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...Current creative director Sarah Burton has continued this legacy with initiatives including supporting youth arts projects in London’s Tower Hamlets. alexandermcqueen.com R is for RolexThe watch brand launched...
...Although Leighton fell out of fashion in the 20th century, his painting “Flaming June” (which, astonishingly, failed to reach its reserve of $140 at auction in the 1960s) was described by collector Samuel...
...Arcadia, which also includes Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis, went into administration at the end of November after repeated store closures under UK lockdowns increased the pressure on a company already...
...Stepping away from Richard Burton’s mesmerising delivery, he is sprightly, driven, springing about the stage, listening intently, catching the mood of the moment, rolling the rich words across the stage...
...Kamm turns to Keats, Samuel Johnson and Emily Dickinson....
...Online fashion rival, Boohoo, whose chief executive John Lyttle was once in charge of buying at Arcadia, is likely to acquire Topshop stablemates Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis....
...The designers have included Thom Browne, Carolina Herrera, Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen and Valentino....
...Zeffirelli’s other productions included Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra, which opened the new Metropolitan Opera in 1966, and Otello at La Scala in 1976, with Plácido Domingo and Carlos Kleiber....
...Naturally, there is an existential threat to be foiled, in the form of a mob of deplorables led by a shock-haired Samuel L Jackson....
...In 1973 Princeton University professor Burton Malkiel claimed in his book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, that: “A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper’s financial pages could select a portfolio...
...Dunhill and Burberry will hold store parties, while ecommerce group Asos will host a rooftop barbecue, and Dylan Jones will co-host a karaoke evening with actor Samuel L Jackson....
...“Love in the Dark”, produced by Sia collaborator Samuel Dixon, has a small orchestra of violinists accompanying a plush piano melody that unfolds as smoothly as a Rolls-Royce limousine....
...What: A core group of four artists – John Duncan Fergusson, Francis Cadell, Samuel Peploe and George Leslie Hunter – the Scottish Colourists eschewed London in the early 1900s in favour of Paris....
...Elsewhere, the sale is replete with a diverse array of objects priced in the mid-range, including a large bird cage in the form of a 17th-century mansion (£10,000-£15,000), drawings by Sir Edwin Landseer, Samuel...
...Highlights: The sale begins with a 134-lot painting section led by works from Samuel John Peploe and George Leslie Hunter....
...self-taught painter Jack Vettriano’s “Singing Butler” holds the record for a painting by a Scottish artist following its sale for £744,800 in 2004 – although it is the work of the so-called “Scottish Colourists” Samuel...
...You cannot believe the dreadfulness of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland – gifted director takes on gaga script – until you see it. Enchantment has gone thataway....
...The famed pear-shaped Taylor-Burton diamond, given by actor Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor, his second wife, weighed 69.42 carats. But size is not everything when it comes to diamonds....
...Portrait miniatures start at £600; the best, a 17th-century depiction of Sir William Scott by Samuel Cooper, is expected to fetch £8,000-£12,000....
...In 1957 Samuel Beckett had been embroiled in a wrangle with officials over the line “The Bastard! He doesn’t exist!”, uttered when Endgame’s Hamm shakes his fist at God....
...Located at 23 Pembridge Road in Notting Hill Gate, it can trace its origins to the 1890s when Samuel Casimir became the capital’s first dealer to make a living from buying and selling old pewter....
...Among the best of the Colourist works is “Still Life with a Lacquer Screen” by Francis Cadell (£150,000-£200,000) and Samuel John Peploe’s “Tulips” (£200,000-£300,000)....
...Here are some of the most important auctions of late spring and early summer, writes Simon de Burton....
...speaking was blunt And whose feet were grounded For Michael Marks And his Leeds Penny Bazaar For Bill and Ben Jowett And their Javelin car For J Arthur Rank And his Hull flour mills For Montagu Burton...
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