Mark Powell: An artist with a needle and thread / A Soho Story (Mark Powell)
Mark Anthony Richard Powell (born London November 11, 1960) is a British fashion designer whose emphasis on bespoke tailoring has gained a celebrity clientele with custom from actors George Clooney,...
View ArticleTutankhamun / 2016 adventure-drama miniseries / Highclere Castle ... Lord...
Tutankhamun is a 2016 adventure-drama miniseries based on the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter, directed by Peter Webber from a screenplay by BAFTA award-winning writer Guy...
View ArticleViceroy's House review – soapy account of India's birth agonies / Fatima...
Viceroy's House is British-Indian historical drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha and written by Paul Mayeda Berges, Moira Buffini, and Chadha. The film stars Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson,...
View ArticleThe Two Princes, the Française and the perfect murder … How Marguerite...
The cover-up that saved the Prince of Wales' murderess lover from the gallowsPrince of Wales had a relationship with Marguerite in the First World WarThe Parisian courtesan went on to marry Prince Ali...
View ArticlePrince Charles' former tailor says Savile Row being ruined by 'half-baked...
Thomas Mahon is an English master tailor, noted for outfitting the British Royal Family and for his blog, English CutMahon was born in Corby Hill, near Carlisle in Cumbria and was educated at the...
View ArticleThe Classic Morris Minor Car Story / VIDEO: \*Great * * Five * Star */
THE FAMOUS MORRIS MINOR TRAVELLERAlec Issigonis and the History of the Morris Minorhttp://www.morrisminor.org.uk/index.php/the-morris-minor/morris-minor-history.htmlThere is only one other car on...
View ArticleSartorial Style / Saturday 18 March, Victoria & Albert
Sartorial StyleSaturday 18 March, 11.00 – 16.30https://www.vam.ac.uk/shop/whatson/index/view/id/3284/event/Sartorial-Style/dt/2017-03-18/eType/1/free/2Programme:10.30 Registration11.00 Welcome, Matilda...
View ArticleAmetora: How Japan Saved American Style / W. David Marx
Ametora: How Japan Saved American StyleBY TIM HORNYAKSPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMESDEC 5,...
View ArticleKamakura Shirts / The Power of creative nostalgia and the revival of the true...
In 1993, Yoshio Sadasue and his wife Tamiko quietly opened a small luxury shirt store in Kamakura, which was once the ancient capital of Japan. Driven by their mottos “Quality shirts at affordable...
View ArticleSunday Images / The triumph of the fair island knitwear
“Fair Isle is a traditional knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours. It is named after Fair Isle, a tiny island in the north of Scotland, that forms part of the Shetland...
View ArticleThe magic Red Box
Ministerial boxes, informally called red boxes, are used by ministers in the British government to carry their documents. Similar in appearance to a briefcase, they are primarily used to hold and...
View ArticleVivienne Westwood, Get a Life and the The Climate Revolution
A collection of diary entries by fashion designer and political activist Vivienne Westwood, Get a Life is a fresh, unpredictable look at the life of one of the most influential artists and campaigners...
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