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...“Virgil passed away the day before it opened,” says Ross of his mentor Virgil Abloh, the Chicagoan who trained as an architect and became the first African-American artistic director at Louis Vuitton....
...“And I think the V is about a superhero.”...
...Michael McCarthy, author and former politics lecturer, has chronicled the life of the historical Richard Whittington, whose career spanned the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, and in Citizen of...
...It has been 10 months since Virgil Abloh died from a rare heart cancer, and Louis Vuitton has yet to announce his replacement as artistic director for menswear....
...At the heart of the fair, the V&A’s Melanie Vandenbrouck has curated a sculpture display on the east-west axis previously occupied by the bar....
...African Diaspora Fashion at the V&A....
...The show brings together 300 objects – including Winston Churchill’s despatch box (a splashy red man bag) and Virgil Abloh’s Off-White fanny pack – and includes bags for men as part of the overall narrative...
...“I think we’ve unlocked the largest untapped asset class in the world,” says Harry Hurst, Pipe’s chief executive....
...labels appeal to wildly different consumers: Balmain is bold, brightly-coloured, often a little brash; Valentino a quieter offering — although it was still filled with bags bearing a brassy oversized ‘V’...
...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....
...They are not for every man, but Virgil Abloh used them generously at Louis Vuitton on tailored trousers, coats and men’s blouses for his upcoming autumn collection....
...In the years since, people have queued for all manner of things: for the Savage Beauty show at the Met, and later the V&A; they have camped outside Wembley Ikea for Off-White designer Virgil Abloh’s homeware...
...The reviewer is the FT’s political editor Control Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed our Democracy, by Tom Baldwin, Hurst, £20 Letter in response to this review: Newspapers make up stories...
...Suits v Sports: call a truce Too often, menswear is seen as a pitched battle between the threatened establishment and the clothing of the rabble....
...Why Dylan Matters , by Richard F Thomas, William Collins, RRP£12.99/Dey Street Books, RRP$24.99 Homer, Ovid, Virgil . . . Dylan?...
...— letter from Gregory Shenkman in London, UK “Sir, When Janan Ganesh and Gideon Rachman both write soothing articles about government Brexit policy on the same day (December 12), it brings Virgil to the...
...In 2016, he won a significant case contesting a death sentence in Hurst v Florida....
...The clock was the talk of last year’s Masterpiece, and is now owned by the V&A. How does this diffident, shy character work such magic?...
...For fashion, there is massive quilted coats or oversized V-neck varsity sweaters, destroyed as if by moths. Not just a bit oversized, they were supersized, like a 10-year-old wearing an adult XL....
...Moreover, a Latin referee at England v Argentina might not have sent off Rattín for “the look on his face”, as the West German Rudolf Kreitlein reportedly did....
...Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism, by David Kilcullen, Hurst, RRP£9.99 David Kilcullen, an Australian military officer and academic, was deeply involved in the US counterinsurgency...
...One of the group read “Canto V”, the tale of Paolo and Francesca, who whirl eternally in each other’s arms through swirling gusts....
...(I) Transdek UK (I) Transec (UK) Tristar Cars t/a Tristar Worldwide Chauffeur Services TRL Technology (I) TTS Group Turbosound (I) U Ubisense Group Ubisense Group (I) Union Electric Steel UK V...
...“The big man in the raincoat,” I told my American friend, “the one swaying to the tune of ‘Three Lions on a Shirt’, is Geoff Hurst....
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