Tag: liberality

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  Icons December 2016

  Mr Showmanship: Valentino Liberace

  “I didn’t get dressed like this to go unnoticed”, Liberace once told his adoring fans, and the pianist spent many years living up to his nickname Mr Showmanship.

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  Icons November 2016

  Home Is Where the Hearst Is: San Simeon Castle

  William Randolph Hearst may be a household name, but his household is somewhat as impressive, nothing less than a lavish palace in the hills of California.

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  Icons November 2016

  Electric Warrior: Marc Bolan

  The personification of the proverb ‘where there’s a will there’s a way’, Marc Bolan’s flamboyant style – both in his career and his clothes – made him a star like…

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  Icons November 2016

  Invitation Only: Truman Capote's Black and White Ball

  Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball was quite possibly the most extravagant party of the 20th century, only fitting then that The Rake should dissect it.

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  Code November 2016

  Fritter, Frivol, Squander, Spend

  “A fool and his money,” as one of life’s more joy-slayingly, Pecksniffian adages has it, “are easily parted”. Try telling that, though, to the gloriously prodigal spendthrifts who make the…