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...We got into a taxi and went straight to the gallery to start installing the Blake show....
...L isn’t alone....
...Hair, Blake Henderson at CLM using L’Oréal. Make-up, Rebecca Wordingham at Bryant using Surratt and Augustinus Bader. Set design, Phoebe Shakespeare. Photographer’s assistant, Dan Douglas....
...September 17; further information here The flaming extravaganza that is the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance is a festival event not to miss....
...When Mary was invited to the Macallan estate by Jaume Ferràs, the brand’s global creative director, to shoot a portrait of Sir Peter Blake (who co-designed the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album...
...This year’s line-up includes James Blake, Cat Power, Simple Minds, Queens of the Stone Age, Air, Take That and The National....
...The artist I would collect if I could is William Blake – I have a few bookplates framed, but it would be amazing to have an original piece, particularly his print Pity....
...Saks Fifth Avenue in New York reopened in 2019 after a major renovation, its new restaurant banked on established names from fashion and style: a Philippe Starck-designed outpost of the Parisian hotspot L’...
...There is Blake, a hitman who runs a vegetarian restaurant, and Slimboy, a gay Nigerian Afro-rapper. Among the Americans, there is a traumatised child and a corporate lawyer....
...“Onorate l’altissimo poeta!” — “Honour the supreme poet!” In Dante’s Divine Comedy, these words are said of Virgil, Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory....
...Blake Krueger, Wolverine’s chair and chief executive, said its own bricks and mortar presence in the US, as well as footwear, were potential areas for expansion....
...“US trade policy must benefit regular Americans, communities and workers,” Katherine Tai, Biden’s pick for US trade representative, added in a speech in mid-January....
...Blake Byers has stepped down as a general partner at GV, a venture capital arm of Google, to start his own firm....
...These stories — the Panchatantra, tales from One Thousand and One Nights the Kathasaritsagara, the Hamzanama and The Adventures of Hatim Tai — formed part of Rushdie’s literary DNA....
...The villages around Surrey Hills (pace William Blake) have a long association with paganism and the ritual sacrifice of fleeing cityfolk....
...Mostly we no longer work in the “dark satanic mills” immortalised in William Blake’s “Jerusalem”....
...Saxophonist Dayna Stephens seamlessly develops the final motif into the opening line of his solo, and Jonathan Blake brings the piece to a peak with a thunder of drums....
...Quote of the week “The Americans have constantly said they would bring Iran’s oil sales to zero, but l have to say that we have been able to sell oil as much as we need up until today.” — Eshaq Jahangiri...
...Work by L.S. Lowry, Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, David Hockney and Peter Blake also features....
...Turned into a hotel in the 1990s, it had opened as L’Aigle d’Or and later been called the Berjaya, named after the Malaysian conglomerate that owned it....
...The offer is underwritten by a consortium lead by Far East Consortium chairman David Chiu, Chow Tai Fook Enterprises and its chairman Henry Cheng, and Li Sze Lim, chairman of Expand Ocean L.P. and Guangzhou...
...He has also been an advisor to Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, a Hong-Kong based holding company, on the purchase of high-end Italian fashion house Roberto Cavalli....
...William Blake’s illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy sits alongside the Codex Seraphinianus, an encyclopedia to an alternative universe, a collectors’ item that sells for thousands....
...From the Zen Den offering private Tai Chi lessons, reflexology and chia-seed muesli bowls deep in the forest, to the sleek hilltop infinity pool where DJs play house music from 11am, the island’s atmosphere...
...‘I, Daniel Blake’ is out now and released in the US on December 23 Photograph: Holly Horner...
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