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...Inès Cross 15 to 16 March, from £15; ladbrokehall.com BID The Pattie Boyd Collection at Christie’s This month Christie’s will offer a glimpse into the world of Pattie Boyd, the British model and photographer...
...Beauty Lip Power Long Wear lipstick in 403, £33 Zegna wool twill slim-fit suit, £1,720, mrporter.com Hermès sterling-silver Torsade very large bracelet, $4,300 Saint Laurent crepe maxi dress, £2,175 Louis...
...Sotheby’s will offer about 1,300 pieces of decorative arts from the Hôtel Lambert, a Unesco-listed building on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris....
...Mathieu’s lament over the social and psychic wreckage left by deindustrialisation aligns him to other literary witnesses to a forgotten underclass in French culture today, such as Édouard Louis and Didier...
...Rée, though, gives that quarrelsome intimacy pride of place — as when Russell teaches a young fogey from St Louis named TS Eliot, or John Stuart Mill, that one-man liberal metropolitan elite, kicks back...
...Already both a literary superstar and outspoken polemicist, Hugo had in 1851 fled the despotic regime of Louis Napoleon in France. He settled first in Jersey, moving to Guernsey in 1855....
...In 1791 – when it was known as Château Pomys – it became the home of the adventurer Louis Gaspard d’Estournel, who gave his name to the winery he founded on the neighbouring cos....
...All of this really happened to Louis....
...Rather, Love is Blind draws on two of his other literary heroes, Chekhov and Robert Louis Stevenson. The novel even reprises, as others have, Chekhov’s own deathbed scene, champagne and all....
...Love is Blind, by William Boyd, Viking A young Scotsman discovers a new life in Paris in the popular Boyd’s latest....
...This was most apparent early on in the luxury sector, with brands from Louis Vuitton, with its “savoir faire” campaign, and Gucci, with “forever now”, emphasising their artisanal heritage....
...Hermès and Louis Vuitton offer more wearable versions: Hermès via its Sporting Life collection, which includes a black calf boot with striking orange laces (£920), double stitching and oiled leather, and...
...Rayner & Sturges, the shirtmaker, has chunky cord trousers and jackets as key pieces in the new collection by its men’s wear line, Alexander Boyd (£700)....
...Louis Armstrong on ‘Heebie Jeebies’ or ‘St James Infirmary’; what you played was what was recorded and that was it.”...
...The studio is made up of Tomas Rosen and Nicol Boyd, a duo who met while studying at London’s Royal College of Art....
...The shade of Robert Louis Stevenson lingered over this episode, and it was none the worse for that....
...A Partisan’s Daughter By Louis de Bernières Knopf Canada/Harvill Secker £16.99, 224 pages Set in 1970s London, this is an unlikely love story – between a middle-aged man and a young Yugoslavian – from the...
...He was born in Madrid and studied English literature at university there , going on to translate such English and American authors as William Faulkner, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas Browne, and...
...Her epiphany about how to live life abroad came in 1989 when she accompanied her husband, Louis – then chief executive officer of Adam Opel, the carmaker – to the Frankfurt Auto Show....
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