Hints and tips:
...If we are right that consumer spending, despite some recent softening on the margin, is still at or above trend, that is another thing for Powell et al to fret over....
...My style icon is Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani....
...“Bigger theatres, with a lot of nice things. Going to the movies is going to cost you 50 bucks, maybe 100.”...
...In place of black, gray, and blue, Uber is embracing bright colours, and lots of them....
...Ask IWC, Breitling, Montblanc, Bulgari, Gucci, Frédérique Constant et al why they have made “connected” watches this year and they will all say smartwatches are the next big thing....
...Today it is immaculate, right down to checkerboard flooring and blue spotted curtains. Another bus, Uma, was being used as a log store when it was rescued and restored....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...They have been going to the theatre a lot, and out to dinner....
...I ask how she sees the progression of her new practice – styled AL_A....
...After driving around, arguing with my cabbie, and driving around some more, we finally found it near the seventh circle (it felt like 20 circles) in a big blue glass building....
...Sound a lot like Argos? Here’s the twist: Kmart is also trying to persuade other retailers to use its stores as a central pick-up location for goods ordered online....
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
...The works, mounted coral and driftwood, sold for $50,000 to Guillaume Houzé of the Lafayette family, for the department store’s collection....
...The Antonio and Liliane Mariani collection Bonhams & Butterfields San Francisco November 2 From the estate of the late owners of San Francisco’s well-known Antonio’s Antiques store come 400 lots of English...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...“The big beneficiaries of this boom are the companies but most employ non-locals, and at a certain level, the low-paid-level people, like secretaries, are hurting a lot,” argues Khalifa Jassim al-Thani,...
...Charles Kreidl, Chicago, Illinois, US Alex Frankel: There is no doubt that loyalty and turnover are huge issues in the front-line retail environments where I worked (Starbucks, Gap, et al.) as well as across...
...“There is a risk that the same big-name designers turn up in all the same places,” acknowledges Khalid Al-Malik, organiser of the latter. “But that’s not a problem with Dubai....
...boutiques and department stores....
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