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...Frenchman Jean-Louis Gasset was fired after the Equatorial Guinea defeat, before an unusual attempt to secure a loan of Hervé Renard, the French manager who led them to continental triumph in 2015, was rebuffed...
...The mix of dark and lacquered wood and metals looks lush against a backdrop of ivory (not cream, he insists), wall-to-wall Codimat carpet and hand-plastered panelling....
...A keystone item was an ivory bonbonnière (sweet box) with a snail‑shaped cover, which was unsigned but suspected to be by André Groult....
...like an ivory eiderdown....
...Jean-Servais Somian Working with fallen trees, including coconut, idigbo and ebony, Ivory Coast-based artist and designer Jean-Servais Somian crafts totem-like furniture....
...Jean-Francois Lambert, a former commodities banker and longtime consultant to the sector, said Trafigura had sought to move on from the “Dauphin-era”....
...During his career, Parkinson advised former prime minister Sir Tony Blair and his cabinet on the Hutton inquiry, which investigated the 2003 death of David Kelly, a biological weapons expert....
...My style icon is Jenke Ahmed Tailly, a stylist from the Ivory Coast who draws on his African heritage in his work....
...But there are so many styles there’s really no substitute for just trying lots on — it’s like buying a pair of jeans.”...
...Told with immense tenderness but also a beady, lucid honesty, this moving drama examines the shifting dynamics within an immigrant family of three hailing originally from Ivory Coast....
...Iman, Audrey Hepburn, Diana Ross, David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust days, Jerry Hall at Studio 54, Lauren Hutton in the early 1970s (“just unapologetic, and undeniably herself”) and Kate Moss, for her “effortless...
...Throughout the 1980 film American Gigolo, Lauren Hutton tucked a woven Bottega Veneta clutch under her arm, a style the brand revived in 2017. But why have clutches persisted?...
...Meanwhile, Nastassja Kinski’s fuchsia mohair sweater in Paris, Texas reminds me how I used to love wearing a fluffy jumper in lieu of a smart top, and Lauren Hutton in American Gigolo is trenchcoat heaven...
...September 17 to 23; further information here October Art ‘Jean Tinguely’, Pirelli HangarBicocca Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely used gears and engineering to create a fusion between art and mechanisation...
...Single-shoulder knit dresses in marled streaks of ivory and ice blue called to mind the Antarctic, as if viewed from above....
...Among the approximately 3,500 prized items are a mystery clock from the early 1900s, and the jade necklace that once belonged to Barbara Hutton, which Cartier bought for $27.4mn at a Sotheby’s auction in...
...The collection offered twists on signatures she and her team long ago perfected: black trouser suits cut out and spliced with leather; an ivory jumper sweetly crocheted with climbing roses that turned to...
...“Gilt phone charger . . . ivory kennel . . .” The luxe boom tells you more about world politics than another Henry Kissinger interview will. Such as?...
...Dramatic proportions and eccentricity came via garments such as an “extreme volume” coat with a shaggy ivory mohair fringe, and wooden hands like those of an artist’s mannequin....
...“What we have done is help with the reduction of poverty and the improvement of living conditions,” says Jean-Claude Thetika, managing director of FPM....
...The jeans, which look like denim, are actually the softest leather and so comfortable....
...The aesthetic still has an essence of the ’80s, but in the most stylish way: think of Ray Petri shoots in The Face, or Jean Reno playing a louche Parisian....
...Parkas are similarly sumptuous, in pebble-grey quilted wool and cashmere (€3,880) or ivory wool and cashmere with a detachable internal hooded vest (€5,417)....
...Viennese artist Jakob Lena Knebl and art historian Jean-Hubert Martin were the first two practitioners given this carte blanche....
...In this, Stella McCartney’s decision to show alongside white and dapple-grey horses, made to trot, roll over and perform other tricks at the behest of Jean-François Pignon, a French trainer known as “the...
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