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...Manolo Rodríguez Blahnik has achieved the type of fashion immortality where even his childhood nickname is a noun....
...Smart reads Old school vs new school UBS chief executive officer Ralph Hamers’ tech-focused vision has clashed with that of wealth management head Iqbal Khan who has built a loyal support base around his...
...You won’t find another port to replace it that easily,” said Bill Ralph, a marine economist at consultancy RK Johns & Associates....
...US consumer advocate Ralph Nader said: “There should be no double standard between safety features and vehicles sold in the US and vehicles sold in developing countries by major auto manufacturers....
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...“It is growth differentials that ultimately drive capital from one place to another,” says Gerardo Rodriguez, portfolio manager at BlackRock and a former Mexican finance official....
...The magazine’s accessories director then invited Andrew to New York, setting him up with meetings at Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren and Narciso Rodriguez. He worked with Calvin Klein for three years....
...To past Sotus, after all, Mrs O has worn Narciso Rodriguez (2009), Isaac Mizrahi (2010), Rachel Roy (2011), Barbara Tfank (2012), and Mr Wu, left (2013) – small to medium US-based independent designers all...
...Ralph Lauren’s patchwork knit Americana extravaganza in Sochi, or Ralph Lauren’s pastel pink and dove grey parade of standards – beaded flapper frocks, marabou muchness, luxe suiting – in New York?...
...Indeed, most designers, from Givenchy to Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Narciso Rodriguez, still don’t have in-house “noses”....
...It was a season of signature at Ralph Lauren, who has never met an era he couldn’t romanticise and this time turned to the 1960s, Beatlemania-style, with mod black and white minis and three-piece suiting...
...Ralph Lauren, for example, has of late taken a visibly cinematic approach to his collection, and this season was no different, as blouson Cossack trousers, braid-bedecked wool jackets, and lavish velvets...
...Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography, by Richard Rodriguez, Viking, RRP$26.95 An author whose charming, associative prose is reminiscent of James Baldwin, Rodriguez has written autobiographical essays about...
...This headlong action thriller full of gaudy energy, set in some midnight-matinee version of Mexico, makes Tarantino and Rodriguez look amateurs....
...It was Narciso Rodriguez, however, who built a bridge between past and future on an arc of grace....
...The period Robert Burke calls the “Ralph/Calvin/Donna years” was, indeed, the last time US fashion presented a coherent face to the world....
...Then there is the American dream school of American fashion, as pretty much invented by Ralph Lauren, which involves creating clothes for a dream, which have the appeal of a dream, and which then propel...
...Additional reporting by Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt...
...Comment, analysis and other offerings from Friday’s FT, Ralph Atkins: An uncomfortable final stretch for Trichet Other eurozone policymakers have fled on holiday, hoping for respite from the region’s debt...
...José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Socialist prime minister, said on Friday Spain would “very probably” have needed a bail-out by the EU last year without the government’s harsh austerity plan....
...Long after our patience with Jackie, Ralph and Veronica – played by the fire-spewing Elizabeth Rodriguez – has abated, we long to know more about the cousin....
...In General Rodríguez, a leafy polo enclave outside Pilar where a string of top players have homes, building work is in full swing on Pueblo Polo, a property and retail development where Ellerstina hopes...
...Additional reporting by David Oakley, Victor Mallet, Tony Barber, Ben Hall and Ralph Atkins...
...One EU official said the decision to publish had been reached only after “a big battle” at the summit, eventually won by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister, and José Manuel Barroso, the...
...Additional reporting by Tony Barber in Brussels and Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt...
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