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1 week ago London fashion week’s headline act suggests its blue skies ahead at Burberry

A canvas ceiling painted a perfect summer blue reflected the recent surge in fortunes for Britain’s biggest luxury brandAfter a long spell of stormy weather, there might be blue skies ahead at Burberry, maker of the world’s most iconic trench coats.London fashion week’s headline act staged their show music-festival style, in an open sided tent with a sawdust floor. The canvas ceiling was painted a perfect summer blue, like the sky at this year’s Glastonbury. Continue reading...

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last month The caring duchess who dropped her HRH style and became a music teacher

The Duchess of Kent, who was born on February 22 1933, was married to the late Queen’s cousin, the Duke of Kent.

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last month Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow what does James Gunn’s new Superman title mean?

In Superman: Man of Tomorrow, will the Man of Steel team up with Lex Luthor? Duke it out with him in the galaxy’s most unexpected custody battle? Or tackle climate change and LGBTQ+ rights?Is tomorrow just another day, as the adage goes? Or is it suddenly a franchise-within-a-franchise, a special wing of the nascent DC Universe focused in hard on what all those nutty Kryptonian super-cousins have been up to? What we do know, thanks to studio boss James Gunn in a series of social media splurts, is that Tomorrow is most definitely the future. Gunn has revealed that his follow-up to Superman will be titled Superman: Man of Tomorrow, due out in 2027. Now you might think you’ve heard the title before, and that would be because you have: next year sees the release of the already announced Supergirl, which up until June was titled Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.What are we to make of that title? In the comics, “Man of Tomorrow” has long been one of Superman’s many sobriquets, a hopeful tagli...

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