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...My friend Patricia’s birthday parties were the best....
...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....
...Kingman will retain his role at L&G, but has stood down as chair of Tesco Bank....
...Such was the profusion of advertising talent that in the late 1940s, future novelists Joseph Heller and Mary Higgins Clark briefly worked for the same New York agency....
...This week, the US electric-car maker roped in South Korean company L&F to contribute battery materials....
...When l made the point to her about coping so well, she answered, ‘well l work for a **** company where nothing works, so I’m used to broken equipment and being stress-tested by game-playing stupid senior...
...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....
...L.S. Lowry has always been popular in the UK, but incredibly, not overseas....
...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...
...The Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel, the French media watchdog, confirmed that it was approached by the broadcaster in December....
...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....
...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....
...Additional reporting by Patricia Nilsson in London and Claire Bushey in Chicago...
...Garfield, Banbury, England Crossword 16,218: Richard Gibson, London; M Amey, Macclesfield; George Warburg, Connecticut Polymath 1,030: David Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L...
...Mr Beckham, who retired from a 20-year-long career in football six years ago, has built a personal branding business, partnering with names such as L’Oréal and whisky maker Haig Club....
...Other big client wins in the Read era include Instagram, L’Oréal and eBay. WPP insiders say they have noticed the change at the company....
...Business from new clients including Instagram, L’Oréal and eBay helped ease a sales decline at WPP and provide evidence that the restructuring of one of the world’s largest advertising groups is paying off...
...Both join from K & L Gates....
...They include a mix of healthcare, consumer staples and tech: GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, ASML, Nestlé, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, L’Oréal, LVMH, AstraZeneca, SAP and Sanofi....
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