Hints and tips:
...Granada Studios, a TV production studio, once revelled in portraying the sense of a distinctive, neglected North of decaying industry but still-strong community....
...L&G: Shares in the UK-based insurer slipped 4 per cent despite strong annuity sales after it posted a first-half operating profit of £941mn, down 2 per cent year on year....
...She dressed Édith Piaf and Leslie Caron, as well as Parisian traffic wardens and Eurostar staffers, whose uniforms she designed. She died in 2015, aged 105....
...He added that this couture week “is a strong one, with a massive presence of international guests”. The guests I spoke to seemed to feel similarly....
...Yet Kelly’s project, like the others, faces a delicate balance between creating a strong sense of community for residents and catering for the inevitability that they will grow physically frailer....
...But, for de Seynes, the reasons for Hermès Horloger’s growth are more fundamental: “We bring something French, or maybe Parisian, with strong creativity — and more freedom.”...
...At Hermès, models passed through de Chirico-style colonnades clutching sliced-up Kelly bags like Dada sculptures....
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Ellsworth Kelly....
...We first came across the app via a tweet (h/t Jamie Bullen for drawing our attention to it) by Stu Nugent, a man who calls himself “l’enfant terrible of the sex toy industry”, who had been sent a slide deck...
...A mansion was built on the site of the ruin in the late 18th century, and added to over time, creating an L-shaped structure along the cliff....
...Colm Kelly, analyst at UBS, said the amount of cash generated by L&G’s operations fell short of expectations because of the amount the company had put into new business....
...Hermès’ results echo those of luxury rivals LVMH and Kering, as well as consumer group L’Oréal, in reporting continued strong demand from China for its high-end products despite macroeconomic concerns....
...Health monitoring is pitched as a strong benefit, with “fitness suites” in the L&G developments and a health assessment undertaken before residents move in....
...This time, however, economists talk about a U-shaped or even an L-shaped scenario due to the debt burden on the banks....
...Yet his researches showed that the land had developed its own laws, including reparations for theft and oversight by border wardens....
...“I think at the time that it was quite nice appreciation, ‘l’enfant terrible’,” he says. “It showed that I was doing things that were maybe not in the rules, which is good for me....
...It came from the estate of Carlos de Beistegui; Terry worked on the redesign of the Château de Groussay at Montfort-l’Amaury for the multimillionaire art collector....
...Yet academic Rebecca L Spang has dismissed the story as an urban myth....
...Or maybe this is France, and this is l’heure du déjeuner. I find Dumas taking the air in the roof garden....
...Hermès, maker of Kelly bags and its trademark silk scarves, fared much better, managing near double-digit sales growth in the second quarter....
...There is the basis of a strong performance here, if only the opera’s central conflict had been tackled with a bit more gumption....
...L&G declined to comment. Additional reporting by George Parker and Alistair Gray...
...Hermès was relatively tight-lipped on prospects for 2013, saying that it would expand distribution and strengthen its production capacity; its Kelly and Birkin bags have a waiting list of one year or more...
...and L’Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt....
...Edward Kelly at Credit Suisse was cheered that “Walgreen continues to successfully pass through inflation” to customers. Yahoo fell 1.7 per cent to $15.65....
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