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...And as Hazel Brown, the heroine of Lisa Robertson’s novel The Baudelaire Fractal concludes: “Girlhood itself is a baroque tradition.”...
...Intimate and immersive, these remarkable clips transport us to that cramped, humid room as Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Carole King, David Bowie and countless others...
...Williams, an arts patron and collector, says that “Nina Simone’s legacy is what has put people like me on the map today”....
...Photographs show her with Simone Forti, Isamu Noguchi, Robert Rauschenberg....
...For winter parties, she likes to layer up, pairing a chocolate-brown silk puffed-sleeve dress (£350, homeofhai.com) over matching brown trousers or with a mohair vest (£300, homeofhai.com)....
...The smell of incense filled St Bartholomew’s church, where Simone Rocha staged her show after a triumphant appearance in Paris last month as the sixth guest designer (but the first from London) for Jean...
...An object I would never part with is a ceramic plantain that was a gift from Simone Leigh....
...The first set opened with “You Put the Sugar in My Bowl”, a track from Giddens’ soon-to-be-released album You’re the One that references similarly titled songs by Bessie Smith and Nina Simone....
...Simone Rocha’s wistful show offered something special, yet with more wearable shapes and volumes than some past seasons and a highly commercial collaboration with Crocs featuring pearl- and crystal-studded...
...He would eventually discover the bohemian Left Bank, where he would frequent the likes of Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots, mix with French intellectuals such as Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre,...
...A fudged compromise effectively threw Mann to the brown-shirted wolves but avowed that “the richness of German art” springs from “the diversity of world views”....
...He was bespectacled, with a trim greying beard, wore a brown checked tweed jacket and cream silk scarf, and looked happily at ease....
...His friend Simone Righi in Florence likes to remove his tie and stuff it into his jacket’s chest pocket, turning it into an impromptu pocket square....
...She was beautiful, but her entire demeanour was so different from other glamorous stars of the ’60s like Marianne Faithfull or Simone Signoret....
...For a smaller, if not quieter, option I adore this pretty confection from Simone Rocha (£250, matchesfashion.com)....
...“Tailoring can feel strong and empowering and works perfectly alongside the natural return to work,” says Browns’ womenswear buying manager, Holly Tenser....
...On the contrary, by playing with expectations, the ETS helps to redirect investments from brown to green technologies....
...Nina Simone is here! Nobody can believe it! J S Bach is going hog-wild on the harpsichord! (Did he bring it himself?) There will be dancing....
...Its track-listing opens with her tender rendition of Oscar Brown Jr’s “Brown Baby” (also memorably covered by Nina Simone in 1962, and enduringly resonant in the contemporary Black Lives Matter era); it...
...In the years since, Ronnie’s has welcomed greats including Nina Simone, Miles Davis and China Moses, who gave an electrifying performance in December that had me dancing on (OK, by) our table....
...In person, Kallmeyer is striking to look at, with short, dark brown hair that she often slicks back, and a welcoming demeanour....
...“Partywear is definitely back with a bang,” adds Browns’ Tenser. Find out about our latest fashion stories first — follow @financialtimesfashion on Instagram...
...And there’s Daisy Hoppen, founder of the eponymous PR agency, who has a comfortable “core wardrobe” of black styles by Simone Rocha, Molly Goddard and Comme des Garçons....
...Simone Fattal’s studio, on the fifth floor of an unimposing apartment building in Paris’s sixth arrondissement, is tidy but enticing....
...And for those who prefer a softer look, Simone Rocha’s structured satin shorts are embellished with a ruched rose detail on the hip pocket....
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