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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...In a Cinderella-blue colour, with a deep V neckline, the look called back to the Prada gown Nyong’o wore when she took home the Best Actress award a decade ago....
...Until now, architectural historians have focused primarily on European architects working in Africa, such as Britons Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew....
...Also in London, the specialists Rudy Capildeo and Tim Maxwell have been brought in from Charles Russell Speechlys to City law firm Wedlake Bell to lead a dedicated art and luxury practice....
...Her enveloping wool coats and handsome V-neck jumpers, tucked into full skirts, had a cosiness and casualness that made them appealing for the office, something Wickstead said her customers are increasingly...
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...is due to be sentenced after being found guilty in a sex abuse trial Wednesday Belgium, the Ommegang festival, including a pageant re-enacting the historical entry of Charles V, begins in Brussels UK...
...In the UK in 1917, King George V sent 24 congratulatory telegrams to citizens who had reached their 100th birthday. By the mid-1980s there were about 3,000 centenarians....
...(WSJ) What else we’re reading Just one in 10 fund managers expect V-shaped recovery V, U, W, L — just a handful of the letter-shaped recoveries that investors have put forward as possible paths for the...
...(FT) Economists are still too upbeat Economists initially, and over-optimistically, embraced a relatively quick V-shaped recovery....
...The other quarter-final matchups on Saturday pit Italy v the Netherlands and Germany v Sweden. The tournament has revealed which countries are most welcoming to women’s sport....
...(FT) Mayweather v the Justice System The US securities watchdog has targeted its first celebrities who touted initial coin offerings....
...(FT) Woodward v Trump An exposé book by Washington Post’s associate editor Bob Woodward has been a rite of passage for presidential administrations since the investigative reporter first made a name for...
US businesses and America’s allies warn of severe damage from trade war
...(FT) Kansai v Tokyo In the Kansai region of Japan, you stand on the right of the escalator, not the left. Such a difference is small but matters....
...Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert, her favourite glass blower, spent more than a year creating cloud-like pendants for the bar and two-Michelin-starred restaurant, as well as the chandeliers for the gargantuan wine...
...Neither is easy,” says Jake Pugh, an industry consultant. Now shareholders must sit in judgment of both chief executive and chairman....
...At the V&A you will be able to see an example of this dress alongside archive footage of two Balenciaga house models wearing it....
...London-based designer Gareth Pugh, whose work has been exhibited at the Met and the V&A, has made an effort to keep as much as possible without the help of a formal archivist....
...Lord Denning was delivering the leading judgment in the Court of Appeal in the case of Maxwell v Department of Trade and Industry. Few cases have been so extensively misrepresented....
...Fashion designer Gareth Pugh unveils the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum’s Christmas tree, titled Ceremony....
...It’s advice not lost on Prince William, who was turned out neatly in a crisp white shirt and cobalt-blue V-neck sweater as he left the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital two weeks ago (as opposed to the pale...
...Eternal goth Gareth Pugh looked to Edward Scissorhands with pale-faced models and structured dresses edged with gold-embroidered branches (£2,330)....
...The Supreme Court would spark national divisions if it repealed Doma, he warned, as it did 40 years ago when it allowed abortion through the Roe v Wade case....
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