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...After a while, my husband snags a ling, but otherwise our lines are quiet....
...Nearby, I’m a fan of Labelhood. It’s an incubator for local fashion talent where I discover new designers, such as Shushu/Tong, Oude Waag or Uma Wang....
...The grooming staple I’m never without is Terre d’Hermès, which I was first gifted by South African art dealer Michael Stevenson in my late 20s....
...Line Painting (03251), 2017, by Tanya Ling, £17,000Tanya Ling has just had her third sell-out show of epic abstract paintings in oil at New York gallery Harper’s....
...You’d no doubt recognise his designs — the current HSBC logo is one....
...“I’m constantly looking for materials that I’m able to learn from or speak with.” The laborious process of constructing his sculptures is the work of many hands....
...Zhu-Nowell themselves might prove a draw. Tall and often clad in statement clothing — a pink fur bomber, a translucent shift — they have a performative edge, though assure me: “I’m just into fashion....
...“I’m not interested in revolution,” he says. “I’m a capitalist. It was his capitalist aptitude that attracted me, not his revolutionary history.”...
...But the big thing that people are talking about is the other D-word, which is very scary to bond markets, which is deficits. Ethan WuYeah....
...I’m Ethan Wu. Thanks for listening....
...“I’m just a wanderer, a piece of paper,” he says. He is originally from Tibet, and has been painting since aged 13....
...I’d be remiss not to point out that more than $50mn worth of crypto tokens were donated to Ukraine’s war effort in the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion last year....
...The last music I recorded was Stravinsky’s The Firebird by pianist Zhu Wang....
...A: Su Zhu and Kyle Davies Among the many investments made by FTX was the acquisition of a card-based video game....
...Have thoughts on what you’d like to read in this newsletter? Email me at scott.chipolina@ft.com....
...In my head, I’d rehearsed the lines I might say to the police: “He’s actually not my dog; he’s the dog of the British ambassador. I’m just the dog-walker.”...
...It was the first ginger I’d ever seen in the field and shockingly beautiful. In southern China, ginger is a core ingredient in daily meals....
...But it does have what I’d argue is, from a quality-for-money standpoint, the city’s best hammam, hands-down....
...It was there I discovered the ancient technique of the neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova, who made his marble sculptures by replicating a plaster model he’d created beforehand....
...So it stands to reason she’d turn her hand to hospitality, and now here’s Oakley Court, the 100-plus-room Windsor hotel that is receiving its final touches this month....
...At this point I will be drunk enough to abandon any remaining restraint about the wines, so will serve Château d’Yquem 1940. Apparently, it’s still totally drinkable....
...Tesla’s habit of cutting prices to spur sales is also likely to put pressure on its Chinese peers, said Robin Zhu, an analyst at Bernstein....
...Both men symbolise the new breed of ba ling hou, or post-1980s-born, taking up top-ranking roles as the external landscape shifts....
...If it weren’t for Grab, I’d still be an entrepreneur of some kind. I sold my first comics at 11....
...The delivery is reminiscent of a novella by Ding Ling — Miss Sophie’s Diary, from 1928 — in which Sophie proclaims: “I don’t know how to dress, I’m useless at social behaviour, I’m no good at household management...
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