Hints and tips:
...Her father owned a glass and mirror shop and her Russian-born mother ran a boutique selling fashion and accessories. An only child, the young Apfel shared her mother’s love of fashion and clothing....
...Think 1950s diner waitress meets an explosion in a Kate Spade boutique....
...This vulnerability is especially pronounced amongst Russian oligarchs, who concentrate their offshore business in a handful of boutique wealth management firms.”...
...St Barths has character in spades – something I am looking to capture for the book I am writing on the colourful French territory (published by Assouline later this year)....
...The arrival of Biden and other foreign leaders for the G7 summit, which starts next Friday at a boutique hotel at Carbis Bay, will only reinforce the region’s reputation as a premium destination....
...Disappointment: boutique hotels Bosses and kind friends sometimes introduce me to boutique hotels, and their whimsy and imagination are occasionally diverting....
...The song grinds to a halt, and then restarts amid electronic noise like a spade grinding against gravel as Drever choruses “I don’t want to die here”....
...It was only when the bucket-and-spade brigade arrived with the mass tourism of the 1960s that Mallorquins became aware of the value of land on the coast....
...Not in the case of Kate Spade. The boutique fashion chain’s shares have halved over the past two years despite shedding a series of extraneous brands....
...1 — Hell Bay, Isles of Scilly On a beautiful cove overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, Hell Bay is equally suited to a romantic escape or a family bucket-and-spade holiday....
...People on the move DD Exclusive: The new advisory boutique and merchant bank launched by Lars Andersson, the Morgan Stanley banker who helped the US bank score a record $120m payday for advising Monsanto...
...It has it all in spades — the beauty, the beaches, the vineyards, the sun and the sea haven’t gone away but on top of that it now has a buzzing restaurant culture and food that is world-class, design and...
...Some start their companies without formal design education (accessories magnate Kate Spade, a former journalist, comes to mind); some go to school and launch their brands young (see: menswear talent Craig...
...Burnham Market began to attract second-home buyers in earnest from the early 1990s — when The Hoste Arms in the village centre was converted into a boutique restaurant and hotel — but now prices are also...
...A note from an early housekeeper advises guests should keep a spade in their car and collect soil from any molehills they pass....
...One industry observer says: “We’re not the bucket and spade destination we were in the 1950s....
...In just two years at the boutique investment bank Wasserstein Perella, he netted $18.5m. It may not come close to Bloomberg’s estimated fortune of $31bn, but it was plenty....
...The US designer Kate Spade worked in the accessories department at the now-closed magazine Mademoiselle....
...Among the labels she has signed up are Jack Spade and Trina Turk of the US, French designer Jean-Michel Cazabat and Scotch & Soda from the Netherlands....
...Walk around the boutique-like showrooms in Li & Fung’s Hong Kong headquarters and you could be in any western shopping mall, albeit with a nagging feeling that you can’t quite place the store you are in....
...Kate Spade’s French New Wave-inspired presentation was packed with oversized polka dots and Peter Pan collars, while Anna Sui’s catwalk show was a homage to boho-luxe flares, baby-doll dresses and luminous...
...The north Norfolk coast is popular with tourists seeking a more genteel break, while the lively Great Yarmouth seafront caters for the family “bucket and spade” market....
...This is a great city for fashion shopping – the side streets off the main pedestrian strip (Strøget) are peppered with boutiques....
...With its lovely curved beaches, cyan sea and trembling palms, Phuket is a tropical dream in spades – but is this the right time to jump on the coconut cart?...
...I’m staying in the Malmaison, part of a mini-chain of wannabe boutique hotels started in the 1990s....
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