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ReviewVisual Arts
Hidden Faces, Metropolitan Museum — Renaissance mysteries in lovers’ portraits
...Over that eyeless, uncannily expressionlessness form is a trompe-l’oeil stone tablet inscribed with a phrase from Cicero: “To each his own mask”....
April 25, 2024
HTSI
Why burr wood furniture has its groove back
...“For cabinets and beautiful, small side tables, it was a way of making wood look like a jewel,” says L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach....
January 19, 2024
FT Live
Business of Luxury Summit
Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year
Sunday, 19 MayVenice, Italy
HTSI
The savoir flair of Martin Brûlé
...The plaster panelling in the salon, for example, is a trompe-l’oeil parchment, hand-patinated by a young Belgian artisan, Mathilde Van der Schueren....
April 14, 2024
FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities
What’s on in Milan: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to 2024
...April 2 to 14; further information and tickets here May Festivals Piano City Milano The streets are alive with the sound of ivories being tinkled at this perennially popular festival, which last year...
February 9, 2024
Special ReportInvesting in Japan
Sun rises on resurgent Japanese art market
...Increasingly stringent rules around ivory have, however, “taken out about half this market”, Moss says....
October 1, 2023
HTSI
At home with the Aesop aesthete
...L’Oréal purchased Aesop from Brazilian conglomerate Natura for $2.5bn last year, in a record deal that makes it the French beauty company’s highest-value acquisition to date....
January 6, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
What’s with all the farmers’ markets?
...I once had a hot chocolate there so overpriced it had obviously been hand-harvested in the Ivory Coast and flown in on Elon Musk’s private jet....
April 14, 2023
ReviewHistory books
Culture: A New World History — the case for cross-fertilisation over ownership
...Made from ivory, it bears the single letter sri in the Kharosthi script that was used in north-west India and probably represents the goddess Lakshmi....
April 14, 2023
HTSI
Cult Shop: the Megève outfitter that helped define modern skiing
...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)....
December 22, 2022
Fashion shows
Haute couture in a high-alert Paris
...Although I wasn’t persuaded by trompe l’oeil trousers painted to look like jeans, because ultimately, they still look like unflattering “dad denim”....
July 7, 2023
FT Alphaville
Can you beat the Alphaville Pub Quiz?
...Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil....
October 14, 2022
HTSI12 extraordinary interiors we loved this year
Inside the royal renovation of Belvoir Castle
...The surviving Grade I-listed building dates from the early 19th century and has a trompe l’oeil medieval appearance with a central tower....
October 7, 2022
HTSI
Vested interests – the case for the sleeveless sweater
...The theatricality of British school uniforms also inspires designer Steven Stokey-Daley, whose vests, patterned knit tanks and sleeveless round-necks all have a flavour of Merchant Ivory....
February 28, 2022
Fashion shows
London Fashion Week returns to form
...Thus Rocha moulded her clothes after their shapes and colours: a midnight-blue velvet dress with high, round shoulders and hips; a red-beaded ivory négligée with trailing silk ribbons; a black coat cut in...
February 24, 2022
European business schools
Media-savvy business professors look beyond the lecture hall
...He has written on the crime business for French newspapers and magazines Le Monde, L’Express and L’Expansion and made another documentary on Somali pirates for French channel Canal+ in 2016....
December 3, 2021
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Gleam genie: put the dazzle in your smile
How I fixed my dental disaster
...The ivory chiclets were so colossal, my occlusion so out of harmony, that my teeth started shifting. When the dentist recommended Invisalign, I plunged into despair....
December 1, 2020
ReviewFashion shows
Fashion shows that travel for you
...More importantly, the show was good for the brand overall, which along with ready-to-wear, footwear and accessories has a significant beauty licence with L’Oréal....
May 6, 2021
Film
‘Mank’ and the screenwriters written out of film history
...Even more shocking is the case of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who wrote 22 films for director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, but it’s Merchant Ivory that is celebrated, not Merchant Ivory Jhabvala....
November 24, 2020
HTSI
The magic of lace
...This season the retailer is stocking voluminous silk-blend opera skirts by Erdem, from a collection inspired by the belle époque costumes in Luchino Visconti’s 1976 film L’Innocente....
October 17, 2020
The Aesthete
Adrien Sauvage: ‘If men paid more attention to the details, they might have more party chat’
...My personal style signifier is a double-breasted, liberal-lapel ivory blazer – one of my own designs....
September 18, 2020
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...Mercedes-Benz car manufacturer Daimler and French cosmetics group L’Oréal also reported on a busy day for European earnings....
October 23, 2020
FT Magazine
Belgium’s reckoning with a brutal history in Congo
...In 1906, Leopold II created L’Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK) along with a diamond-mining business and railway company to exploit Congo’s mineral resources....
November 13, 2020
Luke Edward Hall
The best blankets, quilts and throws for cold nights
...And the Berard, a homage to the great French decorator and trompe l’oeil artist Christian Bérard (one of my heroes), is a thing of beauty, particularly in pink....
February 28, 2020
Europe Express
German interregnum
...As he emails Brussels Briefing: “In his novel Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad said it best: ‘All Europe contributed to the making of [the villainous ivory hunter] Kurtz.’...
February 11, 2020
Lebanon
US Treasury imposes sanctions on Lebanese bank
...Its 2017 profits before income tax, the latest available, were L£9.3bn ($6.2m)....
August 30, 2019

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