Hints and tips:
...My friend Patricia’s birthday parties were the best....
...The risk was not a precipitous crash but rather a slow-burn (S&L-style) squeeze on asset returns and bank profitability. That squeeze will continue....
...The rest comes from visitors; fees, events and the support of many Friends worldwide (l.saintleger@vaux-le-vicomte.fr, for details)....
...One attendee, artist Patricia Mitchell, ended up using a malachite-effect backdrop for the paper sculpture she created for Chris Beardshaw’s award-winning Chelsea garden in May....
...I loved this chatty and quite gross diary for the London Review of Books from Patricia Lockwood, author of the novel No One Is Talking About This, about plane rides, illness and jacaranda....
...But was it really Bitcoin that helped El Salvador dodge default? Perhaps the truth is much more mundane....
...In 1976, an ill-fated attempt saw a lumbering Ford Torino and Dodge Charger take on the challenge, only for both cars to retire....
...This week, the US electric-car maker roped in South Korean company L&F to contribute battery materials....
...And the exquisite trompe-l’oeil shell “mirrors” and decorative frescoes in the main hotel corridor are the work of François Roux, who restored the ceilings in Louboutin’s Lisbon house....
...At one end of the #vanlife continuum are people like Ryan Brown, 35, who moved into his no-build 2013 Dodge Grand Caravan before the pandemic....
...In his studio, the bespeckled artist, who wears his streaked grey hair long, jumps from the long, stone-topped table, wanders over to a low-slung Patricia Urquiola for Moroso lounge chair, picks up a guitar...
...A new venue belonging to the Academy of Fine Arts Florence is housed there, as well as LVMH’s IME (L’Institut des Métiers d’Excellence)....
...L’Eclisse (1962) Where to watch: Amazon Prime, iTunes and (US) The Criterion Channel Michelangelo Antonioni made a star of the city’s financial centre in the stylishly cynical love story L’Eclisse, set...
...The ever-inventful Moooi’s Lint carpet collection (from €2,330) is an in-your-face depiction of interweaved silk ribbons and, in the same vein, Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has produced the Patcha...
...Where Mabel Dodge Luhan had a son, Cusk’s narrator has a grown-up daughter named Justine, also visiting the marsh with her boorish partner Kurt....
...Whenever I’m asked to name the best Indian restaurant I’ve eaten in, I tend to dodge the question. The best Indian restaurant is a point we could argue over for days....
...The Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel, the French media watchdog, confirmed that it was approached by the broadcaster in December....
...But children’s entertainment companies have managed to dodge this approach and keep their content on several channels at once....
...Roughly equidistant between the Champs Elysées and the Pont de l’Alma, the hotel occupies a prized corner of Georges V with the Rue Pierre Charron....
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai, Qianer Liu in Shenzhen and Patricia Nilsson in London...
...as “M”, and her male house guest, an artist known throughout as “L”....
...L’Académie du Vin next door, run by his associate Patricia Gastaud-Gallagher, set numerous wine world luminaries, including France’s best-known wine writer Michel Bettane, on their way....
...Last month, the brand’s owner L Brands and Sycamore Partners called off a $525m deal that would have given the private equity group a majority stake in the lingerie retailer....
...Elizabeth L Cline, an author on labour rights and environmental practices in the fashion industry, argues that outsourcing has enabled retailers to distance themselves from risks in the supply chain....
...But, as H L Mencken is supposed to have said (though may not have done), “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong”. This is a powerful example of that truth....
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