Hints and tips:
...Roland Mouret, creator of the Galaxy dress, which exploded in 2005 and was worn by everyone from Cameron Diaz to Victoria Beckham, agrees that psychology is key to creating a fashion icon....
...Also in February, Game of Thrones star Kit Harington plays Henry V in a new, modern staging of Shakespeare’s play that promises to explore our relationship with Europe and what it means to be English (Donmar...
...But this will not be a V-shaped recovery. Burberry: kate.burgess@ft.com McCarthy & Stone: oliver.ralph@ft.com...
...Mark Weinberg, who made a career setting up financial advisers such as Allied Dunbar and St James’s Place, is now advising UK start-up yulife on its strategy....
...Obviously Ralph Lauren had it as well, but he had already built it by the time I got there, whereas Tom was creating it in front of me.”...
...A series of numbers from Walton’s film score for Henry V, perhaps one too many, showcased rousing speeches from Dominic West’s King Henry....
...There are swaths of claret velvet worthy of cabinet displays at the V&A or the Met, swirls of painstakingly embroidered gold and crystal, and thousands of hand-painted feathers....
...Mark Bostridge’s book takes us through the year as it unfolds, in details found in a range of diaries, letters, newspapers and memoirs....
...I think it was a happy accident that Gucci and Ralph Lauren were doing 1920s-inspired looks when The Artist came out.” Interest in the subject is certainly growing....
...Mark Maxwell and Tim Young can hardly wait for the US Supreme Court to hear two critical same-sex marriage cases this week. “We are so excited....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, by Mark Blyth, OUP, RRP£14.99, 224 pages Mark Blyth of Brown University has written a thought-provoking polemic against the policies of austerity, to which western...
...The Pressure Cooker Cookbook , by Catherine Phipps, Ebury Press, RRP£18.99 If pressure cooking speaks to you of grannies, boiled-to-death pulses and explosions, Phipps shows you you’re wrong....
...“Ours is an eloquent culture,” says Arnold Rampersad, the Trinidadian-born biographer of Ralph Ellison, “but many people see a void in literary life.”...
...And should the Val Doonican/Doctor Who/Mark-Darcy-in-a Christmas-sweater fear come over you when faced with the patterned option, go for some more subtle accessories instead....
...Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin that a juror said after their acquittal she would invest with them if she had the money...
...It was the first time in 19 months that the index had exceeded 50, which marks the boundary between contracting and expanding activity....
...Witness designers such as Marc Newson and Ron Arad, whose prices have already exceeded the $1m mark....
...The crisis management winner at the awards was Marks and Spencer, for the way it dealt with the loss of market share....
...“While serving as principal deputy solicitor-general from 1989-1993 he authored briefs calling for Roe v....
...Stuart and Clare won’t be going to the Four Seasons, Hampshire – “looks amazing, but a bit too Chinos and Ralph Lauren”, he says....
...Examples include Ron Arad's light-as-air, limited-edition Bad Tempered chair (www.ronarad.com) or Ralph Lauren's Formula One-inspired leather-and-carbon fibre armchair....
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