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At the same time, she conceded that the apron’s four-figure price tag complicated things. “If an apron becomes an object that only a few can access, it naturally shifts from being a tool into a symbol. And that raises an interesting tension: does it still belong to the act of working, or does it become something that represents work?” (Miu Miu’s aprons are handwash-only.) 

Luxury apron anxieties:

AND WHO'S FAULT IS THAT MARCO
WHO'S SUPPOSED TO PLAN FOR THAT MARCO

Certainly a lot of 'Where else?'-type features.

Iceland freezes decade-long legal battle with Iceland UK supermarket abandons trademark dispute with island nation after third legal loss

Country defeats supermarket chain. Inspiring news for those of us contemplating similar actions www.ft.com/content/329f...

'David Bowie afternoon tea' promotional photo, part of an advertising campaign by a London hotel, featuring sandwiches and garish cakes on a stand, next to a teapot.

"Oddi-tea"

"Oh bro, I'm a big advocate of gyms in airports."

Late 30s I'd say.

Yeah.

Now he's talking about Margot Robbie: "She used to go out with my mate. She loved hanging with me, though, because I took her to all the best places in Clapham."

Now he's talking about his girlfriend: "She told me I won't get through life on charm. I said to her, I will actually."

Lucky escape for Brixton.

Loud posh bloke on the train: "I'm not buying in Brixton unless I'm buying the whole block."

Holding up a copy of a book, Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by John Grindrod, in front of two suburban semis and a speed bump

Wouldn't you LOVE to have me on your podcast/radio show/other modern communications thingy? Tales of the Suburbs is out next week, and it would be smashing to get word out as far as possible over the next few months via the medium of chat. Slide into my DMs or www.johngrindrod.co.uk/contact x

Hebden Bridge, 1975, photo by Martin Parr.

This ad features British Wool Cloth in a blazer-striped jacket, teamed with co-ordinate trousers, and a co-ordinated shetland dress, jacket and sweater. No more Wuthering on the Heights PAGE 12 SUNDAY MIRROR, March 12, 1967 The North is full of contrasts. Lonely, romantic fells. Crowded industrial towns. Hard, yes. But it's also the home of the softest, gentlest warmth in the world: British Wool Cloth. And its straight, no-nonsense craftsmen have the gift of magic: weave nature's wool into a treasure-trove of colour and texture, richness and pattern. British Wool Cloth at its best: in a blazer-striped jacket about £11.19.6 teamed with co-ordinate trousers about 5 guineas, by REX TRUEFORM. British Wool Cloth. With all the strength and character of the North where it was born. Ours. And envied all over the world. In co-ordinated shetland dress, jacket and sweater, together about 10 guineas, by SUSAN BARRY. Your ticket to the world's top cloth: ENTIRELY MADE IN

Mar 1967: Blazer-striped Jacket ad from Rex Trueform

(+Shetland Dress, Jacket And Sweater and Co-ordinate Trousers)

«No more Wuthering on the Heights»

Hedge fund fails to hedge.

"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

the modernist x BDP London present - The BDP Talk Series. 1.1 - Bruce Peter : Modernist Scotland - 10/3/26 Tuesday 10th March 2026 6.15PM FOR A 6.30PM START  BDP London  16 Brewhouse YardClerkenwellLondon EC1V 4LJ Please note that thanks to the generosity of BDP there will be drinks and a buffet laid on so...

Manchester's Modernist Society is doing a bunch of events in London this year, starting next week with Bruce Peter, design history prof at Glasgow School of Art.

Lots of Cumbernauld mega-structures and everyone's favourite pub typology.

the-modernist.org/collections/...

James Butler · ‘Need a lord on the board?’: Mandelson and the Lobbyists Why​ did a man whose political expertise was acquired in the departed era of broadcast television maintain such...

The best piece I've read on Mandelson by far.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

They are so famous we have to be reminded that they famously topped the charts.

80s pop icon Denise Waterman revealed that she is among the Brits stranded in Dubai due to ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. The singer is best known as one-third of the legendary band Tight Fit, who famously topped the charts with their hit cover of The Lion Sleeps Tonight. The single, released in 1982, reached number one in the UK, where it stayed for three weeks. The song also landed in the coveted top spot in Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Denmark.

Trawling Facebook for legendary 80s icons stranded in Dubai must be quite the assignment.

We are training undergrads (18-22) to digitize vcr tapes, cassettes, and vinyl. We introduce phrases like "rewind" into their vocab and made diagrams of what a tape looks like from 6 angles. And we get questions like "how do I rewind a record" which is understandable but turns my bones to dust.

Thanks Helen x

Throughout this period, the 1970s, did you come across Jann socially? Did you ever get to know him in any way? No. The only times later, when I would get to know him a little bit, would be in the Hamptons when he was living with Jane [Schindelheim, Wenner's then wife]. He'd just bought a Picasso.

Journalism in the 70s.

Art history is too important to be the preserve of the privileged The subject is endangered at A level just as it couldn’t be more essential or universal. Helen Barrett makes the case for its survival in British schools

In a world saturated with images, learning to think about what we see is vitally important.

‘Letting art history become endangered and drift further into elite status is not only unfair, it’s also perilous,’ writes Helen Barrett

I wonder if Madness took some of their schtick from the Bonzos.

Metropolitan Museum Acquires Another Vase

Metropolitan Museum Acquires Another Vase https://theonion.com/metropolitan-museum-acquires-another-vase-1830499658/

Breaking news: the ‘Today’ programme is broken The BBC radio show is the perfect illustration of just how unserious we’ve become

"It’s not as though we’re trapped in a slow news cycle. But all the serious stuff gets treated glancingly, as the show rushes to introduce . . . Michael Morpurgo wanging on about another children’s classic. Or some tiny facet about Tolkien"

www.ft.com/content/fc52...

Gloriously vituperative piece

'Carvery of podcasts' made me laugh out loud.