Hints and tips:
...The points of cowboy boots poke out under jeans and peasant skirts; Stetsons stud the sea of heads. Inside, beneath shards of light spun from a gigantic disco ball, they dance....
...Lola Lely, the co-founder of Wax Atelier, an experimental east London studio, describes wax as “prehistoric plastic”....
...The jeans, which look like denim, are actually the softest leather and so comfortable....
...My style is classic and simple – you will usually see me in Mother jeans and shirts from Massimo Dutti during the day....
...After meeting Jens while working at Saturday Group, Emma’s own big success came as the CEO and founder of Good American, a jeans company she started with Khloe Kardashian in 2016 that made plus-size denim...
...The film she showed me across the table was shot with a tight group of her frequent collaborators: the film-makers Lola Raban-Oliva and Jean-René Étienne and the artist, musician and model Eliza Douglas,...
...“You mean tea-lighting,” corrects Lola....
...There was Claudia, “the lioness”; Brooke, the “grande dame” and Lola, the “iconoclast”, who seemed to be Rihanna....
...Why, Jean-Claude Juncker, of course. As the rather pompous newscaster Dan Rather used to say in his incomprehensible sign-off: “Courage.”...
...Natalie Whittle is executive editor, FT Life & Arts Photographs: Alastair Grant/AFP/Getty; Alamy Portraits by Lola & Pani...
...Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the Nation 1974-1987, by Jean Seaton, Profile, RRP£30 A history of just 13 years at the BBC could, in the wrong hands, be little more than an arid institutional story....
...Villa Lola, San José, Ibiza, Spain, €6.825m Where: In the village of San José, near Sant Josep de sa Talaia, in western Ibiza, 12km from Ibiza town and a 10-minute drive from Ibiza airport....
...The director Marcel Carné made a film straight after 1938’s Le Quai des Brumes – Hôtel du Nord, the same year – that makes the former look poky and dull, but Hôtel du Nord, by failing to star Jean Gabin,...
...Magno, a tall, smartly turned-out woman in pressed designer jeans and high-heeled sandals, had surgery to flatten and straighten her tummy following the birth of the younger of her two children....
...Completed in 1991, Orphée is one panel of a triptych of Jean Cocteau films adapted for the lyric stage, with the libretto in this case transcribed almost verbatim from the 1950 celluloid original....
...The Balzac left its mark on cinema too, its sombre bulk caught by the camera in Jean-Luc Godard’s Two or Three Things I Know About Her....
...I just say: “Her name is Lola.” “Sounds like a song,” he says....
...Jean-Pierre Houri, chairman of IFRA, explains the problem. “Consumer health is becoming more and more important....
...Nella Larsen’s Passing , Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives , and the new Nigerian writer Teju Cole’s forthcoming novel, Open City [published next year]....
...A fatal illness took away her still-young husband Jacques Demy, himself a Nouvelle Vague doyen (Lola, 1960, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, 1964). Death is a constant presence in Varda’s films....
...“Only Lola,” she says, “a very English cat, with a lot of colours.” Messager has always been fascinated by animals, alive or dead....
...And where, for that matter, are the Janes, the Julias, the Susans, the Margarets, the Christines, the Jeans and the Marys? Of course, names have always been fashion-led....
...For 1970’s top pop single, “Your Song” and “My Sweet Lord” were in the semi-final with “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Lola”....
...Egypt was where she spent the last evening of 1999, singing for Jean-Michel Jarre’s son-et-lumière spectacular at the Pyramids....
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