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...Express interviews Taleb (Medium) — Globalisation is dead and no one is listening (Kevin Xu) — Building luxury homes for millionaires is good for poor people (James O’Malley; also, Sim Nimby) — Ponzi...
...and chervil root (from ERH in Paris), Michael Elégbèdé’s prawn banga and boli ati epa (from Itàn Test Kitchen in Lagos) and Fanny Ducharme’s burnt-bread ice cream (from L’Epicurieux in Québec)....
...vyrao.com Monique Foy, Cosmic Dealer Growing up in Sydney, 34-year-old entrepreneur Monique Foy was known affectionately in her clique as “the weird one who was into wellness”....
...The experienced Sim’Hamed Benhalima showed the way, stepping onstage with the upper body deportment of a ballet master yet finding quirky cues in the score to deconstruct it....
...A phenomenon the French call “l’arroseur arrosé” — when the gardener gets soaked by their own hose — springs to mind....
...In 1941, when Henri Matisse was recovering from cancer surgery, his advertisement for “a young and pretty nurse” was answered by Monique Bourgeois....
...He should have visited Cat Head blues shop, where the owner would have directed him to the homes of Ike Turner, Sam Cooke, Rev C L Franklin and others....
...This will stop customers simply buying a cheap sim card in one country and using it in another country with higher phone bills, officials argued....
...Eric Ripert’s love for beautiful, finely crafted timepieces was sparked by a Cartier Santos watch, a gift from his mother, Monique, when he was 15....
...Their teaming is part of a series of three dinners dubbed “Girls Night Out”, initiated by Hartnett and food and wine writer Fiona Sims to highlight women’s culinary achievements....
...But the general bemusement was caused less by the trompe l’oeil effect as by the use of a material usually forbidden in high-brow design circles: cardboard....
...Then there are short, gymslip-style black jersey dresses by Gwen Stefani, the frontwoman of the punk-ska band No Doubt and creator of the clothing line L.A.M.B. So far, so fashion....
...From Ralph Lauren to Armani, Prada to Hermès, the original woven straw sole and canvas upper has had an injection of designer cool, writes Josh Sims....
...Now her shop also holds exclusive Asian rights to Oscar de la Renta, Monique L’Huillier, Kumari and Reem Acra. Meanwhile, Vera Wang in Asia is exclusive to The Link Wedding in Singapore....
...L Fleske, Kansas, US Francisco Blanch: The energy sector is currently stuck between a rock and a hard place....
...Location: Sims Reed Gallery, 38 Bury Street, London SW1....
...Toward the end of last week, Judge Lake had to call Petrocelli aside and ask him to scrub off his cologne: a front-row juror was overwhelmed by the scent – Tabac by L’Artisan....
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