Hints and tips:
...Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: V-neck jumpers are back in fashion....
...Not quite, but you’d be forgiven for thinking so, given the return of models from that era. The nostalgic references didn’t stop there....
...In the title role, Emily d’Angelo has tremendous panache and a firm, arresting mezzo-soprano that records very well....
...Adam D’Angelo, chief executive of question-and-answer platform Quora, will remain a board member....
...But it’s hard not to conclude that a chill wind is blowing through European football this winter....
...I wish we’d had the magic carpet to float us from the cool, damp roadside to sunnier, warmer San Luis Potosí state....
...Then you really want a low or western V cut....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...If someone had told me I’d be wearing Birkenstocks and socks 20 years ago, I would have shot them. And now I live in Birkenstocks and socks!”...
...“Even Gen Z, who were all about T-shirts with logos and sneakers, are getting more sophisticated,” adds D’Arpizio....
...His speciality is vine pruning, a slightly esoteric subject but a task that every grower has to perform on every vine, every winter....
...Bain Capital has hired Brookfield Asset Management’s Angelo Rufino to join its special-situations unit, Bloomberg reports....
...Luca Robotti, who has managed the Pavé shops since 2013, says they’d rather welcome “one more person than a laptop”....
...The stylist Wilow Diallo happened across this town in the coastal region of Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau, while delivering school supplies to the local children one day last winter....
...Sure, the warmer months come with Aperol spritzes and vitamin D, but winter, oh winter — season of layers and mellow schlumpiness — is when the undisputed king of the wardrobe, the coat, comes into its own...
...“Losing the shirt gives you a really clean V-section. It’s quite subversive but sophisticated. Showing a bit of skin in summer is about as racy as a man can get.”...
...Pech took Monreal to a production of Prokofiev’s L’Angelo di Fuoco (The Fiery Angel) for their first date. Monreal, who’d never been to the Teatro, loved it....
...This passion goes back to shooting’s zenith 100 years ago, when success was measured by the size of a hunt’s bag: a party led by George V holds the record for killing 3,937 pheasants in one day....
...Olivia V, a video editor living in Toronto, started the @indiesleaze Instagram account because she felt it was a decade “not yet neatly defined or revisited”....
...I’d be interested to hear readers’ shopping experiences: what’s your main way of stocking up on gifts ahead of the festive season? Email me your thoughts at sid.v@ft.com....
...He’d turned Mick Jagger away for wearing the wrong shoes. I was scared I wouldn’t get past, but he said come in, and that’s when I decided to make clothes.”...
...On a winter morning two years ago, the doorman stationed there took a hard look at two uninvited guests....
...If you’d rather avoid leather, try a crunched velvet skirt, like this vintage Junya Watanabe (€280, resee.com)....
...You can reach me at sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...The space beneath the Winter Studio has been opened up, filled with a café and shop....
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