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...Thanks to such dubious standard-bearers, V-necks have since occupied opposing ends of the sartorial spectrum — denoting a certain slovenly brand of old-school masculinity at one, arch geekery at the other...
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...Qualcomm has become the de facto platform of choice for all of those new immersive digital cockpit experiences that you see across over 30 brands....
...Seven years later, he enrolled at the Ray-Vogue Art School, and eventually graduated from the American Academy of Art in 1956 before starting work at Vince Cullers Group....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Elvis is available now on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download...
...Managers such as John Paulson, Steve Cohen and Ray Dalio became stars, and Li aspired to reach their ranks....
...The Korean Wave opens September 24, V&A ‘Make, Break, Remix: The Rise of K-Style’ by Fiona Bae, (Thames & Hudson), will be published in the UK & Ireland on 22 September 2022...
...These are for intelligent collectors who . . . have got all the brands, but this is another category they can move into and understand because they know the artists.”...
...“You can have a corporate entity use that for branding, but more importantly, you can then get to tell a story about how [much of a] cool and forward-looking brand you are.”...
...The once popular Sussex brand has moved away from the core suite of products and must either be retired or refreshed....
...Ray Wang, chair of Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research, said Cook has not demonstrated the same genius as Steve Jobs in developing new products, but was building on those achievements....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Apple’s biggest acquisition in the Cook era — buying Beats, a headphone brand and streaming service, for $3bn — could be paid for with three days’ worth of revenue. There have been product flops....
...Lex is sceptical about Facebook’s glasses launched with Ray-Ban on Thursday....
...At the slightest suggestion of a ray of Donegal sunshine, I’ll put on denim shorts....
...“When we did Kidder Peabody, it was an X-ray machine,” Rob Goldstein, a senior BlackRock executive, once told the FT....
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...Facebook announced last month that it intended to release its first pair of consumer augmented reality glasses next year and was partnering with Ray-Ban maker Luxottica to design the frames....
...The director of another leading university sports programme, Ray Tanner of the University of South Carolina, said he recently contacted Under Armour to “discuss our current contractual agreement”....
...To preserve his ranks, billionaire Ray Dalio is barricading potential defectors by posing two-years of unpaid gardening leave among other strict retention measures....
...There is interest in lesser-known brands, too, including Enicar....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...“Brand new discoveries trigger sudden yes/no judgments but not a work like this, which has been in full view for centuries.” He has reasons to be cheerful....
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