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...and smart wearing a brown V-neck sweater beneath a tonal Gucci suit at the Grammys....
...Wright recommends B-side tracks from popular artists such as The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac and Prince, which are reassuring without being too familiar....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Esh’s stockists include online stores SSENSE, Browns and LN-CC. On February 18, the designer will unveil his latest work at the Sarabande Foundation in London, where his studio is based....
...Plan B was the Clearwater, a smaller river that flows through many lakes, so is cleaner....
...Supporting The Rolling Stones on tours in 1966 and 1969 brought the married duo a crossover audience....
...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....
...The first downward shift was in 1989, when I quit my job, climbed into my little brown Mini and drove all the way from London to Ibiza....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...It’s R&B, very Sade. She’s super-cool. I have a collection of sunglasses. I think I currently have about 400 pairs, which I keep in Muji acrylic organisers....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...Such artefacts would be at home in the V&A or the Smithsonian; instead, they make up Krishna’s family’s private collection of relics from India’s past, when the craftsmanship of precious jewels was at an...
...The plaintiff was Cassie, the R&B singer, who alleged that Combs had raped her, beaten her and blown up a romantic rival’s car. Combs denied the allegations....
...We both cough, prompting Dr Jessica B Harris, matriarch of African-American culinary history, to subtly move her plate of whitebait out of the way....
...I don’t know much about him, but a) I like his books and b) I think he’ll bring some good billionaire-adjacent gossip, which will keep Nancy happy....
...“An offset V-peak lapel, a signature shape first created by the legendary Huntsman head cutter Colin Hammick, cheats the eye and makes the wearer look well proportioned, and even athletic.”...
...We forecast demand to rise by an additional 2.2m b/d by year-end, leaving a 5m b/d supply shortfall” the bank’s oil team wrote this week. Why does this matter to investors generally?...
...“The age of 11-16 is vital, but it’s also when you are not allowed to be an apprentice,” says the mother of two, whose work has just been added to the V&A’s collection....
...Carbon, jute rope and other unorthodox materials make appearances alongside metals and stones of the highest quality....
...Over time it has morphed into a music room housing a pair of huge beaten-up B&B Italia sofas covered in linen with red-patterned cushions that act as a divide between the instruments and a ping-pong table...
...“Born to Be Free” is supper-club R&B, with electric organ shimmering like candlelight and guitars and cymbals ticking away like the sound of cutlery and chinked glasses....
...(The sequence in clue B refers to the female leads in the four versions of the film A Star Is Born.)...
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...Thomas Foubister, London; Michael Sweeney, Dublin; David Sands, Maryland, US Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown...
...Laughing, she holds up the large brown bag containing her sushi order so that I can see it over our Zoom call. On the other side of the world, my own sushi counts as supper....
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