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...My favourite building is the V&A. I had the chance to work on Tim Walker’s Wonderful Things exhibition in 2019, and spend a lot of time there....
...Her mother was a self-taught seamstress and made the one-year-old Wakeman a navy coat with lace trim (crocheted by her grandmother). “Mum and I always made my clothes....
...Stanley was subsequently able to identify 37 of the V&A’s tiles as having originated from the Çinili Hamam....
...He drives a Tesla model S (with the paint stripped off to reveal the bare metal) and sails an 82ft Mark V special operations craft, a $3mn camouflaged Navy Seal vessel mounted with decommissioned machine...
...On TikTok, #grandpacore — a trend describing clobber synonymous with seniors, such as V-neck novelty knits, pleat-front trousers and tweed blazers — has had almost 16mn views....
...“Plenty of areas that the Royal Navy still class as unnavigable.” For a tall ship, the Flying Dutchman is rather a small ship....
...Time-ravaged Old Masters translated into dresses and coats overlaid with silken strands that shivered as the models walked....
...This is the latest chapter in a decades-old decolonisation effort that saw George V removed from his pedestal in the 1960s, when the opposition Congress party was in power....
...Olivia V, a video editor living in Toronto, started the @indiesleaze Instagram account because she felt it was a decade “not yet neatly defined or revisited”....
...However, the 64-year-old abruptly had to cancel in order to fly back to California to have treatment for pancreatic cancer. Six weeks later, on 31 December, he was dead....
...At the heart of the fair, the V&A’s Melanie Vandenbrouck has curated a sculpture display on the east-west axis previously occupied by the bar....
...“In the old days, you would go . . . to receptions attended by Chinese diplomats and PLA officers....
...Those who donate to the V&A want to memorialise their own or another’s life through style....
...But the former Royal Navy lieutenant was also descended from Queen Victoria, just like Elizabeth, and so was essentially British....
...At home, old attitudes were, meanwhile, breaking down....
...Adrian Sauvage, menswear designer and photographer “Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me, coming out of the sea in the Lotus Esprit, wearing a navy blazer, a striped shirt and a blue tie: immaculate....
...What’s the best way to incorporate 1980s style cues into your wardrobe without going too Roger Moore?...
...“I still miss London life — especially the V&A — but the village has been tremendously welcoming,” says Frances, 76, who prefers not to give her full name....
...“Recently we took out the second bathroom in the apartment of a 22-year-old Russian client and made it into a room for her 326 pairs of shoes.”...
...Dressed in a pale blue shirt and navy blue jacket, the 62-year-old sitting across the table from me at the Ristorante Cesarina in Bologna could be any British visitor enjoying the city’s medieval architecture...
...For more than 20 years I have worn a navy blue corduroy dinner jacket modelled on one I saw in the wardrobe of the Duke of Windsor....
...Vegan cook Tabitha Brown has starred in Old Navy adverts. D’Amelio has a Hulu series, book, podcast, nail varnish collection and — ultimate teen bragging rights — her own Dunkin’ Donuts drink....
...Kapoor was born into comfortable privilege, the son of a hydrographer in the Indian navy; he went to The Doon School, often called India’s Eton....
...Soon I realised that these old memoirs and biographies, many annotated in the 1960s and early 1970s, had probably been read back then by Dad as the 50th anniversary of Ireland’s independence had approached...
...I have a two-year-old pair by Acne Studios, but Rag & Bone has a similar style called Angela Field (£290; net-a-porter.com)....
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