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...With such a big collection, I wonder if he ever resells. “Yes, but infrequently — and then we use the money to buy more works.” What, then, are his criteria for buying art?...
...on campuses with plaid fleece, stringy hair and downward mobility....
...He is similarly frustrated by the growth of big brands at the expense of smaller, independent labels, and what he sees as mindless logo-wearing....
...“We made the brooch for the Queen with the big pink diamond in it. The Williamson brooch,” he says, remembering two examples of the same piece....
...Luckily, it was an unusually pleasant day when Carolyn Williamson, a matronly woman with cropped silver hair, a striking yellow cardigan and red-rimmed glasses clipped the ribbon strung across the doorway...
...Tie askew, hair mussed into a state of tonsorial turmoil, one sock inside out, Boris Johnson is facing his first major audition for the job he has craved all his life. He knows what is coming....
...Smith & Williamson, an investment manager and accounting company, has appointed Angus Abraham as business manager within its funds business....
...Mukhtar Ablyazov, a slim man in his mid-forties with receding hair, a delicate mouth and a flinty gaze, had fled to the UK earlier that year as the Kazakh government prepared to nationalise his bank....
...Facebook says the great majority of its more than one million advertisers are small and medium-sized businesses, which it sees as a “big opportunity”....
...Our big concern is that the timetable for making the decision on Europe is very long and drawn out....
...“Lili”, à propos the Moschino big-bow blouse Michelle wore in Prague, posted: “I don’t like the blouse and I do not feel I need to apologise by saying her hair and makeup look great to compensate....
...“We are just hitting big money now and have a serious investor behind us who is looking for a return.”...
...Matthew Williamson wanted to retain “a very traditional element” with his 1,000 pink velvet and chiffon roses the following year....
...“There is strength now appearing in all of the big four euro zone economies,” said Chris Williamson, chief economist at NTC Research which compiles the European surveys of corporate purchasing managers....
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