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How ‘Fashion Freak Show’ charts Jean Paul Gaultier’s career from Pierre Cardin to Madonna
The designer’s autobiographical show is coming to the Roundhouse. Read my full London Theatre article here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged book tickets, celebrity, design, designer, eurovision, fashion, fashion freak show, fashion show, haute couture, hollywood, kylie minogue, london, london theatre, madonna, musical, play, roundhouse, theatre
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BWW Interview: Dick Bird
The designer shares his process and discusses Scottish Opera’s Nixon in China. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged broadwayworld, design, designer, dick bird, interview, nixon, nixon in china, opera, props, scottish opera, set
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Degas, London Design Festival and Lisbeth Salander
On my September MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: By design Highlights of the 15th annual London Design Festival Don’t miss: Last impression Burrell Collection Degas gems at the National Gallery Commuter corner The Girl Who Takes an Eye for … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Journalism
Tagged art, book, commute, commuter, crime, degas, design, drawn in colour, exhibition, fiction, gallery, impressionist, lisbeth salander, london, london design festival, magazine, moveto, moveto town and country, national gallery, novel, podcast, read, spirits, the girl who takes an eye for an eye, thriller
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Capturing Couture
Acclaimed artist and illustrator David Downton discusses his passion for fashion. Read my full Oryx magazine interview here
Posted in Art, Journalism
Tagged artist, celebrity, claridges, clothes, couture, david downton, design, drawing, fashion, fashion week, illustration, illustrator, interview, magazine, model, oryx magazine, paris, sketch, vogue
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Grand Designs
Set designer Bunny Christie talks Curious Incident, People, Places & Things and Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Shakespeare Trilogy. Read my full Oryx magazine interview here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged all female, backstage, bunny christie, design, designer, donmar warehouse, drama, ink, julius caear, kings cross theatre, london, national theatre, oryx magazine, people places and things, phyllida lloyd, play, set designer, shakespeare, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, theatre
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New Design Museum, Caravaggio and Zadie Smith
On my November MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: New designs The Design Museum reopens with a permanent collection and the Designs of the Year Don’t miss: Life and soul The National Gallery explores Caravaggio’s influence on his contemporaries Commuter corner Zadie … Continue reading
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Tagged actual fluency podcast, art, book, caravaggio, commute, commuter, culture, design, design museum, designs of the year, exhibition, fiction, kensington high street, language, learn, london, moveto, moveto town and country, national gallery, new, novel, november, painting, picks, read, reopening, swing time, zadie smith
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Grand designs, Great Fire and Dead Authors
On my September MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: Grand designs New districts, luxury interiors and standout installations at this year’s London Design Festival Don’t miss: London’s burning The Museum of London marks 350 since the Great Fire of London Commuter … Continue reading
Clerkenwell Design Week, London’s skyline and Austen reborn
On my May MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: By design Innovation and a new master plan at the seventh Clerkenwell Design Week. Don’t miss: Sky high With 436 new tall buildings planned, the NLA asks what London’s skyline will looks like in 2030. Commuter … Continue reading
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Tagged ananda, app, architecture, book, building, city, clerkenwell, clerkenwell design week, commute, commuter, craft, curtis sittenfeld, design, designer, eligible, exhibition, festival, installation, london, meditation, moveto, moveto town and country, new, new london architecture, pride and prejudice, read, showroom, skyline, tall building, visit, workshop
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The art of living
Highlights of my September MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: Grand designs The definitive guide to this year’s action-packed London Design Festival Don’t miss: Open Sesame More than 700 buildings and sites welcome the public during Open House London weekend Commuter … Continue reading
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Tagged 100% design, app, architecture, art, arts, book, brain training, building, buy, commute, commuter, culture, design, design museum, designjunction, exhibition, festival, fiction, furniture, greenwich peninsula, installation, light, lighting, lisbeth salander, london, london design festival, magazine, migration, millennium, moveto, moveto town and country, open house london, peak, read, september, shop, somerset house, stieg larsson, the girl in the spiders web, v&a
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