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...At €10bn, it would have an enterprise value-to-ebitda multiple far below rivals such as L’Oréal. In the battle for Chinese ecommerce, Alibaba is struggling to knock Temu from the top spot....
...Four have adopted pro-ESG laws, according to the K&L Gates law firm....
...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...
...It recalls the previous two records from the west African supergroup which were produced by Liam Farrell, aka Doctor L, best known for his work with Kinshasa noise band Mbongwana Star....
...exhibition juxtaposing pioneers of the first Parisian avant-garde in the 1860s-80s demonstrated the Orsay in full force: Manet’s “The Balcony” and Degas’s “The Bellelli Family”, Manet’s “Olympia” and Degas’s “L’...
...Argylle himself is an international smoothie and master spy, played by Henry Cavill with a bog-brush haircut and a Roger Moore smirk....
...L’Objet, meanwhile, has taken modern marquetry to the next level with its Edgar collection, which features a design with a triangle of burr dyed striking blue – “accentuating the preciousness of the wood...
...The artist perhaps best known for committing dance to canvas is Edgar Degas, who obsessively turned out some 1,500 depictions of ballet dancers between the 1860s and the early 1900s, including bronze sculptures...
...elaine.moore@ft.com...
...Rep Earl L Carter You know about the milk crate. You know about the blackout challenge. You know about the NyQuil chicken challenge....
...It’s as if Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti have collaborated on dinner....
...Manet’s most controversial family picture, “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” (1863), a nude woman seated at a picnic between two clothed figures, one based on Manet’s brother, the other on his brother-in-law, hangs...
...L’Oréal purchased Aesop from Brazilian conglomerate Natura for $2.5bn last year, in a record deal that makes it the French beauty company’s highest-value acquisition to date....
...The dish of apples — mela — is close to melos (melody), the trompe l’oeil fly — musca — alights on another score, musica....
...“Prudential is focused on Asia and L&G is a social investor. What’s your one-sentence mission statement?” I asked, expecting a slick response. The man coughed. He took a drink of water....
...Company insider Daniel Moore will step in as interim finance head. Abrdn has named Jason Windsor as its new finance chief and an executive director. He was previously CFO of Aviva....
...Aged 72, he stood to cheer Nijinsky’s explicitly sexual movements and gestures in the Ballets Russes’s L’après-midi d’un faune at its Paris premiere in 1912....
...For the exhibition finale, I would have preferred a reimagining of the more theatrical “L’Atteso” (2018), for which he filled Turin’s OGR arts centre with abandoned cars and vans....
...Google Search was once one of the wonders of the online world, writes Elaine Moore....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...It’s concerned about links between the foundation and a company controlled by Moore’s daughter....
...scraps of notes (“the brutality of fact”, “highly controlled chaos”) — around the twisted “Study for a Portrait of John Edwards” in Francis Bacon’s studio faces careful order and tactile temptation in Henry Moore...
...Her blue-grey eyes focus on the poster for the Sam Szafran exhibition currently on at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris....
...Now it makes sense why such a powerhouse line-up of international A-listers — Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Lupita Nyong’o, plus less renowned stars Diane Kruger, Fan Bingbing and man-candy Edgar Ramírez...
...Edgar Wright’s affectionate documentary about Ron and Russell Mael, the brothers who comprise the band Sparks, canters joyfully through their biographies, pop history and — like all the best rock docs —...
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