Hints and tips:
...His London-based architect son Ernst L Freud had prepared a spacious study cum sitting room for him....
...A: Marilyn Monroe Six stocks: AMC, Gamestop, Coinbase, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse, Nomura Which is the highest and the lowest by S&P’s ESG score? (High is good, low is bad.)...
...Sales were boosted by three significant collections and topped by Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964) at $170mn ($195mn with fees)....
...The song devoted specifically to that incident, “Cigarettes”, begins with the brutal line: “Ma fille s’est foutue en l’air” (“My daughter fucked up,” Birkin’s own translation)....
...In Hollywood, from Clara Bow to Marilyn Monroe, lipstick meant glamour and sex, inciting teenagers whose parents regarded red as reprobate to clamour for pinks and lavenders instead....
...In the same year, L’Oréal Paris named former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Kurtis Dam-Mikkelsen – who, when in drag, goes by the stage name Miss Fame – as a spokesperson....
...The best, an Yves Saint Laurent 1983 couture gown is directly referenced in a trompe l’oeil cut-out “paper doll” dress by Jeremy Scott for the Italian label Moschino....
...Unsurprisingly, “the Del” has since traded heavily on its supporting role to Marilyn Monroe and her cross-dressing co-stars, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon....
...The London-based artist-jeweller Ute Decker creates sculptural earrings from Fairtrade gold and silver (Man Ray earrings, £2,900, utedecker.com). She describes the financial implications as “minor....
...L’Hoir, like Becket, favours shares in materials, energy and financials, as well as technology groups with products that command premium prices....
...At l’Ile Percée, instantly notable for its red London double decker bus converted to a tapas bar, a tidal causeway led out to a small island dominated by the remains of German gun installations from the...
...There was a clear line between the eroticism practiced by unofficial feminist ringleader Joan Semmel, who painted far tamer pictures of straight, coital couples, and, say, Marilyn Minter’s later canvases...
...Designed by architect Edward L Varney in 1956, it too was populated with movie and particularly sports stars....
...Think less Marilyn Monroe, more Lena Dunham. This is in large part because of social media, especially YouTube....
...I pick up moleskin ones at L’Arbre à Lettres in Paris....
...(Bloomberg) News Round Up Apollo collects $23.5bn for largest ever buyout fund (WSJ) L’Oréal sells The Body Shop to Natura Cosméticos (FT) Sprint jumps on hopes of a cable company deal (FT) Wells Fargo...
...I rode Ford’s travelling pavement, the last word in people-moving, undulating above the steel and glass structures together with well-upholstered families burying their faces in multi-decker sandwiches....
...Sophie Dahl, the writer, model and modern-day Marilyn Monroe, attributes her hosiery addiction to her innate romanticism “and battle-scarred knees”....
...Many private collectors own great examples: the magazine magnate Si Newhouse has the 1964 “Orange Marilyn” but others would die for “Shot Red Marilyn” (1964), or one of his disaster series....
...The other major casualty was Gerhard Richter’s abstract “U.L.” (1985), bought in at £900,000 (est. £1.5m-£2m). The sale totalled £14.9m, also shy of the £15.5m low estimate for the whole sale....
...The narrator of Tartt’s new novel is Theodore Decker, a young New Yorker similarly drawn to emotional extremes and hedonism....
...Norman Mailer saw fit to call a book Marilyn, and Elton John sang goodbye to “Norma Jean”. Film directors tend not to inspire this kind of personal love....
...In France they boast of l’or noir, the black truffle variety, but Italians dismiss such claims, insisting that their own “white gold” truffles are superior and so justifiably more expensive....
...The area was once a popular retreat for movie stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Bing Crosby, who came in search of sun and seclusion....
...“L’Asie” lacks a sense of abandon, “L’indifférent” any trace of the sex or steaminess you find in the best versions, such as Marilyn Horne’s with Bernstein on Sony Classical....
International Edition