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...Three London-based dealers in Old Master pictures — Charles Beddington, Johnny van Haeften and Fabrizio Moretti — all agree that the scheme works well....
...‘Depp v Heard’ is available on Channel 4...
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...In April, Mark Rylance reprises his scintillating delivery of Johnny “Rooster” Byron, a decade after Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem first hit the stage (Apollo Theatre, from April 16)....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...I was quite involved with the V&A show [2014 Floyd exhibition Their Mortal Remains] and that was part of the driver for this. I really enjoyed working on it, but something was missing....
...A V&A curator lovingly lays out an original punk muslin “Destroy” shirt, emblazoned with swastika and inverted crucifix....
...For Vevers, that meant youth fully optimistic shearling-trimmed bombers, V-neck sweaters and leather pencil skirts paired with colourful trainers and tube socks....
...Wooden galleons are replaced by plastic; Long John Silver gets the Marvel treatment; and Robert Newton’s West Country burr gives way to the Keith Richards-inspired drawl of Johnny Depp....
...Johnny Sandelson: Lords below To Lords for the England v Pakistan test where City Insider happened upon some alarming news: the head of South Australia’s trade and investment office in London, Bill Muirhead...
...Passing through the Mayfair store’s automatic doors — thought to be the oldest still in use in Britain — the atmosphere on the shop floor is half V&A, half Are You Being Served?...
..."Bloody Gina": Donald Trump’s pick to head the CIA, Gina Haspel, is a 30 year veteran of the agency who is widely respected for her political skills as well as being a big fan of singer Johnny Cash, writes...
...Their Mortal Remains, like the V&A’s exhibitions on David Bowie and the late 1960s, forces us to judge our own time....
...“In many situations, where there is a bare trust (which this appears to be) the beneficiary, Lillian, can invoke the 1841 case of Saunders v Vautier and demand that the trustees move the property directly...
...More so than currywurst or Johnny Hallyday, anyway. Reinvented Richard Grannies assert that if you cannot say anything nice, you should say nothing at all....
...… The House of Worth: Portrait of an Archive, by Amy de la Haye and Valerie D Mendes, (V&A Publications £35/$55) Parisian Charles Frederick Worth was the founding father of haute couture and this survey...
...The event, which featured jockeys Frankie Dettori and Johnny Murtagh, saw the relaunch of the King George V cup, last competed for in 1911....
...In that time spanning Mary Quant, Biba and Westwood’s shops Sex and Seditionaries, fashion went from dolly bird to Johnny Rotten....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...(Known as “Fat Mary”, she was a granddaughter of George III, cousin of Queen Victoria and mother of Queen Mary, consort of George V.)...
...I’ve already spent hours poring over my favourite Christmas gift, the complete lyrics of Johnny Mercer. I wish I’d saved it for my birthday....
...In a window nearby, however, belonging to a store called Vero Moda (www.veromoda.com), was a loosefitting black silk tunic with a V-shaped hem and elastic neckline (£50), which is now in my closet....
...Sotheby’s evening sale on Monday totalled £41m with a very respectable 83 per cent sold by lot, while Christie’s slightly larger sale (62 v 53 lots) on Wednesday raised £45.6m with 84 per cent sold by volume...
...Instead of Ravel’s “Bolero”, get ready to hear a lot of Johnny Cash’s “I’ve Been Everywhere” and Linkin Park’s “Crawling”....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
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