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...For Chanel, these lavish settings, “were a big statement that she was a person of style with impeccable taste — that she had arrived on the scene, rising from humble beginnings,” says Patricia Mears, MFIT...
...Even the sourcing of raw materials — where Patricia Jurewicz, chief executive of RSN, sees some of the worst abuses — is fraught with complexity....
...“Fashion today is in a maximalist phase in which bold and contrasting materials and strong silhouettes are combined,” says Patricia Mears, deputy director of the museum at New York’s Fashion Institute of...
...teacup with a so-called “hare’s-fur” glaze (the pattern imitating the animal’s coat) of the type that influenced Japanese ceramicists; a mischievous Cruikshank cartoon depicting tea traders in London; ivory...
...Ancient pieces, including an ivory sculpture of a female figure dated between 500BC and 200AD sold for $1.2m from Donald Ellis....
...Wilson, whose previous subjects include Patricia Highsmith and Sylvia Plath, is the first biographer to have enjoyed the “blessing and co-operation of the McQueen family”....
...Decades later, when painting the exquisitely mannered ivory/grey receding columns and tiles of the National Gallery in “The Sainsbury Wing” (2000), he placed as an altarpiece a representation of his own,...
...Most arresting are the hyperrealist sculptures by Patricia Piccinini, the Australian artist who makes what look like genetically modified humans, as grotesque as they are (sort of) cute....
...Russian sculptor, this luxurious single bed, made in the late 1930s, is raised on carved and gilded volute feet and has a green lacquered wooden frame with tightly scrolled ends – each with an applied ivory...
...Cheese guru Patricia Michelson recommends too Gorgonzola Dolce di Capra, a new rich and silky goat's milk Gorgonzola (£15 per kg) exclusive to La Fromagerie....
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