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...On the first night of Italian music festival Sanremo, co-host and singer Marco Mengoni walked the stage in six different looks, including a see-through, floral embroidered top by Valentino and a Fendi leather...
...In a Cinderella-blue colour, with a deep V neckline, the look called back to the Prada gown Nyong’o wore when she took home the Best Actress award a decade ago....
...“This is not about Japanese-ness — this is the art of everybody,” says Yuko Kikuchi, head of academic programmes at the V&A, who worked with Inglesby on the exhibition and contributed a chapter to its accompanying...
...Shirts were cut loose and bloused, sometimes with their necks knotted with giant bows, while floral corsages bloomed on shoulders and throats at Dolce & Gabbana and Valentino....
...Proposals such as those championed by Senator Elizabeth Warren for a tax on the value of assets, and the Biden administration’s so-called billionaire’s tax on unrealised capital gains, “will be blessed or...
...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....
...The V&A show aims to reclaim the word by focusing on the power of star performances, where image is often key....
...Previewed at GP & J Baker’s Rue du Mail showroom, the collection’s eye-catcher is Front Row, a patchwork-like print originally envisaged as a decor for Kemp’s trendy Tribeca outpost the Warren Street Hotel...
...There are sensitive souls in Milan, such as Pierpaolo Piccioli of Valentino....
...Since becoming the first African person to win the LVMH Prize in 2019, Magugu has teamed up with Dior on a capsule collection and reimagined a Valentino couture gown for Vogue....
...“Losing the shirt gives you a really clean V-section. It’s quite subversive but sophisticated. Showing a bit of skin in summer is about as racy as a man can get.”...
...As part of the museum’s new Imagine gallery, members of the Corntop and Snow-Warren rabbit families are displayed alongside a caravan and pony....
...When Vicki Hollub flew Occidental Petroleum’s Gulfstream V jet to Omaha for a meeting with billionaire investor Warren Buffett in April 2019, she needed cash to place a bet....
...America’s most famous investor, Warren Buffett, was circumspect of the US Spac boom, rightly suggesting back in 2021 that the incentive structure encouraged bad bets....
...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....
...By 1921, Republican president Warren Harding, who is generally considered a political nonentity or worse, felt able to call a halt to the violent repression of socialism and let the movement’s leaders go...
...Vintage gloves were appliquéd to elbows and the back of jackets — they flashed a V-sign, either for victory or peace. Simons achieved both....
...In a collection inspired by the progressive artists of Berlin in the 1930s, Erdem offered a more modest take on the trend, with a series of embroidered V-neck slip dresses paired with long, sequin neck scarves...
...After attending a lecture given by Warren Buffett, Li started investing his student loan in the stock market, making significant returns....
...This is not like the liberal era of the Warren court in the 1950s and 1960s, when Chief Justice Earl Warren shaped his court with landmark decisions on issues such as school desegregation, prisoners’ rights...
...At the recent couture shows, too, Valentino paired ball gowns with simple black stockings....
...The compacts, pencils and bottles look flashy and joyful in a red hue with gold details, such as the V logo, on the lipsticks....
...Valentino’s gold “laminated” cable-knit sweater (£1,790, matchesfashion.com) and mini skirt (£950) “speak to the more feminine, sexier look we have been seeing”, Wiggins says....
...Guests were free to stay and dine at the restaurants afterwards, courtesy of Valentino. “Inclusivity and humanity is what I want to deliver today,” he said....
...As always you can reach me at sid.v@ft.com. Thanks for reading....
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