Birkin’s bag was black box, a kind of calf leather, with gilded brass hardware, fashioned in a rectangular shape with saddle stitching and a burnished flap embossed with the initials JB.
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Marisa Meltzer,
Vanity Fair,
19 Oct. 2026
Among several sauces on the side, home in on senafich, a classic, sinus-sizzling Ethiopian condiment fashioned from mustard seeds.
For decades, Buck and Aikman’s equally dry sense of humor worked, and there was never the slightest appearance of friction.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Oct. 2026
Ichiyama has worked closely with Chinese-language auteurs including Hou Hsiao-hsien and Jia Zhangke, and says the mainland industry changed sharply in the mid-2000s.
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