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...Kahlo may also have had an affair with the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky when he and his wife stayed with Kahlo in the 1930s....
...Behind the table is a chair piled with books, from one on Balthus and another on the Belgian symbolist painter Léon Spilliaert to a large tome on Persian paintings....
...The entrance hall to the Musée d’Orsay’s magnificent Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism is smothered in bright red flowers — enlarged versions of the scarlet blots and flecks swarming the long grasses of...
...Someone who manages to be showered and cleanly dressed (with candles lit, flowers arranged and food warming in the kitchen) well before guests arrive....
...pot, £37 Burgon & Ball stainless steel and wood Sophie Conran digging fork, £39, fenwick.co.uk Miles Leon organic cotton twill Garden trousers, £295, mrporter.com Burberry cashmere-mix tweed cushion...
...Leon has brought the components of a new memory-retrieval technology, “Revisiting”....
...British academic Ben Jacob tells another unorthodox story in The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain’s Rarest Flowers (John Murray Press £20)....
...He would make little daisy-chain flower necklaces for me and draw pictures of himself on my hand like a tattoo. He had a wonderful sense of humour and liked to make fun of himself.”...
...I have lost a buddleia before I even noticed and have had a feeble year’s flowers on red crocosmias even though they come from southern Africa....
...Food & drink From glass bottles to linen napkins, freshly cut flowers to sandwiches for everyone — here’s how to host the perfect plastic-free picnic....
.... la-gent.com Leon corkscrew by Aerin £125 A brass-plated design that is available with a matching bottle opener. luxdeco.com Olala Étagère by Richard Hutten for Ghidini 1961 $655 Perfect for canapés...
...Iturbide lives in the historic Coyoacán neighbourhood of Mexico City, home at various points to Luis Buñuel, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky....
...According to her record label, Barbra Streisand has “handpicked” the songs on Release Me 2, as though they were fresh flowers or pieces of vintage jewellery....
...lapel pin, £105, mrporter.com Hermes Swift leather Shadow Birkin 35 bag (2009), £24,000, lymited.com Thom Browne wool and mohair cricket vest, £550 Waiting For The Sun acetate sunglasses, €159 Aimé Leon...
...When this week’s cover star, Leon Dame, first turned up on a runway, he had a walk – part strut, part prowl, part swagger – and an attitude that no one had seen for years....
...Browns Fashion has gone big on enamel jewellery recently, stocking the bright and textured pieces of Yvonne Léon, Alison Lou’s tiny enamel rainbow studs and Marla Aaron’s signature customisable locks, which...
...What started as a flower factory under Li’s control in the 1960s, is now a group that controls telecoms, energy producers, ports and large retail franchises across Europe and Asia....
...As André Leon Talley, the well-known American fashion journalist, put it: “When he does a black shoe with a chain, it’s certainly a bondage shoe, but it’s always a bondage shoe with elegance.”...
...A bouquet at her side is so flat that it is deliciously ambiguous whether the flowers rest on a small table or are images on the screen....
...Jean-Léon Gérôme, for instance, specialised in harem scenes: in “Moorish Bath” a bare-breasted black servant attends a marmoreal mistress....
...Ultimately the flowers I had to keep buying were quite expensive. I had to pay for them myself....
...There were tablecloths and flowers on the tables . . ....
...And Shogun and Tai-Pan by James Clavell, Leon Uris novels, Arthur Hailey novels — all these big, bad books would take a couple of chunks out of those weeks....
...Two years later, Edmond Jaeger, a Parisian horologist who had worked with LeCoultre since 1903, met Jean-Léon Reutter of the Company Générale de Radiologie....
...I think what Humberto [Leon] and Carol [Lim] have achieved there is remarkable, and the store is truly a trendsetter and a global destination....
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