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...She is currently developing a television series based on sisters Jackie and Joan Collins, the former the prolific author of romantic thrillers, the latter a Hollywood actor....
...So far the guest speakers on Anthems have included the Booker Prize-winning writer, Bernardine Evaristo, on community; the model and activist Jada Sezer on development; the food writer and cook Ruby Tandoh...
...Void is a multisensory installation in Islington’s Collins Music Hall. Mozambican rubies and Zambian emeralds, provided by ethical stone supplier Gemfields, have been photographed in extreme close-up....
...Apart from a couple of bar stools, guests gather at low tables on ruby-red velvet seating. Martinis are concocted behind a marble horseshoe bar....
...“Ruby Heart”. These are perfectly hardy....
...Before long, huge, often cursed Indian diamonds began to make regular appearances in Victorian novels such as Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone and Benjamin Disraeli’s Lothair....
...Simon Dowson-Collins General counsel, HarperCollins Publishers 91. Bansi Nagji Executive vice-president, corporate strategy and business development, McKesson 92....
...The point of fine jewellery in the 1980s, epitomised by Joan Collins in her role as Alexis Carrington, the most vengeful businesswoman in Dynasty, the US soap opera, was to broadcast wealth and success....
...Sterling Ruby, for example, has opened a huge compound on three-quarters of an acre in Vernon, just southeast of downtown LA....
...After Twilight and True Blood comes Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, which hit big screens yesterday and features Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins, a 200-year-old vampire who awakens in 1972 to find his descendants...
...Emily Collins, a property executive, collects tuxedos....
...Garrard, the Crown Jeweller for 140 years until Kent-based company Harry Collins was appointed in 2008, has enjoyed global attention since the royal engagement, says Mr Webster....
...We’re going to mount up ruby and sapphire engagement rings and make them look beautiful and contemporary.”...
...Happily, spring’s offerings bear less relation to the peaks of Joan Collins in her Dynasty days and are more a cross between techno-mod futurism and 1940s economic recovery swank....
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