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...Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans (Torva/Henry Holt) Tony Hsieh turned Zappos, the Amazon-owned footwear etailer, into a case...
...For Torres it was ironic that the marketing people behind the flour, and brands such as Inca Kola (created by a British man in the 1930s) and Inca cigarettes (a favourite of poet Allen Ginsberg), were using...
...Based in London, Brown says his role involves building up the pipeline of western galleries at the fairs....
...“Bahrain was there first, so they helped start the movement and excitement — the popularity of F1 in the Middle East,” says Brown....
...Of the numerous pieces that exist in her name, her favourites include those by Allen Jones (“He portrayed me as a really strong woman....
...Exane wears this dash of characterful type awkwardly: it’s like pairing a T-shirt and blue jeans with an cravat. In three words: Bon courage, Exane! 16....
...But he was not a communist,” Jean Omasombo Tshonda, a political scientist at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium, told me....
...Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garmentby Maxine Bédat, Portfolio £22.99/$27 A sharp angle on the hot topics of globalisation and sustainability, seen through the “biography” of a pair of jeans....
...Brown sugar and cinnamon punctuate every layer too, and an extra hit of sweetness comes from a light dusting of sugar over the top....
...Participants including Vito Acconci, Allen Ginsberg and Patti Smith....
...“The shirt felt like the perfect silhouette for a collection when comfort and function is more important than ever,” Sandra Sandor, Nanushka’s founder and creative director, tells me....
...Gladwell’s 2019 book Talking to Strangers used controversial stories, such as the Penn State sex abuse scandal, Sandra Bland’s death in police custody and the Stanford sexual assault case, to illustrate...
...Thomas Foubister, London; Michael Sweeney, Dublin; David Sands, Maryland, US Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown...
...Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know, by Malcolm Gladwell, Allen Lane, RRP£20/Little, Brown, RRP$18, 400 pages Pilita Clark is an FT columnist Join our online book group...
...In skinny jeans, clean Converse high-tops and black Henley shirt, Jang seems every bit the relaxed and self-assured creative professional. He wasn’t always this way....
...Caroline Lan and Jean-François Louit join from Mayer Brown. Morrison & Foerster has hired Jon Ornolfsson as a partner in the law firm’s project finance group....
...Allen & Overy has added a partner to its Asia Pacific restructuring and recovery group. Ian Chapman will join the law firm’s Hong Kong office from Mayer Brown, where he was a senior consultant....
...Her nemesis, Sandra Oh’s Eve, an indirect descendent of Peter Falk’s Columbo, is then seen in a crumpled, belt-less beige version. We get the picture....
...Like Ashley, Sir Philip is an ace at computing what something — be it a chain of shops or a vanload of jeans — might truly be worth....
...“Plastic wrapping and clear vinyl as a trend has really crept up on us,” says Browns buying director Ida Petersson....
...Biographies of note in the early part of the year include Richard J Evans’s Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little Brown, February) — the first one of the late historian and polymath....
...He met his American wife Sandra — a painter and designer — in Brooklyn, when they worked at Atelier Viollet, Jean-Paul Viollet’s cabinetmaking and interior design company....
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...The son of Iranian immigrants, Mr Khosrowshahi grew up outside New York and studied electrical engineering at Brown University....
...Additional reporting by Stefan Wagstyl in Berlin, Joseph Leahy in São Paulo and Kate Allen in London...
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