Dubliner Vincent Keaveny (56) has been sworn in as the 693rd Lord Mayor of City of London. Mr Keaveny becomes first Irishman to hold the office in his first public engagement, led the Lord Mayor’s show from the Guildhall to the Royal Courts of Justice on Saturday November 13, where he swore allegiance to the…
4 by Six presents Break in Emergency 2 J/M Gallery, 230 Portobello Road till Sunday with all proceeds going to the homeless. Works pictured include Fear Less and Love More by Peter Tunney. All works done on sections of scrap double decker buses from a scrapyard in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. This exhibition uses recycled London…
Maxine Bedat tracks the path of a pair of jeans from manufacture to market and uncovers the alarming human cost of the pursuit of mass-produced fashion, exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, an our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet.Fashion has never been bigger, cheaper and more dangerous for the planet.…
Reliance Brands Ltd, part of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd, acquired 40 per cent stake in famous fashion designers Manish Malhotra’s MM Styles Pvt Ltd, a 16-year-old luxury brand. The deal is intended to boost the brand’s positioning and drive international growth. Manish Malhotra, a self-taught designer who got hi start as a stylist and…
Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. The Nutmeg’s Curse, traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. He argues that the dynamics of climate change today…
Entrepreneur, acclaimed model, actress and global social media phenomenon, Emily Ratajkowski, who has shared her image with the world, at the age of twenty-one, created a furor with her provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. My Body, a collection of 12 essays, offers lucid examination of mirrors in…
DAVINA BOSANQUET – ARTIST – PATTERNS IN NATURE. J/M Gallery, 230 Portobello Road ‘til noon 13 Nov www.DAVINABOSANQUET.COM – Buy and Commission through this site. @davinabosanquet f davinabosanquetart Our most favourite wildlife and locals from the African continent enchant and mesmerise. Showing at the J/M Gallery, one of many exhibitions Davina has had including being…
Last week 28-year-old Sooraj Kumar was given a rare double life sentence for killing his wife Uthra, by making a cobra bite her, leading to a grisly murder. A sessions court in Kerala on Wednesday awarded life sentence to the victim’s husband for killing her using a cobra. The court had held the husband Sooraj S…
A 158-year-old bridge built in 1863 on the river Tiber in Rome has been partially destroyed in a fire believed to have started by a cooking gas canister in an area of shacks occupied by homeless people on the river banks. The Bridge one of the last major construction works in Rome.