Hints and tips:
...Incoming taoiseach Simon Harris has pledged to fix Ireland’s housing crisis “once and for all” as he seeks to revitalise his Fine Gael party’s jaded image and lead it to a historic fourth term in power....
...Such was the case at Max Mara, where creative director Ian Griffiths stuck to a predominantly muted colour scheme....
...I think it was from my tutor at the fashion school at Kingston University, Ian Griffiths, who’s also creative director of Max Mara. It’s the only place he’s ever worked....
...Simon Kenyon, who’d started out with Voorspuy aged 18, took on the role of guide, logistician and camp manager for Voorspuy’s widow, Cindy....
...How the venture ever makes money when Simon and Mara seem to be drinking half the stock themselves is a mystery....
...Again, Gucci’s 1955 Horsebit shoulder bag has proven popular, alongside Burberry’s classic quilted shell-down jackets and Max Mara’s outerwear....
...Max Mara’s Ian Griffiths is not a designer to stray from the label’s essence, ever....
...Like Quirk, Simon Berthon, author of A Time To Lie (HQ, £12.99), is also a former investigative journalist....
...Italian house Max Mara has been collecting discarded camel-hair fabric from its coats, and using it as the “puff” in a new range of understated trench-style puffer jackets....
...At the Prada press conference following Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada’s debut as co-creative directors, Simons said it was up to young designers to introduce truly new ideas to fashion....
...France Simon Kuper Columnist I still have the photograph....
...Among them is Will Gradin, a Salesforce executive, and his wife Mara Harris, who works in public affairs at Google....
...“Raf [Simons] started some of this at Calvin Klein, with those bold-coloured turtlenecks, and it has been building since....
...Earth goddesses at Max Mara Ian Griffiths’ goddess-themed collection was anything but ethereal....
...Lucia van der Post Discovery: When most people think of a safari they think of Africa’s vast savannahs, of Kenya’s Maasai Mara, of South Africa’s bushveld....
...The cutaway continued to find favour at the Academy Awards the next month (see Rooney Mara and Julianne Moore, in Givenchy and Chanel couture respectively)....
...It is a blow to Simon Fox, upbeat CEO of publisher Trinity Mirror. The New Day made little use of paid commentators, which OQ regarded as a serious deficiency....
...The two protagonists who have homes, a kitten and a tiger, are both trapped: Ozymandias in a zoo, Mara by her own fears. How do strays survive in teeming, brusque, manic Delhi?...
...After being ousted from the bank in 2012, he set up Atlas Mara, an Africa-focused investment vehicle....
...Sir, Simon Schama misses one important aspect of Napoleon’s legacy (June 20). He was utterly opposed to the practice of torture....
...Floral-print rash guards can be found at Marc by Marc Jacobs (£60) and Pret-à-Surf (£115), while New York-based swimwear designer Mara Hoffman’s stretch nylon versions at Net-a-Porter feature three-quarter-length...
...“Technology has given us the ability to be very quick and personalised in reaching our customers,” says Simon Carter, the Japanese company’s executive director of marketing for the UK and Ireland....
...One afternoon, Simon teaches Broaders and me how to transform matchboxes into mini-installations....
...This year fashion brands have been poised to fight over new hopefuls Jessica Chastain, Michelle Williams, Rooney Mara, Emma Stone and Bérénice Bejo, along with the usual slew of A-list talents....
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