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...“Some days I’ll wear a beautiful dress; other days I might wear a Margaret Howell suit,” affirms Sarah Shotton, creative director at Agent Provocateur, one of the first brands to reposition lingerie under...
...Coco Chanel was described by Roland Barthes in 1967 as a “new classical author” who he argued wrote with fabric, shape and colour....
...Kestin Hare, who formerly worked at Nigel Cabourn and Margaret Howell, now turns Harris Tweed into workwear gilets and Black Watch tartans into cotton chore jackets (£229)....
...This article has been updated to clarify that some of Margaret Court’s Grand Slam titles occurred before the Open era....
...We also have her daughter, Coco (named after Chanel). They go with me everywhere....
...One summer Sunday, back when Margaret Thatcher was in power and Wham! was on the radio, we swam — for want of a better word — down the second set of falls....
...The pair revived English block printing between the wars so successfully that their clients included the Duke of Westminster and Coco Chanel....
...Hall boss, and Margaret Thatcher “The Power Brokers”....
...My style icon is Coco Chanel. She came from difficult beginnings, and succeeded at a time when women were like birds in gilded cages....
...“The Ritz is my home,” declared Coco Chanel. And it was: she moved into a suite in the Paris hotel in 1934 and remained there until her death in 1971....
...It was started in 1948 by accident in the mountains of Pennsylvania by John and Margaret Walston. Mahanoy City residents couldn’t receive a television signal because of the surrounding mountains....
...Most recently, Margaret Thatcher, the former UK prime minister, spent her dying days in the Ritz in London....
...The Court of Common Council (delightfully known as CoCo) is certainly elected....
...A Methodist background did not stop Margaret Thatcher knocking back whisky in Downing Street....
...The combined testosterone-filled magnitude of two nations ruled by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher – and the macho screen culture engendered – was too mythopoeic to ignore. Now, they are back....
...Products carrying the mark include Kellogg’s Coco Pops and Froot Loops sugared breakfast cereals....
...A woman from Birmingham wrote: “I have five children and they are called Emy-Leigh and Lexi-Jae (twins), Harris, Coco and Maiden....
...I take guests to Caviar Kaspia and Le Train Bleu, Gare du Lyon, a listed monument, not just for the food but because it inspired the likes of Darius Milhaud, Jean Cocteau, Colette and Coco Chanel – modern...
...There is one treasure the collector owns that she would never use – a black patent leather clutch bag with a printed cartoon of Coco Chanel on it. She explains: “It is probably 2003....
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