Hints and tips:
...Di(v)e-hard Omega fans have been waiting to see what the brand will do to mark the 75th anniversary of its Seamaster line, which now sprawls from the non-diver Aqua Terra to the does-what-it-says-on-the-label...
...On a huge coffee table near an outdoor fireplace is a magazine featuring Schwarzenegger on the cover, alongside a well-thumbed script with handwritten notes, a wooden box of Cuban cigars and the guillotine...
...Through the sale of bracelets and pendants, the brand has raised more than $20mn to provide water, immunisations and educational tools to those in need. louisvuittonforunicef.com V is for Visual AidsAcne...
...Habanos markets the Cohiba, Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta, Partagás, Hoyo de Monterrey and H Upmann brands of cigars....
...Even Oliver Spencer, proprietor of Favourbrook, a brand built on the flamboyance of the velvet jacket, sounds a note of caution....
...A ring of LEDs shaped like LV’s signature flowers lights up in a kaleidoscope of shades in time to the music, and a further circle of lights flashes “L-O-U-I-S-V-U-I-T-T-O-N.”...
...Philippe Blondiaux, Chanel chief financial officer, says: “Chanel N°5 has a halo effect for our whole brand. It’s a very important business for us.” Lipstick came next....
...Born in Poplar in the 1920s to a Chinese father and Lithuanian mother, Hitchins became known as “The Flash”, igniting the dance floors of London with his jive, rumba, rock ’n’ roll and mambo moves – captured...
...Like the thrill I still receive on disembarking at Geneva’s Cointrin airport to look at watches, touching down at José Marti airport in pursuit of further insights into the mysteries of The Cuban Cigar is...
...Imperial inherited Cuban brands such as Montecristo, Cohiba and Romeo y Julieta, when it in 2008 acquired Spanish tobacco group Altadis, at the time the world’s largest maker of cigars, in a €16.2bn deal...
...“I was always so surprised that no one had created a brand like this....
...Imperial Brands is up 3 per cent after selling its cigars business....
...Clothes, watches, car parts… the list of NOS items is long, and it now includes cigars. This summer, Cuban-cigar importer Hunters & Frankau released its first batch of House Reserve cigars....
...But many viewers at home quickly zeroed in on what was around her neck: a delicate chain with four letter charms: V-O-T-E....
...Within detail N American organic was 3.6% (profits down c3%), Europe organic -4.3% (profits down c29%) and RoW organic 3.1% (profit –c19%)....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...Telegram teasers Dr Doom himself, Nouriel Roubini, joined us on Thursday, warning of a lobal recession (he has to stay on-brand)....
...Just 30% expect a V shaped recovery in the stock market....
...The energy transition strategy update in March is key to becoming more positive on the stock, absent a V-shaped recovery for their O&G customers. Glaring value?...
...“I don’t think it’s a V-recovery,” he says. “An elongated U is perfectly possible. I’m a conservative. I plan for the worst and hope for better....
...For S&N it all boils down to 2020 adjusted trading profit of $1,218bn to US$1.241bn versus a consensus of $1.243bn, so hardly a warning at all....
...It’s a place for mixed grills, ox heart, buttered carrots and breakfasts that cross into Man v Food territory....
...Big brands are signing sponsorship deals with artists, and MTV and Bollywood are involved....
...Gucci currently has a Mick Jagger worthy rock’n’roll pink floral brocade suit with nipped waist and flared trousers (£4,150, net-a-porter.com); Spanish ready-to-wear brand Uterqüe offers a lime-green wrap-front...
...An indulgence I would never forgo is a good Cuban cigar, once a week. I am partial to Partagas No 4s and Cohibas. I’m usually very healthy, so this is my one treat....
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