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...Last month Saks Fifth Avenue parent company Hudson’s Bay Company raised $340mn in funding after months of unpaid invoices reportedly led several vendors to halt holiday shipments....
...Lauren Fedor is the FT’s deputy Washington bureau chief. Thanks, Lauren. Lauren Fedor Thanks, Marc....
...And everything went on sale, twice a year — even at Harvie & Hudson (I like their collars). Ties were simple too....
...Additional reporting by Hudson Lockett in Hong Kong...
...At Sergio Hudson’s latest show, the audience was full of customers who weren’t shy about their approval of his latest collection of body-conscious shift dresses and brightly coloured tailoring....
...Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashionby Alfons Kaiser, Thames & Hudson £25 Alfons Kaiser’s biography of the late Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld made headlines when it was first published in Germany in 2020...
...That’s the case with Merril in Lauren Gunderson’s new play Anthropology, another piece that delves into change, manipulation, and identity....
...(The luxury etailer’s “pickleball edit” also contains exclusive designs from The Frankie Shop, Leset and Sergio Hudson.)...
...Sergio Hudson is the designer who shot to attention when he dressed Michelle Obama in a sharp burgundy for Joe Biden’s inauguration....
...Mike Lawler, a Republican who defeated incumbent Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney in New York’s Hudson Valley, told CNN: “I would like to see the party move forward....
...Versace Catwalk: The Complete Collectionsby Tim Blanks, Thames & Hudson £55/Yale University Press $75 It is not often that a coffee table paean to a fashion brand addresses one of its designers’ drug problems...
...for micro-stays in the US From macro to micro: in a nutshell, it’s the story, and the ethos, of Salt Hotels, the tiny collection of inns founded in 2014 by hoteliers and partners David Bowd and Kevin O’Shea...
...One bestseller is the Body Lotion, a lightweight and slightly almond-scented cream that harnesses shea butter and moringa oil to treat dry skin....
...“It’s much more forward and younger, elegant, much more directional,” he says of the new aesthetic, which has won over Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Hudson....
...I have a mix of vintage and new ones, usually from Ralph Lauren, Paul Stuart and Kent & Curwen....
...Andre Walker’s “coat” incorporates Hudson Bay blankets (“‘In America’: the Met looks beyond Klein and Lauren”, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, September 18). Hudson Bay blankets are icons in Canada....
...Challenging the industry’s historically narrow definition of beauty, and often imbued with a DIY sensibility, their designs bear little resemblance to the clean-edged, patrician elegance codified by Ralph Lauren...
...Thames & Hudson, £25 I Am Sparkling: NV Parekh and His Portrait Studio Clients – Mombasa, Kenya, 1940-1980 by Isolde Brielmaier NV Parekh was an influential mid-20th-century portrait photographer whose...
...A gold-clad Jennifer Hudson serenaded guests before the first models stepped from their gondolas on to the raised runway erected in Saint Mark’s Square. The star power was striking....
...Hanahana Shea Body Butter, $28. Hyper Clear Brightening Clearing Vitamin C Serum, £32. Pattern Heavy Conditioner for Coilies, $25....
...Salt Hotel founders David Bowd and Kevin O’Shea were among the first to have the “micro” prefix attached to their four small, singular properties along America’s Eastern Seaboard....
...Production, Wei-Li Wang at Hudson Hill. Shot in The Hamptons, NY. Special thanks to Blanc and Home Agency...
...River and Mercantile has also received an offer from Premier Miton, a rival fund house led by chief executive Mike O’Shea. Rivian surged on its flotation this month....
...The far wall was entirely glass, leading out to a private porch overlooking the Hudson....
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