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...Then, in June 2015: “My dear Leon. How are you? I need to meet with you. It’s both urgent and important.”...
...There were some longer dresses: strapless or with a deep V neckline, held together by delicate lace....
...Behind the table is a chair piled with books, from one on Balthus and another on the Belgian symbolist painter Léon Spilliaert to a large tome on Persian paintings....
...This year’s shortlisted artists — to be featured in the exhibition — will be announced in spring....
...Nonetheless, bank analysts say the benefits of increased interest rates are likely to outweigh the negatives for most of the big banks....
...Well, markets normally spring back to life in September after taking a breather in August....
...The late Vogue editor André Leon Talley was in the audience and took Smith under his wing....
...It was the big focus at Prada, where Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons also embraced suiting as the foundation of their spring looks, with a wide-shouldered, narrow-waisted silhouette drawn from the 1940s....
...Some asylum seekers are staying in a squat on Brussels’ Rue de la Loi, just next to the headquarters of De Moor’s party, CD&V....
...But Fflur Roberts, head of luxury goods at market research provider Euromonitor International, says big royal events do boost sales....
...“Some would say, and they might be right, that her suicide was a big reason for the initial brouhaha,” says Doon of the furore around Arbus’ work in the years following her death....
...“You know when they did that [David] Bowie show at the V&A? For a long time I’ve thought, Pam could do that,” says Lucas. “So in a way, this is a small step towards Pam’s big retrospective.”...
...“Death is a big question for the collections of the Louvre.”...
...When running, these act like springs, returning energy back into the body, catapulting us forward....
...The day before his spring/summer 2023 show, Raf Simons was scouring the kiosks of the art fair....
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...Because an American Symphony Orchestra concert is almost invariably an argument about music presented by conductor and music director (and Bard College president) Leon Botstein....
...“The majority of these big industrial companies have their own wells . . . They don’t draw from the municipal network,” he said....
...Step 1: Get the grain This spring, the officials installed by Moscow to run the occupied territories set up the State Grain Operator to handle what they told Russian state media was more than 1.5 million...
...It says it had helped fund the development of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine....
...“When Balenciaga showed [big jackets] for spring 2020, it was prescient,” says Andrew Groves, professor of fashion design at the University of Westminster and director of the Westminster Menswear Archive...
...“I’ve never seen as big a cash burn, ever,” said Ronan, speaking at a “Save our Bacon” protest outside the agriculture ministry in Dublin last week, where farmers were calling for a €100mn government loan...
...Leon Black’s lawyers pushed for probe into extortion claim New York’s top prosecutor opened an investigation into a Russian fashion model with links to Leon Black following a call to the Manhattan district...
...In the UK, where the inclination is to carry everything on the back, or bike, says Brigham, ultra-lightweight innovations including Big Agnes tents and Aeropress GO coffee makers are flying off shelves....
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