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...It’s a myth that women cast off their corsets and found freedom in the 1920s, the fashion historian Valerie Steele tells Radke: the rail-thin, “buttless” look “demanded masochistic self-control, or even...
...Canary Wharf’s contemporary elevated luxury may seem a long way from Victorian London’s old docks and wharves, but the most interesting aspect of the estate’s new image is its eagerness to embrace its heritage...
...It’s an argument that was put forward in 2001 by the fashion historian Valerie Steele....
...Nascimento £28 Designed for either water or wine, this handmade 75cl carafe references traditional Portuguese pottery. huehome.co.uk Peshawar table by Goldfinger X Ishkar £895 The base is handcrafted from Victorian...
...FloribundaLondon-based Leila Duly has built a career sketching floral motifs inspired by the English countryside, Columbia Road flower market and Victorian botanical etchings....
...Letter in response to this article: Give our schoolchildren Friday afternoons to explore their creativity / From Valerie Pitt, London SE3, UK...
...before the 1MDB story broke, the past decade has delivered a litany of scandals, ranging from last year’s revelations of accounting irregularities at British companies such as Carillion and Patisserie Valerie...
...Come July, a roll call of the liberal political establishment, from Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett to former secretary of state John Kerry, might leave you thinking the island has been transformed...
...Ivy and lichen grow over the Victorian gravestones, including the graves of Walter Pater and JW Burgon, poet of ‘Petra’ – ‘a rose red city half as old as time’....
...everything from the dark romantic poet to steampunk Victorian, to rocker chic or the vampire girl....
...“Handbags and accessories have usually played only a supporting role in fashion exhibitions,” says Dr Valerie Steele, director and chief curator for the museum at FIT....
...It includes a slate-roofed Victorian farmhouse, a reconstructed Pennsylvania hay barn and a Vermont shed, the latter two of which date back to the 1800s....
...“It’s a pretty Victorian attitude.”...
...spartan in the extreme, with long days of heavy manual work, greenhouse boilers to be stoked in the middle of the night, manly overalls and exacting standards ”that would have gladdened the heart of a Victorian...
...‘Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton and Others: Victorian Photography at Colnaghi’, Colnaghi, London W1, until May 20 Tel 20 7491 7408...
...It too is packaged as a late-Victorian annual, but is, however, more slugs and snails and puppy dogs’ tails....
...There are no signs outside the Victorian terrace to differentiate it from any of the other buildings in the crescent....
...Collecting Valentine cards is also popular, with prime examples from the early Victorian era particularly sought after....
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