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...Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World at the V&A Dundee is a terrific exploration of the exchanges between the ways cities have been photographed and of how those images have shaped the subsequent...
...When Lily Jones, aka Lily Vanilli, was thinking how to mark 15 years of her East London bakery – which has made cakes for everyone from Elton John and Madonna to the V&A and 10 Downing Street – she knew...
...“What’s really cool with the farming system is the landscape was a landscape of tiny fields with cows and sheep moving around as much as they wanted....
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
...It’s a revolutionary idea in the paralysingly gendered landscape of 19th-century fashion, and one still opposed by some quarters today....
...Mary is collapsing, the Magdalene rushes forward with raised arms and dishevelled hair, St John withdraws in silent grief....
...Jellicoe wanted each V to make a different note as the water flowed over it: the lower down the cascade, the lower the note....
...It’s a down-to-earth landscape.”...
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...on John Constable) and the portraits through which he made his (very good) living....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...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....
...If the region has no very clear brand identity, it’s partly thanks to the diversity of its climate, landscape and culture....
...And then there were all the models, like Veronica Webb, and a lot of these cool, older kids… and it was just so exciting to do....
...My personal style signifiers are quite simple – I always wear a blue John Smedley V-neck jumper and Levi’s 501 jeans, and I’ve been doing that for the past 30 years....
...London is a poetic landscape by the Thames, with the Palace of Westminster now used to store manure....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...Under the 4th Duke, in the 18th century, the garden and landscape were given a then radical makeover by Capability Brown, including diverting the River Derwent and changing the surrounding scenery to make...
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...The exhibition at the V&A, London, runs until January 9; vam.ac.uk Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Here’s John Plender’s obituary of Myners, the opposite of a conventional City grandee....
...He points to two small watercolour paintings by his mother Betty that depict the landscape of Australia’s Magnetic Island....
...John Kerry, Biden’s climate envoy, was hopeful that despite the US’s concurrent corralling of countries to challenge China’s rise, the global effort to save the planet from rising greenhouse gas emissions...
...Follow @ftweekend on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first Letter in response to this article: Judge hotel’s CO2 by client air miles, not solar panels / From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
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