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...PJT Partners has hired Latham & Watkins’ former global co-chair of M&A Mark Gerstein as a senior adviser....
...Trade Secrets is edited by Jonathan Moules...
...If you take a seat in the garden, a host asks if you’d like a glass or nibble, and perhaps stays to chat for a moment....
...and this year announced the investment of €1mn in the Himalayan Regenerative Fashion Living Lab, which helps develop regenerative farming and support textile makers in the area. brunellocucinelli.com D...
...Those lips appeared at Jonathan Anderson’s Loewe show, cast in resin and puckered over the breasts of a pair of jersey tube dresses....
...You can also email me about The Week Ahead: jonathan.moules@ft.com. Brussels is home to not one but two international clubs....
...“The noise of Elon Musk would be something we’d have to think about....
...The grooming staple I’m never without is bath and body brushes from Niwaki and Iris Hantverk. I’m a great believer in dry body brushing....
...(I’m notoriously terrible at doing my own manicures, but these could be the impetus I need to learn.) hermes.com Loewe Solid Soap, £40 eachNot just for dads: Loewe’s soap-on-a-rope-style collection comes...
...“To be honest,” she says, looking round, “I’m no longer sure where we are.”...
...If you’d like to dig down into the deal’s financial engineering, Lex has the full details here....
...“A strong market for apartments in the historic centre for €300,000 to €400,000 has driven up prices during the past two years,” says Eloise Garnier of l’Agence d’Arles on the Place du Forum....
...Heaven and Hell of a less chemical nature are surveyed by Bart D Ehrman in his history of notions of the afterlife (Oneworld RRP£20/Simon & Schuster RRP$28, April)....
...The last meal that truly impressed me was at the two-Michelin-starred L’Atelier d’Edmond in Val d’Isère. I went with Tiffany and the meal was mind-blowing. We had the Nature & Découverte set menu....
...“Right now, I’d rather own local currency than hard currency bonds,” he says. “The local market has been hit a lot by the dollar story.”...
...We’re taking L’Eau de David Starkey, here....
...I actually read the French version, which has a prettier title, Le Charme Discret de l’Intestin....
...Instead, it will be reduced at the smallest end (25 sq m) by eight per cent to CHF760 and increased by nine per cent to CHF905 for the fair’s largest slots (124 sq m)....
...I’m sure many FT readers will squirm as he takes down rich do-gooders who start foundations, institutes and fellowships....
...The low point is probably “Bad Man Lighter (B.M.L)”, a meandering paean to marijuana....
...vote for (“I was for Ted Cruz, but now I’m voting Trump”)....
...Hi, I’m Lombard and I’m a rent seeker. I’m on the wagon, but could easily backslide. Then I’d be in the same boat as Elliott Associates. My financial intoxicant back in the day was buy-to-let property....
...‘Serious Sweet’ is published by Jonathan Cape, £17.99 Photographs: Giulietta Verdon-Roe Illustration by Andrew Joyce...
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com...
...He’d never had one. He imagined himself somehow getting to the Guyanese embassy in London (there isn’t one in Paris), and asking them in full-on Guyanese patois: “You tink I’m not Guyanese — boy?”...
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