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...Get a sneak peek at the contemporary art gallery Galerie Italienne on Rue du Louvre....
...The exhibition includes a film made to promote the pieces, which Chanel put on public display in her Paris home in Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in aid of charity....
...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....
...This makes me feel mildly better about DJing (the job du jour) for Karl Lagerfeld at his Fendi party wearing a not-so-expertly doctored Zara dress....
...She is openly jealous of London’s V&A museum, to which the Bowie archive was donated in February. “I knew very young, as a teenager, that I was going to work in art, but I was quite a movie buff . . ....
...Le Restaurant du Haze, Kurume-city, Fukuoka For serene dining in the foothills of Mount Mino, head for chef Atsushi Hirata’s Le Restaurant du Haze, a macrobiotic and vegan restaurant in a traditional Japanese...
...It’s a divide that played out at the shows, where black velvet and gold were the look du jour, and at retail: on Wednesday Balenciaga opened a pair of “couture stores” on the Avenue George V, where clients...
...Out of work and unable to send money to his children, Du planned to return to his farming plot in the country....
...Finally, I realise what he is doing: he is aligning the candles into a perfect line, just as the nearby Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is perfectly aligned with the Arc de Triomphe....
...Feel free to drop me an email at sid.v@ft.com. Why does SEC chair Gary Gensler have a YouTube show?...
...A red carpet and a throng of photographers greeted guests outside the Théâtre du Châtelet, where Balenciaga held its show....
...The alliance this summer affirmed cyber incidents could trigger its mutual defence clause under Article V....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...Not exactly fit for the V&A, but it worked just fine in a foyer around the corner from the Gare du Nord....
...Fontainebleau Climbs guidebook, v-publishing.co.uk....
...Chart du jour: more than an ocean of difference The US and EU paths to economic recovery are already at risk of divergence....
...Chart du jour: Deutsche Back Deutsche Bank, once the “sick bank of Europe”, is outstripping European rivals in the equity market (see share price chart via FT)....
...(Guardian) Slovakia’s prime minister Igor Matovic is facing mounting pressure to resign after striking a deal with Russia for its Sputnik V vaccine....
...The EU tensions with Austria have also come as Vienna negotiates with Russia to purchase 1m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine by April....
...Slovakia’s ruling coalition could be in danger of breaking up over potential purchases of doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...Strathclyde, or to give him his full name Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, recalls: “I said: ‘Just in case.’ And had another drink.”...
...Chart du jour: Reviving business European governments have spent huge sums to shield businesses from the pandemic....
...In a diplomatic triumph for the Kremlin, Russia's Sputnik V vaccine had a reported 91.6 per cent efficacy rate in clinical trials according to a peer review study published in the Lancet....
...The move from Budapest to order the Sputnik V vaccine is being seen by some as an attempt to curry favour with Moscow....
...Parrish and Pierre du Pont (1870-1954) were childhood friends and his family bought the work directly from the artist....
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