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...Paco Rabanne chainmail 1969 Moon bag, £1,210, net-a-porter.com Venini glass Deco small vase by Napoleone Martinuzzi, $700, 1stdibs.com Frédéric Malle foam bath by Dominique Ropion, £95 for 300ml Chopard...
...Jean-Marie Guffens could be said to wear the Mâconnais crown....
...Congratulations to: Andy, Dominique, Theo, Simon, Benjamin, Ben, Ben David and Julian (joint entry), Arvin, Alex (who tried to influence the scrutineers by including a picture of his cats, Diego and Marie...
...The trend, which also has a whiff of The White Lotus about it, caters to “all parts of your lifestyle, even the most understated end-uses”, says Libby Page, market director at Net-a-Porter....
...Alain Dominique Perrin, the legendary luxury goods guru, feels exactly the same way....
...Magic Circus Éditions Marie-Lise Féry’s playful designs will catch the eye at Maison&Objet. Her Big Chain 01 – Empoli pendant light is one jaw dropper....
...The inspiration, that is, for a young Italian luggage porter at the Savoy hotel, taken by the lifestyle of its elegant clientele, to return home and launch his luxury-leather-goods company in 1921....
...Perhaps unsurprisingly for a former French prime minister, Dominique de Villepin lives in a fabulously appointed apartment on a smart street near the Place de l’Etoile in Paris....
...In a note for the Institut Montaigne think-tank, the political scientist Dominique Moïsi was more trenchant, taking issue with Macron’s refusal to choose sides over Taiwan “and more broadly the geopolitical...
...A new biopic, starring Billy Porter as Baldwin, was announced this year....
...He has nominated Marie Buisson, a schoolteacher, to succeed him, although other candidates are also running....
...“Marie-Christine has an incredible eye, which you can see in her cuts, colour palette and use of different fabrications and textures....
...Dominique F PasquierParis, France...
...Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s “Madame Moitessier” (1856) is a portrait of the most aggressively patterned, restless dress ever fixed on canvas. The fabric surges across half the picture....
...“It’s all in the fabric and cut, which should feel elevated with luxe touches,” says London-based personal stylist Anne-Marie Curtis....
...The brand is not yet profitable, but Marie Leblanc, who was promoted to the role of chief executive in 2019, says: “We’re on the right trajectory . . . We’re nearing break-even in the next 12 months.”...
...“Or Marie Galvin is a milliner who has designed for Alicia Keys and TLC, or you could try the Afrofuturism of Queen Adeline, whose work is sold at the Peabody Essex museum.”...
...Natalie Sytner, a former fashion buyer for Browns and Net-a-Porter, founded her ceramics brand Bettina Ceramica last August, inspired by her Italian mother’s knack of decorating their home with traditional...
...French chef Marie-Antoine Carême codified the four “mother sauces” in the early 19th century, but it was Auguste Escoffier who introduced the “daughter sauces” a century later and with them made wine a structural...
...“It won’t be easy for her to get elected, but she can get a much better score than in 2017 and that’s already a problem,” political analyst Dominique Reynié told the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris...
...In 2017, the journalist and military expert Jean-Dominique Merchet published a thought-provoking book entitled Macron Bonaparte....
...His fearless takedown of far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen in a televised debate in 1989 impressed Mitterrand, who later named him as minister of urban affairs, to the shock of others in the cabinet...
...The best gift I’ve given recently is a 1967 Fender Jaguar electric guitar to my sister, Marie. She’s an artist, but before that she was in rock bands....
...It will show that the traditional political parties can no longer stop them,” said Dominique Reynié, a political-science professor who heads the Fondapol think-tank....
...She’s in the Marie-Antoinette suite. But in general I prefer comfortable and cosy places over fancy ones....
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