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...L’Oréal last year bought Australian high-end cosmetics group Aesop from its Brazilian owner in a transaction with an enterprise value of $2.5bn while Gucci-owner Kering paid €3.5bn to acquire the fragrance...
...But Alisal has been operating on 10,500 acres in the gorgeous rolling hills north-west of Santa Barbara since 1946, when it opened to just 30 guests for the summer....
...Puig is purchasing a majority stake in a high-end German “molecular cosmetics” brand, Dr Barbara Sturm, extending a run of deals including a majority stake in Charlotte Tilbury, which valued the UK cosmetics...
...“I see less obstacle [to general use] with Gen-AI than all the other technology we’ve been dealing with for decades,” said Barbara Lavernos, deputy chief executive of cosmetics company L’Oreal....
...April 19; further information and tickets here ‘Fiori d’acciaio’ (Steel Magnolias), Teatro Manzoni An Italian-language stage adaptation of the 1989 weepy, starring Barbara De Rossi and Martina Colombari...
...Flicking through the exhibition catalogue, it’s hard to avoid comparisons to artists such as Moore, Giacometti and Barbara Hepworth....
...Remember that at the time a lot of people thought this would become a redux of the S&L crisis and that a recession was unavoidable as banks retrenched....
...L’Artisane Dakar metal single earring, £35. Sandals, model’s own Angel wears Off-White cotton trousers, POA....
...Oli de L’Oliveta is working to change that. Olives are harvested by friends and family, who crowd into the casita for a four-day picking spree....
...Special thanks to Lotusland garden, a centre for horticulture conservation in Santa Barbara, California...
...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....
...If typicity and local traditions are all part of what makes wine culture so endlessly fascinating, it’s gratifying to see top artisanal producers such as Sandhi, which makes a house Santa Barbara Chardonnay...
...Collective leather Shiro tote, €1,900 Wohngeist seven-piece tool kit in wood case, £950, mrporter.com Paul Smith striped wool scarf, £125, mrporter.com Loro Piana New Zealand Bouclé candle, £325 Dr Barbara...
...She gradually develops a friendship with Barbara, a Grenadian nurse. Denied the opportunity to pursue medical research, Barbara is instead assigned the worst jobs on the ward by her colleagues....
...Sturm Hydrating Face Mist, €85 Givenchy L’Intemporel Blossom Cream-in-Mist, £48 Drunk Elephant Sweet Biome Sake Spray, £35 Chanel Hydra Beauty Essence Mist, £48...
...One upcoming exhibition that promises to be original and inventive is the Musée de l’Orangerie’s Aux sources des Nymphéas: le décor impressionniste opening in March — surely a mouthwatering prospect....
...L J Hickman dauntbooks.co.uk The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle “I have such good memories of evenings on book tour there, and of the wonderful people running it.”...
...For the first time in the group’s 111-year history, L’Oréal named a woman, Barbara Lavernos, as deputy chief executive, a post that has groomed past CEOs....
...One of my favourite places to seek peace and perspective is the Musée de l’Orangerie in the Tuileries, just off the Place de la Concorde....
...There is currently only one female chief executive in the CAC 40, Catherine MacGregor at energy group Engie, though cosmetics maker L'Oréal recently named Barbara Lavernos as its first female deputy CEO,...
...Paris has its Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration; Melbourne has the Immigration Museum; Halifax in Canada has Pier 21; Cologne will soon have the Haus der Einwanderungsgesellschaft, recently given...
...The female gallerists in London – Maureen Paley, Victoria Miro and Sadie Coles – were a strong inspiration, alongside New York pioneers such as Barbara Gladstone, Marian Goodman and Paula Cooper....
...Or, God forbid, an L? What very few expect is some sort of “tick”-shaped profile, releasing a surge of pent-up activity as the public stampedes back into the nation’s high streets....
...‘Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy’, by Barbara Kellerman and Todd L Pittinsky Lust is an innate, insatiable force that marks extraordinary leaders out from ordinary ones,...
...Charles L. Turner, an industrial film-maker, shot a group of soldiers idling in New York in 1944, and the result is unspeakably moving....
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