Hints and tips:
...Here’s hoping the “L” will recover from its case of “long Covid” soon. The city just isn’t the same without it....
...I work in pen and ink and can’t resist buying new quills in interesting colours or strange materials, often from L Cornelissen & Son in London. I’m also given lots by friends, which is lovely....
...At 16ft 9in, it is nearly a foot shorter than the van I shivered in last year, and diminutive enough for the L tracks and the coffee run....
...It is now in Chopard’s museum, the L.U.CEUM, in its factory in Fleurier, Switzerland....
...Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith took up residence in the Chelsea Hotel in 1969....
...On our flight to New York on Saturday, FT Alphaville read The Great Beanie Baby Bubble by Zac Bissonnette in between watching Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve....
...Additional reporting by Patti Waldmeir in Chicago...
...The three-part programme opens with Satie Studs/Ogives Composite, a rethink of a 2003 piece set to the piano prelude Fête donnée par des chevaliers normands en l’honneur d’une jeune demoiselle....
...L’Oréal has decided it is just not worth it to sell its Garnier products in China....
...Nor is it a consistent picture: while shoals of drinkers are heading down the price chain, the beauty-conscious are heading upmarket, prompting L’Oréal to withdraw its mass market Garnier skincare brand....
...Now Olay, L’Oreal and Nivea have been shamed in official media for having too much air where they ought to have facecream....
...Patti Wong, chairman of Sotheby’s Asia, agrees....
...The books on my bedside table are Patti Smith’s memoir of life in 1970s New York, Just Kids....
...Bertram Lenox Simpson, alias B.L....
...Introduction by Patti Waldmeir, with additional reporting by Yan Zhang …………………………………………………………….....
...Mr Ge predicts that after privatisation, the company will be able to offer higher salaries than L’Oréal and P&G. Still, it will take a long time to transform Jahwa into a global brand....
...It has attracted shoals of multinationals, with L’Oréal overtaking Procter & Gamble in 2009 to take the top slot....
...He says L’Oréal’s products for men, launched in China only three years ago, now account for 22-23 per cent of the Chinese business of L’Oréal Paris, the group’s flagship brand....
...Early adopters could include L’Oréal, Renault and Nestlé, with two or three campaigns running on iPhone and iPod touch apps in early December. Most will not run until next year, however....
...Among the mix of genres was a cover of one of her father’s songs, “L’hôtel particulier”....
...Headliners include Gorillaz and Muse (festival-heads who have come from Glastonbury may get a shiver of déjà vu), Patti Smith and Them Crooked Vultures....
...ParisAgustí Centelles French daily L’Humanité praised Valencian photographer Agustí Centelles as the best of his generation in its review of a 2001 Hotel de Sully exhibition of photographers of the Spanish...
...Opening on Wednesday with a children’s concert by Sliding Hammers, the festival boasts Mary J Blige, Patti Smith and Van Morrison among its guests....
...Many of the works on show in L’Atelier d’Alberto Giacometti are incomplete, creating a vivid sense of the atelier as laboratory of the artist’s mind (to February 11)....
...L ike most Americans, I was brought up thinking of food as fuel: something that should be prepared and consumed as quickly as possible – an unfortunate distraction from the hard work of living....
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