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...satin Mello dress, £2,540 Etro leather belt, £530, mytheresa.com Kim Seybert brass and nickel modernist centrepiece bowl, $265, 1stdibs.com Miu Miu silk blouse, £2,300, farfetch.com Chopard ethical rose-gold...
...I go to Pristine Nails in Shepherd’s Bush. The best gifts I’ve given were to Jarvis on his most recent birthday....
...Real spending on travel and restaurants rose compared with the end of 2021, but was still below its Q4 2019 levels....
...All because ministers are too afraid to face down a small minority of landlord backbenchers who are fighting tooth and nail to water down the reforms,” Neate said....
...Tekken 8 nails the balance of fostering change while ensuring continuity, and will probably be adored by the fervent fighting game community....
...The last thing I bought and loved was a rose-gold and diamond Cartier Juste un Clou bangle. It’s pretty, feminine and the industrial nail helps keep me grounded....
...It forecasts that China’s colour cosmetics market, which includes products such as foundations, lipsticks and nail polishes, will hit Rmb111.3bn ($15.6bn) in 2028, up from Rmb71.6bn in 2022....
...More importantly, Trump Media & Technology Group rose another 14 per cent, right after we wrote that it looked a bit overvalued. Unhedged’s record as a contrarian indicator remains spotless....
...Corduroy coolCorduroy supplants bouclé as the most wanted textile: tactile, enduring and perennially chic — especially rendered in rose-petal pink (BDDW Fabric #243)....
...“I wanted to go for a dark, strong purple that feels rich and comforting,” says the designer, who admits it’s a tone that’s hard to nail....
...Meanwhile Watanabe, who tends to nail the balance between conceptual and relatable, this season leaned more abstract, with origami-like forms of black scuba jersey steadily evolving into more wearable propositions...
...Just out of Santarém a group of silos and factory buildings rose above the riverbank....
...That was the second nail in the coffin for the Piccininis. But the family isn’t done fighting this dispute yet. Their next stop is the Delaware Supreme Court....
...It is another nail in the coffin of loyalty, which used to keep lawyers at elite firms in London and New York in place for their entire careers....
...As was the bathroom, an essay in rose-coloured onyx with Baccarat crystal taps and a lacquered silver-leaf ceiling....
...The final nail in the coffin of the peak rates story was yesterday’s retail sales report for September. It showed that retail sales rose 0.7 per cent from the month before, well ahead of expectations....
...Roses tempt me, of course, but then rebel against casual management....
...Economists say the next monetary policy decision by the Bank of England, on Thursday, is a “nail-biter”....
...Treasure trove: Tim Harford explains what the price of a 2,000-year-old Roman nail tells us about value....
...I’d also remind people that if taking a light fitting you would need to ensure that the rose, the flex and the bulb are left in place....
...The last music I downloaded was “Sky Queen”, the new single by Rose Rose. It’s my son’s band; he’s a musician and artist. Otherwise, I’m an opera junkie....
...But Phoenix’s performance, swinging between clenched rumination and neurotic energy, nails what the historian Georges Lefebvre thought was Napoleon’s mainspring: the mercurial, dynamic temperament....
...It was amazing to wear it when I was in Jamaica recently, because in the heat, everything rose up in a different way. It’s nice, sweet with spices....
...We already had everyday motifs, such as the nail – originally a square-headed horseshoe nail from the late 19th century and later the curved carpenter’s nail of Juste un Clou – so it wasn’t unfamiliar as...
...The O’Sullivan studio is known for luxury feelgood deco, hyped by energising colours, but it’s hard to nail down just what the DNA is. Nothing is cookie-cutter....
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