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...Scott is scathing of the parts of the payments sector that he believes are fanning the culture wars....
...The declines are a setback for Birkenstock and its private equity owner L Catterton, the firm backed by French luxury fashion house LVMH....
...More than 80 per cent of US retailers had an increase in losses last year, according to Jack L Hayes International, a “loss prevention” consultancy....
...Ghesquière took functional elements and blew them up to out-of-this-world proportions: puffed-up space-age vests were festooned with mammoth-sized zippers (reportedly the largest ever manufactured), trompe l’...
...It’s another sign of the eye-watering prices buyers are willing to pay for top-shelf beauty brands, after L’Oréal shelled out $2.5bn for minimalist soap maker Aesop in April....
...In 1973, the future film director Ridley Scott made the beloved “Boy on the Bike” TV ad for Hovis bread. Then advertising changed again....
...Meanwhile, Lasry’s compositions lure the listener with tantalising rhythms and an ingenious synthesis of musical styles infused with ’70s pop, memories of cinematic scores and echoes of Scott Walker....
...Scott Chen, managing partner in Asia of L Catterton, a global private equity firm, remains upbeat on the sector, despite the fallout from the zero-Covid policy, which has “disrupted the ascent of domestic...
...After he arrived, the film was overhauled, with director Alessandro Carloni being replaced by Peggy Holmes....
...He is a director of Gatehouse Advisory Partners....
...In Milan, Jeremy Scott’s Moschino AW22 show seemed to reflect the swanky furnishing of oligarchs’ mansions, dressing models as upholstered chairs, brass-studded doors, lacquered screens....
...Scott Guthrie, head of the Influencer Marketing Trade Body, says that live shopping influencers require a particular skill set....
...It felt like a show grounded in reality, albeit a heightened one, where near-normcore denim jeans and crisp white shirts were actually trompe l’oeil printed nubuck leather....
...(Stat News) News round-up Elizabeth Holmes wraps up testimony in Theranos fraud trial (FT) French shipping group CMA CGM agrees $3bn logistics deal (FT) Nestlé trims L’Oréal stake by €9bn (FT) Credit...
...Hotel villas Private villas within the grounds of luxury hotels are enjoying a Covid-linked surge in demand, according to Jules Maury, head of Scott Dunn Private....
...Donations can be made until 27 July; spacehive.com A star-dusted fashion sale to support the L’Wren Scott Scholarship Known for her glamorous red-carpet creations, L’Wren Scott dressed some of the most...
...Plummer had an excuse: he was director Ridley Scott’s first choice for Getty before Spacey was considered. And he didn’t need a truckful of make-up to play a mean old miser....
...The ultimatum from Google provoked a terse reaction from Scott Morrison, Australia’s prime minister, who told journalists, “we don’t respond to threats”....
...Deutsche Bank has hired Richard Robinson as a managing director and vice-chair of global industrials....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is maybe Shaker, a novel by Scott Frank, the writer and director of The Queen’s Gambit....
...Interior designer Scott Maddux has developed his own pictorial “language” to animate surfaces....
...But I had an interesting take on the story, so I called up Scott Stuber [head of Netflix’s film division] and said, ‘I know how to do this one as a director....
...When do we make our minds up about Pentagon lawyer Scott Huffman (Sebastian Stan) in the fact-based war drama The Last Full Measure?...
...It assembled a dedicated focus group — effectively a resilience team, says Trevor High, managing director of industrial processes and power....
...Both join from K & L Gates....
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