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...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Arrival announced it would merge with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V, another blank cheque company. Arrival may survive to commercialise its delivery van....
...He insists it’s still a good idea – he has actually donated the best of his collection to the V&A and the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. But “I do swing dramatically”, he admits cheerfully....
...His preferred dressing gown coats are best worn by taller frames with V-shaped torsos like his, as the syrupy nature of the style has a tendency to drown those shorter in stature....
...They are guileless and innocent, at odds with the cynical, jaded, blank pop-art screen prints he produced in the 1960s, after switching to fine art....
...Arrival’s deal with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V values the company at $524mn....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...Her clothes are more of a blank canvas, conveniently enabling voters to project their own agendas on to her....
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...I mean, a couple of months ago when the Supreme Court made its decision essentially overturning Roe v Wade on abortion, there was a sense that maybe the Democrats could use that or that people would come...
...Hippo, a home insurer that went public through a $5bn blank-cheque deal in August, has since fallen more than 60 per cent....
...Fintech company SoFi is to go public in a $8.7bn deal with a blank-cheque company set up by Chamath Palihapitiya, extending a frenzied run of dealmaking by the former Facebook executive....
...EToro, which has more than 20m registered users, will combine with Fintech Acquisition Corp V, the special purpose acquisition company set up by banking tycoon Betsy Cohen, in one of the largest Spac deals...
...Roughly 25 per cent of the outstanding shares in Social Capital Hedosophia V, the fifth Spac set up by Palihapitiya and his partner Ian Osborne that will soon merge with fintech company SoFi, have been sold...
...In 2020, Saunders’ sculptural work was exhibited in Paris as part of a group show, “Drawing a Blank”....
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...Rather, it is intended to be blank, to allow Warner and others to respond at scale — what Van Loon describes as “a canvas for the artist”....
...(Actually, the future is still up for grabs as cockapoos and cavapoos act out a Krays v Richardsons-style battle for control of the capital’s green spaces....
...Chinese companies need a back-up chip architecture, as do Nvidia’s US rivals, and Risc-V is Arm’s obvious replacement....
...The Internet of (Five) Things 1. eToro to list through Spac, Trustly tests watersOnline broker eToro has agreed to go public at a $10.4bn valuation after merging with a listed blank cheque company....
...Vladimir Putin said he would be vaccinated with the Sputnik V jab on Tuesday....
...The EU drug regulator will launch an investigation next week into whether clinical trials of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine contravened ethical and scientific standards....
...He has abandoned the policy beliefs that have long guided the party — going so far as to run on a blank platform at this summer’s convention....
...Russia is seeking to manufacture its Sputnik V vaccine in Italy to meet a surge in overseas contracts....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
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