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...Founded by Cristina Casini, a former stylist and brand consultant, it has welcomed clients such as Sofia Coppola, Nadège Vanhée and Lorde....
...She has been portrayed on screen numerous times, including in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, in which Asia Argento plays her as a vulgar prostitute....
...Curiosities include Afuega’l Pitu, whose chalky texture and piquant taste you either love or loathe, and the strange Casín, a tiny, rock-hard, powerfully flavoured cheese rescued from imminent extinction...
...For me it was an arson attack at Gare de l’Est. No one was injured, but the fire destroyed about 50 cables, disrupting services....
...Their stewardship and continued innovation has attracted a new generation of fans in André-Leon Talley, Carine Roitfeld, Sofia Coppola and David Beckham (although the pair prefer to remain discreet about...
...Grange, who continues to work with a stellar roster of clients including Caroline of Monaco, Aerin Lauder and Sofia Coppola, has an ulterior motive....
...As the Vatican faces financial problems, Pope Francis asks if the Vatican’s costly news outlets, including L’Osservatore Romano, are worth the money, AP reports....
...Michael Bauer, global head of healthcare at EQT, said: “The heritage of the company as a focused skincare company with a comprehensive product portfolio, exceptionally strong brands and high customer loyalty...
...With a typically British note of self-deprecation, this is designed to look like a battered old library book, but that only serves as a trompe-l’oeil effect for the wit and warmth inside....
...Sofia becomes unhealthily caught up in her mother’s suffering, until she discovers various unexpected forms of release....
...My style icon is Robert Rabensteiner, fashion editor of L’Uomo Vogue. He carries off the perfect combination of classic Italian tailoring mixed with fashion....
...The artist narrates his 1957 film “La Clef de l’Horloge” (“The Key to the Clock”), a “cinematographic poem” featuring a collage of close-ups of a Kurt Schwitters collage....
...In the P&L you just find the commissions (typically a small single digit percentage of the transaction volume) as revenue.”...
...An old flame of Mrs L’s (Steven Bauer) turns up to scorch the status quo; a murder is committed; a pair of odd detectives call in an odder super-shrink (Frances Sternhagen); and finally a shopping bag of...
...The clothes and accessories in L’Eclaireur are exceptionally well edited. Then there’s Merci, the world’s chicest charity shop....
...Boutique hotels are opening in the capital Sofia, however, while the Rhodope Mountains are now home to Bulgaria’s first ultra-luxury rental-house-cum-sporting-lodge, Villa Gella....
...The only two books I’m sure I’ll take with me are L’arte di essere felici by Arthur Schopenhauer and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina....
...regeneration and redesign, with decidedly mixed results: Athens and Beijing completely failed to capitalise on their Olympics infrastructure and emergence from a repressive regime has hardly made Moscow or Sofia...
...Kosky’s work has proved controversial in the past (his production of The Barber of Seville had the chorus wear pig heads, his L’incoronazione di Poppea spliced Monteverdi’s score with songs by Cole Porter...
...Yet in 2006, Gustav Klimt’s 1907 portrait of Adèle Bloch-Bauer had changed hands for some $135m....
...Certainly anyone who has seen Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette can hardly have missed the lavish banquets and food that Meneau (the film’s culinary expert) produced for it....
...Tolstoy: A Russian Life, by Rosamund Bartlett, Profile Books, RRP£25, 544 pages The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy, translated by Cathy Porter, Alma Books, RRP£20, 460 pages Tolstoy’s Letters, edited and translated...
...Then there are short, gymslip-style black jersey dresses by Gwen Stefani, the frontwoman of the punk-ska band No Doubt and creator of the clothing line L.A.M.B. So far, so fashion....
...There they were, the two Clarks (not related) honing their skills in the little white cockleshell of the 470 dinghy in the bay of L’Arenal. Penny steers, Saskia manages the jib....
...Legal & General rallied 5.1 per cent to 66p after Cazenove said investors looking for a conservatively managed life assurer with a solid balance sheet should buy L&G or Friends Provident, 4.4 per cent stronger...
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