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...Big share price moves in Europe today include French gaming company Ubisoft, German medical technology company Carl Zeiss Meditec, and French cosmetics giant L’Oréal....
...Omega by Andrew Grima limited-edition c1970s gold and faceted-quartz-crystal Teak wristwatch, from the Jeux d’Or collection, POA, somlo.com Model, Robert Perry Smith at Chapter....
...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...An avuncular, grey-bearded presence behind a pair of decks, Bovell introduced Nigerian saxophonist Bukky Leo, then a protégée, L Dot, an attitudinal teenage rapper....
...jumper, €110 Private White VC Ventile cotton Harrington 3.0 jacket, £595 Michael Kors metal-frame Pierce sunglasses, £170 Luca Faloni leather bag, £725 Crockett & Jones suede Chelsea 5 boots, £470 L’...
...British DJ and producer Carl Cox curated a special playlist to coincide with the launch of Zenith’s Defy Extreme Carl Cox limited edition in September....
...Inspired by the 18th-century bronze and ceramic candelabras flanking the hall’s entrance, the works have tentacle-like forms in green, pink and yellow hues that reflect the colour palette of the trompe l’...
...Sam Carl is vocally heavy-handed, but squeezes Chaplinesque comedy out of his portrayal of Leporello as a mundane middle manager with hangdog expression and raincoat....
...Carlyle recently beat out HarbourView and Blackstone’s Hipgnosis for Katy Perry’s catalogue with a bid for $225mn, according to several people familiar with the auction....
...British tennis player Fred Perry, who won Wimbledon three times, launched his version in 1952 with a laurel wreath as its signifier....
...A new crop of IPO candidates in CVC, General Atlantic and L Catterton may test the waters of public markets in 2024, while BlackRock continues to hunt for its “transformative” private capital deal....
...Royal Bank of Canada has hired Credit Suisse banker Tim Perry as vice-chair....
...Versions of L’Orfeo from the Barcelona and Zurich opera houses. A discussion of how close China came to industrialising in the Song dynasty....
...Küfer joined Disguise in 2015, having previously worked in financial roles at companies including Lidl, L’Oréal, Ultra Motor and A2B Bikes....
...It’s another sign of the eye-watering prices buyers are willing to pay for top-shelf beauty brands, after L’Oréal shelled out $2.5bn for minimalist soap maker Aesop in April....
...The US beauty and fragrance group hopes shares trading at 29 times forward earnings would edge up to the rating of 35 times enjoyed by L’Oréal....
...Carl Friedrik polycarbonate Check-In suitcase, £435....
...Dior wool jacket, £2,000 L’Estrange merino The All Day Shirt, £149 Leica D-Lux 7 camera, £1,170 Louis Vuitton cotton chinos, £640 Luca Faloni leather Weekender bag, £675 Brioni silk tie, £190 Audemars...
...It owes as much to Alain-Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes and Flaubert’s L’Éducation sentimentale as it does to Graham Greene’s The Quiet American....
...When Christie’s offered the 3m-high bird-esque fountain L’Oiseau Amoureux in its 2020 selling exhibition of outdoor sculpture, it “sold in excess of $600,000 from its former home on the edge of Lake Geneva...
...Artists have long explored the medium of wearability – everyone from Salvador Dalí to Grayson Perry and Anish Kapoor has tried their hand at jewellery – and art jeweller Cora Sheibani has for some years...
...L.S. Lowry has always been popular in the UK, but incredibly, not overseas....
...It’s rather trompe l’oeil.” The reading room that Phil Game built in a client’s garden for their punkish daughter was similarly eye-catching....
...But apart from the opening of two Parisian outposts, L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon and Fouquet’s (part of the Hôtel Barrière Le Carl Gustaf, above Gustavia), the laidback mood of before persists....
...This year, showgoers wore their support for Ukraine in quiet but noticeable ways, in the form of yellow and blue ribbons (Tyler Perry), pins (Benedict Cumberbatch), pocket squares (Jason Momoa), and blue...
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