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...Thomas Keneally has visited Mitchel’s life before in his 1999 non-fiction work, The Great Shame, which covered his transportation to Australia, along with that of Thomas Francis Meagher, the firebrand journalist...
...“Hermès, Louis Vuitton, they only want flawless skins with no marks. We do it all here.” The birds blink in curious disapproval as we cycle away....
...“Scrambling is definitely happening,” said Thomas Vaassen, chief executive of Meridia, one data firm working with some of the biggest agri-food companies....
...Takfarines wears Louis Vuitton wool gabardine jacket, £3,527, cotton top, £481, and wool gabardine trousers, £1,152. JM Weston leather Derby shoes (just seen), £762....
...The Fitzwilliam’s director, Luke Syson, sees it as an “unexpected masterpiece” reminiscent of Holbein’s portraits of Erasmus or Thomas More....
...according to projections by bank HSBC, making it the largest luxury jeweller by revenue and responsible for about three-quarters of profits at parent company Richemont, the Swiss conglomerate that also owns Van...
...And now creamy, eerie yellows seem to be coming to the fore…It’s a van Gogh palette of sickening colours!...
...Petar Petrov cotton shirt, €490 Dries Van Noten tailored polyester jacket with metal-hook detail, £1,095. Chloé silk mesh tank dress, £572....
...None was more adept than Jacques-Louis David, sobered from his radical Jacobin passion by a spell in prison following the fall of Robespierre....
...Like d’Holbach, famous for hosting a twice-weekly salon that attracted Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, they entertain clients here....
...Dries Van Noten leather shoes, £445....
...Van Buuren spent a lot of time telling me about track-access charges — enough for me to realise I wouldn’t want to tangle with them....
...What he really wanted to be, according to Hendry, was “the Robert Louis Stevenson of the modern age”....
...“Energy is today used as a weapon and our families and businesses are the victims,” said Belgian energy minister Tinne Van der Straaten....
...US president Thomas Jefferson called it “the most delicious flowering shrub in the world” and grew it in the garden of his Charlottesville plantation Monticello, where it continues to flourish....
...The trio also designed new pieces for Louis Vuitton, previewed at the French fashion house’s colour-saturated installation on Via Bagutta....
...Instead, it will move on to the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris next autumn. It’s a 500-mile kind of show, worth braving a flight or the Interstate to see....
...“Now I have to get an invoice for every single thing in my vehicle, and if I’m banging around a French brocante I could buy 150 items — from a coffee pot to a Louis XVI table....
...The lack of trading of carbon credits has caused pent up demand and Louis Redshaw of Redshaw Advisors, a London-based carbon consultancy, said the delay risked a “massive” price spike....
...New sales of petrol and diesel cars and vans will be banned after 2030....
...Sales of polluting diesel heavy goods vehicles — which were not included in the government’s 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans — should be phased out “no later” than 2040....
...Each bin is stored in the cube until it is needed, when a robot slides to the top of its column, lowering a device to hook it and lift it to the surface....
...See also: quilted leather slipper styles from Proenza Schouler and Dries Van Noten, and Hereu’s Cabersa sandal, a padded fisherman style that sold out on MatchesFashion.com....
...Abraham Thomas, the Met’s curator of modern architecture, design and decorative arts, takes a wide perspective on artistic merit....
...Ravenhorst ‘Cri de coeur’ fails the test of economic rationality / From Peter Thomas Why did you waste your space on such an article?...
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