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...Natura offloaded luxury Australian beauty outfit Aesop to industry rival L’Oréal earlier this year on an enterprise value of $2.5bn....
...Natura paid €1bn to acquire the business from L’Oréal in 2017....
...Brazilian company Natura paid €1bn to acquire the business from L’Oréal in 2017....
...When ethical beauty entrepreneur Anita Roddick sold The Body Shop to L’Oréal in 2006, cynics predicted it would lose its mojo....
...It was bought by French cosmetics giant L’Oréal in 2006 and later acquired for £880mn by Natura in 2017....
...The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by the late environmental campaigner Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon, and became a pioneer in the field of ethical consumerism....
...The Body Shop, founded by the late trailblazer Anita Roddick in 1976, was among the first companies to argue business could be a force for good....
...But from those crummy-quaint surroundings and others like them emerged, in 1984, Anita Brookner’s Booker-winning Hotel du Lac and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus, Martin Amis’s Money, Julian Barnes’...
...“A good friend of mine asked me to talk about my career but I ended up walking in their graduate show and a booker from Models 1 happened to be there,” she says....
...But in Parisian, word reversal has been so standard for decades, or perhaps centuries, that it’s become a dialect unto itself, known as verlan — a word that itself derives from the reversal of “l’envers”...
...So Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg, Anjelica Huston, Betty Davis, Lee Miller, PJ Harvey. There are so many. The best gift that I’ve given recently is one of my drawings – a dragon for my goddaughter....
...The trial will be held away from the public UK, Shortlist for the Booker Prize announced Switzerland, Trinity, a 67mn-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex goes up for auction in Zurich....
...Natura acquired The Body Shop, a British ethical retailer famous for its stance against animal testing, from L’Oréal in 2017 at an enterprise value of €1bn....
...Judging the International Booker in 2011, she had what she described as a “wobbly”, resigning from the panel after the two other judges awarded the prize to Philip Roth....
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...Cocotte jacket, £1,360 Versace Home cotton-terry I Love Baroque slippers, £350, amara.com Nadia Shelbaya gold and baroque-pearl 206 Bague ring, £1,785, matchesfashion.com Simone Rocha wool shorts, £625 L’...
...(Although in the famous scene of Anita Ekberg cavorting in the Trevi Fountain, both were entirely real.)...
...Shortlisted for this year’s Booker, A Passage North is an arresting and poignant reflection on the legacy of civil war....
...It had already raked in several awards before the English translation, At Night All Blood Is Black, won the International Booker Prize last week....
...A novel this playful — like an episode of The Twilight Zone co-written by René Descartes and Mel Brooks — would be an unusual contender for the resolutely sober Booker Prize....
...Literary fiction can hold loneliness (as exemplified by the novels of Anita Brookner) and plotlessness (Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy springs to mind)....
...In which film did Philip Seymour Hoffman play Lancaster Dodd, a religious leader based on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard?...
...Charles L. Turner, an industrial film-maker, shot a group of soldiers idling in New York in 1944, and the result is unspeakably moving....
...It was a lower priority for L’Oréal, the French beauty group that owned Body Shop between 2006 and 2017, but is integral to Natura’s business model....
...Which must make L’Intégral Anti-Age La Cure, its new skin-resetting regimen, at £775 for a four-week supply, a veritable tapis rouge....
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