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...The sixth — Mary — received a production at the Hampstead Theatre in 2022 but is yet to be seen in Scotland. This is the fifth — and it is utterly unlike any of its predecessors....
...The style is set to dominate the autumn/winter season too. In January, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen of The Row presented unattainably priced shallow V-neck sweaters worn with tailoring....
...at the V&A....
...The thing about British designer Mary Quant, says Edward Sexton, the Savile Row tailor who helped shape the look of the Swinging Sixties in London, is that she was “immediately recognisable....
...The works of art that changed everything for me were Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies illustrations....
...A dramatic row of portrait heads curving across the centre of the space, saints and sinners alike jostling for prominence, wonderfully recalls typical V&A fashion shows....
...In 1738, the statue of Handel as Orpheus, now in the V&A, was unveiled at Vauxhall’s Spring Gardens in London....
...Thankfully I had the opportunity to tell Birkin I adored her a few years ago on a big stage somewhere deep in the guts of the V&A museum....
...By the time of the Hollywood era of Bette Davis and Mary Pickford — who in 1919 was the only woman among the founders of the United Artists production company — a new narrative was being presented....
...Ukraine – and doubled down:’ https://www.ft.com/content/80002564-33e8-48fb-b734-44810afb7a49 – Mary Elise Sarotte on Putin’s misuse of history: https://www.ft.com/content/24f81b4d-420e-4217-b498-cf13c6e254f2...
...General Motors chief executive Mary Barra, the daughter of a union machinist, comes from a family that has collectively spent more than 80 years working at the company....
...When Denzil Lush was a child, his grandmother was about to throw away a mass-produced coronation beaker with a portrait of King George V and Queen Mary. “This was the early 1960s,” he says....
...In a break from recent tradition, Camilla, Queen Consort has not commissioned a new crown for the coronation but will use Queen Mary’s Crown, made by Garrard for the consort of King George V in 1911, after...
...She also often collaborated with writers such as Jan Morris and VS Pritchett – most famously shooting the photographs for Mary McCarthy’s seminal literary study The Stones of Florence....
...The V&A’s Africa Fashion also has works by Ami Doshi Shah (pictured top), of Kenya, including her necklace of brass, sisal and salt....
...“It seemed dictatorial and nothing really interested me except Mary Quant, which at least seemed fresh,” she says....
...Joaquín Sorolla’s serene swimmer emerges from a luminous sea like a modern “Birth of Venus” in “After the Bath”, and polychrome sculptures of a fervent Mary and Jesus carved by 17th-century nun Andrea de...
...Recommended Reading Fintech lay-offs continue The once-buoyant sector is facing a wave of firings and hiring freezes, report Mary Ann Azevedo and Kyle Wiggers in TechCrunch....
...Just think of girls in Mary Quant minidresses strutting a path through the revolutions of the 1960s, or women in the ’70s heading off to work in a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress. The dress of now?...
...Her father, known as Bertie in the family, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. His elder brother, David, was expected to become king....
...Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in London on April the 21st 1926. The eldest child of the former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Prince Albert....
...At the request of King George V, it mounted the 520-carat Cullinan I diamond, which is also known as the Great Star of Africa, in the royal sceptre....
...In London, images of masculinity at the V&A, an exploring of feminine power at the British Museum. In Venice, a vast celebration of female talent at the Biennale....
...The latter, the V&A’s gently graduated relief, with weeping angels in the void of the tomb, is a poetic highlight, asserting Donatello, even in tragic themes, as fundamentally consoling and tender....
...Crivelli makes the most of every opportunity. Hazardous ruptures scar the stone niche that hosts Mary Magdalene in Crivelli’s painting of the saint (c1491-94) on display opposite the V&A’s Madonna....
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