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...Hardly anyone at this World Cup has walked a longer path to get here than the Netherlands’ 71-year-old manager, Louis van Gaal....
...Before it was called Omega, the company bore the name of its founder Louis Brandt and it was under the name of Brandt that it made the first wristwatch minute repeater in 1892....
...Bulgari Jubilee Emerald Garden tiara, POA Louis Vuitton raw tweed Boxy jacket, £4,150 Bendicks Mint Collection chocolates, £5.49, glencrest.co.uk Dolce & Gabbana crystal mesh fringed skirt, £28,100 The...
...Her income supported Louis as he completed his PhD. “I was the breadwinner at 21,” she says. “I’m still proud of that.”...
...“The brand has been so hot over there,” said Brian Yarbrough, analyst at Edward Jones in St Louis....
...(FT) In the news LVMH clinches takeover of jeweller Tiffany LVMH, the luxury goods group behind Louis Vuitton and Dior, agreed this morning to buy the US jeweller Tiffany for $16.6bn....
...When the plane took off, the policewoman fell asleep with her head on my shoulder, her knockoff Louis Vuitton bag at her feet. It had been a long World Cup for both our professions....
...Time for a drink Historical maker Louis Moinet has made 50 watches fitted with airtight capsules containing a drop of Old Vatted Glenlivet from 1862, supposedly the world’s oldest whisky....
...But share prices “say little about the direction of China’s economy”, said Louis Kuijs, a Hong Kong-based China expert at Oxford Economics....
...XV, Louis XVI, the Directoire and the empire....
...Paul Brandt’s bold lacquer cigarette case, again inlaid with eggshell ($15,000-$20,000), previously belonged to Andy Warhol....
...Even better, New York’s Dr Frederic Brandt, the world’s number one consumer of Botox, talks of a future in which needle-free Botox might exist....
...Last year Pharrell Williams, rapper and Louis Vuitton collaborator, decided to get new skin. “It’s going to be pricey but it’s worth it,” he told an interviewer....
...Next up are the St Louis Rams, who take exactly 90 seconds to pick Chris Long. He, Howie and Diane and the rest of the family come on stage and do the same shirt and caps routine....
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