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...The stance was symbolised by Bardella’s new campaign slogan “France is back, Europe lives again”, featuring him against a sky blue background....
...In “The Whales”, it is a portent of ruin: a daughter recounts her mother’s childhood trip to see a dead blue whale hanging in a Stockholm slaughterhouse....
...Valerie Steele, fashion historian and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, describes their stubborn appeal as: “see-it-don’t-see-it, see-it-don’t-see-it”....
...“Men, before, would buy what they could see on their opposite sex; a lot of necklaces and earrings with blue sapphires because they felt comfortable with them,” she says....
...The art furniture house is the brainchild of designer Valérie Maltaverne, who works with designers and craftsmen to produce limited editions utilising traditional decorative arts techniques....
...Or I’d feel pulled into the intensity of the terrain, deep undulating blues and greens, mysterious rocky formations. Some days, the features would seem invented and fantastical....
...In her 1970 portrait of Andy Warhol, where the pop artist is nude from the waist up, showing the surgical corset that he had to wear after being shot by Valerie Solanas in 1968, his laced-up brogues immediately...
...With closed eyes, face aslant, a blue aura behind him, Warhol remains frosty, omniscient, determinedly unhumiliated. Yet by allowing him his signature detachment, Neel exposes his vulnerability....
...The security services believe that the powerful north London cell of the metropolitan, globalist elite meets routinely at Patisserie Valerie, while Lola’s Cupcakes is under 24-hour surveillance as a known...
...Analysts say Pécresse may have a tough time luring blue-collar workers who have turned to Le Pen and will need to convince voters she is concerned about purchasing power and the struggles of low-income families...
...It’s an argument that was put forward in 2001 by the fashion historian Valerie Steele....
...“Bar any political obstacles Saudi Aramco will be the last oil producer standing,” says Valérie Marcel, an expert in national oil companies at Chatham House....
...My biggest successes have been transsilvanica Ada Scott, selected by the fine plantswoman Valerie Finnis and named after her mother-in-law; and a lovely pale blue called Loddon Blue, which is back on sale...
...He is rarely seen in anything but a tie and suit, usually dark blue, sometimes black....
...The number of female directors at companies in France’s blue-chip CAC 40 index has more than tripled in 10 years, reaching 46 per cent in 2021 — above the initial 40 per cent goal, according to consultancy...
...The UK’s sixth-largest accounting firm is auditor to Darktrace, the cyber security group promoted to the blue-chip index last month....
...The parliament, where Orban’s Fidesz-led coalition enjoys a two-thirds majority, approved the creation of more than a dozen foundations whose endowments include a palace, shares in blue-chip companies such...
...Ideas for songs come to Valerie June in the form of a voice....
...Moncler + Rick Owens quilted shell shorts, £660, net-a-porter.com Yatay x No More Plastic cruelty-free bio-leather sneakers by Cindy Bruna, £260 Tiffany & Co Elsa Peretti Colour by the Yard earrings, £795 Valerie...
...When the curtain rises on the new season at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, it is going to be a once-in-a-blue-moon occasion....
...I use it every day. £399, sonos.com My wellbeing guru is my naturopath Valérie Espinasse, who’s based in Paris. I’m fond of a holistic approach to health....
...our correspondent in the region, Valerie Hopkins....
...In 2013, Mr Orban’s Fidesz party planted the blue, yellow and white flag of the Szeklers, the ethnic Hungarians living in Romania, over Hungary’s parliament....
...The baths have reopened in Hungary, but only their outdoor portions: the Gellert baths’ beautiful baby blue art nouveau interior remains off limits....
...First is Valerie Hobson....
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