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...When Levi Strauss reported second-quarter earnings in June, the company took a translational hit from the strong dollar but stressed that it still had “strong momentum” in Europe....
...Veronese changed the title — to “The Feast in the House of Levi” — not the painting, explaining that he added elements “for ornamentation, as one does . . ....
...“Here there is no why,” Primo Levi reported being told by an Auschwitz guard. The film unpicks that affront....
...These boots by Australian heritage brand RM Williams are almost indestructible thanks to their single-piece construction, and are as central to the rugged masculine mythology of Australia as Levi’s denim...
...And the score, by British musician Mica Levi, is outstanding: a spacey minimalist wonder featuring eerie synth strings and jarring percussion....
...Her booth includes Samuel Levi Jones’s “Doom” (2021), a canvas of stitched, deconstructed books (sold for $36,000)....
...Nichola Pease will succeed Liz Airey in March to chair Jupiter Asset Management, the £45bn UK asset manager....
...To dive into the abyss of Auschwitz, we read Primo Levi rather than a transcript of the Nuremberg trials....
...When Sunspel CEO Nicholas Brooke addressed his factory workers as the UK entered coronavirus lockdown in March, his speech dug deep into the 160‑year heritage of the British luxury underwear and casualwear...
...Born to Jacob and Meta Levi in the town of Rexingen, southern Germany, they were nine and six years old when they left home....
...Adam Driver in Burberry, Nicholas Hoult in Giorgio Armani… All were similarly understated, all were equally conservative, each was as dapper as the last....
...“It has been a long time since we have had a lot of IPOs,” says Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek, a New York-based research firm. “Capital markets are probably a little rusty at pricing....
...“Christmas will soon be here,” a German lab technician at Monowitz whispers to Primo Levi....
...She has been working on two new video pieces, scored by Mica Levi. “The first, Sirens, is about euphoria, sensuality, about how it feels to get high, a lot about women....
...Ramsay-Levi has faced a few challenges since arriving at Chloé....
...The company’s current chief, Eric Olsen, is due to step down in July....
...Governor Øystein Olsen said “the balance of risks suggests that the key policy rate will remain at today’s level in the period ahead”....
...Norges Bank governor Øystein Olsen said today that “the outlook and the balance of risks for the Norwegian economy do not appear to have changes substantially” since its March meeting, and the bank said...
...Øystein Olsen, Norges Bank governor, said: Monetary policy is expansionary and supportive of structural adjustments in the Norwegian economy....
...Øystein Olsen, Norges bank governor, said: Overall, developments since September do not differ substantially from the projections in the September Monetary Policy Report....
...Now comes Nicholas Eberstadt’s persuasive and important monograph Men Without Work, demonstrating that these issues are not just matters of futurology....
...Last week, the governor of Norway’s central bank, Øystein Olsen, said the country’s government could pull €8.4bn from the fund this year....
...Bought in 2005 by Nicholas Brooke and Dominic Hazlehurst, it has been reborn as a sharp, fresh brand beloved by a young urban customer, its stores positioned among the likes of APC and Aesop....
...A Literary Tour of Italy, by Tim Parks, Alma Books, RRP£16.99, 370 pages Ian Thomson is author of ‘Primo Levi: A Biography’ (Vintage)...
...Nicholas Penny, director of the National Gallery, retires this year....
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