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ReviewTheatre
Al Murray stars in The Crown Jewels, a comedy that lacks sparkle — review
...The show fares best when Murray’s monarch, possessed of lush costumes (Michael Taylor), a towering wig and an even huger sense of mischief, abandons the story in favour of ad-libbing and teasing the audience...
August 2, 2023
Style
Men’s pyjamas that are worth getting out of bed for
...And while Michael Caine’s immaculate suits made a profound impression upon me at a tender age, it was Noël Coward who stole the show....
December 25, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewTheatre
Dublin Theatre Festival dives into the Irish literary canon
...The latter live in thrall to Michael’s chief antagonist Harry, a small-time criminal and noxious chip off Dada’s block....
October 13, 2022
FT Magazine
No ordinary boozers: gastropubs celebrate their 30th anniversary
...“And cooking in fisherman’s’ smocks, not chefs’ whites. “I was part of the second generation of this new wave,” Norrington-Davies recalls. “David made those jobs attractive to people like me....
January 16, 2021
House & Home
Sears, Argos and Habitat: a catalogue of our lives
...A peasant smock? More Jenny Agutter than Twiggy, she has moved on from the 1960s miniskirt and now looks like a boho muse, fondling her geranium....
October 30, 2020
FT SeriesWomenswear Spring/Summer 2019 shows
London SS19 round-up: why British fashion is worth the investment
...Molly Goddard, only three catwalk shows in to her label, was shifting away from the large smock silhouette that made her name: this season she introduced knitwear and bags....
September 19, 2018
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewLife & Arts
Dublin Theatre Festival — a snapshot of Ireland’s theatrical ecology
...No, I’ve actually moved on now to Rough Magic’s Melt (Smock Alley)....
October 9, 2017
US politics & policy
Star witness James Comey raises White House ghosts
...And it was riveting,” said Ray Smock, director of the Robert C Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education....
June 5, 2017
Child mortality
The slow road to progress: why is Sierra Leone’s maternal mortality rate so high?
...The light is fading as the driver, Michael Elie, sets off over the ferrous dirt to find a nurse at Moyamba government hospital....
November 17, 2016
World
Myanmar abuzz as landmark election nears
...“The whole country, all the seats, we want to win,” says Ms Thinzar Myo, who is dressed in a white and blue smock in the traditional pattern of her Karen ethnic group....
October 19, 2015
Global Economy
Rice boils over as election issue in Thailand
...“Some landlords said ‘If you don’t give me the subsidy, then I won’t rent you the land’,” said Prasert Poompoung, 46, wearing a pink smock streaked with colours from the casual house-painting he does off-season...
December 19, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Rustication: A Novel’, by Charles Palliser
...makes little attempt to draw characters from real life but prefers to head straight for central casting, even when it comes to walk-on players, for example a bewhiskered “old countryman in gaiters and smock...
December 13, 2013
Life & Arts
The Dublin Theatre Festival
.... ★★★☆☆ The Corn Exchange’s revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under The Elms at Smock Alley strikes the ear strangely until one realises that it is emphasising the universality of O’Neill’s family/land...
October 11, 2013
Life & Arts
London Fashion Week: day three
...Tailoring and nautical workwear provided the main threads; the former came via shirt dresses in white, pale blue and grey as well as trouser suits, and the latter from wide navy culottes, fishermen’s smocks...
September 17, 2012
Life & Arts
A very peculiar place
...Everywhere, subtle touches of colour, in between the sterile rocks, show you where the gentians lurk, or the wild orchids, Lady’s Smock, milkwort and irises and honeysuckles....
July 8, 2011
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Life & Arts
‘Black reads as intelligence’
...Michael Walsh, writer of derring-do thrillers, was more commanding: “No suit!!!...
December 10, 2010
Work & Careers
Farmers who hit the right note
...Michael Eavis clambers out of his battered red Land Rover. Up close, the 75-year-old’s appearance is a bit startling....
June 8, 2010
Lunch with the FTLife & Arts
Lunch with the FT: Phoebe Philo
...The Chloé stacked heel After years of the spindly stiletto heel, Philo took a chance and broke rank, twinning her airy smock dresses with something a little clumpier....
October 8, 2010
Life & Arts
Horace Andy, Southbank Centre, London
...Decked out in a smock top and thick specs, he delivered a slick set of, as he put it, “all-time favourite songs”....
June 17, 2008
Life & Arts
Pizza expression
...Dressed in a chic black smock, black clogs and huge tinted spectacles (her eyes are unusually sensitive to light), she does the rounds of tables at her Mozza restaurant and pizzeria in Los Angeles, greeting...
May 19, 2008
World
Oz boy McEvoy can make mark in Leger
...This year a fresh-faced 23-year-old from Streaky Bay, South Australia, his face more suited to a choirboy's smock than a set of racing silks, arrived in April to declare: “The horse did it, now the jockey's...
September 9, 2004

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