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...the world frequent international bookstores to pick up copies of outdoor-focused Go Out, menswear catalogue 2nd or lifestyle monthly &Premium, whose English subheading bills it as “The guide to a better life...
...Gain: headlong action brio and a cast of overnight Hollywood stars-to-be (McQueen, Bronson et al). Loss: length, character complexity and the loving build-up of an epic momentum....
...Pieces in unglazed grey are finished with metallic details inspired by the drawings of Darwin et al....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...Biden has also continued to give billions in military aid with only minimal conditions attached to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s dictatorial regime in Egypt....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Along with the powerhouses of LVMH, Kering et al, niche indie designers are also carving out an aesthetic mixing west and east in a way that is both credible and commercially viable....
...The goal, though, was a good one: China, India, Brazil et al would rise in a fashion that did not collide with established powers....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...It represents a different kind of vertical integration from the factories and shop floors of Zara et al....
...Omar al-Bashir was in Johannesburg to attend the African Union summit....
...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....
...Radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was sentenced to life in prison on Friday in connection to the 1998 kidnapping of western tourists in Yemen that led to the death of four hostages....
...Angels Karlie Kloss, Doutzen Kroes, Lily Aldridge et al fly into London for the first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on British soil (@victoriasecret)....
...The combination of wine and carbon dioxide is crucial to the wine fortunes of LVMH – not just with Moët & Chandon and all its champagne brands (Krug, Veuve Clicquot, Ruinart et al) but around the world too...
...Where Christmas has been all but extinguished in many of the key markets that gave rise to its commercialisation in the first place (US, Canada et al) and been replaced by bland, catch-all “holidays”, the...
...Nobody can yet know if the rise of General Sisi et al, marks the final stage in the political upheavals that began with the overthrow of President Mubarak....
...Ackerman et al say that this kind of time frame would do a lot to limit the damage. However they speculate that potential implications of this incidentwould to go beyond Fonterra....
...It is a shame for Snowden that Burgess, Maclean, Philby et al are all long gone, or he would have had a ready-made circle of friends....
...It is about the need for products that signify membership in a group, be it the cult of celebrity-for-celebrity’s sake that drove the Bling Ring to invade the homes of Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton et al and...
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
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