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...“I want to be Virgil,” he says, “not Dante.”...
...The bar for “my best” is clearly high: poet Amanda Gorman, model Naomi Campbell, actors Angela Bassett and Idris Elba, singer Tiwa Savage and King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, king of the Ashanti in Ghana, were...
...Before Annis’s grandmother was sold into slavery, she was a great warrior and wife to a tribal king. When Annis’s father sells her mother, this secret learning matters suddenly and starkly....
...Virgil and Euripides made the case for her execution; Ovid and Dante damned her to hell....
...It has survived so much: it was planted in 1805, the year when Napoleon was hailed in Milan as king of Italy....
...Virgil, in the Aeneid, borrowed from Greek epic forms to create a foundational story for the Romans....
...Today’s team has only two world-class players: central defender Virgil van Dijk and midfielder Frenkie de Jong. Most of the others would never be picked for sides like France or England....
...“Wallner is a rising voice of a generation, and she has done remarkable work in visualising gender fluidity when it comes to watches,” says John Reardon, New York’s vintage-Patek king, who goes by the handle...
...And Virgil Abloh’s collection for Louis Vuitton found head-to‑toe lime, fuchsia and electric blue suits merging tradition with early rave culture....
...by his creations – yellow Stan Smith sneakers embossed with 1,600 Swarovski crystals; an enormous Louis Vuitton trunk bearing the logo of his streetwear brand Billionaire Boys Club – the effect is of a king...
...That’s how I got to know Kanye and Virgil and gave them a chance.”...
...At Rimowa, Arnault persuaded some of the design world’s most notable figures – including Kim Jones and the late Virgil Abloh – to work on collaborations that would popularise the suitcase....
...It had nothing to do with Virgil, either: it was modelled on a temple at Baalbek. The garden evolved over 20 years, culminating in the non-Virgilian King Alfred on his high tower....
...I’ve been listening my way through the Booker Prize shortlist, and the latest is Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King (Audible, £24.99), read by award-winning narrator Robin Miles, who’s previously narrated...
...Dante drew on Virgil, Karl Marx on Aristotle....
...A grammarian named Vilgard had been visited in his dreams by Virgil, Horace and Juvenal. The ancient poets had revealed that he was destined to share in their fame and glory....
...Interestingly, you have everyone from Virgil Abloh of Louis Vuitton and streetwear bible Hypebeast all championing it.”...
...For someone returning to Paris after years away, what is striking about France is not the ambition of a president who compares his role to that of the king of the gods — nothing peculiarly French there in...
...“At auction Nautilus is king. The last time I saw such a meteoric rise was with the steel Rolex Daytona....
...Last year, Virgil Abloh became the first African-American designer at the helm of menswear at Louis Vuitton....
...One could counter a few others: the boy-king Louis XIV (we are in Paris, after all); or the child-star Macaulay Culkin....
...King Kong 6. Nick Cave 7. a) Taylor Swift, b) Kanye West, c) Jay-Z 8. a) the human voice 9. Virgil Abloh/Louis Vuitton 10. c) music 11. Opera 12....
...Showing me some of the Ed Curtis graffiti bags she’s done which have already gone out to market, it’s hard not to notice their likeness to a print just seen at Virgil Abloh’s Off-White show....
...It’s at that moment in the poem that Dante’s guide Virgil appears and Dante’s fear turns into courage. “I made the medallion as a way to remember to be courageous,” she says....
...The current king of tour merchandise is Justin Bieber, whose mammoth world tour Purpose kicked off last year on March 9 and is due to end on September 24....
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