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...No “Taskrabbit” is going to splurge on one of Fendi’s denim or leather utility aprons for spring, but if they did, they’d find them fit for purpose....
...That first collection he showed in 2003 came after periods spent working as head designer at Bottega Veneta, and then at Gucci under former creative director Tom Ford....
...The pair remain on good terms with the maison and current creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli. “I go to the shows,” says Giammetti, “I talk with Pierpaolo all the time....
...While there, I read a buzzy new novel, Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan. The FT review was a bit negative: I would give it a rave....
...Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation has named Clarke Adams as head of high-yield capital markets and Matt Burke as head of leveraged finance origination....
...Next year’s, which is opening in January at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End, is The Hills of California, with Sam Mendes directing....
...But he was the deputy director of investigations. He’s now director of intelligence and investigation at Clue Software....
...His fifth novel, Venomous Lumpsucker, which was published last summer, is a comically dystopian dose of climate crisis forecasting that is on the shortlist for the Arthur C Clarke award for best science...
...Officials from Europol, and the UK’s national crime agency, including deputy director of investigations, Matt Horne....
...Mark O’Connell in Slate asked what it is to play with cliché in Blarney and put-on Irishness....
...I’d love to hear about what traditions you value — email me at isabel.berwick@ft.com....
...Kanye West’s “White Lives Matter” shirt went off like a bomb at Paris Fashion Week, Cher was photographed at dinner with Rick Owens wearing a vintage Stephen Sprouse blazer emblazoned with “God Save N.Y.C....
...Alexander Sedlak, managing director of Leica Camera Classics, points to the rising prices of certain models as evidence of increased interest in premium compacts....
...Stefan Brüggemann, artistIntelligence for Dummies by Glenn O’Brien This is a collection of essays and writing by the late American journalist and editor Glenn O’Brien. He was a friend....
...As the futurist Arthur C Clarke had it, “Any sufficiently evolved technology is indistinguishable from magic.”...
...Sarah O’Connor looks at the performative aspects of making these policies....
...“If we’d lost, then Morgan would have been sacked, Matt would have been, Keir probably would have faced a coup.”...
...If my ultra-cautious aunt Peggy were making her decisions today, I’d tell her to buy some gilts but keep a chunk in cash....
...Victoria Clarke: The UK looks set to continue its same old stagnation story in early 2024....
...Alex Bilmes is editor-in-chief of Esquire Hair, Naomi Regan at C/O Management using Sisley Paris and BaByliss PRO. Make-up, Gina Kane at Caren using Lancôme. Photographer’s assistant, Philip Banks....
...All change at the top brands Bottega Veneta, Bally, Missoni, Salvatore Ferragamo, Etro and Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh all came under new creative direction this year, with Bottega Veneta’s Matthieu Blazy...
...and this year announced the investment of €1mn in the Himalayan Regenerative Fashion Living Lab, which helps develop regenerative farming and support textile makers in the area. brunellocucinelli.com D...
...her own brand T.H.O.M — an acronym for This Hair Of Mine....
...“Over the past 15 years we have seen a worldwide boom of fashion exhibitions,” says Kaat Debo, who has been director of MoMu since 2008....
...I also really like that new directors can take the balance of his work and shift it. I love to see new ways to peel an onion....
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