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...Just over two years ago, Credit Suisse broke new ground with a so-called synthetic securitisation of a portfolio of loans tied to the yachts and private jets of oligarchs and billionaires....
...This week the Italian car brand announced it will design yachts that can compete in international sailing competitions....
...ISA’s technical director Gianpaolo Lapenna noted at the time that “the owner was deeply involved in the design phase along with his technical team and this yacht is really ‘his’ in every respect.”...
...The assortment became more basic, and boring; fewer new designs were introduced....
...It also offered several unique experiences including a manufacture visit and a sailing day at the Panerai Classic Yacht Regatta....
...Only Watch was founded by former Monaco Yacht Show chief executive Luc Pettavino after his son was diagnosed with the rare illness....
...Other projects involving the EPR design have suffered big cost overruns and significant delays....
...For despite the efforts of its 35-year-old founder, the Russian art-repreneur Dasha Zhukova, the twice yearly Garage (in which contemporary art and design meet high fashion) remains a very niche product....
...Apple shook up both the music and telecoms industries, and now has designs on our wrists....
...It now supplies hotels and yachts and has stores of its own....
...Users can also search and shop for designs. Verdict: Bang on for the moment. Men’s accessories are taking off in a big way – the bolder the better. Tie Break will show them the Hermès way....
...contrast, among companies making far more recognisable objects but which again fit into specialist sectors of global production are Calder Textiles in Yorkshire, which produces specialist yarn, and Princess Yachts...
...Sir Philip Green has all the trappings of a billionaire: the house in Monaco, the yacht, the supermodel-strewn parties – and a decade-old Nokia 6310....
...The argument, which was always likely to be made by politicians dependent on votes, is a serious stumbling block for a project that potentially would take a decade or more to design, build and commission...
...Indeed, the luxury fashion houses have long offered custom-made interiors for automobiles, as well as luxury helicopters, aircraft and yachts....
...With its rectangular lines and shimmering aluminium hull, the 78-metre yacht Venus seemed the final incarnation of Steve Jobs’ design vision when it was launched in October, a year after the Apple co-founder...
...For Stanford, I talked about an entrepreneurial design course they had....
...With the extraordinary price of yachts though, it does seem extraordinary that no one has yet built an underwater house....
...Peter Craig, chief executive of the Superyacht Racing Association, says: “Handicapping such a disparate fleet in size and design is a huge challenge.”...
...Design, yes; industrial design, you betcha. But fashion, no. By “fashion”, I am not talking about men’s wear and how Jobs’ penchant for turtlenecks and jeans changed the Silicon Valley dress code....
...Radical new designs and the application of new technology, including more efficient propulsion systems and the use of lightweight materials such as carbon composite, have kept the yacht manufacturing sector...
...At Foksal Gallery, is Pawel Althamer’s dejected skeletal goat, mourning one lost trainer in the pose of Rodin’s “Thinker”, a collector who has missed the boat – specifically the yacht that prankster Christian...
...The original design was faulty, he concedes, but a grand bargain can fix it....
...Lenders to Dometic, which makes fridges and other equipment for caravans, yachts and hotels, are expected to receive bids of about €1.2bn ($1.6bn) this month from Swedish buy-out group EQT and an Anglo-Swedish...
...The project is supported by Delphia Yachts, the leading Polish producer of sailing yachts and powerboats....
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