Hints and tips:
...“Then for the party in the evening I wore a double-breasted midnight-blue raw silk jacket, off-white silk shirt and black wide-leg trousers.”...
...Prada’s velvet hair clip (£420), and Emily-London’s Pippa bow (£225) work with everything; wear on their own or atop a ponytail....
...So there were vinyl dresses and tops with slightly inflated volumes and a tulip skirt made to look like vinyl, which was actually velvet....
...But those facing the Giardino Clandestino, as the courtyard bar is called, suffer the fallout of its DJs-and-drinkers soundtrack, sometimes until well after midnight....
...It doesn’t need a snotty maître d’ and a velvet rope. Any restaurant that is “curating” a crowd is, by definition, excluding....
...We took the high path to Buckden, and got our first full view of Upper Wharfedale, where the fields, closely shorn by sheep, looked like bolts of velvet....
...To Spencer, this means fewer classic black or midnight blue wool dinner suits, and more bold silk jacquard or velvet smoking jackets, “navy [velvet jackets] have come pretty close to being the norm,” as...
...A Victorian-feel floral print (Schumacher’s Jennie Velvet in Midnight and Magenta) is draped in two swaths from the ceiling behind a headboard, upholstered in a contrasting, graphic printed velvet....
...As a fashion peacock, I interpreted this as an opportunity to get creative: my chosen outfit was a navy silk jacquard jacket, open-collar midnight-blue linen shirt and mohair trousers, set off with navy...
...She washed her face with white wine and retired to a freshly made bed after midnight. Her embroideries were full of emblems and coded language....
...Beck’s soloing dominates the opening track, a version of “Midnight Walker” by Irish uilleann piper Davy Spillane....
...He recommends classic black or, if you are really daring, midnight blue (only Noël Coward could carry off midnight brown, the rest of us risk looking like a Midlands bingo caller circa 1981)....
...Reservations are available three weeks in advance and released at midnight. Book quickly. Website; Directions There is something about Jua....
...For simple chic in corporate environments, stay classic in a navy or midnight-blue sweater such as Theory’s fitted version (£175, net-a-porter.com)....
...Thus Rocha moulded her clothes after their shapes and colours: a midnight-blue velvet dress with high, round shoulders and hips; a red-beaded ivory négligée with trailing silk ribbons; a black coat cut in...
...The set begins with a lyrical “Darn That Dream” taken as a waltz and continues with an elegiac “Midnight Sun” supported by Green’s counterpoint bass....
...Off the atrium, behind a curtain, I discover a saucy little dining room with midnight-blue velvet booths and gilded Chinese wallpaper....
...plush velvet chairs, gold frosted lamps and art deco-inspired geometric terrazzo flooring), Folie draws a suitably well-heeled crowd to Golden Square....
...Cocooned with my cabin-mates near midnight somewhere in the centre of France, I wasn’t at all sure I cared....
...When I arrive at the Shangri-La Hotel in Paris, there is already a crowd waiting behind a velvet rope to get in, and paparazzi clustered on the sidewalk....
...The Jam’s “Down in the Tube Station at Midnight” is a fine track but the fact that it is about a man getting beaten senseless may explain why it has not featured heavily in Transport for London’s advertising...
...there’s Tom Ford’s sweeping black velvet version....
...I tasted it and it just hit me: wow, this is incredible, melting, velvet....
...The brasserie is open seven days a week, from noon until midnight, and you can easily get a last-minute reservation at one of the green leather banquettes that look on to the shiny zinc bar and the busy...
...Towering gilt candelabra dripping with wax and masses of draped heavy plum velvet. Unless you have access to a theatre or film props department, keep things simple....
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