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...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...Then the Americans came....
...The mid 19th century saw the arrival of Italy’s big breweries — Peroni, Moretti, Poretti, Menabrea et al — as well as the grape phylloxera blight that drove demand for alternatives to wine....
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...In the US, a survey by the American Pet Products Association in December found that 10 per cent of respondents got a new pet as a direct result of the pandemic....
...House of Cards, BoJack Horseman and Orange Is the New Black to brag about until the cavalry — Stranger Things, Narcos et al — arrived....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...This finding is also in line with previous literature on the subject (Yoshikawa et al., 1995; Pras et al., 2009; Pras & Guostavino, 2010)....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...Josh Wood, Colour Shade Shot Plus, £5, joshwoodcolour.com Last year the colourist loved by Laura Bailey, Elle Macpherson et al brought us an easy-to-use home hair colourant....
...Like the pioneers with their sense of American exceptionalism, there’s a messianic fervour to California’s remaking of the world....
...The rape resulted in a pregnancy, and Allred returned home to the US to have an illegal abortion (this was before Roe v Wade)....
...Gallery, then home to Bacon, Pollock, Henry Moore et al, as saying, “I don’t collect art, I collect money.”...
...My style icon is Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani....
...He hung out in 1960s New York with what he calls the “sculpture mafia” (Richard Serra, Frank Stella et al) and says: “They didn’t like me at all....
...In the Netflix world, Comcast et al still deliver the content, but they need to find a new way of getting paid....
...The question is whether that benefit would look so attractive were JPMorgan et al forced to internalise most of the costs of a breakup while remaining in their current form....
...Angels Karlie Kloss, Doutzen Kroes, Lily Aldridge et al fly into London for the first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on British soil (@victoriasecret)....
...They know me by name, and always recommend their best products. Then if it’s a sunny day I go to the Puces de Vanves fleamarket (avenue Georges Lafenestre, 14th) five minutes from home....
...The book trade may be held up by the blockbusters – JK Rowling, Stieg Larsson, EL James et al, but Foyles’ market is different....
...Bayer is less well known than his contemporaries at the Bauhaus – Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy et al – perhaps because, having emigrated from Germany in 1938, he spent so much of...
...In a show ostensibly about Pop Art design, it is mostly art that is the star (Blake, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Warhol et al)....
...It is about the need for products that signify membership in a group, be it the cult of celebrity-for-celebrity’s sake that drove the Bling Ring to invade the homes of Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton et al and...
...That figure pales against the total value of the US housing market – $23.7tn at the end of 2012, according to Zillow – but it could grow exponentially if Blackstone et al are able to get their hands on cheap...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
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