Laura L Hankins

November 14, 2023

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel: ‘I was inside that sound’

...His appointment is already paying dividends: in September, the orchestra announced it had received an endowment of $40mn from its co-chair Oscar L Tang and his wife Agnes Hsu-Tang in Dudamel’s name — the...

May 10, 2024

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Body Shop International PLC

The Body Shop set to appoint administrators for UK arm

...Natura paid €1bn to acquire the business from L’Oréal in 2017....

February 10, 2024

Body Shop International PLC

The Body Shop appoints administrators for UK business

...Brazilian company Natura paid €1bn to acquire the business from L’Oréal in 2017....

February 13, 2024

News in-depthBody Shop International PLC

How The Body Shop unravelled in 3 months

...It was bought by French cosmetics giant L’Oréal in 2006 and later acquired for £880mn by Natura in 2017....

February 16, 2024

Boots UK Ltd

Boots offloads £4.8bn pension scheme to Legal & General

...L&G said that it had written £13.4bn of pension transfer business globally so far this year....

November 24, 2023

FT Live

Global Insurance Summit

Strengthening resilience, capital and innovation as systemic risks evolve

ReviewDance

Paris l’Été festival — dance keeps the French capital alive

...Paris l’Été may be a low-key festival compared to Avignon or Edinburgh, but its audiences are hardly short-changed. ★★★★☆ Festival runs to July 30, parislete.fr...

July 24, 2023

News in-depthBody Shop International PLC

How consumers fell out of love with The Body Shop

...One example is Aesop, the Australian high-end soap maker known for its vegan products, which Natura sold to L’Oréal in a $2.5bn deal earlier this year....

November 17, 2023

FT SeriesThe interiors edit

Finer dining: colourful tableware

...Renaissance-inspired cutlery set comes in a wenge wood case. artemest.com Splatter scallop dish by Sharland, £28 Hand-painted and available in three colourways. sharland-england.com Rainbow table by Laura...

January 13, 2024

HTSI

The call of Porquerolles

...Laura Bailey was a guest of the Domaine de l’Île, Porquerolles, domainedelile.com Letter in response to this article: There’s nothing simple about defining luxury / From Wendy Lee, Gruissan, Aude, France...

July 7, 2023

FT SeriesThe interiors edit

Exciting lighting: unusual table lamps

...On sale from September 1. hay.dk L’art Plissé by Folkform, €1,200 This pleated textile design adds a warm glow to any space. folkform.se Titanio II Murano glass table light by Green Wolf Studio, £380...

August 27, 2023

FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities

What’s on in Zürich: an FT Globetrotter guide

...See 60 key paintings placed in conversation with works by 30 contemporary artists, including David Hockney, Ugo Rondinone and the late Mexican-American photographer Laura Aguilar....

April 11, 2024

UK economy

L&G boss laments ‘drift’ away from London’s equity market

...The L&G chief described the UK as a “low-productivity, low-growth, low-wage economy fraught by political infighting and that has to change.”...

March 8, 2023

Style

It’s hot . . . but it’s raining. What shall I wear?

...Hood for its foldaway bonnet-style hats (£49, l-hood.com)....

August 18, 2023

FT Asset Management

Asset Management: Venezuela opens up to international investors

...Drawing à l’infini presents nearly a thousand works — notebooks, drawings and engravings. The drawings illustrate Picasso’s constant process of reinvention and renewal....

October 23, 2023

FT Live

Future of Retail

Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation

Books

The books to read in 2023

...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...

January 9, 2023

LexJonathan Guthrie

The Lex Newsletter: weighing up bosses good, bad and far-sighted Premium

...Things I enjoyed this week Laura Noonan and Owen Walker wrote an engaging FT Magazine piece on UBS chair Colm Kelleher....

September 1, 2023

Transcript

Transcript: Three markets, three highs

...These are the components of the Granolas: GSK, Roche, ASML, Nestlé, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, L’Oréal, LVMH, AstraZeneca, SAP, Sanofi. Trips off the tongue, right? Granolas....

February 27, 2024

ReviewVisual Arts

Manet/Degas, Musée d’Orsay — a friendship and rivalry which drove art onwards

...such as the linear, crystalline “Semiramis Building Babylon”, and in the five-square-metre “Bellelli Family”, the youthful masterpiece begun in Florence in 1858 portraying his sad, long-faced Italian aunt Laura...

April 26, 2023

Mortgages

UK lenders to face pressure to cut mortgage rates if markets stabilise

...David Hollingworth, director at L&C mortgages, said it was a “real positive” that some lenders had already started to come back with fixed rate mortgages, which should lead to “more competition, sharpening...

October 4, 2022

HTSIInside 15 extraordinary homes

Courteney Cox: the Scream queen comes clean

...Laura Dern is one of my closest pals, and if she came over right now and I said, ‘Laura, will you do something stupid with me?’ She would say, ‘Absolutely.’”...

March 24, 2023

ESG investing

ESG put to the test in a high-inflation world

...Sophie Westwood and Laura Longley, investment managers at Evelyn Partners, reckon that even though market conditions are very difficult now, there are still “fantastic opportunities” for ESG investors....

July 28, 2023

HTSI

Fashion’s age of hyperinflation

...Ghesquière took functional elements and blew them up to out-of-this-world proportions: puffed-up space-age vests were festooned with mammoth-sized zippers (reportedly the largest ever manufactured), trompe l’...

February 9, 2023

Transcript

Basis trade freakout (low key)

...And it’s that L-word that really gets people worried....

September 19, 2023

Art Basel 2022

Artist Tatiana Trouvé makes monuments from memories

...In 2020 she was awarded France’s Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contribution to culture....

June 10, 2022

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