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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....
...Whose film roles include playing L P Hartley’s Marian Maudsley, Thomas Hardy’s Bathsheba Everdene and Boris Pasternak’s Lara Antipova?...
...Hood for its foldaway bonnet-style hats (£49, l-hood.com)....
...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...
...Letter in response to this article: Wind farms don’t just want inflation-indexed contracts / From Abby L Watson, President, Groundwire Strategies, Norristown, PA, US...
...stephen.bush@ft.com Letter in response to this column: UK success is not because it’s become multicultural / From Michael Winckless, Bangkok, Thailand...
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...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....
...Over in Aldeburgh, restaurateur George Pell opened the buzzy L’Escargot Sur-Mer – a sister to his Soho outpost – in the summer of 2020....
...L’affaire Raac? Raac-gate?) continues to cause a political headache for the government....
...“Every week can be different on Chesil Beach” explained Angela Thomas. “Every time you set out on to the shingle you see something new.”...
...Jean Seberg’s boy cut for Joan of Arc, that nuanced “Deneuve” blonde, and Françoise Hardy’s fringe....
...Teitgen is even thinking of changing the way Smith Haut Lafitte’s vines are trained to the heatwave-hardy cross shape common in Napa....
...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...
...janan.ganesh@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Greenspan, Keynes and the perfect market myth / From Dermot Hardy, Dublin, Ireland...
...It was she who suggested in the late 1950s that Hardy Amies, who was to be her dressmaker for more than three decades, move away from pastels into punchier hues as she matured in her role....
...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....
...Nearby, Jacques Amand bulbs showed how good the hardy Cypripedium orchids now are for town gardens with light shade and neutral to acid soil....
...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 skirt suits and pearls of Margaret Thatcher in the ’80s, for example, or Angela Merkel’s use of vibrant, solid colours took more than a leaf out of the Queen’s style book....
...Thomas Hardy called the island “the Gibraltar of Wessex” — carved by the sea from a single mass....
...Hardy and abundant, seaweed is playing an increasing role in sustainability initiatives: finding its way into packaging, cattle feed, and human diets....
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