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...I’ve often steered friends and visitors to its gloriously un-chic bar for the Taylor-and-Burton patina it gives. But the 75 rooms were always a bit too tired to warrant recommendation....
...Sarah Burton’s last show at the helm of Alexander McQueen cited the influence of female anatomy and Elizabeth I – bringing to mind the monarch’s rousing words to the troops at Tilbury....
...After the duo had performed Schubert’s “Ave Maria” as their first encore, Fleming addressed us directly. “It’s like the old good days,” she exclaimed, apparently genuinely moved. “It’s such a joy.”...
...Of the 14 brands that make up LVMH’s Fashion & Leather Goods division, only three — Dior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri, Pucci’s Camille Miceli and Fendi men’s Silvia Venturini Fendi — have women creative directors...
...The announcement last week that Alexander McQueen creative director Sarah Burton would leave after 13 years at the helm is another big change within the group....
...We paused to smell Daydreamer, in a bright yellow space full of straw, arranged like a minimalist, sunshine-themed Walter de Maria installation....
...slated to take place on the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, but its shift to Frieze week allowed her to pepper her audience with arty types who often gravitate towards her clothes — the Tate’s director Maria...
...Hive Beach, at Burton Bradstock just south-east of Bridport, sits at the far western end of (the more famous) Chesil Beach....
...Now, you’ll find rustic chic vacation homes and luxurious boutique properties such as the six-suite LUZ Culinary Wine Lodge, which opened last November....
...Stay at Maison de la Luz, where you can kick off the evening in the gorgeous Bar Marilou....
...Maria Shollenbarger was a guest of the Calile Hotel (thecalilehotel.com), which has doubles from A$390 per night....
...St Thomas’ NHS Trust Dr Lisa Berry University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire Dr Louise Berry Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Dr Jenny Best Emeritus, King’s College, London Dr Shirelle Burton-Fanning...
...Opposite stands the great basilica of Santa Maria Assunta, built in 639, when the Rialto was still a mud bank....
...In a virtual news conference soon after starting her job in January, she referred to her female under-secretary, Luz María de la Mora, by her first name, and the diminutive “LuzMa”....
...Anyway, de Burton – who is far better qualified to judge actual motor matters – is one of the first to take it out....
...TAG Heuer, for example, severed its ties with tennis star Maria Sharapova after she failed a drugs test in 2016....
...New York stars Marcelo Gomes and Maria Kowroski brought a slightly Odette-ish melancholy and grandeur to the pas de deux from Balanchine’s Diamonds and Gomes then reminded us of his versatility in Twyla...
...I recently discovered that Tim Burton and I share a deep and serious bond: a fondness for an obscure Hammer Film Productions horror called Dracula AD 1972....
...That proved impossible — Mexico’s deputy economy minister, Luz María de la Mora, told the Financial Times at the time that agreeing a reference price had been the stumbling block....
...Maria Ernestina, the last known slave, died in 1974. In east Africa, the slave trade extended to India and Oman, but it was largely internal....
...Luz María de la Mora, Mexico’s undersecretary of foreign trade, called the 17.5 per cent import duty “very disappointing” and said the measure was likely to cost the country’s industry $350m a year....
...“Every day more than $1bn of goods cross the border and 70 per cent is by land,” said Luz María de la Mora, Mexico’s undersecretary of foreign trade....
...At Covent Garden in 1964 he created for Maria Callas a production of Tosca that became her farewell to the London stage but served as a platform for dozens of prima donnas for the following 40 years....
...I went for the opening of the Maison de la Luz hotel, and hadn’t expected to like the city....
...Luz María de la Mora, Mexico’s economy undersecretary told the Financial Times: “For us, this agreement is closed.”...
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