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...Simone Rocha styled transparent, embroidered slip dresses over grey woolly shorts and co-ordinates; Gucci included a black lacy bodysuit with thigh-high stockings under a big faux fur coat; while the opening...
...Make like the model and designer TyLynn Nguyen and try a plain white tee underneath a gently oversized style....
...A friend of mine smooths out the lines of lacy, padded or underwired bras by wearing one of Hanro’s super-soft Touch Feeling micro polyamide crop tops over the top (£48, hanro.co.uk)....
...Going forward, the federal government has ordered that only Euro-V standard fuels can be imported. Elsewhere, banks have announced policies to end financing for coal-powered plants....
...Historically, economies frequently experience a V-shaped recovery after a recession....
...Where to seeMary Quant at the V&A (vam.ac.uk); till Feb 16. Zandra Rhodes: Fifty Years of Fabulous at the Fashion & Textile Museum (ftmlondon.org); Sept 27 2019-Jan 26 2020....
...“The worst is likely over . . . but trade is unlikely to have a ‘V-shaped’ recovery,” said Trinh Nguyen, an economist at Natixis in Hong Kong....
...One afternoon in Hanoi, I met Nguyen Anh Tuan, an activist who belongs to Vietnam’s small but vocal dissident community....
...He pointed out that the V&A has a long-established arms and armour department....
...Design sketches for the two cars, which will be unveiled at the Paris car show in October, show sleek and sporty models, each with a “V” emblazoned on their grilles....
...The materials were breathtaking: lacy latex, sequins and jewel embroideries all hand sewn with individual feathers. “Couture has to be impeccable,” he said of their dazzling construction....
...Collaborating with Stuttgart’s Staatsgalerie, Liverpool has garnered stellar German-owned works: Düsseldorf’s caged “Man in Blue V”, Stuttgart’s “Chimpanzee”, eerily close to Bacon’s bestialised human forms...
...Then, a similar treatment in sequins; four gorgeous evening dresses with a plunging V fronts, and each inset with a sheer lace placket....
...The book contains woodcuts from July 1530 of Charles V’s entry into Bologna to meet the Pope. “This was a poster given to a few people and as a result it was ephemeral and disappeared....
...Anaita Shroff Adajania, fashion director of Vogue India, confirms the preference for lacy looks, ruffled fringes and a general attraction to lingerie-inspired pieces such as a lace-framed V-neck top in midnight...
...In a window nearby, however, belonging to a store called Vero Moda (www.veromoda.com), was a loosefitting black silk tunic with a V-shaped hem and elastic neckline (£50), which is now in my closet....
...Blossom, a hand-stitched, waxed paper dotted with lacy perforations, is best hung proud of a wall to emphasise the design’s natural shadow-play....
...The dramatis personae of Obama v McCain included Joe the Plumber, Joe Sixpack and vice-president elect Joe Biden....
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