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...It reminded me of the couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga, whose mid-century silhouettes were revolutionary — and often somewhat unwearable. But they watered down wide, and they changed fashion....
...When I’m dropped off at my hotel in Garachico, the suitcase I’d left at a reception desk in San Cristóbal de La Laguna that morning magically awaits....
...In this, it reflects the studied perfectionism of Cristóbal Balenciaga himself....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. A favourite topic of political commentary is the long-term decline of European social democracy and the moderate left. I chipped in last year with my own thoughts on that....
...But I’ve seen several influencers looking chic in bonnets, not to mention dry, so I can’t help but feel I’m on to something....
...I’m not sure,” chief executive Alex Bolen says in a video interview from the brand’s headquarters in midtown Manhattan. “But we have to experiment with new ways to get our story out.”...
...“A lot of my career I was really occupied with [being cool], but I’m comfortable now,” Gordon said afterwards. “Carolina Herrera is about colour, about beauty....
...I’m unsure if they’ve been asking for denims studded with life-sized golden roses and ear lobes, or matador jackets embroidered with original 1930s threads — but those were there, too....
...“I’m really into fairytales – so it’s like we’re bringing life to a Sleeping Beauty,” says the 43-year-old with a smile....
...Some companies are looking to strike deals that will help them weather tougher economic climate, said Nestor Paz-Galindo, global co-head of M&A at UBS....
...“People are thinking about how to build scale and resilience, and that is a driver of M&A,” according to Nestor Paz-Galindo, global co-head of M&A at UBS....
...UBS has appointed Nestor Paz-Galindo global co-head of M&A; Philipp Beck head of M&A for the Emea region; and David Descoteaux and Solon Kentas co-heads of M&A for the Americas region....
...“I’m very aware that I’m in somebody else’s house,” he says. “But I’m also aware that Kering took me for a reason. It’s not like I’m neutral, or Swiss.” Life in Zürich has mellowed Gvasalia....
...That’s why I’m going to fight, that’s why I’m going to commit a lot to Bolivia because I think it would be much easier, in my case, to stay [as interim president] in this transition stage.”...
...But I’m dubious of how much support there is for a party like Podemos in a country that is recovering.”...
...One of the first on the scene was CocoVivo, started 18 years ago by Ulrich Gall on Isla Cristóbal in Panama’s Bocas del Toro....
...They make me feel I’m on holiday every day. Oliver Spencer linen shirt, from £110; oliverspencer.co.uk....
...I don’t have cash and I’m trying to contact my family in San Cristobal [in western Venezuela].” In a line of cars at a petrol station, Euclides Díaz said he was filling up “as a precaution”....
...(FT) News Round-up What’s driving the global M&A boom?...
...“I’m quite sure that the European Union will take measures.” Further sanctions could push the embattled and cash-strapped nation closer to default on its $70bn of traded debt....
...Adriane M, 4 Rue Saint-Dominique, Paris 75007 (+331-4222 2246; adrianem.fr). Barovier & Toso, Fondamenta Vetrai 28, Murano 30141 (+39041-739 049; barovier.com)....
...“Cristóbal Balenciaga’s interest when dressing a woman as a couturier was to make her look or feel better in her clothes,” he says....
...I'm transfixed by the resurgence of Silvio Berlusconi as a force in Italian politics — partly because I arrived in Milan as the FT correspondent just before the 1994 election that catapulted him for the...
...Mike’s News Stand and Candy Land was a Harlem fixture since 1932 (I’m not sure if it’s still there), growing almost parasitically in between the iron railings of an old brownstone....
...I’m convinced of that,” he told reporters in Cochabamba on Saturday. “The rightwingers were there.”...
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