I wanted success and I got it quickly! How Bruce Oldfield went from foster care to fashion
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‘She said: “Now, Bruce, I think it’s time that we actually made a few dresses, don’t you?”’ … with Camilla in 2017. Photograph: WPA/Getty Images‘She said: “Now, Bruce, I think it’s time that we actually made a few dresses, don’t you?”’ … with Camilla in 2017. Photograph: WPA/Getty ImagesBlack livesFashionThe designer is about to make history with Camilla’s coronation dress. He talks about growing up a Barnardo’s child, finding his way in fashion, and dressing Bianca Jagger, Charlotte Rampling and Princess Diana It is the 50th anniversary of Bruce Oldfield’s couture business this year, and he marks it with one of his greatest accomplishments – even if it comes with a certain amount of awkwardness.
History booksReviewBarbara Winton's remarkable story of her father, the man who saved nearly 700 children from the concentration campsIn 1939, Nicholas Winton, now 105, saved 669 children from the Nazis. Most of the children were Czech refugees from Jewish families, the other members of which ended up in concentration camps.
Nearly 6,000 people in the world today are alive because Winton responded to a phone call from Prague in December 1938. The call was from his friend Martin Blake, who was engaged in helping Jewish refugees and was asking for Winton's assistance.
Luis Suárez bites again: the best memes – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Following Luis Suárez's latest alleged bite, this time on Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup, we've updated our gallery of the best internet memes• Pictures: did Luis Suárez bite Giorgio Chiellini at World Cup 2014? Mon 22 Apr 2013 07.
Justin McGuirk on designDesignThe unconventional furniture designs of Ernö Goldfinger – a man better known for his architecture – are a revelation. Which is why Ryan Gander's new art exhibition aims to bring them to lightHidden in the basement of a terraced house on the Kingsland Road in east London, behind a black metal door, is a gallery called The Russian Club. Currently showing there is an enigmatic little exhibition entitled Ernö Goldfinger v Groucho Marx.
NascarEight years on from the young driver’s death, a new documentary seeks to answer questions about a deadly night on a dirt track
One evening, eight years ago this month, a 20-year-old stock car driver named Kevin Ward Jr turned up to a mud-packed oval circuit in upstate New York for a minor-league race. About halfway through, he was bumped by a rival car and sent spiraling into a barrier. Seeing red, Ward exited his vehicle and charged down the banked circuit to vent his frustration.
PhotographyInterviewA new Mapplethorpe? The queer zine legend reinventing the nudeLanre BakarePaul Mpagi Sepuya started out taking shots of his friends naked. His work, in which sitters often face away, has now earned comparisons with Robert Mapplethorpe – and even Caravaggio
In the autumn of 2001, Paul Mpagi Sepuya was an art student living in downtown New York. He’d just started his second year of university after moving from California when 9/11 changed life in the city for good.
State of the swing statesUS elections 2024Some African American men in the key swing state are feeling neglected and are critical of the president’s support for Israel but others warn not to confuse enthusiasm with electability
Morehouse College, a 156-year-old Black men’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, has produced graduates such as Martin Luther King and Spike Lee. It has been an essential campaign stop for Democratic politicians such as Barack Obama, John Lewis and, last September, Kamala Harris.
Mildly aggressive … Heather Havrilesky. Photograph: Willy SommaMildly aggressive … Heather Havrilesky. Photograph: Willy SommaBooks to give you hopeBooksBooks to give you hope: How to Be a Person in the World by Heather HavrileskyHavrilesky’s funny, grumpy and helpful collected advice offers hearteningly realistic encouragement to the 21st-century worrier
One of the premises of How to Be a Person in the World is that we’re all in this big, stinking mess together.
Sport and leisure booksReviewHistoric gripes and humiliating defeats form the backbone of the rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona. But is the story of El Clásico as simple as it seems?These are sad days for Spain. There are no jobs and recession has sapped confidence. A proud nation is slipping down the global rankings. Little surprise, then, that Spaniards reach out for something their country is very good at – football. World Cup and European championship victories aside, this largely reduces down to FC Barcelona and Real Madrid.