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...In reality, “a lot of them ended up at the V&A”....
...During the V&A’s recent Gabrielle Chanel exhibition, London-based caterer Rocket organised a series of corporate events inspired by the show....
...From the lay-offs to the management cutting budgets for projects. The quality of meals in the cafeteria declined, and they stopped providing snacks and drinks.”...
...But, of course, there’s a reason why it’s widely called Shitibank; the sprawling, gormless Citi has for a v v v very long time proven adept at blithely ambling onto various rakes around the world....
...The New York gallery Friedman Benda showed his limited-edition furniture pieces — big febrile compositions that push together natural and man-made materials — at Design Miami in 2021....
...Some stripped off their clothes and lay against the cool of the grass, others wandered through the flowers....
...Herein lay one of the conflicts of late-Victorian Britain’s view of itself, which not even the fruity depths of the Christmas pudding could fudge forever....
...To my right lay Bosch and van der Weyden. Past the Flemish and Netherlandish galleries beckoned the luminous panels and cryptic gestures of the Gothic art section....
...(Tracey Emin lay in a bed covered with one of her embroidered quilts, smoking cigarettes, becoming one of the fair’s main attractions.)...
...Rossi-Hansberg says that the strength of Lucas’s models lay in his ability to make the right abstractions, and in the clarity of his mathematical language....
...Jellicoe wanted each V to make a different note as the water flowed over it: the lower down the cascade, the lower the note....
...But for those who want to dig deeper, we have published below the underlying court documents that lay out the issues in more granular detail....
...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...After years of fighting to attract computer engineers who would rather work for big tech groups or crypto start-ups, Wall Street firms say they are recovering lost ground in the talent war as lay-offs and...
...On the cost side, American labour shortages are easing amid lay-offs in finance and tech, but there continues to be upward pressure on wages....
...As always, drop your story ideas to me at sid.v@ft.com and have a great week....
...Economist Milton Friedman is famous for many insights....
...With an array of elegant 18th-century furniture (some on loan from the V&A), books, fittings and works by Gainsborough and his contemporaries, the rooms exude a quiet domesticity....
...Email me your thoughts at sid.v@ft.com. Latest news Amy Kazmin in Rome has a fascinating piece on why Giorgia Meloni is pushing back on Italy’s shift to digital payments....
...Adapting the business practice of conducting stakeholder assessments for your own life and career is a concept pioneered by psychologist Stewart Friedman....
...As always you can reach me at sid.v@ft.com....
...She was dressed elegantly in a V-neck white linen blouse, white trousers and a pair of trainers. But the signs of her injuries were everywhere....
...Ganieva met with prosecutors in 2021 to lay out her allegations....
...In a memo to staff and clients earlier this month, Jefferies chief executive Rich Handler and president Brian Friedman said the investment bank would “remain on high alert for great talent”....
...The Wall Street lender is also preparing to lay off as many as 3,900 employees starting in January as CEO David Solomon seeks to boost the bank’s profitability....
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