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...The Vanity Fair XC Imagine Edition takes a 1930 armchair design and turns it into a seat amid the clouds....
...From here, there is access to a small powder room fitted with a shiny black vanity and circular mirror that echoes Ruhlmann’s work in the main salon....
...He was always busy with some semi-secret project, maybe for Vanity Fair, maybe for Human Rights Watch. He was always working, always pushing....
...overlooked this quiet corner on its relentless march to the next hip thing....
...When I think of a toilet in a bedroom I think of a prison cell, those seatless stainless-steel pans in the corner....
...This Vanity Fair story about the unhappy writers’ room of the TV series Lost takes place a few miles south of San Francisco in Los Angeles....
...Walls are bare stone, white or left to breathe with a lime plaster finish, while bathrooms are modern with sleek marble vanities....
...In later iterations of the same theme, like “Untitled (Vanity)” from 2005, the same woman finds a more palatable version of herself in the mirror....
...The Scarbrough is sandwiched between a steakhouse and a taco shop on a corner of Sixth Street, near the most raucous part known as “Dirty Sixth”....
...Edward Hopper stalked, a quiet, slightly sneering, silently honest figure of obstinacy,” Vanity Fair noted in 1929....
...of much buzzed-about young performers that includes not just Ashton but Sope Dirisu (His House), Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) and Theo James (TV’s The Time Traveler’s Wife) to play the other three corners...
...The Great Gatsby’s narrator Nick Carraway was a bond salesman and Sherman McCoy in Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities traded them....
...“All the cool people want to be downtown but I love this corner. It feels like a corner of, I don’t know, Pimlico or Paris.”...
...But there are some corners of Europe — particularly the Baltic republics — where Gorbachev’s legacy is more mixed....
...At last year’s Academy Awards, some of the most memorable and unconventional red carpet looks came from the menswear corner, and that trend continued....
...As well as other things, Byron was an ironist; Dickens a comic turn even when he was most polemical about grievous social wrong; Twain a stinging stalker of pompous lies and empty vanities....
...I went to his no-frills office above a 1980s shopping arcade in a nightclub called Vanity. As we waited, surrounded by merch from his clubs piled up in the corners, I still had this uneasy feeling....
...But trouble was just around the corner....
...When her father George VI died in February 1952, the code had been “Hyde Park Corner”....
...“I thought it would be incredible to have something really whimsical and colourful,” she says of the vanity area, clad in handmade baby-blue tiles and topped with piston-like ceramic sculptures....
...Antonio bought the house, and family holidays now decamped to this remote corner of Umbria. But like many country house owners, Antonio valued privacy....
...Sticking just to the M&A side of things: prices are high, but there’s little time for due diligence in the race to strike deals, leading some to cut corners....
...“When we moved in it was white kitchen, white counter and, you know, Eames lounger in the corner.”...
...For all its fine cities, its Hollywood glitz and Vanity Fair style, this is its purgatory....
...Rearing above the Forum, the Palatine Hill is a quiet corner of the city, even in a normal times. This year, it is a place of solitudes where you can find yourself alone with the ancient world....
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