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...Then, during the Covid lockdown, Mary shot a playful campaign for the Stella McCartney collection at the family home....
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...But modern interest in vintage royal ware is often driven by a kitsch appeal....
...In the late 17th century, Mary II had, thankfully, better taste, and a small pair of ox-shaped incense burners glazed in pale green celadon say a lot more by shining a lot less....
...are changing the landscape for African talent,” says Belma Gaudio, founder of London-based store Koibird, which last year staged a seasonal “Lagos” edit that sold Magugu’s ready-to-wear alongside woven Mary...
...I can personally attest to this ongoing state of Zen; my unflappable grandmother Mary has knitted her way through many crises....
...A highly illuminated prayer book owned and inscribed by Mary Queen of Scots is to go up for sale in July, as London’s auction houses begin to lay out their wares for the expected revival of physical auctions...
...Other covetable lots are by Nicholas Kirkwood, Mary Katrantzou, Peter Pilotto and Jimmy Choo, while the donation from fashion entrepreneur Maria Kastani includes long summer dresses by Evi Grintela....
...Women and men pursue — and collect — the brand for its seriously restrained and impeccably produced wares....
...Lastman in 1624 and, in that year’s “The Spectacles Seller (Allegory of Sight)”, Caravaggesque aspects are pronounced: the shadow cast on the woman’s face, livid brushstrokes for the pedlar’s glinting wares...
...Unlike any previous account of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly, this one doesn’t rerun their brutal and gruesome ends....
...Manufacturers of luxury wares, too, have finally got wise to the rise of ecommerce....
...So I chose to leave the country at 18 to study economics, at Queen Mary University in London....
...This has damped enthusiasm for collectors to come to market, increasing the struggle for auction houses to convince them to part with their wares....
...One of the worst traumas endured by parishioners was the loss of their precious stained glass and paintings, statues and relics, vestments and communion ware — all destroyed by iconoclasts who condemned...
...Nasiba Adilova: thetot.com If there’s a product on Nasiba Adilova’s parenting website The Tot that sums up its appeal in one neat package, it’s the limited-edition diaper bag by British designer Mary Katrantzou...
...The English folk singer Mary Hampton used to present her wares on home-recorded CDs with handfolded lyrical inserts as intricate as origami, passed around like Samizdat....
...“Keep on Lying” turned Mary J. Blige-ish R&B soppy and ploddy, squandering any lyrical twist in its tale. “You & I (Forever)” rose with straightforward MOR progressions....
...Sacha Wares’ staging makes us complicit: we sit behind one-way gauze walls, watching the targets and video feeds of “clients”....
...Mary Fallin, the Republican governor, and most state lawmakers have said as little as possible about earthquakes....
...Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, was chairman of a five-strong judging panel which also included the classicist Mary Beard and the historian Peter Hennessy....
...The author, a Labour MP and a history lecturer at Queen Mary College, London, takes 10 of the most important and colourful cities within the old empire, explaining how they came about, what they became,...
...Generation of collaborative robots poised to clean up The world’s robot makers showed off their wares in Munich this week, seeking to persuade visitors that a new generation of automata would become trusted...
...When it could, her vocal shone through – as raunchy, when she wanted to be, as Lyn Collins and also capable of Mary J. Blige-like drama....
...They can also trade their newly created wares. “I can see us becoming 100 per cent mainstream,” says Pete Weijmarshausen, chief executive at the company....
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