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...And finally To the V&A in London, where a new blockbuster exhibition, Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto, highlights both the designer’s revolutionary approach and her many links with Britain....
...A later artist, Ayana V Jackson, poses her “Anarcha” (2017) like an Orientalist odalisque, but the tender image of her turned back suggests not so much exotic allure as vulnerability....
...Henry V....
...Dear readers, Will the recovery be shaped like a V, a U, or Nike’s “swoosh” symbol? There is much discussion on this quasi-theological question....
...Natalie Whittle is associate editor on FT Weekend Magazine Photographs: Daniel Stier/ Twenty Twenty; Paddy Kelly; Getty; Alamy This article has been amended since its original publication to correct name...
...Next up Hungary v Portugal, 5pm, BBC One Iceland v Austria, 5pm, BBC Red Button Italy v Ireland, 8pm, ITV Sweden v Belgium, 8pm, ITV4 If you were a betting man or woman Lovers of Schadenfreude will...
...As Gavekal’s Chen Long said: The ultimate purpose of the SOE reform plan is to help SOEs become “bigger and stronger,” not to whittle down the size of the state sector....
...Family, friends and public collections have chosen items from the Days’ estate; the V&A, for example, has picked an upholstered plastic bedroom chair....
...This year marks the publication of her 100th book, a centenary that brings with it an exhibition at the V&A Museum of Childhood celebrating her life and work – complete with a facsimile of her childhood...
...V&A tea towel £6.50, available for pre-order from April, “Bird and Rosehip” pattern, vandashop.com … The Fifty Eight sofa large sofa from £1,830, from March 24, G Plan and Hemingway Design, gplanvintage.co.uk...
...At the V&A, designers Scholten & Baijings will dress a room as a “lived-in” space, with a vacated dinner table echoing its human participants. September 14-22. www.londondesignfestival.com...
...The “Gala” print features in the V&A’s forthcoming British Design retrospective, a celebration of UK design from 1948 to the present....
...POETRY Compiled by Natalie Whittle Look We Have Coming to Dover!...
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