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...This was topped by fellow South African Marlene Dumas ($55.7mn, $475,710)....
...said Pierre-Alexis Dumas, scion of Hermès’ controlling dynasty and artistic director of the brand, modestly. No, it was great. It’s a bold word, “great”....
...Alexis du Roy de Blicquy, chief executive of the Family Business Network, describes this as “professionalisation of the family as much as of the business”....
...Holding up the new Hermès Arceau Le Temps Voyageur travel time watch, Pierre-Alexis Dumas, artistic director of Hermès, pushes a button on the side of the case....
...The way Pierre-Alexis Dumas, creative chief of Hermès and scion of the owning family, sees it, the latest collaboration between the French luxury marque and Apple announced yesterday can be traced back 43...
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...“Paula has an extraordinary eye for details and a resolute sense of innovation,” says Pierre-Alexis Dumas, the artistic director of Hermès. “She embodies the spirit of creating with integrity....
...Pierre-Alexis Dumas, creative director of Hermès, muses that a mechanical device “links us to the past, unaffected by everything that feels empty and fragile”....
...Steered under the leadership of chief executive Axel Dumas and his cousin and artistic director Pierre-Alexis Dumas, Hermès continues to occupy that rare tier of luxury still twinned with artisanal authenticity...
...Alexis Tsipras has alienated many fellow EU leaders as bruising talks over Greece’s bailout have pushed the country ever closer to a eurozone exit. But there is one place he is still feted — Russia....
...His cousin Pierre-Alexis is artistic director and together they oversee a company that is seeing its biggest growth in decades despite shrinking global demand....
...A picture shows him in the Russian capital two weeks ago, meeting the chairman of the Russian Duma’s foreign affairs committee and the deputy chairman of its defence committee....
...It all started, according to Pierre-Alexis Dumas – another Dumas cousin – when he and his father, Jean-Louis Dumas, former chief executive, were strolling down the street in Beijing in 1997....
...I’m also rereading Moby-Dick and Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy (1964), planning a reread of [Alexis] de Tocqueville, short stories by [Julio] Cortázar . . . Do you read on paper or ebook?...
...Meanwhile, French designer Pierre-Stéphane Dumas is putting a new spin on camping with his transparent Bubble Tree series, which offers panoramic views of the landscape....
...Indeed, as Pierre-Alexis Dumas, artistic director of Hermès, points out in the introduction of Le Monde d’Hermès, a glossy spring/summer brochure produced by the quintessential equestrian-inspired luxury...
...The latter position is occupied by a daughter of Mr Puech and the former by Pierre-Alexis Dumas, the group’s artistic managing-director....
...There is a story about how Mr Wiederrecht was having lunch with Pierre Alexi Dumas of Hermès and they were having such a good time that they wished time could stand still – and thus it came to pass....
...His son, Pierre-Alexis Dumas, is the group’s artistic director. Mr Dumas prioritised craftsmanship over fashion, a stance that led him to take a stake in Leica, the German camera maker....
...“The Carré H, designed by Pierre-Alexis Dumas and Marc Berthier, made out of microbead blasted titanium with a Sowind GP 3200 movement, is a good example of creativity associated to craftsmanship.”...
...Pierre Alexis Dumas, of the Hermès family, is a softly spoken man, gently persuasive rather than ebullient and bombastic....
...Despite wanting a stable boat, Mr Bassani had nevertheless to be persuaded by Pierre-Alexis Dumas, artistic director of Hermès and a scion of the luxury group’s founding family, to sacrifice speed for stability...
...When Luca Bassani Antivari, president and chief executive of yachtmaker Wally, and Pierre-Alexis Dumas, artistic director of fashion house Hermès, decided to create a boat together, two important points...
...The Sun Over Breda By Arturo Perez-Reverte Weidenfeld £9.99, 288 pages FT bookshop price: £7.99 The third part of this popular Spanish novelist’s Dumas-style series featuring the swash-buckling Captain...
...Pierre-Alexis Dumas and Pascale Mussard – Jean-Louis Dumas’s son and niece – will be joint artistic directors....
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