Armani used the same event, to be broadcast by Channel 4, not only to reprise his autumn/winter 2006 ready-to-wear and haute couture collections, but also to showcase a special collection of Red clothing, with the most politically-skewed garments a T-shirt proclaiming “Shop till it stops” ­ referring to the charity’s stated intention to fight Aids in Africa. Was there any hint here that Armani was inspired by his British venue? Only in the Savile Row smartness of a three-piece charcoal grey suit worn by the male model who opened this show, or in the shrunken waistcoats, for women, that recalled Kate Moss’s signature garment. Brown is somehow wrong ­ it’s too healthy,” he said at a sampling in the breakfast room of Brown’s hotel in Mayfair yesterday.. “Thank you for having me, Mr Armani!” shouted Beyonc?ast night after her performance at a celebrity-studded event at Earl’s Court, west London, staged by the Italian designer to show his spring/summer 2007 Emporio Armani collection, and to highlight his involvement with the Red charity. By the standards of any fashion capital, this was not so much a catwalk show as a stadium gig. “There are two simple rules ­ an even spread of butter, not margarine, and white toast instead of brown. The New Zealanders broke out with a night-time bayonet charge during which Upham was injured by his own grenades.

A month later, by then so badly wounded that he could not walk, he was taken prisoner and held at Colditz He died in 1992.. As heir to a family-run jam firm, Richard Duerr knows his preserves – and is part-icular about how the world’s most expensive marmalade should be served. He was wounded in the shoulder and foot, but at the end of a week of heavy fighting still repulsed a heavy German attack with a Bren gun.The bar to his VC was earned a year later when Upham was a captain and his unit was surrounded by four German divisions in the North African desert. When leading two other British planes, he attacked an enemy formation of eight.

On each occasion he brought down at least one enemy plane.”Awarded the Victoria Cross twice72p – CHARLES UPHAMThe only combatant soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross twice – the other two being doctors.The New Zealand farmer was a lieutenant in Crete, fighting against the invading German paratroops. Three times he routed German machine-gun posts in close-quarter fighting. “Flying alone, on one occasion he fought six hostile machines, twice he fought five and once four. He received his posthumous VC for the last fortnight of his life. The official citation notes, “during [this] period Captain Ball took part in 26 combats in the air and destroyed eleven hostile aeroplanes, drove down two and forced several others to land.

He went on treating casualties until a shell penetrated his dugout. He died two days later from his injuries.Flew against a superior enemy alone72p – ALBERT BALLHe joined the Sherwood Foresters at the beginning of the First World War and was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps the following year. Posted to France in February 1916, by November he had been awarded the Military Cross and the Distinguished Service Order with two bars.Flying alone against a technically superior enemy, he claimed 44 kills Ball was killed in May 1917. After tending casualties all day under enemy fire, that night he searched no-man’s land using the sound of his own voice and an electric torch to attract the attention of wounded men, stranded under the still heavy fire.The following day, while carrying a stretcher, he was wounded, yet still insisted on going beyond the wire to find more injured men.

He was awarded his first VC for those actions and, almost a year later, received the bar to his medal after refusing to leave his post guiding injured men to a dressing station, despite being seriously wounded himself. During the battle, an artillery shell landed on the deck.Ignoring the orders to lay flat, Lucas, 20, ran towards the device, tossing it overboard and saving the lives of those around him The shell exploded before it reached the sea. Not only did he receive one of the first VCs, from Queen Victoria herself in Hyde Park in 1857, but the young Irishman was immediately promoted to lieutenant and later become a rear-admiral.Assisted casualties while injured44p – NOEL CHAVASSEOne of only three men to win the VC twice, the son of the Bishop of Liverpool was a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving on the Western Front in August, 1916. Captain Lawson of the Chester wrote to Jack’s mother: “The wounds which resulted in his death were received in the first few minutes He remained steady at his most exposed post…