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...The penalty was 585,000 times more than the one levied in 2021 on its former boss, Kenny Alexander, for stealing a takeaway driver’s car from outside Marmaris Kebab and Pizza House in Perth, Scotland....
...As a favoured son of Condé Nast – one of his first jobs in New York was as assistant to celebrated Vogue art director Alexander Liberman, and he still holds the record as the magazine’s longest-standing...
...“True fashion luxury started in homes at the beginning of the 20th century,” says Marie Blanchet of the couturiers who would visit their clients. “You had to be invited in.”...
...She came from a well-off pied-noir family and, according to reports in Jules B Farber’s book on Baldwin’s time in Provence, voted for Jean-Marie Le Pen’s far-right party and had a picture of Vichy leader...
...Marie collects the trash carefully into a bag which she then uses as a pillow....
...US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia 2012-15 Tom MalinowskiSenior Fellow, McCain Institute, US Congressman 2019-23 Amb Douglas LuteUS Ambassador to Nato 2013-17 Amb Marie...
...I even called IT,” says Marie Blanchet, the Paris-based vintage dealer and founder of Mon Vintage....
...Exhibitions on fashion prior to the 20th century are vanishingly rare, partly because they don’t draw as much interest as shows on well-remembered names such as Christian Dior or Alexander McQueen, and partly...
...Hollywood proposed idealistic historic epics around the lives of Queen Christina, Catherine the Great and Marie Antoinette; even modernism in interiors was eschewed in favour of styles emulating the scrolls...
...as Alexander McQueen, Martin Margiela and Vivienne Westwood....
...friend the stylist Alexandra Cronan saw her moodboard featuring a photo of designer Halston with Anjelica Huston in a luscious cream gown of his creation, and said she knew someone who had the exact dress: Marie...
...Bows have long been a signifier of opulence: see Marie Antoinette’s pastel blue gowns adorned with ribbons, or the dress given to Anne of Green Gables, with “beautiful puffs divided by rows of shirring and...
...Stanislav Trofimov and Alexander Kravets were darkly comical as the drunken vagabond monks Varlaam and Misail, and Maria Barakova was a bawdy innkeeper....
...The term “laissez faire” was coined in the 18th century by Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, a French economist....
...Three other works, by Alexander Calder, Joan Miró and Auguste Rodin, went to buyers from Asia, Sotheby’s said....
...Marie Antoinette famously dressed as a milkmaid in gauzy white muslin in the twilight of the Ancien Regime, inciting anger from the impoverished population of France....
...For the EU to demonstrate its “geopolitical coming of age”, as Marie Dumoulin of the European Council on Foreign Relations puts it, it must aim, above all, for a settlement that recognises Azerbaijan’s control...
...Special thanks to Isabelle Morange and Marie José Lestrade...
...FT men’s fashion critic Alexander Fury’s case was lost on a recent trip to Europe for the spring/summer 2023 menswear fashion shows....
...Shaun Leane silver coil earring, pair created for the Alexander McQueen AW00 show, POA....
...In Brussels, Alexander De Croo, Belgium’s prime minister, spoke candidly about the contradiction between the humane democracy he hoped to represent and the reality of the Belgian government’s actions six...
...It’s a space with a high canted roof in modernist style that really thrillingly reminded me of the room where Eva Marie Saint shoots Cary Grant in North by Northwest....
...And Alexander McQueen’s single-breasted organza coat features a tailored, nipped-in waist and dramatic asymmetric sheer hem – perfect for wearing over suit trousers or wide-leg jeans....
...Back then, soaring executive pay and the deregulation of financial markets heralded a clutch of modern-day Marie Antoinettes in puffed-out ball gowns and ultra-extravagant bijoux....
...Prime Minister Alexander De Croo is among those who have asked why Conings had access to such an array of arms, despite being under surveillance....
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