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...His clothing label A-Cold-Wall*, established in 2014, has standalone stores in China and a fleet of collaborations with names including Eastpak, Nike and Converse....
...Outerwear, the top performing Burberry category alongside scarves at British department store Harrods, was a highlight....
...In Dundee, the most pro-independence city in Scotland, a new £80m V&A Museum opened in 2018, part of a dockside redevelopment....
...(FT) No longer trendy America’s department stores were once world famous....
...Ross Walker, chief UK economist at NatWest Markets: No....
...Meanwhile, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will appear before the House Oversight and Reform Committee....
...Held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, it showcased the best of contemporary Scottish design and acted as an appetiser for the V&A Museum of Design Dundee, due to open on the city’s waterfront next year...
...The V&A will portray the invention of the cultured pearl and its industrial scale production, which finally made pearls affordable for many....
...Among the speakers are Spanish designer Jaime Hayón and industrial designer Ross Lovegrove....
...In addition to Miyake’s own definitive private archive in Tokyo, his work is in the permanent collections of the V&A in London, MoMa in New York and key museums worldwide....
...In other earnings news, Ross Stores, operator of discount apparel retail stores, met analysts’ expectations, as profits for the third quarter rose 11 per cent on higher sales and improved margins....
...Born into an immigrant family in the East End of London, Graff’s 44-year-old business now supplies diamonds to sheikhs and Russian billionaires, among others, from 30 stores worldwide....
...A crisp, timely description of the fate that lies in store for any organisation that takes its success for granted and loses the ability to adapt to changed circumstances....
...“In the past, Indian furnituremakers tried to replicate elaborate antique pieces,” adds Ross Irwin, interiors buyer for London department store Liberty....
...All vintages tasted can be purchased by the bottle at the in-house store. Chicago’s German and Russian restaurants are among the best in the country....
...‘The Furniture Machine: Furniture Since 1990’ by Gareth Williams (V&A Publications, £35)...
...Ross Lovegrove’s Magic chair, designed in 1997, has a place in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection in New York while last year the Italian architect, Antonio Citterio, updated his Visavis cantilever...
...The Victorian paintings market is still suffering from the disappearance of some important collectors and the downfall of Sheikh Saud Al-Thani, of Qatar – who, given the task of stocking museums in the Gulf...
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