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...But he singles out Bérêche et Fils, Chartogne-Taillet, Pierre Peters, Vilmart & Cie, Famille Moussé and brother-and-sister team Benoît and Mélanie Tarlant as particularly worthy of praise....
...Additional reporting by Andy Bounds in Brussels Data visualisation by Steven Bernard and Ian Bott...
...We move on to drinking Bérêche et Fils Champagne. The playlist hits. It’s “Johnny and Mary” by Todd Terje. “What a sad song,” says Mountstuart. “But beautiful,” chimes in Karenina....
...Made in old oak, Bernard Fouquet’s blend of Chenin Blanc is mainly 2018 with 15 per cent of 2017....
...The shuttering of New York’s beloved high-fashion discounter Century 21 was decidedly less melodramatic, albeit a few scraps over the last remaining Chanel tweed jacket or Saint Laurent pumps on its barren...
...DD readers will be all too familiar by now with the wolf in cashmere, LVMH chief Bernard Arnault (pictured below)....
...‘Catherine Deneuve, Yves Saint Laurent: de mode et d’amitié’ takes place on January 24 at Christie’s Paris; christies.com Follow @FTStyle on Twitter and @financialtimesfashion on Instagram to find out about...
...But the glory days of six-hour political lunches at Michelin-starred venues like Laurent are mostly over....
...Then in 1996 he got his hopes up when he received a call from luxury tycoon Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH....
...But so does he understand that most successful modern fashion houses in recent years have been built on core codes and a consistent vision: see Saint Laurent and Gucci as examples....
...patrons of modern design, their number has also included some great art collectors, from the legendary Jacques Doucet, whose art collection included Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”, to Yves Saint Laurent...
...In La Cuisinière et le mangeur d’hommes (The Cook and the Maneater), published that year, he highlighted links between Nazism and communism....
...Since taking back the family vineyards from negociant Bouchard Père et Fils, Louis-Michel Liger-Belair has been determined to position his wines among the greats, and with every visit I feel increasingly...
...Meanwhile, DuBois et fils, another recently revived Swiss company, has been using its website for a crowdfunding of sorts, involving paperless equity offerings....
...Hedi Slimane is well under way with his hall-of-mirror-and-marble overhaul of the wood-lined Saint Laurent stores that defined Tom Ford’s era as creative director....
...Laurent • Vins de Vienne, La Bachole Reds • Chapoutier, Ermitage Le Méal, L’Ermite and Le Pavillon • J L Chave • Yann Chave • Delas, Dom des Tourettes and Les Bessards • Fayolle Fils et Fille, Les...
...£82 Vini Italiani Laurent Perrier, Grand Siècle NV Champagne The current version of Laurent Perrier’s very discreet top blend is based on 1997, 1999 and 2002 vintages....
...Louis Jadot, Louis Latour, Bouchard Père et Fils and Thibault Liger-Belair, all of whom bought land in Beaujolais, have recently been joined by Lafarge of Volnay and Louis Boillot of Chambolle-Musigny....
...There are tribal arts dealers too: Didier Claes and Bernard Dulon....
...show last October (Saint Laurent being a Kering brand)....
...There is a poem by Baudelaire called ‘Spleen et Idéal’ in Les Fleurs du Mal. We had a song called ‘Spleen Without Idéal’. Now you understand the teenager thing, right?”...
...The likes of Bérèche et Fils, Chartogne-Taillet and Pascal Doquet are all excellent at telling their customers which vintages and grapes are in the blend....
...£29.95, Lea & Sandeman, while stocks last Agrapart et Fils, Les 7 Crus Blanc de Blancs Brut NV From the seven villages where Agrapart owns vines, initially aged in old oak barrels....
...It may be acceptable for Carey Mulligan (age 28) and Jessica Chastain (36) to appear at the Cannes Film Festival in keyhole-detail gowns by Vionnet and Saint Laurent....
...The other day I dropped into Saint Laurent Paris on 57th street, between 5th and Madison (ie, a new-look YSL shop, which I guess we now have to abbreviate as SLP – bears an unfortunate resemblance to “slip...
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