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...Perhaps this means he has forgiven me for everything I’ve written about him and his girl with her pearl....
...Personalised versions were sent to Hockney, Frank Auerbach and Peter Blake, the artists who’d inspired the design....
...June 30 to July 22; Tickets and information here Festivals Mad Cool Festival, Iberdrola Music This eclectic four-day music festival returns with a line-up including Dua Lipa, Pearl Jam, Janelle Monáe,...
...“I’m a huge fan, and would always ensure my whole team stayed at her hotel, Blakes, whenever we were in London. I remember we’d go to each other’s rooms just to look at the décor.”...
...The artist I would collect if I could is William Blake – I have a few bookplates framed, but it would be amazing to have an original piece, particularly his print Pity....
...Among those who had dressed in their best was Pearl Thompson, an 83-year-old mother of 14 children, who was born in Jamaica....
...Louis Vuitton wool extra-long coat, £6,950 Loewe leather wedge loafers, £725 HSU Jewellery gold-plated silver and pearl earrings, £138, farfetch.com Tsatsas leather Kirat bag, $915 Patricia Urquiola...
...It was a diamond-encrusted heavy chain necklace with precious charms, including a Minnie Mouse head, created by Elliot Eliantte — a jeweller favoured by the hip hop crowd....
...For buttons: corozo nut, rather than mother-of-pearl. And, yes, my initials to be stitched into one pair of each style, because the editor of this magazine insisted. (Infra dig, I’m afraid....
...“It adds value to the item when it has been made by the wearer,” says Amy Powney, founder of fashion label Mother of Pearl, who collaborated with the brand on kits to craft her best-selling Blake cardigan...
...I stayed in two room categories, a Pearl Suite, essentially a rerun of the myriad-shades-of-white decor the designer perfected in the late 1990s at the now-closed Hempel hotel in London; and a cosier though...
...According to Other Criteria, which sells artists’ editions, Damien Hirst’s glittery and garish pictures of the Disney characters Mickey and Minnie were selling fast (£9,354-£18,960) — showing there’s no...
...The Italian film director and scriptwriter Federico Fellini described FMR as “a black pearl”. Limited editions and numbered copies could sell for about €400, even in the 1970s....
...Blancpain, too, has made an exceptional effort with a special version of one its women’s models, which has a dial decorated with the image of a dove made from mother-of-pearl marquetry....
...So I am very consciously using clichés – wedding rings, pearl necklaces, money, the house, the church, the forest. They’re archetypes.”...
...Theodora and Callum, opening its first permanent shop in East Hampton’s Main Street, showcases exotic print scarves ($175) worn by the likes of Heidi Klum, Reese Witherspoon, and Blake Lively that reflect...
...She rarely sets out to buy things but prefers to collect objects when she spots them: “Anywhere and everywhere I travel – in the souk, in Beirut, in mother-of-pearl factories....
...Melding Disney motifs such as mouse ears and Minnie-like polkadot bows with chunky pearl beads, it’s witty, girly costume jewellery....
...“This is about the women of Cannes, women who mix bathing suits with real pearls and diamonds,” said Karl Lagerfeld. “After all, you can’t wear fakes into the water.”...
...“My initial inspiration was a photo of David Hockney and Peter Blake as art students. I wanted similar optimism and think we achieved that,” explained Bill Gaytten, creative director at John Galliano....
...The ceremonial masks, covered with turquoise, shell and mother-of-pearl in intricate mosaic, are breathtakingly weird, and there is a marvel of a double-headed serpent, also covered in a skin of turquoise...
...Meredith Blake, TV writer for the Los Angeles Times ……………………….. Life of Jerry 1936 Born in Brooklyn 1961 Junior copywriter, Daniel & Charles 1967 Founds Jerry Della Femina & Partners....
...Like Vermeer and William Blake in Pearl Earring and Burning Bright, Anning and Philpot are real historical figures, blurred into fiction by Chevalier’s imagination....
...If there is one object that sums all this up, it is the figure, from Frankfurt, of a mounted camel whose body, neck and head are made from lumps of fused pearl (pictured right)....
...Colm Tóibín’s “The Pearl Fishers” takes on Bizet’s famous duet Au Fond du Temple Saint and dusts the sugar right off....
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