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...Hong Kong’s deepwater port at the heart of the Pearl River Delta has long made it a desirable trading gateway to the greater China region....
...Gisela Williams consulted the Crete travel specialists SteMa Journeys; founders Maria Passarivaki and Stefanos Gogos connect travellers to lesser-known parts of the island....
...graced the red carpet at New York’s Met Gala in May and, coupled with beefy gold chains, frequently appear as the accessory of choice for rap artists such as A$AP Rocky and for music producer Pharrell Williams...
...Colina is open all day, fortroadhotel.com Baya Simons SEE William Wegman at Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago In the early 1970s, American artist William Wegman started making conceptual photographic studies...
...Tom Williams, who runs Desert Island Survival, the bushcraft survival company that organised Davison’s trip to the Pearl Island archipelago off the Pacific coast of Panama, says the majority of guests who...
...Similarly the red carpet’s recent acts of sartorial protest – from the Carolina Herrera rainbow cape worn by Lena Waithe at the 2018 Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination Met Gala to the...
...Welcome William Blake, poet, painter, printer, wild visionary....
...They begin with his early direct style: “Catherine Moore” (1752), fiancée of architect William Chambers, meets us with a frank, intelligent gaze....
...Glance at almost any photograph of the late Queen Mother and there he is: William Tallon, more faithful than a shadow....
...William Middleton, author of the recent Lagerfeld biography Paradise Now, tells me that the designer never wanted to look back at his own archive: “He always said, ‘Oh, I never want to look to the past.’...
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...Similarly fine latticework spills from rings and earrings, or is used with diamonds and sapphires as a cover for a “secret jewellery” timepiece that slides to reveal a mother-of-pearl face....
...He refers to Harry Styles’s pearls and Paul Mescal’s character’s silver chain in Normal People as fashion influences....
...Lena Corner, a colleague at the Big Issue at the time, remembered how he was always going on about “imagery, technology and how he had managed to rig up some sort of screen or other contraption in his flat...
...The writer William Gibson’s famous line about the “future”, that it “is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed”, certainly applies to London....
...When I returned from the trip, I designed the ring and had it made by a Scottish jeweller, William McBride....
...Long-rumoured to be in the running to replace the late Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton, she has hardly been held up by losing out on the gig to Pharrell Williams....
...Prince William gave a more conclusive answer to that question while standing next to the all-black ensembles of his wife, Catherine — definitely navy blue....
...“She moves along a wall of pictures, some unattributed and others by William Hogarth or Thomas Gainsborough, gesturing at the changes in skirt shape....
...Pearl Lam closed her H Queen’s gallery in 2020 and Ora-Ora moved to the revamped Tai Kwun Centre in 2021. International galleries David Zwirner and Pace remain in H Queen’s....
...Friedman, a retail veteran who famously took the Williams-Sonoma-owned Pottery Barn business from a $50mn tableware business to a $1bn-plus furniture brand as its president, has transformed the fortunes...
...The artist I would collect if I could is William Blake – I have a few bookplates framed, but it would be amazing to have an original piece, particularly his print Pity....
...Among those who had dressed in their best was Pearl Thompson, an 83-year-old mother of 14 children, who was born in Jamaica....
...The tone today, however, is a little different: there’s a classical statue of a naked man draped in a giant pearl necklace on the front steps and two enormous disco balls hang from the portico....
...The amount JPMorgan is seeking to recoup from Staley is dwarfed by the more than $600mn clawed back from former UnitedHealth Group CEO William McGuire in 2007....
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