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...Ian is decades older than me, and there was no way I’d be living in such a beautiful, enriching place without his generosity and love. During the years of the pandemic I was terrified I’d lose him....
...“I’d exchange all my bleeding physicians for any poet,” says Byron. “Except Wordsworth.” “And mine,” says Plath with feeling. Van Gogh and I compare mental hospitals....
...“We’ve been a pioneer in this type of business,” added Ruff. “The big hotel groups see what we’ve been doing as an opportunity.”...
...he’d asked her. “It means ‘to dare’. Dare — that’s my motto.”...
...Dudley looks severe and dignified as he gazes over his high lace ruff and gold-embroidered doublet....
...Swizz Beatz, 43, produced one of the most popular hip-hop songs ever, DMX’s double-platinum “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem”, when he was 19 years old....
...Consider packing you and your dog’s suitcases – don’t forget the Christmas limited-edition Ruff and Tumble dog coat (from £41.95), which is manna from heaven when it comes to drying wet dogs – and treat...
...immediately of the warehouse full of 20th-century furniture she had spent the past 15 years amassing – among which are original, historic designs by Ettore Sottsass and Caccia Dominioni – and knew she’d...
...Already I felt a little embarrassed that I’d been so blasé beforehand....
...Eve, 41, one of the first women to find success on the rap scene, began her career in the late 1990s with the Ruff Ryders label....
...“From that moment on I went on a bit of a purchasing spree, buying several each by Roni Horn, Thomas Ruff, Bernard Frieze and Shirin Neshat among others.”...
...“Her family thought she’d become a nun,” Moralioglu explains....
...Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2014 essay “We Should All Be Feminists”, and her endeavours to empower the narrative at Dior were rewarded this week when the Rome-born designer was presented with the Légion d’...
...Rustling silk, fluttering gauzes and powdered faces, silvery glades and rose-streaked skies, the zigzag impasto of a lace ruff flecked with a fading rose (“Mary Gainsborough, the Artist’s Daughter”), the...
...The Bechers’ students [such as Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer] kind of all fit that model. Paul Graham is in that category....
...Fay Fullerton’s costumes are an elegant synthesis of ruffs and Fortuny pleating, allowing free movement but retaining an all-important sense of period. ★★★★☆ To May 19, barbican.org.uk...
...Was there anything he’d taken away that was still relevant to his work today? “Yes, very definitely,” he replies....
...I’d really like to get my French back on track....
...Monika Sprüth, his dealer, told me that in the weeks after the auction she’d instructed her staff to avoid speaking about it to journalists....
...From £5,280, huntsmansavilerow.com The last thing I bought and loved was a Thomas Ruff photograph, which speaks to me emotionally. It’s an abstract image of layered Japanese manga cartoons....
...lets us know that Shore flits from his luxurious terrace-in-the sky in Bozeman, Montana, to his wife’s luscious garden in Tivoli, New York, glamorous picnics on English estates, and a villa in the Cap d’...
...The collection was more varied, eclectic and charismatic than recent seasons, as though he’d actually had some time to get on with the design....
...She’d attended the party to celebrate British fashion at 10 Downing Street, co-hosted by Theresa May, and couldn’t understand why there was no hand-wringing, nor panic, nor general gloom....
...We came to a pool, its crystalline waters beckoning me for a dip; I was mindful that every puddle I’d passed in the Territory had had eyes and a snout poking up out of the surface....
...Who can forget Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond’s appreciation of this mid-afternoon delight? And, one suspects, its true meaning....
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