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...The elegant Hôtel Mona Bismarck, a cultural foundation in Paris’s 16th arrondissement, was the venue for Rokh’s autumn/winter 2024 show....
...Meanwhile, [Disney CEO] Bob Iger is sitting in a billionaires’ retreat, saying that our demands for a living wage are unrealistic, when that b***h is making $78,000 a day.”...
...Could a Jack Dorsey tweet be the next Mona Lisa? (Bloomberg) Hard to squash Beijing is continuing its crackdown on Ant Financial....
...“Part of the reason the dollar was supported last year was because the US was raising rates while the rest of the globe wasn’t normalising,” said Mona Mahajan, US investment strategist at Allianz....
...Enwonwu’s Tutu has been dubbed the “African Mona Lisa”. The painting had been missing for decades before it was rediscovered in a north London flat....
...Everyone from Italian luxury house Dolce & Gabbana, with its range of bejewelled and colourful hijabs and abayas, to high-street giant H&M — which launched a modest fashion range in May — has attempted to...
...H Huntsman & Sons, 11 Savile Row, London W1 (020-7734 7441; huntsmansavilerow.com)....
...The final room opposes Marcel Duchamp’s “L.H.O.O.Q” (1919), a postcard image of the Mona Lisa with her schoolboy pencilled moustache and beard, with Richard Prince’s series of rephotographed images, “Four...
...-H.” I felt a sense of sudden and unmistakable relief....
...A milestone in art history is Marcel Duchamp’s 1919 “L.H.O.O.Q”, the first of his cheeky takes on the Mona Lisa....
...During the second half of the 20th century, urbanist William H Whyte used on-site cameras to capture human flow inside New York’s buildings and public spaces....
...Described by Aurel Bacs, Christie’s specialist, as the Mona Lisa of wristwatches, it was a unique piece, thought to have been made to special order....
...bearded “Mona Lisa”; the pair of hands clasping curvaceous buttocks in Man Ray’s “The Prayer”....
...On Wednesday, however, TVB’s deputy chairman and Sir Run Run’s wife, Mona Fong, told Reuters that the company’s wise old man was “considering” retirement and on the lookout for a replacement....
...Warming to his theme, he remarked that “placing a rock beat behind Mozart’s Symphony No 40 is like sticking orange plastic boobs on the ‘Mona Lisa’ ”....
...Strolling through the living room you spot a familiar image of the Mona Lisa complete with moustache and goatee – Marcel Duchamp’s “L.H.O.O.Q.” (1940)....
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