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The winner of @TheBookerPrizes: the magnificent Th

The winner of @TheBookerPrizes: the magnificent The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka #BookerPrize2022

No, @dualipa hasn’t won @thebookerprizes but she

No, @dualipa hasn’t won @thebookerprizes but she knows all about the power of reading #bookerprize2022

A moment @thebookerprizes in solidarity with #Salm

A moment @thebookerprizes in solidarity with #SalmanRushdie @shafakelif speaking beautifully

The Booker shortlist 2022 is out. We can’t wait

The Booker shortlist 2022 is out. We can’t wait to find out what you think. Happy reading! @thebookerprizes @mabanckou @helenrcastor #mjohnharrison #neilmacgregor #bookerprize2022.

Here it is. 7 months and 169 books later @thebook

Here it is. 7 months and 169 books later @thebookerprizes shortlist. Spare a thought for us hard-working judges @helenrcastor @mabanckou #MJohnHarrison & #NeilMacGregor who have to figure out a winner from this spectacular six. Happy reading! #BookerPrize2022 #Booker prize shortlist

Paperback of Dressed out today. Thank you @vintage

Paperback of Dressed out today. Thank you @vintagebooks . Very lucky to have had such handsome editions and such kind teams behind them. Gorgeous colour photos including one of my favourite @janellemonae

The latest @GucciVault @Gucci podcast with the cle

The latest @GucciVault @Gucci podcast with the clever, cool & urbane @JulianKlincewicz. We talk skater style, summer and “full spectrum artistry”. Search for the @GucciPodcast in all the usual places.

A sneak peak at this week’s #InsideCulture with

A sneak peak at this week’s #InsideCulture with me being Antony Gormley’s apprentice for the day. Catch us, plus @kaetempest @ekoweshun @mattywin85 & @purebred.mongrel on @bbciplayer from Friday 7.30pm @bbctwo @bbcarts. Can art save the planet?

A bonus clip from Friday’s #InsideCulture which

A bonus clip from Friday’s #InsideCulture which heads back to the 90s! Costume designer @CathyPrior22 digs out rainbow t-shirts & red jeans for the Derry Girls, @LightningSeedsOfficial on the Pure sound of the 90s, plus @ShappiKhorsandi, Jon Savage and @Katy.Hessel on whether things actually could only get better. #90s Catch us on #InsideCulture on @BBCiPlayer

What to do on a stormy weekend? Maybe a spot of li

What to do on a stormy weekend? Maybe a spot of light reading... @TheBookerPrizes @mabanckou #mjohnharrison @helenrcastor #neilmacgregor #2022BookerPrize

Here we go! @thebookerprizes 2022 with Neil MacGre

Here we go! @thebookerprizes 2022 with Neil MacGregor, @helenrcastor @mabanckou & M John Harrison

Here we go! Team @kings.college @cambridgeuniversi

Here we go! Team @kings.college @cambridgeuniversity stepping up for #UniversityChallenge @bbctwo tonight. Plus me and the class of 1999. Fingers on buzzers, pals.

The last of our @gucci emerging designers: @charle

The last of our @gucci emerging designers: @charlesdevilmorin, Hillary Taymour @_collina and @stefan_cooke & Jake Burt talk with me for #GucciVault. Search for the
@guccipodcast in all the usual places.

Meet three more of the dynamic young creatives bei

Meet three more of the dynamic young creatives being showcased on @Gucci Vault! This time its the charming and clever @ruiofficial.me @_yueqiqi & @boramyviguier. Search for the @guccipodcast wherever you get your podcasts. #GucciVault

Really delighted to join the board for @artnightld

Really delighted to join the board for @artnightldn along with @eoindara @elizabeth.l.davies @amritadhallu @amalandaplan @talbot.emma @aida_creativethinking and @kolia_smirnov. Looking forward to working with Artistic Director @helennisbet and the Art Night team.

If you love thinking about fashion history, archiv

If you love thinking about fashion history, archives & why we are still obsessed with the 90s, then you will adore this dreamy conversation with Laird Borelli-Perrson, the archive editor @voguemagazine @voguerunway for @gucci
Vault. #GucciVault- the @guccipodcast miniseries.

The "lot lizards" of middle America, reimagined mo

The "lot lizards" of middle America, reimagined modern masculinity and fine art meets fashion in the latest from our emerging designers from around the world showcased at
@gucci #GucciVault. Meet @guiguir0sa, @biancasaunders
& #ShanelCampbell on the @guccipodcast at all the usual places.

If you're following #GucciVault, meet the next of

If you're following #GucciVault, meet the next of our @gucci new wave of designers! @RaveReviewClothes who reinvent up-cycling and make it couture & @jordanluca_official who marry Italian style with London dance floors. Inspiring conversation with dynamic fashion minds. Search for the Gucci Podcast wherever you get your podcasts!

What is the collective noun for Booker Prize winne

What is the collective noun for Booker Prize winners? Join me, @marlonjameswriter #EleanorCatton and #JohnBanville for @thebookerprizes on #InsideCulture. Also featuring #LizLochhead on @splscotland, @ianrankin2 on the Scottish Book Sculptures, @alexwheatle & #SaraPowell on audiobooks, & @emilyrhodeswriter’s walking book club. Guest star: Archie the doggy @billiesheba @bbctwo @bbcarts @wmarybeard on @bbciplayer now.

What’s the collective noun for @thebookerprizes

What’s the collective noun for @thebookerprizes winners? Join me, @marlonjameswriter #eleanorcatton & #johnbanville for an #InsideCulture book special on Friday @bbctwo @bbcarts 7.30pm.

Meet the first of our new wave of designers, the b

Meet the first of our new wave of designers, the best of emerging fashion talent from around the world - showcased at @gucci Vault. PRIYA AHLUWALIA & JEZABELLE CORMIO in conversation. Search for #GucciVault wherever you get your podcasts. @priya.ahluwalia1 @ahluwalia @cormio_fanpage

Lovers courtship on a comb (c. 1320) V&A Museum #

Lovers courtship on a comb (c. 1320)
V&A Museum #FashioningMaterialities
CIFR Week 2

This is an ivory comb made in Paris in about 1320, depicting courting couples.

In the period between 1300 and 1325 workshops in Paris enjoyed a thriving market for secular ivory carvings. They produced mirror-cases, combs and gravoirs (hair parters), often selling them as sets in leather dressing cases. Subjects from romance literature appeared frequently, as did the allegorical Siege of the Castle of Love.

The comb has since the Antiquity been a fundamental tool for personal grooming, used both by men and women. In the Gothic period ivory was often employed for the production of deluxe decorated combs. The Gothic comb is always carved on both faces and consists of two registers of teeth, one fine, the other broader, above and below the narrative strips.
Ivory combs, together with mirror cases and gravoirs for parting the hair, formed an essential part of the trousse de toilette or étui (dressing case) of the typical wealthy lady or gentleman in the Gothic period. Considering the original ubiquity of such combs and in comparison with ivory mirror cases, a surprisingly small number survive from the fourteenth century.

Gene Kelly, Singin in the Rain (1952) turning his

Gene Kelly, Singin in the Rain (1952) turning his umbrella into a dance prop

Past tense, present tense, future tense. A new adv

Past tense, present tense, future tense. A new adventure with #GucciVault @Gucci’s online concept store. You can find the first episode of our mini-series introducing you to Vault, by searching for the Gucci podcast wherever you get your podcasts. One day, everything will be vintage. @tempotalker

Happy Birthday Glamrou! Some great chat with them,

Happy Birthday Glamrou! Some great chat with them, Skin and Zing Tseng on this week’s Inside Culture. Friday 7.30pm BBC TWO. (Thanks to Mary Beard for letting me ask the questions this week!) @skin_skunkanansie @glamrou @miss_zing @wmarybeard @bbcarts #InsideCulture

Channeling Donna Summer for NightFever @vadundee a

Channeling Donna Summer for NightFever @vadundee as #InsideCulture go Inside Club Culture for @bbctwo. Dare you not to swoon at Basquiat at Area in NY 1985 (or Barry White, tbh). Thanks to @jonpleasedwimmin for giving me the late 80s/early 90s lowdown on Kinky Gerlinky and The Hacienda.

Why it takes 8 hours to eat a creme egg and other

Why it takes 8 hours to eat a creme egg and other food mysteries: Digging In - How Food Shapes Our Lives @bigbookweekend with the glorious @ruby.tandoh @gracedent & @Jack_Monroe Catch up on @bbcarts #bigbookweekend.com

Have a snack before the next @bigbookweekend even

Have a snack before the next
@bigbookweekend event with
@rubytandoh @gracedent & @jackmonroe__ on How Food Shapes Our Lives. Here’s a vat of Jack’s Golden Milk which has made my heart sing. Turmeric, 🥥, 🥛 & 🍯 . Join us live at 1.30pm @bbcarts
#bigbookweekend.com

Yes, it’s @bigbookweekend 2021!#bigbookweekend.

Yes, it’s @bigbookweekend 2021!#bigbookweekend. Join me, @irenosenokojie @frank.gardner @naoisedolan @katyemdavies @boluberry @gracedent @ruby.tandoh & @jack_monroe for excellent conversation and good company all weekend. Online, free and so much fun.

The @gucci podcast on Ken Scott and why we are ete

The @gucci podcast on Ken Scott and why we are eternally mad for florals - out now #guccipodcast #gucciepiloguecollection

The @gucci podcast on Ken Scott and why we are ete

The @gucci podcast on Ken Scott and why we are eternally mad for florals - out now #guccipodcast #gucciepilogue

Look at my excellent Christmas present! Merry Chri

Look at my excellent Christmas present! Merry Christmas 2020. (Although I wanted a scooter actually)