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...Yeats called her the betrayer of “all living hearts”; Shakespeare, a “strumpet”; Alexander Ross, “a deform’d soul”; Rupert Brooke, “a scold . . . shrill . . . gummy-eyed and impotent”....
...“The colours, the details — it’s very precise and at a level I’d never seen.” McTate seems perplexed by her newfound fame in the rarefied world of luxury watchmaking....
...“I’d never handed over the business to anyone before who operated at that kind of trust level,” she says. “I don’t think there has been a time where we don’t agree.”...
...The Iliad tells the story of the war of Troy and of Achilles, the greatest fighter in the Greek army and the man with the shortest fuse....
...From this came a succession of jumpsuits, apron-front dresses and chore coats cut from humble cotton gabardine and drill, made to look as if they’d been thrown in the wash with a pot of dye by members of...
...She’d go to a decent school, get unspectacular exam results and, if she chose not to be a nurse or a teacher, she’d do a secretarial course and get a decent job in an office....
...About 7mn barrels a day of crude oil and refined products flow through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait but the route has become vital for Russia to export to Asia with 4mn b/d heading south, according to Kpler...
...As founder of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Gardiner is not just the face of these ensembles, but their entire raison d’être....
...Here, designer Cho Myung Hee reimagines the ruins of Troy as a curving space, backed by a giant window, dominated by a swooping structure like a modernist bus shelter, and splashed with starry projections...
...I needed cash to buy a crochet prawn, which took me to the post office to get money out, where I stood behind two women buying postcards and chatting to the staff for perhaps 20 minutes....
...D’Heygere brass chain bracelet, €420 Brioni silk shirt, €1,100. Bottega Veneta acetate Caravan sunglasses, £350. Versace golden-metal La Medusa earring, POA (sold as pair)....
...If she’d had the opportunities I’ve had…” The collection features Irish crochet by two new young apprentices – local girls who have learned the craft from the two women in preparation for the brand’s big...
...Spain’s white-wine game is hitting new heights in the Canary Islands with Suertes del Marques’ Listan Blancos, a highly appetising type of liquid rock that, if I didn’t know better, I’d imagine had seeped...
...Ethan WuLeprechauns across the world were delighted on Friday as gold, the shiny metal we all love, hit an all-time high: $2,152.30 per troy ounce....
...I know a lot of people that wouldn’t go out of their way to buy the NuFace eye and lip enhancer, but if they receive it, they’d be so happy to try it....
...And I just thought I’d come here and feel something,” she says. “Is everything boring? I just feel like there must’ve been a time when the world had more. Like mystery, or something....
...“There’s no precedent in all of our history for such a rapid warming on such magnitude — we’d be taking the Earth, way, way out of its known ways of operating.”...
...In its first year, Stroll Garden has won the Best Curio Presentation prize at Design Miami and launched Jane Yang-D’Haene and Lily Clark....
...But as headwear becomes more ubiquitous, including balaclava and bonnet styles such as Miu Miu’s crochet version, the “next-generation rain bonnet,” as Lorna Hall, director of fashion intelligence at the...
...HADAS cotton socks, £30 Clockwise from bottom left: Leica D-Lux 7 camera, £1,150, and leather protector, £90. Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, £350....
...I’d like to look at some books for interiors inspiration, having had enough of Pinterest boards. Any recommendations? Amen! Look, the internet is a magical thing....
...Dior silicone bustier, £1,700, and silicone D-Jungle Pop skirt, £2,900. Versace leather platform sneakers, £850 Emporio Armani embroidered macro-sequin top, £1,550....
...“If it hadn’t worked out with the sandals, I’d have to have moved back again,” she says. A decade in and that is not a concern....
...Sissinghurst called and Troy Scott Smith has returned. Back for a second stint as head gardener at the world-famous garden where he started his career 30 years earlier....
...“I’d joke back and say: ‘I don’t.’ ‘How do you do the washing-up?’ ‘I don’t.’” She laughs. “I’m being facetious, obviously. I do all of those things.” She stops herself. “Actually, there’s one....
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