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...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....
...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...
...“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....
...The second is The Terror by Dan Simmons (Bantam, £12.99)....
...Sold-out booths were reported by David Kordansky gallery (works by Ivan Morley, $40,000-$85,000) and Simon Lee (Donna Huanca, $50,000-$75,000). Frieze runs until Sunday....
...A school friend, Robert Wynne-Simmons, with whom I had invented a board game that has since become quietly cultish (“The Gothic Game”, relaunched this year as “Damnation”), had said to me in the months after...
...Gerry was formerly head of Simmons & Simmons’ real estate team and three associates from the firm will be joining him at Ashurst....
...There are similarities here to Jonathan Goldstein’s H eavyweight in the series’ wry tone and its examination of human lives and how the past informs the future....
...& Simmons, Baker McKenzie and Hogan Lovells also joining....
...At the hands of Donna Tartt and John Grisham, Mississippi has received thorougher literary treatment in recent times than California’s world-changing peninsula....
...Paola Leocani, partner and head of the debt capital markets group, Milan, Simmons & Simmons It has been a busy year for Paola Leocani....
...Still, its former owners, which included Thomas H Lee Partners, made a profit of $750m through special dividends, according to a New York Times investigation....
...Melrose and Hanson will have even more in common if GKN proves too big a bite — Lord H’s 1991 assault on ICI Group failed....
...Photographs: Sotheby’s; Christie’s; Di Donna gallery...
...All three are customers of Ramsdens, one of the three biggest UK pawnbrokers, along with H&T and Albemarle and Bond....
...“Young people love the history of Newport, but in the end they simply get a lot more for their money here,” says Donna Krueger-Simmons, a broker at Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty....
...They have also faced pressure from the success of fast-fashion rivals like H&M and Zara, which mimic runway styles for a fraction of the cost....
...While high-street brands including Uniqlo and H&M have teamed up with Muslim designers and models to better serve the hijabi shopper....
...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....
...Mr Larsson learnt his own trade at H&M — the Swedish company that, with Inditex of Spain, pioneered “fast fashion” at affordable prices....
...Buyers “certainly want history and charm, but also a place that caters to their need for contemporary living,” says Donna Krueger-Simmons, a broker at Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty and the...
...“I was seated next to [fellow Brit and shoe designer] Tabitha Simmons and she was so sweet,” he says, from New York, of the moment his name was announced. “It was a cloud nine moment”....
...Omar Simmons, a private equity executive who closed more than 20 principal transactions exceeding $2.6B in aggregate transaction value....
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