Let’s not leave out Gina Miller’s name / From...
...From £5,280, huntsmansavilerow.com The last thing I bought and loved was a Thomas Ruff photograph, which speaks to me emotionally. It’s an abstract image of layered Japanese manga cartoons....
...At Rome gallery Matèria, Giuseppe De Mattia had started with black-and-white prints of John F Kennedy and his family which he found in a flea market....
...Exhibit A might be the clown suit, with ruff and fluffy buttons worn by John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer who sometimes performed as a clown....
...By the time I caught up with him he was back on the ground, clutching a hissing reptile; vermilion, like the road, about a foot long, with a whip-like tail and a ruff like an Elizabethan dandy....
...Who knew that an Elizabethan ruff would be this season’s key trend?...
...To go by the portrait, it must have been his left hand, crushed when he was working on St John’s College, Cambridge, from 1598 to 1602....
...Birmingham library by Mecanoo, Leicester’s John Lewis store by Farshid Moussavi, the Nottingham Contemporary gallery by Caruso St John, each has featured a veneer of ornament applied to the façade but each...
...medieval and early Tudor London say, if you saw someone selling something in a marketplace, stall or open-fronted shop, the chances are they would have produced it themselves, whether a shoe, saddle or ruff...
...Pierre-Laurent Aimard (world-renowned pianist and Aldeburgh’s artistic director) appeared as a silent pianist, complete with bowler hat, and there was bawdy, circus humour: belly dancers, poodles wearing ruffs...
...He picked up a battered copy of John Nott’s 1723 The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary and was hooked: “I loved the language....
...They need to be cut right back to the small ruff of green leaves which you will find at the centre, above the main tap root....
...The English and their Manners, by Henry Hitchings, John Murray, RRP£19.99, 400 pages If you are going to write a book about manners then having a name like Henry Hitchings must help....
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