Hints and tips:
...As she reminds us, you can be an absolutely diamond hostess yet not know how to boil an egg. Laila’s own parties always look delicious; moreover they are full of heart....
...Loro Piana has a burnt orange floral silk dress (£3,520, uk.loropiana.com) with a sibling linen table runner (£380, uk.loropiana.com), Lisa Corti offers dresses and tablecloths (£238 and £167, lisacorti.com...
...Earlier this year, Bulgari released its limited-edition Bulgari Bulgari x Lisa watch, designed in collaboration with Lalisa Manobal, the singer Lisa in K-pop band Blackpink, which has a global teenage fan...
...Lisa Hall, luxury brand buyer at Mappin & Webb, says that bangles make up almost a third of total sales among the luxury jewellery brands it sells at its UK stores; sales of bangles increased in the “double...
...She stands there, one foot raised, arms stretched out, proffering something lost long ago, staring past me as inscrutable as the Mona Lisa. It feels new to be seeing beauty in Brescia....
...It was already a major pinch-me moment, and then he said he wanted to give me something special that belonged to him, and he produced this gorgeous gold band ring with a diamond on it....
...It’s a big gold band with a diamond that sits off to the side....
...“This year will be almost as if the pandemic didn’t happen,” says Lisa Vossler Smith, its executive director....
...The level of true involvement and contribution comes from the community connection,” says Lisa Bridge, who is from the fifth generation of this family jeweller founded in 1912, and its first female president...
...According to Lisa Chaney’s biography, Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life, Chanel had collaborated with her close friend Misia Sert to create a bottle for an essence that was part cosmetic, part fragrance, and...
...Yet this print is believed to have sold more copies than Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” or Van Gogh's “Sunflowers”....
...Judge Paul Diamond, who was appointed by George W Bush, pointedly responded: “I’m sorry, then what’s your problem?”...
...A jewel thief strikes, making off with a valuable diamond necklace, which prompts Hal and stowaway pal Marlene to investigate....
...So begins a delightfully downbeat comedy of single parenthood and summer holidays, modestly scaled, diamond-cutter precise....
...He went on to use celebrities to publicise all his diamonds, famously photographing Shirley Temple with the Jonker Diamond....
...In 2014 the singer Beyoncé shared a picture with her roughly 130m Instagram followers of herself in front of the Mona Lisa, giving a peace sign while wearing a Messika double-knuckle ring....
...[Bob] Diamond [Barclays’ former chief executive] knew everything. The entire deal team, 100 people plus, knew everything. The board knew everything....
...Former Sky News presenters Martin Stanford, Lisa Aziz and Ian Payne will present on LBC News, together with Jim Diamond, who currently works for the London-centric rolling news station....
...My personal style signifiers are my wedding rings: nine very thin, simple gold bands – the tiniest rings you could imagine – each embedded with teeny black and white diamonds....
...“We pulled out subjects like the Mona Lisa-style drawing, which is a great piece, then worked in beads and printed it on various fabrics and knitted pieces.”...
...The next best thing to a sparkling heroine is a sparkling best friend, and in Tanvi Shah, Ro Snow has found a little diamond....
...Freud painted his large “standing portrait” of Harry Diamond that same year....
...However, when Queen B Instagrammed a picture of the brand’s Glam’Azone double-strand ring in front of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, Messika’s phone went red hot....
...The likes of Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman and former Barclays boss Bob Diamond have been trying to replicate it ever since....
...Monumental, mesmerising, enigmatic, the barmaid is Courtauld’s Mona Lisa....
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