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...In Donna di spalle in un interno, the white and red print on black calls to mind the women’s SS13 collection; while the bourgeois mood of Ritratto di signora con calle recalls the ladylike film noir-ish...
...There were travel books that took readers through “wild Norway” or “joyful Russia”, or big game hunting, but also the brisk Bicycling for Ladies by the “wheelwoman” Maria E Ward....
...When Donna Giorgiana passed away last year, her daughter Sabina joined the event’s longtime co-director, Neri Torrigiani, to rethink how Artigianato e Palazzo would respond to the changing artisan landscape...
...“We work with product that has already been made, stuff that has gone back because it was defective, or it was returned to an e-commerce website....
...Rooms and suites: 99 Spa: None Restaurant: Il Ferro e Il Fuoco, a seriously ambitious gastronomic affair with all the attendant bells and whistles of design and presentation USP: Views; charm; that slight...
...Round on the Links The link was Doctor Who Josephine Baker The Master Norman Hartnell Emily Davison (suffragette at the Derby) Screwdriver Lewis Capaldi Amy Red rose “La donna è mobile” The Regeneration...
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...Driven by the rise in e-commerce, where sampling has become an essential step before purchase, sample sizes are perfect for travel and today’s offerings include everything, from 60ml Virtue shampoos to the...
...But there is a wealth of talent to be tapped; from womenswear designers such as Huda Al Nuaimi, Anatomi, Abadia and Bambah, to fine jewellery brands such as Donna Hourani and Maha Lozi....
...I wonder whether the roles are now being reversed, as the man raised on bricks-and-mortar underestimates just how much e-commerce is upending his world....
...The company’s bottom-line was impacted by charges tied to its acquisition of the Donna Karan business last year and $10.5m in asset impairments....
...“Buying on audience has a huge benefit for the marketer,” said Donna Speciale, ad sales president at Turner, whose networks include CNN, TNT and TBS....
...“Now the name of the game is to improve the efficiency of existing stores, develop e-commerce and omnichannels.”...
...Iovine’s knack for spotting winners was evident again a couple of years later in 1981, when he produced Bella Donna, Stevie Nicks’ first solo album outside Fleetwood Mac....
...Two western curators, David Galloway and Donna Stein, were retained to assist in assembling the collection. “When we started, my plan was not to have a museum of modern art....
...Donna Jones, council leader, says Portsmouth is the most densely populated city outside London. “We don’t have the capacity for many more people....
...No one knows quite when fans decided that “Guantanamera” was appropriate for terrace songs but, in the past couple of decades, it has joined “Blue Moon” and Verdi’s “La donna è mobile” as a vehicle for expressions...
...Every top note rings out with lustre, giving “Je veux vivre” (Roméo et Juliette) and “E strano” (La traviata) the wherewithal to bring the house down....
...He opens with a leaden “La donna è mobile” (Rigoletto) that reveals more heroic strain than Italianate style....
...Surely telling the doctor that you’re in “bleeding agony” – as an A&E patient once shouted at me – doesn’t need further clarification? (“Can’t you see she’s in pain?”...
...At one point in the film Bertolucci returns to the Villa Verdi, with which he appears to have developed a Verdian feud to the death, stands outside the gates, and gratuitously blasts “La Donna è Mobile”...
...The E-major Scherzo became a sentimental ballad, Midsummer’s Eve. The orchestra served soupy distortions, nonstop....
...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....
...They went to 25 sites in six months and identified the artisans who could produce at scale, raised money from individuals “interested in a double bottom line” (i.e., both corporate and moral profits), hired...
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