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The Cleveland Street Scandal.
The Cleveland Street scandal occurred in 1889, when a homosexual male brothel in Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia, London, was discovered by police. At the time, sexual acts between men were illegal in...
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Paddington ...
Paddington is a 2014 comedy film, directed by Paul King and written by King and Hamish McColl and produced by David Heyman. The film is based on Paddington Bear by Michael Bond. The film stars Hugh...
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Revisiting The Gentlemen's Clubs of London by Anthony Lejeune From 1980, to...
From 1980, to re-edition in 2012Clubland is another country, redolent of the past but, for its few thousand often influential inhabitants, an integral part of life. It is a place either luxurious or...
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Saint Laurent / 2014 by Bertrand Bonello.
Saint Laurent is a 2014 French biography drama film co-written and directed by Bertrand Bonello, and starring Gaspard Ulliel as Yves Saint Laurent, Jérémie Renier as Pierre Bergé and Louis Garrel as...
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The Return of the duffle ( duffel ) coat .
A duffle coat, or more correctly duffell coat, is a coat made from duffel, a coarse, thick, woollen material. The name derives from Duffel, a town in the provinceof Antwerp in Belgium where the...
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Black Sheep .... by CHRISTOPHER OTHEN.
Murdered Earls, bisexual public school men, and war heroes with dark secrets. The political power of Britain’s upper classes may have declined in recent years but their instinct to lie, cheat, murder...
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Tamara de Lempicka.
She was born Maria Górska in Warsaw, Congress Poland under the rulership of the Russian Empire, into a wealthy and prominent family. Lempicka was the daughter of Boris Gurwik-Górski, a Russian Jewish...
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Mr. Turner, by Mike Leigh.
Mr. Turner is a 2014 British biographical drama film, written and directed by Mike Leigh, and starring Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Paul Jesson, Marion Bailey, Lesley Manville, and Martin Savage....
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Remembering The "Ursula" Suit.
Early in the war Philips and his crew had become dissatisfied with the conventional garb of oilskins and designed a special form of clothing more suitable for submarines. Ursula's navigating officer,...
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Gerald and Sara Murphy / Watch Vídeo bellow : "Bons baisers de la Côte d'Azur"
Gerald Clery Murphy and Sara Sherman Wiborg were wealthy, expatriate Americans who moved to the French Riviera in the early 20th century and who, with their generous hospitality and flair for parties,...
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The "British Warm" Overcoat.
The British Warm was a woollen overcoat that takes its fabric and styling from the great coats worn by officers during the First World War. Taupe coloured, the coat is double-breasted with peak lapels...
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Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles / VÍDEO: Les Ombres de la Villa HD (Villa...
Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles were patrons of the arts. Their 'hotel' at Place des Etats-Unis was restored in modern style in 1926 by Jean-Michel Franck, and was a focus for a large...
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Savile Row tailor fears overseas threat to rich tapestry of tradition. Dege &...
Peter Ward, production director at Dege & Skinner, Saville Row, making a suit. Photograph: Graham Turner for the GuardianSavile Row tailor fears overseas threat to rich tapestry of...
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THE COVERT COAT
The Covert coat is very similar to the Chesterfield, but it was designed for hunting and the outdoors. Therefore, it had to be tailored from particularly sturdy material – the so-called Covert cloth,...
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Text Santa George Clooney Downton Abbey Text Santa special (video)Friday 19 December at 8pm on ITVITV’s annual charity appeal Text Santa is back to put the Fun into Fundraising with this jam-packed...
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Debutantes / VÍDEO / SEE BELLOW.
DebutantesTimewatch, 2001-2002A film examining the debutante experience of 1939 through the eyes of a colourful collection of debs and debs' delights, including the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, the...
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