Hints and tips:
...Most people think Putin’s hero is Peter the Great or Catherine the Great or, in his saturnalian depths, maybe even Ivan the Terrible....
...Ditto Frank Bruni’s more recent piece on luxe restaurants as a category. Peter Spiegel responds Rana, I agree wholeheartedly with your lamentations over pay in the US....
...The short reply is yes,” said Peter Chaljawski, BBG’s founder and chief executive. “We see that our inbound and funnel [of potential merchant acquisitions] is extremely full.”...
...Their answer is obviously no, and Frank Bruni believes that Manhattan will turn its back on the Trumps. But columnist Ginia Bellafante says “you can always eat lunch in this town again”....
...Later, another president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his wife Carla Bruni Sarkozy became regulars....
...Who knew that deep inside Bruno Dumont there was a Peter Sellers-loving, silly walks-worshipping film director bursting to express himself?...
...Russia’s richest men quaffed champagne in the company of Tony Blair, Gerhard Schröder and Peter Mandelson. Carla Bruni crooned for the crowds....
...the eclecticism here is Francesco Vezzoli’s “Carla di Castiglione” (2011), which mixes the persona of Cavour’s cousin, a countess who loved to pose for the cameras in strange guises, and that of Carla Bruni...
...And I wonder about Samantha Cameron, who yes, loves the high street, but also Erdem, Burberry and Peter Pilotto....
...peter.aspden@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/aspden...
...According to French media reports, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was checked into the Clinique de la Muette hospital, presumably to give birth to the couple’s first baby....
...Amid signs of growing tension in the negotiations, the French head of state had announced his sudden decision to attend the talks after a brief visit to the Paris maternity clinic where his wife Carla Bruni...
...Where would the haplessly tall Carla Bruni be, for example, if it were not for the reassuringly flat and ever-chic Tod’s ballerina shoes that keep her in the same airspace as her husband?...
...Recently, however, the phenomenon has reached critical mass, with the addition of Fonderie 47, a new fine-jewellery brand launched by Peter Thum, who previously founded Ethos Water, and whose end-goal is...
...sushi bar is overseen by executive chef Masato Shimizu who, having apprenticed under sushi master Rikio Kugo in Tokyo, has collaborated with the owners of 15 East to create what New York Times critic Frank Bruni...
...Audobon’s The Birds of America is fictionalised in Peter Carey’s novel, Parrot and Olivier in America 24....
...images from an impressive roll call of the fashion world’s coolest photographers, along with 50 interviews about Gaultier’s work and influence from collaborators and muses such as Catherine Deneuve, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy...
...The arrival of Carla Bruni has already perked things up considerably. Michelle Obama seems to be a little livelier than Laura Bush....
...Marisa Bruni-Tedeschi, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s mother, now admitting to nearly 80, is probably a prime example of this breed of perennial bloomer....
...She has glamorous friends (Naomi Campbell) but is not so sexy herself as to make the PM distracted (Carla Bruni)....
...The same is true of many of the outfits worn by Carla Bruni Sarkozy, a poster girl of the trend....
...She has looked assured beside Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni. Others have suggested this is simply a woman emerging into a life beyond parenthood....
...Carla Bruni, France’s première dame, figures partly unclothed in a 1992 Helmut Newton photograph (£3,000-£5,000)....
...President Nicolas Sarkozy – married to Carla Bruni, a singer – gave strong personal backing to a proposed French internet copyright law that would have included a “three strikes and you are out” provision...
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