Brilliant. On every level. Just brilliant. Speechless: ( Daily Mail ) One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover - wearing a burkha. Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in connection with Sotheby's for Save The Children . Makers Mattel are backing the exhibition which is the work of Italian designer...
Grace Kelly is one of those legendary style icons that will always be brought up when fabulous fashion sense, past or present, is discussed. Even decades later, her undeniably chic and feminine looks still provide inspiration for many of today's designers. Her often-imitated, ladylike style is soon to be celebrated through a new display at the Victoria and Albert Museum [...]
My father is 75% hard of hearing, so when his alarm goes off in the morning to wake him up, even though it wakes me up all the way upstairs, he often sleeps right through it, and I have to go downstairs and wake him up. ----- 22-11-08 cold woke at 9:00 saw jazz trio at Natural History Museum* Lunch at V&A [Victoria and Albert Museum] Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park at night * Here is a video that...
Interesting. Looks as though a toy company has decided to introduce modernity into the Muslim world? Or is it just an effort to get some bucks out of Muslim hands for a charity? Nah, Mattel backs the exhibition. I hope...
Unbelievable. I played with Doctor Barbie and Astronaut Barbie, Business Barbie and Scientist Barbie. And now we have Barbie as subjugated and shamed. It's Barbie in a burkha: World-famous doll gets a makeover to go under the hammer for 50th anniversary One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover - wearing a burkha. Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic...
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One of the world’s most famous children’s toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover – wearing a burkha. Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in connection with Sotheby’s for Save The Children. More than 500 Barbies went on show yesterday at the Salone dei Cinquecento, in Florence, Italy. Makers [...]
A. Column, Victoria and Albert Museum B. Boots the Chemist C. Charing Cross Road Station D. St. Paul's Churchyard E. Royal Cypher, Windsor Castle F. Foyle's Bookshop G. Entrance, National Portrait Gallery H. Old Deanery, St. Paul's I. Ladies' Room Sign, Windsor Guildhall J. Jane Bostocke's Sampler (the oldest known signed and dated sampler, 1598) K. Railing of the Golden Gallery, St. Paul's Cathedral...
LONDON: A letter written in Persian by Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, to the then Governor-General of the East India Company, Lord Dalhousie, has been discovered in the British Library. The letter, found in the library’s archives, ...
If Ashwell Court was in California I would believe it. Instead it stands at the end of a large rose garden set back from a village lane in leafy Buckinghamshire. It’s a house almost impossibly magnificent for its quiet setting, crying out for an owner who unashamedly loves the past, and whose friends will relish stepping back into its Puginesque splendour whenever they visit.
This spectacular bowl, part of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, is made of earthenware covered with an opaque tin glaze and painted in lustre, a metallic pigment. It is decorated with a ship that has the arms of Portugal on its sail, and it may well have been commissioned by a Portuguese maritime merchant. It was long presumed that this bowl came from the famous lustre potteries...
The Victoria and Albert Museum doesn’t expect many visits from the Star. I’m not sure why this is true, given that its sumptuous cafe – there are glittering chandeliers, high ceilings, domes, columns, impressive interior tiles on the walls and the floors and the ceiling, as well as stained glass windows – was full of families [...]
The V&A is, of course, one of the world’s premier museums of design and decorative arts. They have recently announced that over a million items from their collections are now accessible online. People using Search the Collections… will find images of more than 100,000 objects… The online records vary from detailed studies written by [...]
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