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...While Prada is now designed jointly with co-creative director Raf Simons, Miuccia Prada designs Miu Miu on her own. The stylist for Miu Miu is Lotta Volkova....
...Sometimes he lets his research show too much, as in an excursion on the fashion for porter beer in prewar Brentford....
...Baya Simons Crafted World is at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre from 22 March to 5 May before travelling worldwide; entry free BID A pride of Jaguars for sale, NEC Birmingham The Practical Classics Car...
...Back in Argyll Arcade, Simon Porter is proud to have opened an independent, multi-brand watch boutique in such a competitive market....
...Presteigne, Powys LD8 2UF; 01544-267 864 Simon Greaves Clothing The Seam, UK This on-demand tailoring service, founded by Layla Sargent in 2019, has just launched partnerships with Net-a-Porter, Mr Porter...
...Prix Pictet Human, 2023 is at the V&A’s Porter Gallery until October 22 Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...Among those who left were Richard Moore, head of MI6, and Simon Case, head of the civil service....
...At Mr Porter, style director Olie Arnold says menswear brands have significantly grown their jewellery offer and are seeing buoyant sales beyond classic gold pieces....
...Alaïa, Loewe, Hermès, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Gucci and Prada are all currently offering a version, while fans include Bella Hadid (seen in the buzziest current model, the Bubble (by Simon Miller), Julia...
...Nothing on the Prada catwalk happens by accident: it appeared co-creative directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons were interrogating why certain cuts are acceptable in menswear, and others are considered...
...“Pieter has brilliantly protected the Alaïa house codes while moving the collection forward,” agrees Alison Loehnis, president of Net-a-Porter, Mr Porter and The Outnet, and interim CEO of Yoox Net-a-Porter...
...“Our view is that we don’t know,” says its long-serving chief executive Lord Simon Wolfson....
...Carlyle had no hesitation about returning to the role of Gaz, who now works as a hospital porter but is still a pathological blagger....
...Simon Porte Jacquemus, the French designer who ushered in the 2018 obsession with two-foot brims, now offers some surprisingly practical styles....
...Porters wearing white gloves and blue suits with gold braiding whisk our suitcases through Paris’s Gare de L’Est....
...I also had a very enjoyable Saturday morning reading the FT Weekend: I particularly enjoyed Owen Walker and Stephen Morris’s brilliant account of the birth, life and death of Credit Suisse, Simon Kuper’s...
...Libby Page, senior market editor at Net-a-Porter, sees the emergence of illustrated and painted pieces as part of the growing appetite for craft-led fashion that connects the wearer with the designer....
...Simon Chilvers has written all about it, as well as offering his mother’s unkindly verdict. I would argue she’s wrong – I find a moustache strangely attractive. Either way, they’re wildly divisive....
...Other senior figures in her inner circle include Ruth Porter, managing director at consultants FGS Global, who will be Number 10’s deputy chief of staff....
...Singer Richard Hadfield, the regular Sunday-lunch musical entertainment, has shared a stage with stars from Gregory Porter to Shirley Bassey....
...Guitarist Pat Metheny, Malian songstress Fatoumata Diawara and Grammy-winning vocalist Gregory Porter share the limelight with rising sax talents Lakecia Benjamin and Immanuel Wilkins as well as alternative...
...“For one person it might be a marathon, for another it might be taking the dog for a walk,” says group operations director Simon Laker....
...micro mini at the shows last February there was a New Look-style full skirt: Matthieu Blazy’s Bottega Veneta debut included mid-length leather versions in purple or bright yellow; Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons...
...On Net-a-Porter, a cashmere “Achillea” turtleneck sweater from Loro Piana knit in a graphic jacquard pattern will set you back £3,440....
...It was supposed to be just the first stage of what one early reviewer called a varsity grandstand, but it is notable that the college fellows (who, as Simon Schama once told me, had been dazzled by Lasdun...
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