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...I remember a different moment: in 1977, the first time I saw an advert for Gloria Vanderbilt’s narrow, tube-shaped jeans....
...Moving to the French capital from Milan in 1931, she quickly fell into the Surrealist circle of Jean Cocteau, Paul Eluard, Ernst and Salvador Dalí....
...His hands are tucked deep in the front pockets of his blue jeans, a pair of round spectacles perched on his nose. He spots me standing at the boardwalk’s edge....
...An invaluable 2021 study by sociologist Amanda Jean Stevenson at the University of Colorado, Boulder, quantified this at a 33 per cent increase in pregnancy-related deaths among black women following a ban...
...Robert Louis Stevenson, in the dedicatory lines of A Child’s Garden of Verses, refers to his nanny as “My second Mother, my first Wife, / The angel of my infant life.”...
...Black is sovereign: jeans and sweatshirts, coats and T-shirts, Doc Martens and Nike runarounds. (Shirts, though, are white, the only acceptable colour.)...
...It’s subtle, but enough to change the look of a regular pair of jeans....
...Masked: At The BusGrayson Perry, Philip Pullman, Andrew Scott, Dawn French, Juliet Stevenson and Jenny Saville are some of the esteemed creatives who donned a face mask to be photographed in aid of the Oxfordshire-based...
...Cult brands such as Stevenson Overall, Buzz Rickson’s and Full Count jeans top the bill. The coffee’s good as well....
...Brodie (Muriel Spark) Round Five Newcastle Liverpool Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Bull (The Archers) The Crucible, in Sheffield Duran Duran The Haçienda, in Manchester Foxtrot and tango...
...If it’s an insider, Ewen Stevenson, the bank’s chief financial officer, who recently joined from the Royal Bank of Scotland, stands a chance. And then there is always Andrea Orcel....
...As Joost Bosland, a director at Stevenson who has worked with Sassen since she joined the gallery, puts it: “I think Viviane had been sheltered . . ....
...Elliott Management has hired former Citi executive Jean-Yves Magnan as its deputy chief financial officer....
...David Stevenson is an active private investor writing about his own investments. He may own shares in the companies mentioned. adventurous@ft.com...
...He is greater than Chaplin or Keaton”: Jean-Luc Godard. Allow for a touch, but only a touch, of Gallic hyperbole....
...Economics for the Common Good, by Jean Tirole, Princeton, RRP£24.95/$29.95 The French winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics calls for his discipline to deepen its engagement with society....
...“I think if I want to fit more reading into my life, and have an experience that plays into my pathetic attention span, then having 20 minutes of reading delivered to my phone really works,” says Anna Jean...
...In 1977, the French film-maker Jean Rouch flew to Mozambique with his Super 8 camera in order to make history....
...The perma-optimists of stock analysis are inclined to dismiss RBS’s update as a storm in the teacup of finance direct Ewen Stevenson....
...FTAV’s David Keohane will be moderating… Carson Block, Founder, Muddy Waters Research Michael Pettis, Peking University Anne Stevenson-Yang, Co-founder, J Capital Research James White, Senior Investment...
...At least two prime ministers, Britain’s Cameron and Hungary’s Orbán, were working to block the candidacy of veteran Brussels fixer Jean-Claude Juncker, frontrunner for the EU’s most high-profile post....
...Bryan Stevenson Professor at NYU School of Law and author of ‘Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption’ Lila (Virago/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) adds a new perspective to the extraordinary narrative...
...Thales , Europe’s biggest defence electronics manufacturer by sales, outperformed the market after Jean-Bernard Lévy, the new chief executive, told investors operating profit would grow 5 to 8 per cent in...
...“The ‘mum’ customer is one of the toughest and needs an ‘excellent’ not just a ‘good’ experience,” says Jean Roche, analyst at Panmure Gordon. Away from the UK, things look rosier....
...Jean-Michel Carayon, vice-president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa credit policy at Moody’s, said there were a number of issues in Europe that remained “critical” but that slower growth from emerging...
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