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...Long before Campbell’s Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe, Warhol made his first fortune in commercial art, running a multidisciplinary studio throughout the 1950s cranking out everything from magazine illustrations...
...The French director Agnès Varda, in her 1988 docudrama on Birkin, Jane B par Agnès V, notes this tendency and asks her subject why she doesn’t look at the camera....
...The Academy organised for Havini to spend several weeks sailing in the Pacific last year on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel R/V Falkor....
...One of her favourites — and mine — is Kassl Editions’ V Wrap coat, a minimalist kimono-shaped robe in felted wool (£1,050, harrods.com)....
...Dear readers, Will the recovery be shaped like a V, a U, or Nike’s “swoosh” symbol? There is much discussion on this quasi-theological question....
...Their light and dark V-necked playsuits (I suspect mother-made) are poised between school gym slips and men’s evening clothes....
...living for a couple of weeks, but proper, open-ended living — Oscar Wilde (“dying beyond my means” at the Hotel d’Alsace in Paris), Coco Chanel (The Ritz, Paris), Bob Dylan (The Washington Square Hotel), Marilyn...
...Marilyn Ivings has lived in Church Enstone since 1955, before Major Robb inherited the estate. She speaks for many when she says she wants the clock to slow down — if not stop entirely....
...They flash a thumbs up, not a V sign....
...Steeped in Zen and Sufi, influenced by Indian abstractionists such as V.S. Gaitonde as well as western modernists including Mondrian and Malevich, Mohamedi’s starting point was the grid....
...Man V Woman The 2010 Radmacher case underlined a wider trend in divorce: husbands making claims against wives....
...The V&A will portray the invention of the cultured pearl and its industrial scale production, which finally made pearls affordable for many....
...Though entitled Loretta Young: Hollywood Legend, the show also features Louis’s Gilda dress, photos of Marlene Dietrich’s age-defying body stocking, and the sheer, sparkling gown Marilyn Monroe wore when...
...Highlights will include a pearl drop earring worn by Charles I at his execution, important royal tiaras from British and European nobility and a cultured pearl necklace that belonged to Marilyn Monroe....
...‘Renaissance Velvets’, by Lisa Monnas, V&A Publishing, RRP£35 …………………………………………………………….....
...Among the low-lying villas with their butterfly roofs and soaring concrete brises-soleil, another mid-century icon currently graces the landscape at Palm Springs: a 26ft statue of Marilyn Monroe, which was...
...Marilyn Croser, co-ordinator of the Core Coalition argues that it is crucial to have the Alien Tort statute to be able to bring lawsuits in the US....
...“I did go to the Chelsea v Leeds [1970] cup final. And the replay. I went to the first final with my mother, and to the replay with my dad.”...
...“Marilyn Dead”, it says, and as so often Frank had made a whole meditation in a single frame. The cult of celebrity, so much photography’s business of late, was nailed right there, in 1962....
...Take Marilyn Monroe’s white halter-neck dress that famously blew up around her waist in The Seven Year Itch....
...There are lots of restaurants and cafés here and every evening we walk down the Avenue Georges V to the cinemas in the Champs Elysées. We see all kinds of films, new releases and older ones....
...Here, a picture of Marilyn Monroe pouts above the sisters’ bedroom in “Les Girls” (1993), but a Byzantine madonna stares out at us too....
...www.ragoarts.com v Side table English Dated around 1760, this majestic side table is made in the grand neo-classical style, which was first fashionable early in the reign of George III, from 1760 to 1820...
...His set of heroines is idiosyncratic: Boudica, Jane Carlyle, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe....
...The kind of thing you see in Marie Claire magazine’s Spree v Steal feature....
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