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...But France’s King Cotton became waywardly autocratic in his old age and his indebted company collapsed shortly before his death....
...Joseph Seligman sold Union securities while Mayer and Emanuel Lehman pushed Confederate debt and dabbled in the black market for southern cotton....
...Jacobs says he was dumbfounded when he was told that a crystal-embellished cotton army jacket, retailing at $22,000, had recently been sold....
...His great-uncle, André Gillier, co-founded Lacoste, of the famous piqué cotton polo shirt....
...The change came after the previous CEO Bernard Looney resigned in September over his failure to disclose past relationships to the board....
...When Bernard Haitink conducted the score for the Royal Ballet in the late 1980s he insisted on an orchestra of 70-plus (the mandolins were wedged into the stalls circle); Davies manages with 16 musicians...
...Marcus Allen, founder, The Society Archive There’s a great place here in New York called Stock Vintage that has a lot of Big Mac flannels and shirts from the ’50s and ’60s....
...Founder and CEO of real-estate investment firm Mark, Marcus Meijer, a polished, multilingual Dutch-born banker, has helped provide the financial vision....
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...The Sindh province, which borders the Arabian Sea, received almost eight times the average amount of rainfall for August, according to government data, wiping out rice and cotton crops....
...“When I started out in menswear, I would buy fabrics like white and blue or burgundy striped cottons for shirts....
...Bernard Arnault promotes daughter in LVMH reshuffle LVMH chief executive Bernard Arnault has promoted his daughter Delphine to run fashion brand Dior as part of a reshuffle at the world’s largest luxury...
...That means eschewing more frivolous purchases, he says, for “core” items such as sweaters, cotton and linen Oxford shirts, and sport coats....
...Customers can buy direct from the website or via Neiman Marcus, Harvey Nichols and Bloomingdale’s....
...finally appeared in a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt and bedazzled Burberry flip-flops to deliver a six-minute monologue that wove between complaints about Gap (“we were never given a factory”), bravado (“Bernard...
...“Dad [Nick Ashley, one of Laura and Bernard’s four children] talked about her all the time....
...In this collection, colours were soft and muted, hemlines long, with opulent jacquards supplanted by straightforward cotton, silk and tartan wool inspired by folkloric costumes....
...Letter in response to this article: There’s no glamour in air travel for the disabled / From Bernard H Casey, Frankfurt, Germany...
...Instead, he laid “a long piece of wet string or cotton thread in the gutter of a book, and left it there”. Maggs clarifies: “I don’t know how long it takes because I’ve never done it myself......
...In July, a campaign featuring videos of brooding models in white cotton vests, jeans and silver jewellery under the headline “Not Your Mother’s Tiffany” provoked an emotional response....
...“If you are using regenerative cotton, you should get a tax break. And if you’re using chemical cotton, you should get a tax bill.”...
...There was rationing of grain, cotton, and several other basic commodities. And a train from Hong Kong to Beijing took over four days to arrive. The same journey today would take about nine hours....
...Just going there is a trip into the past – the Egyptian cotton, the embroidery, the pyjamas, the bath robes. Everything is delightful....
...To borrow novelist Emily St John Mandel’s phrase, the Kingdom of Money descends on these seas in July, from Bernard Arnault (spotted lunching at Carlino, the elegant beach restaurant of Il San Pietro in...
...He told them to look down at the cotton plimsolls they were wearing....
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