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...Treading the line between modernity and tradition is key to a brand’s longevity and British designers need to “get the balance right”, says designer Paul Smith....
...Adds Smith: “I wanted to play with the traditional tropes of eveningwear but give them a sharper edge.”...
...This includes a specially commissioned ceiling work by Anj Smith reinterpreting tentacle erotica (I had to look that up), vaginal studies by Ida Applebroog and something resembling a sausage by Robert Mapplethorpe...
...Winter Storm Uri and Hurricane Ida in the US, along with floods in Europe, were the major contributors....
...Hurricane Ida wiped out power in New Orleans as winds of up to 150mph and a storm surge battered the US Gulf Coast, leaving more than 1m households in Louisiana without electricity....
...The preliminary estimates came from reinsurance group Swiss Re, which said the costliest event in the period was Hurricane Ida....
...Irish lessors manage more than €100bn in assets, 22 per cent of global aircraft and more than 40 per cent of those that are leased, according to IDA Ireland, the country’s investment promotion agency....
...Citi had expected Ida-linked losses of about €300m, but Jefferies had expected almost double that....
...Gulf Coast communities survey Ida damage Widespread wind and flooding followed Hurricane Ida’s landfall on Sunday on the Louisiana coast, with water surging as high as 9ft in some areas....
...Ida Petersson, buying director of Browns, agrees: “We’re seeing this proportionally peculiar shape increase in demand as gendered categories have started to lose their rigidity....
...The latest example is the estimated cost of Hurricane Ida, the fifth-largest hurricane to make landfall in the US, which the commercial forecaster AccuWeather has projected could be as high as $80bn....
...The insurance hit from Ida is expected to be substantial....
...storms and wildfires made for the worst first half for expected losses in a decade, at $40bn, followed by severe floods in Europe and then the tens of billions of dollars of losses caused by Hurricane Ida...
...made 2021 costly for the sector, which had its worst start to the year for natural catastrophe insurance in a decade — and that was before Europe’s floods in July and the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ida...
...And, in 1902, Rockefeller was undone by a “muckraking” investigative journalist named Ida Tarbell....
...Here the gun was a Colt or a Smith & Wesson, the girl was a femme fatale; Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall, Ida Lupino, Lizabeth Scott, Susan Hayward or one of their ilk....
...Counterpoint melodies, which the singer Mamie Smith called “hum and head arrangements”, are heard on Smith’s track “Crazy Blues” from 1920....
...Frank Stella / DACS; Ida Kar, National Portrait Gallery London; Collection Kasmin...
...Ida Luka-Lognone, chief executive of Allianz Worldwide Care, said that there is a range of options for the future of EHIC cards, but added: “Consumers shouldn’t panic now but they should look at all the...
...The progressive backlash led by Brandeis and hostile journalists — the “muckrakers”, such as Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair — enjoyed some success in exposing the excesses of capitalism....
...“The summit pushed us over the edge” into setting up in Dublin rather than another European location, Mr Smith says....
...Jonathan Cape, RRP£12/Knopf, RRP$24.95 In her follow-up to Autobiography of Red , Carson renames her winged hero Geryon as “G” and takes him on a picaresque journey with shell-shocked soldier Sad and artist Ida...
...More than a decade has passed since the appearance of Zadie Smith’s Anglo-Jamaican family saga White Teeth, in 2000, a book that felt as if it defined a moment in British life: new millennium, new Labour...
...Paul Newman, Robert De Niro, Daniel Day Lewis, Will Smith; and now Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter, resculpting the muscles he flexed, before his movie career, in traffic-stopping Calvin Klein underwear ads...
...Metro Makeover: The Changing Face of Downtown, September 11-14, Telus Convention Centre, Calgary, Canada, tel: +1 (202) 393 6801, www.ida-downtown.org...
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