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...At Officine Générale, creative director Pierre Mahéo showed plunging V-neck sweaters with a whisper of a V-neck tee worn beneath them....
...“We’re seeing luxury brands evolve the polo by experimenting with fabrication, pattern and construction,” says Mr Porter’s style director, Olie Arnold....
...A month later, Tripathi received an invitation to a “Business Leaders Reception” at Number 10 hosted by Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister....
...Tim Reeve, V&A deputy director, said that, while the museum had benefited from record-high domestic visitor numbers, a drop-off in international visitors had held back demand....
...Henry V....
...Discussions included the reversal of Roe v Wade, there was a talk on stress and gut health and a sound bath was held. There was also yoga, snorkelling and a shamanic blessing....
...“Our industry should take these findings very seriously,” said Oliver Bilal, head of Emea distribution at Invesco....
...Share your ideas with us at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...Sonia Solicari, the museum’s director, acknowledged feeling “extremely compromised by that situation” in evidence to parliament last year....
...Even Oliver Spencer, proprietor of Favourbrook, a brand built on the flamboyance of the velvet jacket, sounds a note of caution....
...Feel free to drop me an email at sid.v@ft.com. Why does SEC chair Gary Gensler have a YouTube show?...
...“We wanted to bring a bit of California into the tent,” said director Stefan Ratibor. Their plan hit the spot — all nine works have sold for $350,000 each....
...UBS has appointed Oliver Gaunt and Abudy Taha, managing directors on its leveraged finance team, as co-heads of leveraged finance for Emea....
...The directors of the Science, Natural History, British and V&A museums, as well as the National and Tate galleries, said in a joint statement: “We welcome the chancellor of the exchequer’s declaration of...
...When King George V stayed here in 1912, 40,000 people packed the gardens to watch him arrive. He was a guest of its former owner, the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam....
...Collectors of Parrish include the film director George Lucas, who has said that the artist inspired some of the fantastic landscapes in Star Wars....
...Elisabeth Costa, a director at the Behavioural Insights Team, a consultancy part owned by the UK government, says: “People favour rewards now versus those in the future . . . it is not realistic to think...
...We now have a new chairman and finance director — but Lance has been there since the start. He cannot excuse himself from this.”...
...After the fire, Gene Kranz, Nasa’s flight director, instructed his staff to write a phrase on their blackboards: “Tough and Competent”....
...Oliver Meyer has joined the Baird Global Investment Banking’s European investment banking group as a managing director....
...Barclays has hired Andrew Tusa as a managing director as the bank grows its corporate broking franchise....
...(FT) Apple v WeChat The biggest rival to Apple’s flagship smartphone in China is a messaging app that allows users to pay for food, hail cabs, stream video and more....
...Pallas was a Madrid-based managing director at Citi and headed Iberian M&A for the US bank....
...Further reading Politics v policies The election has shaken up the Brexit conversation in the UK....
...Thankfully, “the V&A this year is having a bumper year. It’s 16 per cent up year on year, which is a lot of visitors to be up”....
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