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...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Company results: US carrier Delta Air Lines, pharmacy chain Walgreens Boots Alliance, and fast-food chain Domino’s Pizza all report their latest quarterly earnings before the opening bell....
...Like Abloh’s, Ross’s ambitions seem boundless, and each project like a stepping stone to a thoughtful kind of empire-building....
...Zegna creates minimal suits and separates in high-performing technical fabrics woven at the company’s own mill....
...The V&A’s Africa Fashion also has works by Ami Doshi Shah (pictured top), of Kenya, including her necklace of brass, sisal and salt....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Now the company reverts to the standard Italian translation....
...It’s an old stone gasworks building from 1900, about 60ft long, and I’ve filled it with books and bits of design....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...The company has close ties with the Cullinan mine in South Africa, where the diamond in the sceptre was sourced (other stones cut from the original stone are in the imperial jewels)....
...Engineering company Ramboll developed earthquake-resistant bamboo houses in Lombok, Indonesia, with cross-braced structures and woven screens....
...store renovation parent company LVMH has ever underwritten....
...Key economic and company reports Here is a more complete list of what to expect in terms of company reports and economic data this week....
...At the heart of the fair, the V&A’s Melanie Vandenbrouck has curated a sculpture display on the east-west axis previously occupied by the bar....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...Hazardous ruptures scar the stone niche that hosts Mary Magdalene in Crivelli’s painting of the saint (c1491-94) on display opposite the V&A’s Madonna....
...She and her husband Jonathan, the owner of Marlborough Rare Books, the antiquarian book dealer in London, gave their collection of paper peepshow printed scenes to the V&A museum in 2016....
...It was subject to an export ban in 2004, which is how it ended up in the V&A, and that is testament to the craftsmanship of the London workshops.” She continues with barely a breath....
...But I get the impression that, just occasionally, really V, V, VIPs may be given a glimpse within....
...Falcon 9 was always intended as a stepping stone, to develop the cash flow and the technology needed to carry the company much deeper into space....
...King George V’s December message to the empire 88 years ago had families gathered around their radio sets....
...Cup on the northern outskirts of Paris, France’s national football stadium has also played host to sell-out concerts from the likes of The Rolling Stones and Madonna....
...(FT) Walgreens Boots Alliance recruits new chief The drugstore group is to become the only company in the S&P 500 to be run by a black woman after it appointed Starbucks chief operating officer Roz Brewer...
...The long-term prospects for the company might well be good. With an ageing population, demand for retirement housing will only rise. But this will not be a V-shaped recovery....
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