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...Last week, Avon International announced a leadership change that would see chief executive Angela Cretu step down, to be replaced by chief marketing officer Kristof Neirynck at the start of next year....
...Before I experienced Barkley L Hendricks’ revelatory retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2008, I had never seen more than a couple of his works at a time....
...Marc Vlessing, chief executive of Pocket Living, a smaller developer, said Starmer’s “pro-builder speech” had contrasted “rather sharply” with that of Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner earlier in the...
...stephen.bush@ft.com Letter in response to this column: UK success is not because it’s become multicultural / From Michael Winckless, Bangkok, Thailand...
...Kingman will retain his role at L&G, but has stood down as chair of Tesco Bank....
...Burberry briefly took ownership of its beauty business in 2013, shortly before the departure of then-CEO Angela Ahrendts, but reached a licensing deal with Coty in 2017....
...L’affaire Raac? Raac-gate?) continues to cause a political headache for the government....
...The legendary DJ Readers Wifes will kick matters off from 3pm. 11 August; from £31, heritagelive.net Glyndebourne Festival, Lewes, East SussexDon Giovanni, Semele, Dialogues des Carmélites, L’elisir d’amore...
...And finally The Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in London is showing a collection by Angela Heisch, comprising a new body of paintings and works on paper....
...Angela Ashton, Sydney-based director and founder of investment consultancy Evergreen Consultants, said the meagre amount of the fine, which amounted to A$39,960 ($26,873), was probably a reflection of Vanguard...
...From £105, jeakeshouse.com BS Hôtel de l’Abbaye, Paris This Saint-Germain-des-Prés stalwart is on the larger side of homely – 43 rooms and counting – but the quiet setting makes up for it....
...In Revlon’s 1980s heyday, supermodels Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer appeared in television and magazine advertising that promised to make women “unforgettable” with the brand’s bright red lipsticks...
...In Dorothy L Sayers’ The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928), Lord Peter Wimsey recruits a chemist acquaintance of his to test a paint sample for poison....
...They had supermodels like Cindy Crawford on their TV ads, sporting big hair and bright lipstick. Clip from Revlon TV adRevlon faces aren’t afraid to get close . . . Not this close . . ....
...Kratzer uses the stage of the Théâtre de l’Archevêché to maximum effect, with Rainer Sellmaier’s set evolving from refugee camp and government headquarters to a beachfront for the denouement....
...The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini (Fourth Estate) Award-winning science journalist and author Saini embarks on the search for the true roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering the...
...In De l’Esprit des Lois, published in 1748, he claimed: “The natural effect of commerce is to bring peace....
...Figliomeni’s American wife, artist Angela Lorenz, is responsible for the store’s lavish displays and playful logo: a bull with ice-cream cones for horns. gelatauro.com Ajesh Patalay Pidapipó, Melbourne...
...Mediobanca director Angela Gamba has been appointed as lead independent director of the Italian lender’s board. She also serves as a director of Italian dairy group Parmalat....
...She describes herself as “two-thirds [Angela] Merkel and one-third [Margaret] Thatcher” and says she gets things done. “My opponents call me the Iron Lady,” she told the Financial Times this year....
...On that score, Angela Scott, the other winner, may have good advice. Scott, 46, has already completed the first year of her MW studies....
...Who cares if Joan Crawford is outclassed in 1962’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? That’s the film’s point, isn’t it?...
...This deal will bring CAA’s clients like Scarlett Johansson and Beyoncé under the same roof as Samuel L Jackson and Olivia Colman....
...1919 Eve L Ewing, Penguin, RRP£9.99 Ewing, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, revisits the riots that took place in the city in 1919, during the “red summer” of unrest across the US....
...I vividly recall standing in the Place de l’Opéra in Paris watching Jean-Marie Le Pen address a rally during the 2002 French presidential election....
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