BALANCING ACT: Henry Lloyd Hughes is a man of many talents. Not only is he running his own cricket team “The Bloody Lads,” he is also designing his own clothes, it turns out. “Acting is only my day job,” the Brit divulged, sporting a double-breasted suit with Italian-inspired peak lapels and carrot bottoms, but done up in a handsome British houndstooth pattern. “I think they were actually ripping me off,” Hughes quipped after the Mulberry show on Sunday, which focused on heritage references. “The collection reminded me a lot of the Queen going to Balmoral, don’t you think?”
Look out for his own designs on the sports pages of East London’s local press. “Vintage-inspired sports wear for the team is my latest master plan,” said Hughes, who is also to star in a new TV series for TNT called “Will” about the young William Shakespeare. “I play a bad actor. He is actually the same character that Ben Affleck plays in ‘Shakespeare in Love.’ It‘s about how William Shakespeare becomes Shakespeare, and I’m the actor [Edward ‘Ned’ Alleyn] in the rival theater to Shakespeare’s Company.”
Olivia Palermo
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Noomi Rapace rushed to her front-row seat in a shiny, bright yellow velvet ensemble from Mulberry’s spring collection. The Swedish
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