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...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...Anna October feather boa, £425 Victoria wears Bottega Veneta wool sweater, POA, fringed jacquard skirt, POA, and leather shoes, £990 Victoria wears Ulla Johnson nylon puffer, POA....
...In “Street Life, Harlem” (1939-40), a debonair couple — his hat festooned with a feather, hers with a splash of flowers — pause to size each other up before an evening out....
...At romantic and boho-leaning brands such as Ulla Johnson, Dôen and New York-based Sea, statement blouses in printed Indian cotton, viscose or silks are perennials....
...In parliamentary systems, members of parliament can also revolt, as they did in the UK against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss....
...The platinum and diamond Comète brooch is one of two known surviving pieces from the 1932 Bijoux de Diamants collection, featuring motifs including celestial bodies, bows and feathers, that the London Diamond...
...Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, and Barbie’s Ryan Gosling took it several steps — or buttons — further, displaying what is unfortunately known as “heavage”....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, said Labour’s plans to increase taxes on private schools, individuals with non-domicile status and private equity bosses, would raise...
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...“My love of hats started in the ’80s when I spent a lot of time in St James and became beguiled by hatmakers like Lock & Co, Bates and Herbert Johnson,” King tells me on Zoom....
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...If you like shaggy dog stories, you may enjoy The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson, which I have just finished reading....
...How about turning chicken feathers into electricity?...
...“Carnival is a good way for people of different ages and races to come together and have a good time,” said band member Kiko Johnson, 16, who will be attending for the first time....
...What generation of Johnson to run Fidelity is Abigail Johnson? How many computer screens did AQR’s Clifford Asness admit to smashing during the financial crisis?...
...Think classics like roast chicken for two with spaetzle, a light-as-a-feather cheese soufflé with mushroom jam and a flaky salmon en croûte — but all served in a homey, unpretentious way....
...Natan ostrich-feather brooch (worn on head), €195. Sandals and tights, model’s own....
...Vasconcelos, in a big pink jumper festooned with a pink butterfly brooch, nicely complements Lord R, smart in a pale blue shirt and aquamarine V-neck, when they convene in Waddesdon’s Dairy....
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...This passion goes back to shooting’s zenith 100 years ago, when success was measured by the size of a hunt’s bag: a party led by George V holds the record for killing 3,937 pheasants in one day....
...He’s at minus 49, a 10-point drop from late November, and now hovering around the same level that Boris Johnson was at the time of his resignation....
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