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...Déjà vu may creep in for those who recall Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread. There Manville was cast opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in a tale of a fictional 1950s fashion house....
...Like the young male protagonists of Cameron Crowe’s autobiographical Almost Famous, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, I too turned 15 in 1973....
...Irakli Kikolashvili, general manager of Georgian brand Mach&Mach, which was founded in 2012, says that sales spiked 500 per cent in 2020 over 2019 as consumers looked for “sparkle and emotion”....
...This season it was more down to earth, but still with plenty of added sparkle....
...With elements of psychedelic horror and pungent lines such as “clean it till it sparkles like a sperm whale’s pecker!” it has future cult favourite written all over it....
...Anderson’s clothes can look conceptual, but they’re really quite easy to wear. The show closed with a sprinkle of sparkle and a series of striped sequin tunics and dresses....
...And by adding a snippet of twinkling sleigh-ride music by Sergei Prokofiev, they summoned the sparkle of Christmas, creating, as Sinfield has said, “a picture-postcard Christmas, with morbid edges”....
...At JW Anderson, a utilitarian white glass cloth with a red trim resembled a dishcloth. Molly Goddard offered apron skirts....
...“The walls would sparkle and you’d get nuances of light and a quietness,” he says. However, it wouldn’t be particularly comfortable....
...And the Fendi designer is warning of chaos to come Read review Loewe Jonathan Anderson ‘curated a look for the real world’ to deliver a tremendous collection for Loewe Read review Victoria Beckham...
...There was a 1930s utilitarian feel to the clothes, with a Wes Anderson-like palette of reds and burnt oranges and lurex. There were men — or rather boys who looked liked girls....
...But as curator Chris Anderson tells me: “Not everyone buys in but a lot of people absolutely love it and think it’s kind of what Britain needs …Ideas don’t know boundaries.”...
...This qualification is dwarfed by the depth of Crane’s knowledge and the sparkle of his prose....
...Berlin Poplars By Anne B Ragde(Translated by James Anderson) Harvill Secker £12.99, 300 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 Anne Ragde is a popular author in Norway, where she has published more than 30 books...
...It introduced the 1960s psych-rock influences that sparkle and swirl in their music, though other songs in the set left pastiche far behind....
...As escapist rom-com Marigold is infinitely preferable to the leaden Sparkle....
...Corporate governance, mutual funds and capital structure may not pique everyone’s interest but the topics bring a sparkle to the eyes of Henri Servaes....
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