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...curatorial eye and love of art and vintage – from wearing vintage Dior and Chanel gowns at the Met Gala to filling the walls of their New York townhouse store with works by artists like Basquiat and Man Ray...
...Ashley Fox, a former MEP who works for an unnamed rival party to the transaction, called on Margrethe Vestager, the EU commissioner who oversees competition, to reject the merger....
...Jamie Safir’s cover of Ray Charles’s “I Got a Woman” unfolds with hints of gospel and township jazz, Joe Armon-Jones worries at the theme of The Stranglers’ “Golden Brown” and Dominic Canning delivers Snoop...
...Over in the US, Ashley Clark began work as curatorial director of Criterion last December. A Londoner, Clark too says Sembène would not have measured his success in special-edition Blu-rays....
...Sharon Baylay, the former BBC executive who handled the fallout from founder Ray Kelvin’s departure, will continue as acting chairman until that point and remain on the board thereafter....
...Emptying his pockets for new fast-track security checks, the multi-millionaire submitted for X-ray a tight wad of £50 notes....
...Finally Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley has come over all apologetic....
...Gambling group William Hill has hired Matt Ashley as its replacement for outgoing chief financial officer Ruth Prior, who is joining Element Materials Technology. Ashley joins from National Express....
...Ted Baker has been without a full-time chief financial officer since Lindsay Page, who previously held the role, stepped up to become chief executive following Ray Kelvin’s departure in March....
...If Ray was the closest man to Ted, the directors seem too close to Ray....
...(NYT) News round-up Tesla short-sellers take further hit in battle with Elon Musk (FT) Dirty hedge-fund war exposes ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt’s love life (Daily Beast) Mike Ashley snaps up stake in...
...Using lenses created by Bausch & Lomb, and designed to protect pilots’ eyes when flying, aviator sunglasses were first marketed by the company under the Ray-Ban brand in 1937....
...However, unlike other high-profile retail magnates such as Sir Philip Green or Mike Ashley, this means Mr Kelvin is unrecognisable in public....
...Sir Philip and Mr Ashley will no doubt be expressing themselves as freely and forcibly as ever. Bentley blow?...
...December began with Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley warning that retailers were being “smashed to bits” and ended with entertainment chain HMV going into administration....
...Together with Ashley Martin-Davis’s beautifully suggestive designs, and some hallucinatory black-and-white film, Warner has potently invoked a cinematic melodrama of the period....
...Ray Chenez’s Athamas almost made up in expressive nuance what he lacked in volume, and Rowan Pierce stood out in the role of Iris....
...They simply didn’t fit with Meredith’s more female-friendly monthly lifestyle titles such as Better Homes and Gardens and Rachael Ray Every Day....
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Archaeology trains both sides of the brain / From Andrew Ray...
...The opening Balanchines this winter have all been plotless, which turns out to mean that they get to the heart of the matter with X-ray economy....
...E Ray Dorsey, a researcher at the University of Rochester, who is leading the Parkinson’s study, says he has signed up 14,000 participants, including 1,400 who have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, making...
...I have vivid memories of tiny audience members trying to catch the rays of light scattered around the darkened auditorium in their show Brilliant....
...Five months after its flotation, X-ray machine maker Kromek slumped 42.6 per cent to 35p on a profit warning....
...Shubhankar Ray, G-Star RAW’s global brand director, says: “We believe in unorthodox thinking and unexpected collaborations....
...Entrepreneur of the Year Winner: Ray Kelvin of Ted Baker Shortlist: Will Adderley, Dunelm Group, Mike Ashley, Sports Direct International, Doug Emslie, Tarsus Group, Greg Fitzgerald, Galliford Try....
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