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...Swiss luxury group Richemont is in “advanced talks” with online retailer Farfetch and other companies over a deal to invest in its lossmaking Yoox Net-a-Porter ecommerce business that has long been a sore...
...For Vevers, that meant youth fully optimistic shearling-trimmed bombers, V-neck sweaters and leather pencil skirts paired with colourful trainers and tube socks....
Neither system requires support from a PC or console — but do they measure up?
...Read all of Charlie Porter’s SS18 menswear reviews at ft.com/fashion Photographs: Catwalking...
...However, ULA’s reliability record may be challenged by a significant looming upheaval facing its main rocket, the Atlas V....
...(Slate) Tourism: London v Venice Three museums in the English capital last year received more visitors than the entire Italian city of Venice....
...Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012....
...Some analysts saw this week’s plan for an all-share merger between luxury ecommerce operations Yoox and Net-a-Porter as a defensive deal....
...It’s a crowded market out there: Net-A-Porter.com stocks more than 300 brands, and Matchesfashion.com has upwards of 400. Consumers have choice....
...“I never invested in Net-a-Porter with the thought that I would be one of the major investors but since nobody believed in internet companies after 2000, it turned out that I had to be the major investor...
...In March, Italian group Yoox confirmed an all-share merger with the UK’s Net-a-Porter....
...A merger this week between Italy’s Yoox and Net-A-Porter of the UK to create an online luxury fashion group with annual sales of €1.3bn provided only a measure of comfort to dealmakers....
...Net-a-Porter’s Sarokin sees phone cases as “the 21st-century lipstick purchase”....
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...You place the button exactly at the waist point, and you get this V-shape at the top and below, and that elongates the torso.”...
...Still there were pieces to sell – simple camel V-neck sweaters, plain tweed shirts and a rather nice knitted T-shirt with leg-of-mutton sleeves – and when the designer himself came out for his bow, he was...
...Brian Porter, BNS chief executive, says the retrenchment in commodities could create opportunities....
...Twenty-two London designers made a contribution and the jackets were exhibited at the V&A then auctioned in aid of the Prince’s Trust....
..., Amadeo Canfora, is known as the originator of the Capri Sandal, which was popular with Princess Margaret, Maria Callas and Grace Kelly; in 1962, he created the K sandal for Jackie Kennedy featuring a V-shaped...
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...$500,000 A two-bedroom condo in East Cambridge or in the city’s fashionable Porter Square district $1m An eight-bedroom period house in East Rock, New Haven, or a modern three-bedroom townhouse on the...
...“In a normal country, the state would step in,” says Geoff Porter, of North African Risk Consulting. “But in Libya, the government does not have control.”...
...(Reuters) Disney buys Lucasfilm: Mickey Mouse has forged an unlikely alliance with Darth Vader after Walt Disney agreed a $4bn deal to acquire Lucasfilm, the company behind the Star Wars films, and revealed...
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...N.V. Tyagarajan, Genpact’s chief executive, said: “We are excited about this transaction, which is hugely positive for all of our shareholders....
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