Hints and tips:
...I love buying presents, and used to have an online store, A Bag Full of Kim, where I curated a selection of gift items from my travels....
...I’m given a less exciting plate of turbot with a white bean purée....
...I’m Marc Filippino, and here’s the news you need to start your day....
...I’d also love a collage by pop artist Richard Hamilton....
...I’ve tried to do other stuff, but I’m useless. The last items I added to my wardrobe were two pairs of Dior Birkenstocks – one black, one grey felt – that were a gift from Kim Jones....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com....
...Kim Sion, our Aesthete, is one such person: along with her boyfriend Jarvis Cocker, she can be relied on to raise some cheer....
...So I’m going to say this is a triumph for Biden-ism. I mean, remember, for four years Donald Trump, he sucked up to Kim Jong Un, the North Koreans, and pooped all over our allies....
...“In the beginning, people would tan in the spring leading up to summer or they’d be lying in the sun to look good in their dresses....
...I’d like to draw your attention to a policy paper by Michael Emerson of the Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies....
...“I’m into this idea of anti-politeness, because we live in a very polite world, so I think [McQueen’s] message is more relevant than ever.”...
...In this fantasy, he’s 34 and I’m not a creep. We fall into an embrace or, as he’d probably describe it, “a polite hug”....
...I’d love to have a mix of his art and ceramics. And a big John Chamberlain somewhere, just one. The beauty staple I’m never without is Biologique Recherche’s Lotion P50....
...He was like, ‘There is a force d’inertie.’”...
...He wonders “how long I can keep putting in the work for, if I’m not getting the results?” But still he keeps playing “because I love it and I’m finding it difficult to replace what tennis gives me”....
...You’d no doubt recognise his designs — the current HSBC logo is one....
...“I’m just going to go to lawyers . . . I’m dying to talk to other people about it. I’m dying to talk to the press.”...
...I thought if you go to see Virginia Woolf’s house, surely you’d want to go and see the books as well?”...
...But I’m more eagerly looking forward to Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, which stars Marisa Abela....
...“After the fourth cycle of the same old shit, you’d forgive her for giving up. But she doesn’t....
...That’s my nature, I’m very single-minded.”...
...I’m not sure it’s working out too well for the Emiratis either....
...Kim Chebator If it is actually quite important....
...“I’m here for Hank Paulson,” I tell the maître d’ at Le Bernardin. He doesn’t bat an eye....
...“It’s work that is very handcrafted — a lot less design with a capital ‘D’.” For his London debut, Tieghi-Walker has put together “a history of the US through textile art”....
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