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...Last year, it closed its flagship Asia V buyout fund after raising $7.1bn, eclipsing its targets....
...past creative director Tom Ford....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...There’s also the matter of Tom Ford retiring just as Gen Z is discovering ’90s and Y2K fashion....
...Paul Richardson’s new book ‘Hidden Valley: Finding Freedom in Spain’s Deep Country’ is published by Abacus (£20) Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...And Carrie Reichardt’s tribute to Stoke-on-Trent’s rave culture in the early 1990s — focused on Shelley’s nightclub in Longton, and covering an original 1969 Ford Zephyr in vibrantly hand-painted ceramic...
...His gowns and opera coats have rustled through galleries at the V&A and the National Portrait Gallery, where one could almost imagine the pearl- and brocade-bedecked duchesses looking on in envy from their...
...Those who donate to the V&A want to memorialise their own or another’s life through style....
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...(Henry Ford drew up a single-seat aircraft called the Ford Flivver in 1926.) Some have flown but none has been cheap, appealing and safe enough to reach the mass market....
...As Rob Ford, politics professor at the University of Manchester, puts it: “It’s about getting to ‘us v them’ politics, to stimulate ‘Leave’ partisanship.”...
...She’s from Detroit, Michigan, spent her whole life there, and she works for Ford Motors in finance management....
...For example, Doherty’s small Conical Vessel V is priced at £350. These independent artisans are, on the whole, seeing the benefit of social media platforms such as Instagram....
...There was a March release date given for Gran Turismo 7 and the unfortunate slippage of Grand Theft Auto V from November to March. Axios has more....
...“The bumper sticker would say, we’re past the V,” says Michael Gapen, chief US economist at Barclays, referring to the shape of the recovery since the shocking collapse last year....
...(Actually, the future is still up for grabs as cockapoos and cavapoos act out a Krays v Richardsons-style battle for control of the capital’s green spaces....
...“It’s like a Shakespeare scene,” said V.S. Naipaul. “Only 300 words are spoken but, goodness, terrific things happen!”...
...Their exploits aboard a brace of R1150GSs led to a surge in sales of the model and a race by rival manufacturers to develop comparable machines that could tackle unmettled roads, ford rivers and climb mountains...
.../ From Steve Essrig, New York, NY, US How Indonesia compares with the House of Lords / From Glyn Ford, Labour MEP 1984-2009, Oldham, Lancashire, UK...
...parliamentary select committee in January 2019 describes how the Chinese embassy threatened to cut off the flow of Chinese students — and cash — to Oxford university unless the vice-chancellor, Louise Richardson...
...The ICCR, which controls $400bn in assets through 300 member organisations, has targeted 40 companies with similar resolutions this year, including Amazon, BlackRock, Ford and Walt Disney....
...The latest move to address shortages could involve approving Russia’s Sputnik V inoculation....
...Richardson grows more hesitant as she nears the present day....
...The African Union will pay three times more for Russia’s Sputnik V jab than it is paying for the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Novavax vaccines, undermining Moscow’s claim that it is supplying poor countries with...
...“It is the only one of its kind to be found in the UK, and one of only seven known examples in the world,” according to the V&A....
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