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...Recent staff defections have included John Erle-Drax and Geoffrey Parton, at Marlborough for more than 50 years each when they left in 2023 to work with another alum, Frankie Rossi....
...“Demand [for cognac] is pretty soft in the US,” LVMH CFO Jean-Jacques Guiony told analysts....
...The younger Alice (Eryn Jean Norvill) is shepherded into a brittle 1950s marriage to Graham, who soon becomes controlling....
...It’s flowy, light and oversized, and is easy to wear over a tank top and jeans in spring or knotted at the waist to go to the beach or the park in summer....
...This Victoria Beckham bib shirt can be worn loose or cinched and pairs nicely with a tailored trouser or smart jean (£294 on sale, victoriabeckham.com)....
...At a recent rural wedding in north Wales, I paired a pink waistcoat with matching trousers from the French label The Frankie Shop and was met with bemusement....
...Also see Marfa Stance, APC (the Nath in dark khaki and Nicole in blue denim), Frankie Shop and Aligne....
...Frankie Deakon at Global Marketing Group for Chicago. Ruth Tiffen at Playbill Group for Matilda. Genette Butler at Working Title Films for Billy Elliot. Eduardo Desouza at Creative Goods for Hamilton....
...What makes us laugh after Brexit will be very different from what worked in the age of the silly walk, just as this had moved on from the days when the French traveller Jean Froissart could observe that...
...set new tone (FT) GE cuts dividend to just 1 cent after $22bn writedown (FT) BP’s gushing profits allow $10.5bn cash purchase of BHP assets (FT) Bunge nears settlement agreements with activists (WSJ) Frankie...
...A youthful but engagingly crumpled 55, he greets me in jeans and blue shirt and leads me into the kitchen, “the heart of the house, where we spend most of our time”, for a cappuccino....
...“I had some photoshoot with a magazine and I showed up in jeans, and they were: ‘Where’s the stuff? You have to do something genderbendy.’ It was very disturbing.”...
...Restaurant Group, the troubled FTSE 250 company behind chains such as Garfunkel’s and Frankie & Benny’s, said it is making progress with turnround efforts but sales continued to slide at the start of this...
...On Grace and Frankie, the latest hit on Netflix, for example, Jane Fonda is allowed to sample a much younger man....
...When he founded Paper Denim & Cloth in 1999, the premium jeans line was part of a primarily US denim movement that included high-fashion names such as Frankie B, Earl Jean and 7 For All Mankind....
...But “Self-Portrait with Badges” (1961) is also an image of a determined rebel, proudly wearing turned-up Levi jeans and baseball boots and flaunting his obsessive love of pop by clutching an Elvis fanzine...
...In 1962, the photographer David Bailey and the model Jean Shrimpton travelled to New York to shoot a feature for British Vogue....
...I spy a Freddie Mercury impersonator thrusting a vacuum cleaner to the strains of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”....
...Meanwhile, Cameron Diaz has been spotted in brown buckled Aldo boots, and Sheryl Crow has launched Bootheel Trading Co, selling jeans, jean jackets and western-style shirts....
...The Vinegar Hill House, whose chef Jean Adamson comes from Freemans, an intimate restaurant on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, has an interior as eclectic as one of the borough’s famous flea-markets....
.../Frankie – do you remember me?/Frankie – do you remember?’ and I started singing it on the plane into a tape recorder because I didn’t want to forget it. Everyone around me was like, ‘Be quiet!’...
...A Clouseauesque frog detective (Jean Reno) commands a team of identically trenchcoated French batrachians. And McKellen tries Sydney Greenstreet with a dash of Frankie Howerd....
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