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...Fashion has had more than its fair share of controversy, from photoshoots combining bondage imagery and children (Balenciaga) to fatphobic remarks (Karl Lagerfeld) and accusations of sexual misconduct (multiple...
...She sees parallels with Karl Lagerfeld, with whom she worked closely for decades at Fendi and Chanel....
...But the pressure is mounting on Sewing and his deputy Karl von Rohr, who was in charge of the integration, to pull off their goal of €300mn of cost savings by 2025....
...Few people were more clear-eyed about how reactionary it all sounded, than the Bolshevik, Leon Trotsky, who pointed out that 20 years earlier “all the school books” put the global division of labour and...
...He counted among his close friends Karl Lagerfeld, Diana Vreeland, Anna Wintour, Paloma Picasso and Lee Radziwill....
...Was he the intellectual mediocrity portrayed in Leon Trotsky’s biography Stalin, published posthumously after the Soviet dictator arranged his rival’s assassination in Mexico in 1940?...
...The two heads of Credit Suisse’s prime brokerage business, John Dabbs and Ryan Nelson, are to leave just weeks after the bank reported at least $4.7bn of losses related to the family office Archegos Capital...
...The Chiffon Trenches, by André Leon Talley, HarperCollins, RRP£20, 304 pages No book this year rivals the insight into 20th-century fashion’s major figures — Karl Lagerfeld, Yves Saint Laurent, Anna Wintour...
...The first time André Leon Talley met Karl Lagerfeld, the designer invited him into his bedroom, flipped the lids of his Goyard trunks and began flinging his bespoke crêpe de Chine Hilditch & Key shirts at...
...His early intellectual influences were not economic so much as Karl Popper’s The Poverty of Historicism and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain....
...TALLEY A tell-all account of a life in the inner sanctums of high fashion — including friendship with Karl Lagerfeld and what happened when the author was frozen out by Vogue’s Anna Wintour The Blind...
...Today, Karl’s heart, together with his wife’s, resides in the abbey of Muri that was founded by Habsburgs in the early 11th century....
...Alongside the household names (Felix Mendelssohn, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Sigmund Freud) are lesser-known individuals: Eliza Davis, a Victorian housewife who held Charles Dickens to account for his anti-Semitic...
...As if to defy him, Schwarzman (pictured below) and fellow private equity tycoon Leon Black have invented something almost as improbable: a vehicle for making money in perpetuity....
...The Thing had been designed — under duress in a Soviet prison camp — by none other than Léon Theremin, famous even then for his eponymous musical instrument....
...“I’m not worried about government, I’m worried about Google and Facebook,” says Karl Ricanek, a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington who has built two publicly accessible face datasets...
...; Humberto Leon and Carol Lim from Kenzo; and Givenchy’s Clare Waight Keller....
...Who wouldn’t want to see a feature documentary exploring the extraordinary career of Karl Lagerfeld? Or a film about Saint Laurent?...
...While studying at the London School of Economics, he came under the intellectual influence of Karl Popper and his idea that only open, democratic societies could flourish....
...The classical economists, notably Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Karl Marx were, she notes, concerned about the distinction between those who created value, those who merely moved it around and those who...
...The Trick to Time, by Kit de Waal, Viking, RRP£12.99 A woman reflects on a 1970s love affair in the follow-up to My Name is Leon....
...Leon Cooperman, founder of Omega Advisors, made a misogynistic slur against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, at another gathering last month....
...… Boyhood Island, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett, Harvill Secker, RRP£12.99/ Archipelago, RRP$27 Does it matter that what is nominally a volume of memoir is presented to its readers...
...Leon and Carol Lim, Delphine Arnault, as well as LVMH executives Pierre-Yves Roussel and Jean-Paul Claverie....
...When France fell to the Germans in 1940, it had to be because the patrie had been sold down the river by Léon Blum, who, unaccountably, had become prime minister in 1936....
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