Hints and tips:
...Retail giants H&M and Fast Retailing, which owns Uniqlo, have also launched lawsuits against Shein in Hong Kong and Japan, respectively....
...love) is a half-soused, fully caricaturish Oxonian professor (Nicholas Lyndhurst)....
Investors emboldened after central bank chair says focus is ‘not on short-term moves’ in markets
...“We knew that we could get the most out of them,” said the Tate’s then director Nicholas Serota....
...charmed her way into Nato circles (Bellingcat) — Why billionaire John Malone’s shadow looms over CNN (Vox) — The Milky Way’s black hole may be key to understanding what drives galaxies (Quanta) — Nassim Nicholas...
...Take a break from the news Thomas H Lee, the financier who led some of the private equity industry’s most successful deals during the 1980s and 1990s, has died at the age of 78....
...How is climate change affecting the Nile Delta, Egypt’s richest agricultural region? The FT’s Heba Saleh reports on declining yields and bouts of unseasonal heat from Kafr al-Batikh....
...She graduated from Westminster in 2018, and since then has won the H&M Design Award in 2019, been a joint winner of the 2020 LVMH Prize and won the Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design....
...To mark the 60th anniversary of the tour, his son Nicholas Wainwright, current Boodles chair, is making his own journey this month: around Europe in 10 days....
...“Peak G&H distribution was 122 freestanding shops or concessions across China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in 2013. By June 2020 there were 40 outlets across the region....
...A fellow agent known as Pierre-Marie H, who continued to spy for China until his arrest in 2017, was given a 12-year sentence at the same trial....
...Then we have these ones from our Cypriot tailor, Nicholas. Now we also have a Tibetan one there, Kelsang Tsering, who has done one suit for us. George: Nobody has a Tibetan tailor....
...We are familiar with images such as Nicholas Hilliard’s portraits of Elizabeth I, rendered icon-like and embroidered with hundreds of pearls (her gemstone of choice, for its implied chastity)....
...He then moved to Wall Street to work for investment bank Dillon Read under Nicholas Brady, later Treasury secretary to Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush....
...And I take my bra off or pull the cups down and I jiggle my shoulders while saying “T-h-a-n-k-y-o-u”. Though I, I get my period. And then I have cramps....
...And I take my bra off or pull the cups down and I jiggle my shoulders while saying, ‘T-h-a-n-k-y-o-u,’” she says, making her voice go jittery and giving a brief shimmy. “It’s very cute....
...This is not a town of coherence but of juxtapositions, whether you are seeking the cream-cake baroque splendours of Nikolaikirche (St Nicholas church), the fin de siècle elegance of the Gründerzeit mansions...
...“It is hard to think of a more pro-inflation environment,” said Nicholas Bloom, an economist at Stanford University, who participated in the survey....
...Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Marketby Nicholas Wapshott, WW Norton $28.95 This is a follow-up to the author’s Keynes Hayek....
...Japanese companies such as optical product maker Hoya, travel company H.I.S. and trading house Itochu have, within the past two years, decided that the hostile bid is now a legitimate tool for corporate...
...And the thing I’m eyeing next is a large Nicholas Vreeland print from his “Monk with a Camera” series. His portraits and landscapes resonate with me because of their immediacy and directness....
...Highlight: A 68ft block of Aswan granite that evokes happy winters spent by the Nile, “Cleopatra’s Needle” (which has nothing to do with Cleopatra) was erected by Thutmose III in 1468BC in front of the Temple...
...“It’s very rare that anyone talks about Miami going underwater,” said Nicholas Griffin, an author and local resident. “Why aren’t we building buildings on stilts?...
...Fret not though, because you don’t actually have to when you have FT Alphaville (h/t to a Kelly relative for drawing our attention to this)....
...Bertilsson is creative director at NCS Colour, the Swedish standardisation system used by companies such as H&M to predict hues that consumers will demand in the months and years ahead, driven by cultural...
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