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...Cece Jewellery gold, diamond, ruby, sapphire and champlevé enamel Lovers’ Pendulum necklace, £43,860 Frank Foster vintage French voile bespoke shirt, from £300....
...The other outstanding vocal performance comes from Alexandra Lowe, who surmounts the challenges of Donna Elvira’s role with style and confidence....
...Grape scissors are exactly what they sound like: a special pair of scissors designed for separating a serving-sized cluster of grapes from a larger bunch, with an L-shaped blade that allows the user not...
...Or take the impressive Trésor Antique ruby and diamond chandelier earring, cascading with three large pendants: the jewel directly nods to a pair of Castellani earrings from the 1860s when the jeweller was...
...Until March 3; further information and tickets here Women Dressing Women features more than 70 female womenswear designers from The Met’s permanent collection, including Elsa Schiaparelli, Ann Lowe and...
...British pop icon Mick Jagger turns 80 on (Ruby) Wednesday, providing me with an excuse to share one of Lucy Kellaway’s great FT essays, explaining the enduring attraction of the Rolling Stones and how their...
...The companion portraits on either side, and the trompe-l’oeil murals of deluxe drapery, are fresh from the hand of Swiss pastel virtuoso Nicolas Party....
...Rimowa aluminium silver Original Cabin case, £1,020 Louis Vuitton cotton 3D Monogram parka hoodie, £2,620, cotton 3D Monogram Trompe L’oeil mini shorts, £970, leather Ruby flat ankle boots, £1,100, coated...
...The final jigsaw piece (see also Sam Lowe on this in his excellent Most-Favoured Nation newsletter) is Canada, which like Australia and New Zealand in their bilateral deals is holding out for more beef quotas...
...In a debilitating attack of l’esprit de l’escalier, I have since realised there’s no reason on God’s green earth I couldn’t have had both....
..., painterly impressions and contemporary photography, alongside essays by Vatican historian and journalist Caroline Pigozzi, and Giovanni Maria Vian, former editor of the Vatican City State’s newspaper L’...
...Phrases such as “I’ll have Jessica Chastain’s ruby ring” or “Julia Roberts’ necklace, please” may be spoken by Chopard’s VIP clients hosted at the hotel Martinez....
...A television screen presides from the top of Rauschenberg’s exuberant “Ruby re-Run (Spread)” (1978), a collage of mirrors, black and white snapshots, slashes of fabric, split tyres — the studio “spread out...
...Alex Israel contributed the enormous trompe-l’oeil mural depicting birds of paradise plants along the main stair....
...Dance, 1939 16 Arlington feather-trimmed satin Seymour shirt dress, £695, selfridges.com Doing Goods brass Stella Feather teaspoons, £19.50 for four, libertylondon.com Oumaem white-gold, diamond and ruby...
...Transparent orange-ruby. It has a hint of raisins and rancio. Real substance and punch. Ageing of “at least seven years” is promised on the label....
...My favourite is custom-made, inspired by a vintage ring with emeralds and rubies, that my husband had made for me in Paris after the birth of our second child....
...one of the best books you’ll ever read on what without too much oxymoronic licence can be called “Napoleonic culture” we also get the sculptor Canova embarrassing his imperial subject by doing him nude a l’...
...MAC’s Ruby Woo lipstick was the first colour I discovered, back in high school....
...However, although the house was filled with trompe l’oeil and the photos were retouched, the jewels were — are — resolutely real....
...Orange wine is a speciality – I enjoyed the 2018 L’Orange by Domaine de Courbissac, a wine with the freshness of a rosé and the appetising grip of a cider....
...Other retailers in the earnings line-up include Foot Locker, TJX, Nordstrom, Gap and Victoria’s Secret owner L Brands....
...He documented his collection in a book released last year to coincide with the first exhibition of his rings, at L’École, School of Jewelry Arts in Paris....
...London-based dealer SJ Phillips, says it is art deco’s popularity in the Asian market that has driven up prices for so-called tutti-frutti pieces, characterised by Mughal-style carved gemstones such as rubies...
...Lowe’s Sector: RETAIL / HQ: Mooresville, US Key stat: Lowe’s hired more than 100,000 workers for the spring season after a surge in demand....
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