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...In a world gripped by vanilla fashion – be it athleisure, gorpcore or quiet luxury – Blahnik reminds us of that clientele still “famished for beauty”, to paraphrase his old friend André Leon Talley....
...The EU financial services commissioner is due to meet Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey on Monday....
...Speakers include US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey and Carmen Reinhart, vice-president and chief economist at the World Bank Group. Register for free here....
...“What we’re missing is some of the general day-to-day flow of information,” said Marc Bailey, chief executive of Sucden Financial, a broker. “We’re finding it harder to pick up on.”...
...Catherine Bailey has retold the story elegantly from Fey’s book and everything else she could glean from her family....
...Leon Hoffman Chicago. IL, US...
...andrew.hill@ft.com Letter in response to the article: Changing times bring curtain down on circus / From Leon Hoffman, Chicago. IL, US...
...Set in early-1980s Birmingham, the novel is told from the perspective of eight-year-old, mixed-race Leon, who takes care of his white baby brother Jake from birth, until Jake is adopted and Leon is tragically...
...The other two are the closure, as a result of protests, by the Barbican Gallery of Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B, an installation which, according to the Barbican, “critique[d] the ‘human zoos’ and ethnographic...
...Media organisations had contested the “unprecedented” decision by Mr Justice Nicol last month at the Old Bailey regarding the pending trial of two defendants identified only as AB and CD....
...At Burberry Prorsum, Christopher Bailey gave the caped trench or cropped capelet a flamenco treatment in metallic python or pink silk satin. … Should you invest? Does Carmen still draw a crowd?...
...Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$35 Known for his detective novels set in Havana, Padura has now fictionalised the life of Ramón Mercader, the Spanish revolutionary who, on Stalin’s orders, assassinated Leon...
...David Bailey, 72, began his career in the 1960s, and has immortalised supermodels, stars and other celebrities....
...Haig Bathgate, chief investment officer at Turcan Connell, favours funds from CF Walker Crips run by Jan Luthman and Stephen Bailey....
...Clearly, this view is not shared by the fashion world – Burberry’s Christopher Bailey, a man whose taste I generally find flawless, said she had a “classic beauty …great character and …modern edge” – and...
...melodrama best known for its aria “Il dolce suono”, Lucia has featured in other art forms; Flaubert used it as a backdrop in the passage of Madame Bovary when the heroine encounters her former love, Léon...
...Think of designer Karl Lagerfeld, with his penchant for a white, powdered pony tail, black leather fingerless gloves and black shades; or Andre Leon Talley, the six-and-a-half-foot American Vogue editor-at-large...
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