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...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
...v=yj9GLeNCgm4 – Elif Batuman is on Twitter @BananaKarenina....
...In the office, Li started hosting team lunches over video daily, says Caroline Kim, Himalaya’s head of investor relations....
...Soon after returning to Seoul, she was associated by critics with artists such as Beom Kim and Sora Kim, a loose group of experimental voices who prompted a turn to a conceptual language in contemporary...
...Impressive too were the casting “gets”: Dua Lipa, Kim Kardashian, Nicole Kidman (her husband Keith Urban sat front row)....
...K-beauty, supported by K-drama and K-pop stars, has grown into a $6.5bn export industry, ranking fourth in the world after France, the US and Germany....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...As a diehard anti-Kardashian, it was with some cynicism that I road-tested pieces from Kim Kardashian’s Skims shapewear label later that week....
...Two other local companies have also signed deals to produce Gamaleya’s Sputnik V vaccine later this month....
...He notes they donated a print to the US Supreme Court when Ruth Bader Ginsberg was in bad health....
...Having spent the last four years watching Trump praise autocrats, such as Putin, and even North Korea’s Kim Jong Il, and disdaining European allies, the benefit of celebrating democracy speaks for itself...
...It gave us that accessibility which allowed us to make everything else better — bigger shows, invest in fabrics and grow the team.”...
...Another biotech, GL Rapha, will produce doses of Russia’s Sputnik V jab for global use. Additional reporting by Sherry Fei Ju in Beijing...
...Neither of us actually intended to get a design partner, it just sort of happened.”...
...“It was this idea to us, that an object could be seen as so crazy feminine that men wouldn’t go near it.”...
...numbers being reported in the US....
...Russia is seeking to manufacture its Sputnik V vaccine in Italy to meet a surge in overseas contracts....
...The US, alongside Japan, Australia and India, launched a plan this month to deliver 1bn doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine to south-east Asian nations....
...(FT) North Korea humanitarian crisis South Korea has warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis and food shortages in North Korea as leader Kim Jong Un grapples with the fallout from coronavirus....
...The FT has summarised this in a note at the end of the article to reflect the position as outlined to us....
...This has led to arrests and, in one case, asylum in the US....
...Uh, Virgil Louis V on my back, baby. Living fast, dying slow that's the catch, baby. Suicide doors fuck around and crash baby. I do the dash baby, uh....
...In that way, US laws have fallen behind. It’s just the US is the only authority that actually enforces it in a meaningful way,” said Mr Kim....
...Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown, Massachusetts, US Polymath 1,048: Craig Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword...
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