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...Until March 3; further information and tickets here ‘Loading: L’art urbain à l’ère numérique’ (Loading: Urban Art in the Digital Age), Grand Palais Immersif An exhibition exploring the evolution of urban...
...Left hand, little finger: Hermès silver H Ex Libris signet ring, £1,100....
...One of the first Carto scents to be released was She Was an Anomaly (€140) by Paris perfumer Etat Libre d’Orange....
...of classical sculptures, to the “bronze-medaille”-coloured curlicues of the majestic escalier d’honneur staircase....
...Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L Strayer, Fitzcarraldo Editions £12.99, 224 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...She learnt to play the piano after her grandmother saved up enough S&H Green Stamps to buy her an instrument in the S&H store. “I have tons of hobbies,” Cox continues....
...If we were to use the S&L crisis as a historical reference point, I think one of the things that’s very likely, is you’d see more consolidation among the regional banks, and to a different extent, the super-regional...
...Rouge H, from the Hermès array of matte lipsticks, is my go-to for accentuating our most sensual feature while channelling power....
...The newest hotel in Venice, Violino d’Oro (violinodoro.com; doubles from €658) is close by, as is the Pensione Accademia (pensioneaccademia.it; doubles from about €300)....
...CK One, with its screw top and “hip-flask” shape, smells as clean and youthful as you’d expect....
...and this year announced the investment of €1mn in the Himalayan Regenerative Fashion Living Lab, which helps develop regenerative farming and support textile makers in the area. brunellocucinelli.com D...
...From Poughkeepsie (pronounced “Puh-kip-see”) we made a thoroughly worthwhile detour to Franklin D Roosevelt’s Hyde Park estate....
...Every day, he’d eat the same meals, get a massage at the same time.”...
...I’d died and gone to Top Gear heaven....
...An illicit kiss between the two rouses the desire buried beneath domesticity: “Under the placid surface of suburbia, something was unhinged.” Free Love adds a Sixties twist to Anna Karenina....
...So basically it is somewhere between pay-to-play and gambling, though we’d be delighted to know what “non-economic conditions” entails....
...The biggest risk according to D’Arpizio is that “luxury brands are so dependent on a single market”....
...“I knew it was time to pivot, and felt I could merge everything I’d done.”...
...Marsh, East Sussex, England Crossword 16,377: John Bevan, London; TF & JM Marshall, Scotland; Rae Seelig, London Polymath 1,057: Bridget Symeonides, Cyprus Crossword 16,371: Mr B Miller, Guernsey; Mr H...
...If you’ve done the hard yards to meet Princess Jasmine, then a 15-minute queue to get into L’Occitane is a doddle....
...What you really need is some t e c h n i c a l a n a l y s i s. We quote: Following the 2018 enforcement wave, blockchain litigation returned to its previous upward trajectory in 2019....
...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...
...Think Hermès, H&M, Schroders, L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, and Roche. And these survivors are not just plentiful: they are good. Every study I know suggests that listed family firms outperform....
...This winter, cult British perfumer Lyn Harris of Perfumer H tasked a 300-year old Japanese incense company with turning her best-selling Ash fragrance into scented sticks....
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