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...As a teenager, Tim Bowen worked as a porter in a small auction house near his home in rural west Wales. “At my very first sale, about 35 years ago, someone brought in a dilapidated chair,” he recalls....
...Interior designer Rita Konig, daughter of pattern queen Nina Campbell, has a similar loose style, and pre-pandemic held design workshops at her London apartment to show others how to get the look right....
...Porter says sales have risen since lockdown, albeit for smaller, cheaper items than usual....
...The binary of commerce means that Art School is mostly stocked in womenswear sections of stores such as Selfridges and matchesfashion.com, or worn by celebrities such as Rita Ora....
...At the same time, academics such as Rita Gunther McGrath of Columbia Business School, have questioned whether strategic competitive advantage, another Porter principle, is still a useful concept in a world...
...Actresses such as Rebecca Hall, Emma Watson, Diane Kruger and Jennifer Lawrence, as well as pop stars Rihanna, Miley Cyrus and Rita Ora, are embracing a way to add edge without risking the worst-dressed...
...The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business, by Rita Gunther McGrath, Harvard Business Review Press, RRP£20/$30 McGrath’s book attacks Michael Porter’s theory...
...Rita Gunther McGrath, of Columbia Business School, says such comments are characteristic of leaders who think they have found a “competitive advantage” – the holy grail of strategists since Michael Porter...
...Rita Gunther McGrath, meanwhile, challenges Michael Porter’s theory that companies can secure enduring dominance in The End of Competitive Advantage....
...A personal favourite is Rita, Sue and Bob Too, the ugliest film of all time. 3. The CD, or better still the DVD, of Let It Be, The Beatles’ final album....
...Holli Rogers, buying director at Net-a-Porter, which is stocking the reissued women’s Versace print designs, agrees. “I love their inimitable style,” she says....
...In the words of Eve Thomas, fashion editor of the Outnet, sister website to online retailer Net-a-Porter, the new retro (how’s that for an oxymoron?)...
...He speaks movingly of his parents, particularly his father, whom he describes as a “hero”, a market porter at Billingsgate, who read voraciously and had an aptitude for technology, building his own radio...
...To Rita Clifton, director of branding consultancy Interbrand, the lust for vintage is a symptom of our mass luxury climate....
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