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...Long before Campbell’s Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe, Warhol made his first fortune in commercial art, running a multidisciplinary studio throughout the 1950s cranking out everything from magazine illustrations...
...The French director Agnès Varda, in her 1988 docudrama on Birkin, Jane B par Agnès V, notes this tendency and asks her subject why she doesn’t look at the camera....
...One of her favourites — and mine — is Kassl Editions’ V Wrap coat, a minimalist kimono-shaped robe in felted wool (£1,050, harrods.com)....
...“The age of 11-16 is vital, but it’s also when you are not allowed to be an apprentice,” says the mother of two, whose work has just been added to the V&A’s collection....
...Dear readers, Will the recovery be shaped like a V, a U, or Nike’s “swoosh” symbol? There is much discussion on this quasi-theological question....
...a couple of weeks, but proper, open-ended living — Oscar Wilde (“dying beyond my means” at the Hotel d’Alsace in Paris), Coco Chanel (The Ritz, Paris), Bob Dylan (The Washington Square Hotel), Marilyn Monroe...
...They flash a thumbs up, not a V sign....
...The V&A will portray the invention of the cultured pearl and its industrial scale production, which finally made pearls affordable for many....
...Though entitled Loretta Young: Hollywood Legend, the show also features Louis’s Gilda dress, photos of Marlene Dietrich’s age-defying body stocking, and the sheer, sparkling gown Marilyn Monroe wore when...
...Highlights will include a pearl drop earring worn by Charles I at his execution, important royal tiaras from British and European nobility and a cultured pearl necklace that belonged to Marilyn Monroe....
...Hollywood also decamped to this hot, dry valley in droves: Monroe was a frequent visitor, while Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and many others bought homes there....
...“I did go to the Chelsea v Leeds [1970] cup final. And the replay. I went to the first final with my mother, and to the replay with my dad.”...
...Take Marilyn Monroe’s white halter-neck dress that famously blew up around her waist in The Seven Year Itch....
...There are lots of restaurants and cafés here and every evening we walk down the Avenue Georges V to the cinemas in the Champs Elysées. We see all kinds of films, new releases and older ones....
...Here, a picture of Marilyn Monroe pouts above the sisters’ bedroom in “Les Girls” (1993), but a Byzantine madonna stares out at us too....
...www.ragoarts.com v Side table English Dated around 1760, this majestic side table is made in the grand neo-classical style, which was first fashionable early in the reign of George III, from 1760 to 1820...
...His set of heroines is idiosyncratic: Boudica, Jane Carlyle, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe....
...the early 1950s on, his furniture designs acquired an international reputation and a prestigious clientele, ranging from the United Nations and the government of Venezuela to Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe...
...The kind of thing you see in Marie Claire magazine’s Spree v Steal feature....
...All the 500 units in the Absolute Tower – dubbed the “Marilyn Monroe building” for its smooth, gyrating curves – sold in a day, prompting Ma to design a second, smaller building that also sold out instantly...
...Rauschenberg’s “Trophy V (for Jasper Johns)” evokes the artist by items – map, window frame, ruler – connected with him....
...Then there was that other well-publicised fashion celebration: the V&A Museum’s “Golden Age of Couture” exhibition, examining Parisian and London couture from 1947 to 1957; a period Christian Dior himself...
...THE MODERN IDEAL: The Rise and Collapse of Idealism in the Visual Arts from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism by Paul Greenhalgh V&A £35, 272 pages Hedgehog or fox?...
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