Hints and tips:
...This season, highlights include super-pale wide jeans (from £350), zings of spearmint, a V-detail cut-out dress (£525) and a chocolate leather jacket with below-the-knee skirt suit (£1,195 and £795 respectively...
...Special thanks to Pierre Nicholson. I’m your host, Sonja Hutson. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz, and Cheryl Brumley is the FT’s global head of audio....
...Honestly, guys, did you guys know who Eugene V Debs was before we started taping?...
...On TikTok, #grandpacore — a trend describing clobber synonymous with seniors, such as V-neck novelty knits, pleat-front trousers and tweed blazers — has had almost 16mn views....
...Twenty years later the trend is gathering pace: the V&A is building an open storage facility in east London and the Boijmans van Beuningen opened its version in Rotterdam last year....
...You have to wonder, though, what Jack Nicholson, picked by Stanley Kubrick for his unrealised biopic, would have sounded like....
...Pearl Lam closed her H Queen’s gallery in 2020 and Ora-Ora moved to the revamped Tai Kwun Centre in 2021. International galleries David Zwirner and Pace remain in H Queen’s....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...After all, a photo of Selassie’s coronation in 1930 showed King George V’s son on bended knee before him....
...With a trouser co-ord such as The Row’s or Jigsaw’s caramel ribbed knit V-neck sweater and matching flared trousers (£120, jigsaw-online.com), a pair of white trainers or classic loafers will work....
...Usually this era is defined by Bloomsbury Group shenanigans and by exploratory ventures into abstraction and surrealism made by artists such as Ben Nicholson and Paul Nash....
...On Thursday, Vladimir Putin said Russia, which manufactures the Sputnik V vaccine, would also support the move....
...New US trade representative Katherine Tai has irked the pharmaceutical industry by appearing to review the US position, even if it has not yet changed....
...The US proposal received a more positive response from Vladimir Putin, who said Russia, which manufactures the Sputnik V vaccine, would support the move. “A pandemic is an emergency situation . . ....
...(FT) The day ahead US-UK trade talks US trade representative Katherine Tai is likely to hold a call on Monday with her UK counterpart Liz Truss....
...First-half results from Crest Nicholson are unexpectedly bad....
...Chow Tai Fook, a jewellery retailer, has seen its stock drop by a fifth. Store operators will struggle while protests continue. More are planned for the coming long weekend....
...Short sellers have sold over 6 per cent of Crest Nicholson shares. Retailers could be another injured band of brothers to find a new fighting spirit....
...Alongside Nicholson’s Hook, the highlight for me was “The Pirates of Pizzaro” by John Rippon, a civil aviation worker whose series of handmade comics entered the V&A’s collection after his death in 2009....
...And Shogun and Tai-Pan by James Clavell, Leon Uris novels, Arthur Hailey novels — all these big, bad books would take a couple of chunks out of those weeks....
...Her collectors include Keith Urban, who buys pieces for his wife Nicole Kidman, while in 2006 the V&A museum asked her to make a piece inspired by their Japanese collection....
...In the UK, they visit the V&A museum, Michelin-starred restaurants, Shakespeare’s Globe theatre and Blenheim Palace....
...Manuel V Pangilinan, chief executive and managing director, echoed that view during the same call, saying “the best way to approach is by asset disposal and not by incremental disposal of key assets”....
...With the benefit of hindsight, and the help of a killer soundtrack, the V&A show aims to be a postscript to those confused times....
...Chow Tai Fook, the biggest jeweller in the world by market capitalisation, is seen as a bellwether for mainland demand for Hong Kong’s luxury goods....
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