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...Valerie Coleman’s two-movement Tracing Visions is less personal in its musical language, but the energy of its rhythms gives Sphinx Virtuosi an uplifting showpiece....
...The Fromm space at M7, which was designed by Carlos Beghetti, is a bright, open-plan hub with huge communal tables. The building highlights the collaborative ethos Fromm promotes....
...Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors is more than a beautiful chamber opera for the Christmas season; it has a unique place in opera and cultural history....
...But he hoped Valentino’s creative team would “do [him] proud”....
...Viva Boutique is a one-stop shop – they have cool African brands like Éki Kèré but also Bottega and Valentino....
...For her wedding to Torretta, in 2018, she wore high-necked Valentino haute couture....
...Pinnacles in the collection are a desk and chair by Carlo Bugatti, lamps by Tiffany Studios and furniture by Osvaldo Borsani, Gino Maggioni and, of course, Majorelle....
...Alongside essays from writer and filmmaker Federici Lodoli and artist-filmmaker Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli is a text by Pierpaolo Piccioli, creative director of Valentino, who praises Berretta’s “raw aesthetic...
...(FT) Broken glass Few executives at Nissan emerged unscathed following ex-chief Carlos Ghosn’s arrest and ousting....
...Remo Ruffini, chairman and chief executive of Moncler, approached rival luxury brand owner Carlo Rivetti after his son, Romeo, saw the Stone Island chief speak at a conference late last year and insisted...
...This obviously has a devastating impact on suppliers,” said Carlo Capasa, president of the Italian national fashion chamber....
...Pierpaolo Piccioli, creative director of Valentino, acknowledges more internal changes are needed: “At Valentino we are developing a series of [HR, training and partnership] initiatives . . . because I believe...
...Valentino and Fendi, which typically show in Paris, are also joining the Milan calendar this season with in-person shows....
...His recent guest appearances in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake have lent fresh force to his always confident stage presence, but he looks underpowered in Romeo’s solos and is frequently outdanced by Valentino...
...A grudging two stars for Carlos Acosta’s 2013 production but five, or even six, for the dancing at the opening night of the latest revival led by Marianela Nuñez and the spring-driven Vadim Muntagirov....
...Libby Coleman suggests a version of the Bechdel test for evaluating what we watch (The Lily). Delay, deny and deflect: how Facebook’s leaders fought through crisis....
...Valentino, 17/19 Avenue Montaigne, 75008 (+331-4723 6461; valentino.com) The best souvenir I’ve brought home recently is a wonderful wide choker of beads made by the Masai who have settled in Lamu, making...
...The most desirable streets include Via dei Tre Orologi, a cul-de-sac with a handful of early 20th-century villas, Via di San Valentino and Via Carlo Dolci....
...In his Milan atelier, master embroiderer Pino Grasso is explaining how he created an intricate weave of sequins and silk for a design that recalls a Renaissance fresco but is, in fact, a piece of a Valentino...
...“The best condition for Silvio Berlusconi is to find an agreement after he is back in power,” says Carlo Alberto Carnevale Maffe, media business expert at Milan’s Bocconi University....
...(FT) NYT: Slim fit Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim this week announced he would sell half his 17 per cent stake in the Gray Lady....
...Carlo Mareels, a credit analyst at MUFG Securities, says he does not see the Co-op Bank’s business as being particularly attractive for other banks “given its specificities of being a co-operative bank”....
...Peter Marino has drawn inspiration from fellow architects Sir John Soane and Carlo Scarpa, by way of Murano crystal chandeliers and classical columns....
...Mid-set Graham traded funk nostalgia by asking each member of the band to name their key influence — Carlos Santana and James Brown were among those mentioned and uncannily imitated....
...The film is one of a clutch of broadcasts rounding off the BBC’s Year of Song and Dance, which includes Darcey Bussell on the rise of the male ballet dancer and Alan Yentob on the making of Carlos Acosta...
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