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...L’Oréal last year bought Australian high-end cosmetics group Aesop from its Brazilian owner in a transaction with an enterprise value of $2.5bn while Gucci-owner Kering paid €3.5bn to acquire the fragrance...
...“The key is that it ticks all the boxes,” said François-Xavier de Mallmann, chair of investment banking at Goldman Sachs who has worked closely with Puig on its IPO....
...Farmer and his colleagues Diana Greenwald and François Lafond turned to the second world war for data. After 1939, the US vastly expanded production of military hardware, from radar to blankets....
...We’ve been together ever since.” 105 Great Russell Street, formerly the office of literary editor and author Diana Athill, is a suitably eccentric home for Cornelissen....
...Sraer, who became CEO following the deal with L Catterton....
...One French frigate, L’Oiseau, carted off 18,635 between 1759 and 1761 (as the naturalist Gerald Durrell noted when he described a visit here in 1976)....
...Those textural, trompe-l’œil effects interrupt the slickness of photorealism. “These visual cues of entropy are a demarcation of time, or real life,” the artist says....
...The Orsay includes prominent examples from 1874: “Sarpédon”, Henri Lévy’s three-metre tale of heroism in the Trojan wars, immediately bought by the state; Jean-Léon Gérôme’s “L’Éminence Grise”, a story about...
...The rest comes from visitors; fees, events and the support of many Friends worldwide (l.saintleger@vaux-le-vicomte.fr, for details)....
...Its exhibition will feature the desk designed by Pierre Paulin in 1983 for François Mitterrand’s presidential office....
...L’arbore di Diana (Diana’s Tree) is a satirical comedy, a political allegory, and a steamy tale of sex and transgression....
...Gamestop chief financial officer Diana Saadeh-Jajeh will resign in August after roughly a year at the group run by hedge fund billionaire Ryan Cohen....
...That is often the way with Zaks — his work is highly addictive, Mike Tyson once bought six jackets at once, while François-Henry Bennahmias, the ebullient outgoing chief executive of Audemars Piguet, has...
...Boasting the biggest glass roof in Europe, “on a sunny day, the effect is incredible”, says François Chatillon, gazing up at the 17,500sq m, barrel-vaulted glass ceiling of Paris’s preeminent pleasure dome...
...His daughter Adèle followed a British army officer to Canada in 1863, while his son François-Victor left Guernsey following the death of his fiancée in 1865....
...ELV Denim cotton Diana shirt, £215. Sunspel supima cotton T-shirt, £85. Louis Vuitton cotton denim trousers, £1,500. Manolo Blahnik leather Tarquinio shoes, £725....
...Others found that it spoke like an English tourist in Marbella: “Muchas gracias for your understanding, y I’ll ensure we’re being as crystal-clear como l’eau from now on.”...
...The Belgian explorer François Fournier bought the island for his new wife Sylvia in 1912. “Do you want it…?”...
...First out of the gate in September was One Sloane, the maiden UK foray from Parisian hotelier Jean-Louis Costes and François-Joseph Graf, the maître of sumptuous interiors (and one of the most revered talents...
...“This idea of the eternal wanderer, or l’étranger, stayed with him his whole life.”...
...After three months of soldier training, he joined the palace’s some 30-strong kitchen team, cooking for presidents Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and François Mitterrand....
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...Folgiero, who became chief executive in May, said an understanding on the long-mooted deal with former French president François Hollande changed under Emmanuel Macron....
...My ex-husband [a French obstetrician, François Olivennes] said this brilliant thing: he loves his grandchildren so much that the children are just a byproduct.”...
...The new division will be “strategically important” as part of the group’s efforts to build “a new area of expertise”, said group managing director Jean-François Palus....
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