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...The FT’s review of Mariame Clément’s production of Don Giovanni from this summer deemed it muddled. Rather than trying to find logic to it — who are these cheerleaders in pink tutus?...
...Venera Gimadieva (Donna Anna), Ruzan Mantashyan (Donna Elvira), Victoria Randem (Zerlina), and Jerzy Butryn (the Commendatore) all tended to employ overblown vibrato when putting any pressure on their voices...
...Among them were biographies of George Washington, by Woodrow Wilson and others, reminiscences of Old New York by Charles H Haswell, and of India by a Lt Col Pollock....
...“That’s the job,” Clements-Gillespie says....
...It’s this approach that’s motivated many of fashion and luxury’s largest companies, including LVMH, Gucci owner Kering, H&M, VF Corp, Gap, Zara parent Inditex and Stella McCartney to pledge their allegiance...
...In recent years, high street brands including H&M-owned Cos and Arket have introduced capsule collections with materials sourced from e-commerce returns and worn garments gathered from customers via in-store...
...On display will be previously unseen 1985 footage of Clark’s solo dance to “Cosmic Dancer” by T-Rex, from our caca phoney H. our caca phoney H, performed at London’s Riverside Studios....
...“Rising from nothing to 285km/h in moments, like an explosion.”...
...Donna Kilpatrick, who works on a ranch in Arkansas, explains how we can make a difference as consumers....
...At the hands of Donna Tartt and John Grisham, Mississippi has received thorougher literary treatment in recent times than California’s world-changing peninsula....
...Jean Ergas, of Tigress Financial Partners, suggested an analogy with Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, the two great British politicians of the right and left who maintained a coalition throughout the...
...Photographs: Sotheby’s; Christie’s; Di Donna gallery...
...The countries of the empire won their independence, the British economy was weak and, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee apart, we had mediocre political leadership....
...While high-street brands including Uniqlo and H&M have teamed up with Muslim designers and models to better serve the hijabi shopper....
...Donna Herdsman Director, Hewlett Packard 84. Lance Kawaguchi Managing director and global sector head resources and energy group, HSBC 85....
...So-called fast fashion retailers have thrived in the current climate, with Zara and H&M continuously updating merchandise to keep up with consumer trends. US retailer J....
...gnawing at the Liberals’ electoral base since Edwardian times, finally supplanted them as the chief standard-bearer of progressive politics in the 1920s and 1930s, building a momentum that would culminate in Clement...
Rambert Triptych, The Age of Anxiety, Swan Lake, Moscow City Ballet and Lord of the Flies
...Mr Larsson learnt his own trade at H&M — the Swedish company that, with Inditex of Spain, pioneered “fast fashion” at affordable prices....
...David H Wells, Wimborne, Dorset, UK...
...(H/T Emma Jacobs at the Business Blog)....
...was shortlisted for the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize for his biography of Winston Churchill) and Labour politician who helped form the Social Democratic party and whose career spanned a half-century from Clement...
...His nemesis, Clement Attlee, was perhaps the most radical prime minister of the 20th century, creator of the welfare state....
...In the UK at H&H’s Duxford sale, a 1956 Bentley S1 Continental made a noteworthy £308,000, while at Bonhams’ first sale at the company’s new headquarters showroom in New Bond Street a 1903 Clement Talbot...
...This volume tells of a grand operatic melodrama, though played out as often by general managers and unions as by prima donnas. Too breathless, but even-handed in its judgments....
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