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...In “Vanishing Point 29 (Duyster)” (2021), an African man in a ruff is centre stage. Products of slavery — from mahogany to tobacco — transformed European consumption, setting fashions in luxury goods....
...Forget Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson launching themselves into the upper atmosphere, the signal moment came on September 15 when online payments billionaire Jared Isaacman took three guests on a 72-hour...
...prominent position along one wall arranged either side of a Dutch old-master portrait bought from Dickinson, not because of the sitter but because he could not resist the quality of the painting of the ruff...
...Deacon would know – his work has been among some of the most theatrical over the past 20 years or so: “The Blackadder vibe,” he laughs, of his propensity for gowns, corsets and ruffs....
...Ruff’s How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (1979)....
...A pair of nephews, “Gainsborough Dupont” and “Edward Richard Gardiner”, are transformed from Suffolk provincials to courtly youths by scintillating blue Van Dyck outfits....
...Lastly, usually in the presence of the subject, the facial features were given final refinement and, often after the sitter left, the painstaking details of costume, ruffs, jewels and flowers were completed...
...Galerie Mai 36, an intimate old-school vitrine on Rämistrasse, has a magnetic display of recent photographs by Thomas Ruff (to July 29)....
...Its celebrated ensemble features huge names such as Lars Eidinger, who starred in Ostermeier’s groundbreaking productions of Hamlet and Richard III....
...Contemporary photographers including Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Ruff and Cindy Sherman feature, as do photographs by multi-disciplinary artists including Richard Prince and Vik Muniz....
...I was seeing the work of Richard Avedon and Irving Penn and Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin, among others. I remember seeing some portraits of Mick Jagger on the set of Performance in 1968....
...“In retail terms, [London] is the fashion capital of the world,” says Richard Hyman, the independent analyst who runs the Richard Talks Retail website....
...Keith Richards, managing director of Promasidor food manufacturers, says a significant amount of his time is spent dealing with red tape issues....
...The rest of the group – drums, viola, guitar and double bass – was arranged singly on low plinths along the walls; Phillipson, wearing a ruff of long dark feathers, was placed in the middle of the room....
...We see renaissance ruffs and a modern piano, halberds and video projections, a calculated balance of lavish anachronism. Gesualdo has been feted by its Zurich audience. Let us hope it travels....
...“This is the best night of my life,” she continued – and she did look fabulous against the Columbus Square skyline, dressed in a silk bomber jacket with lace ruffs that only slightly constricted her dancing...
...They are a key link between the prewar photographic avant-garde and the potent late 20th-century photographic genre of architectonic alienation – Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Candida Hofer were all Becher...
...Framed above by a floppy-brimmed stove hat and below by a delicate lace ruff, her beautifully modelled face might be the work of a 20th-century artist (Stanley Spencer springs to mind) – though the stiff...
...Jack Straw, the justice secretary, wore a white ruff, black tights and a pair of pantomime slippers and the archbishop was in full vestments....
...I first meet Richard Knocker on a grass airstrip in Ndutu in Tanzania’s Serengeti Plain where my twin prop has to circle low to clear out the giraffes before landing....
...Richard Avedon’s glittery “Renee, Model, Suit by Dior” was staged on the Place de la Concorde in Paris in 1947....
...We arrived, an identical duo, sporting matching 18th-century inspired Rodnik Ruffs....
...of Thomas Ruff - all have some such supporting rationale....
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