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Maria Callas and Pier Paolo Pasolini on the Set of "Medea" in 1969
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JM Weston window display with Mocassins 180 loafers on a gilded cake
I love it when even the footwear is served on a golden platter. The windows of the shoemaker JM Weston are, as ever, superb and not without irony
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Yves Saint Laurent, 1980
Yves Saint Laurent, 1980. Photograph by Lord Snowdon, brother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II and husband of her younger sister Princess Margaret, Antony Armstrong-Jones
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I look at this 1965 Balenciaga ensemble and try to work out the moment at which humanity took a wrong turning
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In December 1893 Arthur Conan Doyle published "The Final Problem" in The Strand Magazine, bringing the cycle of stories about the noble detective to a close
In December 1893 Arthur Conan Doyle published "The Final Problem" in The Strand Magazine, bringing the cycle of stories about the noble detective to a close. At the end of the story Professor Moriarty kills Sherlock Holmes: the two of them fall together from a cliff at the
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29 years of Absolutely Fabulous, whose first episode aired on the BBC on 12 November 1992
How does a fashion show differ from a war? In an army, not every detachment has a Yasmin Le Bon, generals are not obliged to embrace everyone after each manoeuvre, and operations are not conducted to the beat of rap and avant-garde music. Many people's notions of
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Well, well, what have we here?
Well, well, what have we here? A catalogue of unicorns, I see. I trust you have at least a two-horned one in stock?
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What a Knightly Collaboration between Balenciaga and Maison Margiela Tabi Might Look Like
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Portraits by Lawrence, Bol and Aspertini at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum
Why can't menswear be like this? Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum. Portrait of David Lyon, Thomas Lawrence, 1825. Portrait of a Youth in a Plumed Hat, Ferdinand Bol, 1647. Portrait of Tommaso Raimondi, Amico Aspertini, 1500.
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How to Recognise a Lady Blogger Without Her Instamask?
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Mourning dress and accessories in the Dutch fashion magazine De Gracieuse, April 1880
A selection of mourning dress and accessories in a Dutch fashion magazine, April 1880. After all, a widow must be not only merry but fashionable too