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...His prints of Marilyn Monroe, while intentionally clichéd, also connected to the brouhaha over Kim Kardashian’s appearance in Monroe’s famous “Happy Birthday” dress (now allegedly damaged)....
...On the most basic level, it functions as a benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the museum’s only self-funded department, which has staged blockbuster shows including Alexander...
...But its pedigree was peerless: how could anyone take issue with the fragrance worn by Marilyn Monroe? I still keep a bottle on the go....
...Alexander Hamilton eschewed all entanglements. Yet Harry Truman, Dean Acheson and George Marshall built after 1945 the most powerful alliance system the world has ever seen....
...It’s perhaps simply that her affinity for old-school, midcentury glamour – Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth, pin-ups of her 1950s childhood – was closer to the taste of drag than the grungey slant of mainstream...
...“Boho Pop”, on the other hand, has prints and posters by Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein and Tom Wesselmann, and a Zaha Hadid Moon System sofa....
...Books I tend to read books and white papers when flying — Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, for example. If you have not read this, you should....
...Under the Clintons, the Blue Room was restored in Monroe’s favoured style....
...£1.7m with fees), with 66 per cent sold; its top lot was another Peter Beard, “Heart Attack City” (1972-98), a complex collage of everything from a bumblebee and writing in blood to a photograph of Marilyn Monroe...
...But among their friends, their daughter had the opportunity to observe other creative relationships, such as that between the sculptor Alexander Calder and his wife Louisa, the self-effacing model of an...
...RFK and Marilyn Monroe? It’s as if Jeff Koons went to France and returned with sculptures of Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier. The piece, whatever it’s called, has its moments....
...“Photo Shanghai is the first and only opportunity for collectors to buy locally — auction houses such as Christie’s sell photos elsewhere,” said fair director Alexander Montague-Sparey....
...Many of the rooms are named after Hollywood stars such as Cary Grant, Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe. Within the almost 22 acres of grounds, there are stables, paddocks and several outbuildings....
...So while last season was Marilyn Monroe-meets-1950s, this time around it was urbanity via Nepal, with a nod to Bottega Veneta’s recent asymmetric ruffles, all in an autumnal palette of burnt sienna, black...
...Leroy Hamilton (the last Yankee of the title and, in his descent from founding father Alexander Hamilton, the signpost to the symbolism of the play) and his wife Patricia find it too easy to relapse into...
...various shades of cream (with some sea foam green and navy thrown in for good measure), and, for Gurung, “the elegant woman . . . in a modern context” as inspired by Bert Stern’s photographs of Marilyn Monroe...
...By contrast, it is increasingly hard to understand what Jason Wu (this season all slip dresses, lingerie details and safari jackets), or Prabal Gurung (who took a belly flop into a mix of Marilyn Monroe...
...In fact, most of our early presidents were from the Virginia area (Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe)....
...Likewise, Dries Van Noten, Carven and Alexander McQueen all showed opera-pump styles to wear by day, while Tom Ford, O’Keeffe and Ermenegildo Zegna gave the look an elongated European shape....
...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....
...Oasis adds glitter with a metallic collar and belt (£65), while H&M has a short, flirty halter-neck dress reminiscent of the famous number worn by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch (£14.99)....
...The festival’s official “icon” – aka the face on all their posters and promotional materials – is that perennial fashion inspiration Marilyn Monroe....
...Love Looks Not with the Eyes: Thirteen years with Lee Alexander McQueen, by Anne Deniau, Abrams, RRP£45 This has been a year of Alexander McQueen books – at last count there were at least four of them...
...Take Marilyn Monroe’s white halter-neck dress that famously blew up around her waist in The Seven Year Itch....
...24 (i) In December a memorial to which poet joined those to Alexander Pope, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson and Dylan Thomas in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey?...
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