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...England 50+ first team finished second to the US, who they narrowly beat last year. The two nations are currently closely matched....
...A later artist, Ayana V Jackson, poses her “Anarcha” (2017) like an Orientalist odalisque, but the tender image of her turned back suggests not so much exotic allure as vulnerability....
...Following her death in 2009, her first major US museum exhibition in over 50 years is being staged at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art....
...What are US credit markets telling us about the economy?...
...“Perhaps before I would have narrowed Calvin Klein down to minimalism,” he says. “But there’s a huge amount of desire and restraint in his work.”...
...Newcomers also include Waddington Custot and design specialists Jacksons from Sweden....
...She was the first African model to star on the cover of US Elle, in November 1997, at a time when the industry was arguing that black models didn’t sell magazines....
...She argued that while markets were pricing in a V-shaped recovery for the US economy, “we are expecting something less resilient”, after US jobless claims rose back above 1m last week....
...UK ministers and media branded Monday “V-Day” as the first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were administered....
...My family rented the place, then when they ran out of money they sold it to us, plus 10 acres of shore-front property, for $14,500 cash....
...I can glimpse a red-and-white gingham shirt under a V-neck navy jumper and a pair of antique drop earrings — her “uniform” of the moment — against a room wallpapered in mossy green velvet....
...Sculptor Martino Gamper designed a ceremonial double arch of 160 stacking chairs for the V&A courtyard for London Design Week in 2009. The loveseat One of the early extensions of the Windsor chair....
...Yet the US designer market hasn’t minted a brand with revenues above €1bn since Tory Burch in 2014....
...An essay by Zadie Smith, “What do we want history to do to us?”...
...“It provides us with the chance to develop a programme to show the collections, and to partner with other curators and institutions.”...
...“People are giving us thumbs up. They’re saying things like, ‘We don’t need another billionaire president’,” says Mr Jackson. His work has been arguably easy....
...Ronson is famously well-connected, with transatlantic family links ranging from US rock royalty (Foreigner’s Mick Jones is his stepfather) to UK real estate tycoon Gerald Ronson, who is his uncle....
...The Federal Aviation Administration will significantly change its oversight of air safety by July 2019, US Transportation Department Inspector General Calvin Scovel said in written testimony ahead of a Senate...
...Retirees to Sicily will find it relatively affordable compared with mainland areas such as Puglia and Tuscany, says Annabel Smith of Jackson-Stops....
...her Park Avenue upbringing and modelling career as well as early roles assisting Diana Vreeland and at The New York Times Magazine, the book also showcases work from her tenures at Harper’s Bazaar and Calvin...
...Upside to come from Asia rather than the US....
...It follows Phyllida Lloyd’s excellent all-female Shakespeare productions and recent illuminating gender-switch performances: Maxine Peake as Hamlet, Glenda Jackson as Lear among them....
...Jackson....
...In recent months, Michael Kors has joined Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani and Tommy Hilfiger in going fur-free. Real fur appears to be falling out of fashion....
...And intervention has happened plenty of times before: Fed chair Jay Powell's comments at the annual Jackson Hole symposium a week ago are still taken to mean that US interest rates do not have much further...
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