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...Models, Diane Chiu at Milk and Max Wagner at One. Casting, Ben Grimes at Drive Represents. Hair, Tamas Tuzes at Atelier NYC. Make-up, Cyndle Komarovski at M+A World Group....
...But Sunak’s decision is a gamble on things getting better. What if he is wrong? “The mood is bad — people are thinking ‘Oh God, it’s only going to get worse’,” said one former minister....
...How other shareholders have benefited from these speculative gambles is not always obvious....
...DIANE GLOSSMAN: In hindsight, the Citi-Travellers deal created a lot of angst....
...Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, designers of the aforementioned brand The Row, were often papped in the mid-noughties dressed in giant tailoring, oversized Starbucks cups clutched to dwarf their hands....
...It’s not true,” says Ashley Salmon, head chef at Roganic, a farm-to-table concept under the purview of British chef Simon Rogan....
...Mr Ashley, whose Sports Direct store chain has hosted Belong “arenas” since 2018, acquired Game Digital last year in a £52m transaction....
...The duo purchased $108mn of options contracts tied to video game developer Activision on January 14 for about $40 per share, alongside Alexander von Furstenberg, Diller’s stepson from his marriage to Diane...
...Musk’s gamble on return-to-office: How workers respond to Elon Musk’s requirement that Tesla and SpaceX staff be in the office “a minimum” of 40 hours a week will be a good litmus test of who has more power...
...But that didn’t stop Robert Kofler and his wife Edda, Austrians living in José Ignacio, Uruguay, from taking a gamble with Posada Ayana, which sits a stone’s throw from the yellow sands of Mansa Beach....
...Diane Page’s excellent revival at the Orange Tree makes us all voyeurs....
...“Don’t get me started on car theft . . . don’t get me started on ‘you match the description’,” dancer Ashley Banjo tuts. He’s been pulled over “tens of times”....
...“Nobody wants to face another season under Mike Ashley.” Put those cans on ice....
...Yet reductions to keep the most profitable Debenhams stores is a gamble that could well work. The Debenhams saga is not over yet....
...Mr Ashley is one of the few chief executives still willing to open new stores on Britain’s high streets....
...Insights director, Diane Wehrle, said out-of-town locations offered ease of access, free parking and open air environments that made social distancing easier....
...Mr Ashley’s 60 per cent stake in the business means minority investors, who have revolted over its leadership and bonus scheme, are unable to unseat its board....
...Within a couple of weeks of the Covid-19 shutdown in New York City, Diane von Furstenberg realised that the pandemic risked being an extinction-level event for her eponymous brand....
...The last music I downloaded was Ashley Beedle’s Unmask Me and Jay Prince’s In the Morning, which is on my Spotify Repeat a lot lately. spotify.com....
...But by hiring José Mourinho, the British businessman is taking a huge gamble....
...Ashley’s Findel gamble Mike Ashley, self-appointed saviour of the high street, has taken stakes in all manner of retailers from Debenhams to French Connection, writes Kate Burgess....
...The sterling supporting cast includes Ashley Jensen, Diane Morgan, Penelope Wilton, David Bradley, Paul Kaye and Mandeep Dhillon....
...Diane Wehrle, marketing and insights director at Springboard, said: “He is making it sound like Armageddon. I don’t think we are quite there but trading is very challenging.”...
...It is a long road from branding trainee at Procter & Gamble to chief executive....
...“Part of the reason for the drop in footfall is the almost continuous discounting that has been taking place by retailers this year,” said Diane Wehrle, a Springboard director, adding this had removed the...
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