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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....
...In 2017, a German appeals court in Hamm agreed to hear a case brought by Saul Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer who claims that RWE should be held accountable for climate change, specifically the melting...
...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...
...This year, 21 teenagers will get a hearing in the California appeals court for their claim in Juliana v US that the government failed to protect their rights to life, liberty and property by promoting the...
...She attended Temple University and married her brother’s friend, Saul Windsor, after graduating with a bachelors degree in 1950. The marriage lasted less than a year....
...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....
...Sebald; Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather; A House for Mr Biswas by V.S....
...The film was set in Paris, and so the producers shipped him over and put him up in the Hotel George V for eight months. Allen loved Paris....
...I have been saving Saul Bellow’s Letters for a rainy day – I received two copies of the recent hardback for Christmas – but I know when I read them he’ll become smaller to me....
...He worked for Saul Bass and for Fortune magazine and then returned to Britain to found Fletcher/Forbes/Gill in 1958....
...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....
...In addition, “the web gives people the ability to deliver a much more personalised experience”, says Saul Klein, partner at Index Ventures....
...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....
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