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...I love the Dezer family and I love the location.’”...
...Before he did, Wood welcomed him back into the house so the family could be together....
...Unlike luxury houses with billionaire backers à la LVMH and Bernard Arnault, smaller brands like the Italian leather maker have been decimated by the pandemic....
...Additional reporting by Adam Samson in London...
...He described his SS19 show as his “most personal yet”, and alongside the models he cast an assortment of childhood friends and family to make up the numbers....
...It is like a beautiful musical instrument, with a concertina of leather, and a hand-crafted rose gold bridge and clasp....
...He had a great leather jacket and a leather bag. I said, ‘F**king leather, wow! That’s what I want to do!’ It blew my mind. I’d never seen a guy with a leather bag.”...
...Additional reporting by Adam Samson in New York...
...The 49-year-old Los Angeles native, who is rarely photographed without his trademark leather jacket, runs Amazon Studios, the film and television programming arm of Jeff Bezos’s online retail giant....
...Among the songs on the album was “Hallelujah”, an epic, hymnal composition with biblical allusions (David, Bathsheba and Samson are referenced)....
...Furla, which is family owned, has recently expanded into women’s shoes, men’s handbags and eyewear....
...Sandals, £430; cap, £740; leather gloves, £325; dress, £530; trousers, £350; turtleneck, £290....
...The acquisition from Samson’s controlling family shareholders, one of the largest private equity deals in the past three years, was in trouble even before oil prices plunged....
...Throughout, he has been spinning the rotating leather chair next to him, first with his foot, then pulling it nearer and turning it from side to side with his hand....
...In the end, though, there was no substitute for the power of repetition — or of wearing out the shoe leather....
...Meanwhile, on Capri one family business that has been making sandals since 1946 out of a small shop on Via Camerelle is now available online from Club Monaco or via its website www.canfora.com....
...some large private equity acquisitions: Apollo Global Management, a US-listed group, in February paid $7.15bn for parts of El Paso, an energy producer, just months after rival KKR led a $7.2bn buyout of Samson...
...Owned by the family of its late founder Charles Schusterman, and now run by his daughter, chief executive Stacy Schusterman, the company is based in Tulsa, where KKR’s co-founder Henry Kravis was born....
...“We are a united family, which includes those who don’t work for the company,” said Patrick Thomas, chief executive of the group famous for its leather handbags and silk scarves....
...Bulgari, a sometime target of the biggest luxury goods groups, is majority family-owned. Still, finding a meeting point with Italy’s fashion entrepreneurs on price remains difficult, dealmakers say....
...He drums his fingers, performing a short paradiddle against the arm of the leather sofa....
...The hotels will be branded Cheval Blanc, after the Michelin-starred French ski resort opened in 2006 by Group Arnault, the family holding of Bernard Arnault, LVMH’s executive chairman....
...In most cases, luxury businesses are family-owned and the family, especially for the most coveted luxury goods businesses has no interest in selling out....
...There would, of course, be some problems, not least how such a merged giant would be managed and run in an industry known for the big egos of its family owners and senior executives....
...It’s something like Samson and Delilah....
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