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...Kering is one of the world’s biggest luxury groups with €20.4bn in revenues last year and a stable of brands that include Saint Laurent and Pomellato....
...James Baldwin arrives shortly after Sontag. He’s wearing cat-eye sunglasses which crowd his face, a fur-trimmed black coat and split-toe Margiela Tabi shoes....
...A four-volume edition of John James Audubon’s celebrated Birds of America (1827-38) will be a notable rarity at this year’s Tefaf Maastricht fair, priced at $12.5mn, available through London-based rare books...
...Meanwhile, some analysts are asking questions about the price Chevron paid for Hess, which has offshore operations in Guyana....
...Outgoing Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman last week also told the Financial Times that he expected the European discount to start to narrow....
...It has been particularly hard for fund managers to beat markets consistently over the past three years, said Jason Hollands, managing director of Bestinvest....
...They seized devices containing 61,000 bitcoin — worth more than £3bn in today’s prices — one of the biggest crypto hauls found by law enforcement anywhere....
...James Lucier, an analyst at Capital Alpha Partners, said that once the current study and public comments were taken into account, it was possible that no new licenses would be issued until after May 2025...
...The estate of American artist James Rosenquist, who died in 2017, will offer about 50 of his prints at Phillips in New York on February 15....
...Love Lies Bleeding, the relentless second feature by Britain’s Rose Glass, maker of the 2019 psychological horror Saint Maud, supercharges a murderous romance between a gym attendant (Kristen Stewart) and...
...“Investment trusts used to be a uniquely British success story and a vibrant part of the market,” said James de Bunsen, a portfolio manager at Janus Henderson Investors’ multi-asset team....
...NatWest group’s share price has fallen 25 per cent this year, in part following the controversy surrounding Nigel Farage’s Coutts account that led to Dame Alison Rose’s resignation as chief executive in...
...oil in the market to avert a counterproductive price spike....
...The event spotlights tapas from Spain and beyond at delightful prices — think €3 for a tapa and beer....
...Apple also said that Al Gore and James Bell would retire from the board this year....
...Those in the UK, at least, can scarcely hope to beat the rate of consumer price rises, currently running at an annual 8.7 per cent....
...After the departure of Penny James from the top job in January, the group admitted it had “under-called inflation” and had been overly optimistic about the degree of price rises needed to offset this pressure...
...James Edwardes Jones, analyst at RBC, said consumer staple groups “almost never cut prices” and were more likely to boost promotional activity than actually drop the price of goods....
...Saint Laurent does them in a style I love – blazer-y, fitted, not too long, not too short....
...“[Trump] has an uncanny ability to remain motivated and hard charging, when I think the average person would just curl up into a ball,” said Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Trump, in Palm Beach on Saturday...
...Chief among them was the ultra-conservative archbishop of LA Cardinal James Francis McIntyre, who resented the IHM sisters’ liberal approach....
...Private credit co-heads James Reynolds and Kevin Sterling have also been named global head of direct lending and global head of investment-grade private credit and asset finance, respectively....
...We make a stop en route to deposit my boyfriend’s brother in a pub, which happens to be opposite Martello Terrace, where the novelist James Joyce lived by the sea between 1887 and 1891....
...I never travel without an Astier de Villatte checker-grid notebook for sketching and noting prices....
...They’ve been swapped out for mock-necks and roll-necks, or pussy bows (Jason Fernández at Cannes or Eddie Redmayne at the Screen Actors Guild awards, both in Saint Laurent)....
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