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...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...As suggested by the decidedly sceptical response to Neom, Saudi Arabia’s project for a generic B-movie science-fiction city built in a straight line (170km long and 500 metres high), we are much less fascinated...
...start-ups in Europe are profitable — and they’re all fintechs....
...The organisers like to boast that it’s the biggest horse race in Europe. The Grand National only has 40....
...“It is a healthy correction for all of those ‘nice to have’ fintechs, especially series B and above”....
...As always, reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to share your feedback on today’s newsletter. Happy reading!...
...The world’s big museums, including the V&A in London (which is building a large accessible archive in the Olympic Park with architects Diller Scofidio & Renfro), seem to have suddenly, collectively, decided...
...As ever, drop Imani (Imani.Moise@ft.com) or myself (Sid.V@ft.com) your emails with thoughts and suggested topics for coverage. Have a great week!...
...In Japan, there’s a category of dining called B-kyu, which means “B-ranked” and refers to cheap but delicious “soul food”....
...Goldman predicts that Brent will hit $90/b by then — $10/b higher than it previously forecast....
...And B, that the strategy would be to decapitate the Ukrainian government. So what's your reading of that view from Moscow?...
...Sales, which were already doing “very well” in China, the US and pockets such as Dubai, are also now picking up in Europe, where American tourists began flocking again to Chanel boutiques over the summer...
...The backers of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine intend to sue the Brazilian health regulator for defamation....
...One of the main drivers of the surge in new cases is the advent of the highly infectious B.1.1.7 variant of coronavirus, first discovered in the UK....
...The effectiveness data of Moscow’s Sputnik V vaccine have at least been properly peer reviewed, unlike the Sinopharm jab....
...“The vaccine crisis in Europe shows us we were right to think we could not count on other countries. Even neighbours have no mercy on each other under these circumstances,” he said....
...It was set up to fulfil the country’s dream of building and producing proprietary midsized-to-large commercial jets, a sector dominated by the US and Europe....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...Balapanov, the Kazakh businessman whose role is described in the FT articles; iv) according to these clarifications, the true beneficiary of the scheme is a person who knows Mr Balapanov and Mr Karmanov; v)...
...Whichever shape the recovery takes — V, W or L — any emissions decline flattens out by the middle of the decade....
...In short, what we are seeing may be something more serious than some sand in the wheels of the juggernaut of rising oil demand, easily fixed via a historic supply cut and a V-shaped recovery....
...In that note we discussed the €3.7trn investment that Europe was to embark on....
...That compares with Saudi Arabia’s promised increase of supplies by 2.5m b/d alongside an eventual 1m b/d boost to capacity. Other Russian producers have argued against Mr Sechin’s aggressive approach....
...Just 30% expect a V shaped recovery in the stock market....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
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