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...“If I found a pair of Dickies trousers in size 2T, I’d know that it’s too slim for my liking, so I’d look for a 5T and just shorten the legs or take in the waist. I modify everything.”...
...One of them is Jeff Bezos, whose schooner the Koru, with three masts and sails, hit the water last year....
...I wear the same thing every day: a pair of Dries Van Noten trousers or Levi’s 501s, vintage T-shirts and Elder Statesman sweaters. Quality things look better and better as you wear them....
...Outdoor brand Patagonia has invested in a programme in India, where Levi Strauss & Co also partners with regenerative schemes....
...On the way down, I thought I’d like to pivot and do something else in my life — and after 20 years of looking after myself and my children, devote more time to others.”...
...It reminds me of the windex found at the top of a sailing boat’s mast. Presently the arrows spin, and one of them stops upside down....
...Shore Financial Planning’s Yearsley says: “I’d have between 5 and 10 per cent of a portfolio in infrastructure.” So, even for investors ready to buy, exposure should be pretty limited....
...She was a regular at SoHo mainstay What Goes Around Comes Around, where she’d buy Levi’s 517s or vintage sportswear....
...No longer could we hear the gurgling of the engine, but instead the flapping of sails and the straining of masts. Something was always creaking....
...On the fourth day, after waking at 4pm in the thermals I’d had on since the start, I had a shower in my bikini out on deck at the stern in the warmth of the afternoon and it was glorious....
...When they built a new hotel on the Côte d’Azur, the result was the astonishing Maybourne Riviera, a modernist fantasy on the rocks overlooking Monaco....
...Honey, I’m on fire In The Raw and the Cooked, French structuralist anthropologist* Claude Lévi-Strauss aimed to demonstrate how binary empirical categories — such as those in the volume’s title — could...
...at the 23rd edition of Les Rencontres Economiques d’Aix-en-Provence 2023 in Aix-en-Provence....
...But as anyone who’s tried to hunt for the perfect vintage Levi’s 501s or Burberry trench already knows, shopping second-hand can also be frustrating or overwhelming....
...screamed Jonzi D (again). Try stopping them. ★★★★☆ Touring to June 14, breakinconvention.com...
...“Primo Levi talked about how they were made of the same clay as the bourgeoisie in any country,” he continues. “They really were Mr and Mrs Smith at No 26....
...It’s a sort of marriage between windsurfing and wakeboarding: you move the kite to generate power (so no heavy mast or engines)....
...“I like the Queen but I’d get rid of the monarchy. I’m more of an Elizabethist than a monarchist.”...
...And Udi Levi, the former head of the Mossad’s economic warfare unit, he says the same thing....
...Many summers ago, in the carefree time before the environment weighed on the collective mind so heavily, the end of July would have found me at the Harvey Nichols sale, rummaging around for a D&G cardigan...
...The spine of the Primo Levi memoir was cracked from rereading: he was humane. A whole row of Steinbeck: he must have raged for the poor and exploited....
...It was part of an aqueduct that brought water some 50km from the springs of the Fontaine d’Eure near Uzès to the fashionable Roman settlement of Nemausus (Nîmes)....
...The latest collection from Engineered Garments – a brand synonymous with navy twill – includes the D Sum jacket that is inspired by the Japanese double-breasted samue workwear jacket....
...I haven’t changed the way I dress since I was about 13; my everyday clothes are old band T-shirts or Vivienne Westwood men’s shirts, tucked into Levi’s....
...I almost feel that it’s such a special garment that I’d leave mine as inheritance.”...
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