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...Guerlain Rouge G Fantasy Bee Prestige gift set, £800Maison Guerlain has invited Turkish jeweller Begüm Khan to reinterpret the house’s emblem, the imperial bee....
...We are having a bonanza, after the months of cold, wet and difficulty: Buff roses, dark black flowers on iris Black Knight, marvellous blue on iris Mer du Sud, elegant white and yellow on tall Iris ochroleuca...
...Until March 3; further information and tickets here Women Dressing Women features more than 70 female womenswear designers from The Met’s permanent collection, including Elsa Schiaparelli, Ann Lowe and Iris...
...Lerner’s use of G-chat heightens the difficulty of connection. The conversation is confused, harrowing, then deflated. Emotion is caged in by the confines of online chat....
...I also admire Iris Apfel for the way she wears big jewellery....
...Iris ‘Comme un Oeuf’ Iris grower Cayeux always create a captivating display at Chelsea and this year it has eight new bearded irises....
...P&G tries to be a little less boring in Las Vegas Las Vegas is known for its high stakes and razzmatazz....
...My flower of the show is an unusually clear yellow iris with white standards, Vicomtesse de Curel....
...Like many such events, it has familial roots: it was founded by US-based cellist Antonio Lysy to memorialise his grandmother, La Foce’s famous wartime chatelaine, the writer Iris Origo....
...Pimco, M&G and Hermes Investment Management have launched debt funds in the past month. The strategies have been popular with pension funds....
...The two best are M&G’s “romanticised haven” or “imaginary oasis”, depending on which bit of PR you read....
...Traditional retail sales of razor blades fell 10 per cent in the year to June, according to research by IRI....
...Jon Moeller, P&G’s finance director, told an industry conference last week that “P&G is a profoundly different company than just a few years ago”....
...Burberry tried to relaunch its make-up division this year with a major campaign headed by model Iris Law, daughter of actors Jude Law and Sadie Frost....
...Now she is where she belongs, designer of a big garden for the show’s sponsor, M&G Investments....
...I have never seen so much bog standard Iris sibirica in the foregrounds of exhibits at a great flower show....
...Iris scanning is being planned by some handset makers, which will allow people to open the phone using eye contact rather than a password....
...more value for an “adjacent” innovation – such as Tide Pods, a premium product built on the larger Tide brand, which accounts for about 43 per cent of detergent sales at US retailers tracked by Symphony IRI...
...G trifoliata slowly makes a plant of around 1m high and 50cm across, its best position near the front of a border, or in a naturalistic or cottage garden or woodland edge planting, ideally in shade and in...
...Last year’s IRI list included Tide Total Care, a premium version of its Tide detergent, which was number two by sales on IRI’s 2009 top 10 non-food products launch list....
...“E.T. is V.G.” my sister responded. … I tried to assess how old-fashioned I am....
...Selfe also featured in a D&G campaign in 2008. Selfe is managed by Elaine Dugas, director at the Models One Classics division, where the majority of models are over 30....
...Just four weeks later HG merged its new £91m acquisition with Iris Software and sold the entity to Hellman and Friedman for £500m....
...Highlights include a Cliff Blue Firs Bonjour coffee service, estimated at £2,000-£3,000 and a single owner’s set of preserve pots (£300-£1,500) and a Moorcroft Iris vase, estimated at £1,200-£1,800....
...P&G has Christina Aguilera....
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