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...In January, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen of The Row presented unattainably priced shallow V-neck sweaters worn with tailoring....
...The business expanded through a 1962 design contract with US department store chain JC Penney and, in 1963, the lower-priced diffusion line Ginger Group....
...The V&A’s presentation brings us fantastically close to that phenomenon; there’s no need to play down genius. To June 11, vam.ac.uk...
...Thankfully I had the opportunity to tell Birkin I adored her a few years ago on a big stage somewhere deep in the guts of the V&A museum....
...will reshape us and we shape it....
...Email us at ftweekendpodcast@ft.com. We’re on Twitter @ftweekendpod, and Lilah is on Instagram and Twitter @lilahrap....
...When Denzil Lush was a child, his grandmother was about to throw away a mass-produced coronation beaker with a portrait of King George V and Queen Mary. “This was the early 1960s,” he says....
...Following her death in 2009, her first major US museum exhibition in over 50 years is being staged at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art....
...In a break from recent tradition, Camilla, Queen Consort has not commissioned a new crown for the coronation but will use Queen Mary’s Crown, made by Garrard for the consort of King George V in 1911, after...
...“It seemed dictatorial and nothing really interested me except Mary Quant, which at least seemed fresh,” she says....
...Joaquín Sorolla’s serene swimmer emerges from a luminous sea like a modern “Birth of Venus” in “After the Bath”, and polychrome sculptures of a fervent Mary and Jesus carved by 17th-century nun Andrea de...
...As always, drop your story ideas to me at sid.v@ft.com and have a great week....
...We need a dress to help us feel beautiful, sexy or even ladylike. And certain dresses emerge that really do this.” The best of these, she says, act “like a sort of shield”....
...Her father, known as Bertie in the family, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. His elder brother, David, was expected to become king....
...“Our collections always connect with that heritage, which is as fascinating to our clients as it is to us.”...
...Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in London on April the 21st 1926. The eldest child of the former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Prince Albert....
...In London, images of masculinity at the V&A, an exploring of feminine power at the British Museum. In Venice, a vast celebration of female talent at the Biennale....
...Hazardous ruptures scar the stone niche that hosts Mary Magdalene in Crivelli’s painting of the saint (c1491-94) on display opposite the V&A’s Madonna....
...In the lesser-known polychrome terracotta “Virgin and Child”, the half-figures — the infant clinging to Mary’s neck, turning his back on us or restlessly trying to break away — are mesmerisingly lifelike...
...His marriages to actress Mary Beth Hurt and artistic director Heidi Henderson each ended in divorce. He had four children....
...It is still more than capable of inspiring us....
...Wash it down with a Bloody Mary – and the bar will beckon once again. Recovering from party season used to be this simple....
...We decided to ask Norma Cohen, formerly of the FT and currently a fellow at Queen Mary University, who has written for us twice on the relevance of the post-World War One situation to the current predicament...
...So Billie Jean King wrote about tennis star Naomi Osaka and Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser wrote about GM’s chief Mary Barra, who also made the list. And there are names from all over the world....
...He notes they donated a print to the US Supreme Court when Ruth Bader Ginsberg was in bad health....
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