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...Because of the Allen sale, Christie’s had the greatest fall at auction, of 30 per cent....
...“Before the end of the year, we expect headline inflation to hit 10 per cent,” said Jack Allen-Reynolds, an economist at Capital Economics....
...Kate Moss is a stalwart figure of the inner circle, alongside Naomi Campbell, Demi Moore and Lily Allen, who slept on his sofa when she was still a precocious teen....
...UK ecommerce group THG has appointed former ITV chief Charles Allen as its new chair following the splitting of its executive chair and chief executive roles in October....
...“People want to be heard, and the police officer often doesn’t have the time to listen,” says Captain Latricia Allen, commander of St Louis North patrol division district 6....
...As DD’s Sujeet Indap explores this week in his Inside Finance column, merger agreements largely stood up even as buyer’s remorse popped up à la LVMH and Tiffany....
...It isn’t a dissimilar story to Tiffanys today....
...But the consolidation — which topped $70bn this week alone and included deals for the high end jeweller Tiffany and discount broker TD Ameritrade — has left investors with a burning question: is this a signal...
...Smart reads Europe’s $100bn man Bernard Arnault’s four decade-long acquisition spree was capped last week with the purchase of US jeweller Tiffany & Co....
...Screenplays from their landmark films feature — one of the top lots at Christie’s is Hepburn’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s script, dated 1960, which comes with her own underlining and crossings-out (est £60,000...
...John Tiffany’s terrific production at the Edinburgh International Festival — seen on Broadway in 2013 — draws out the artifice and unrealism of the play. This is no period piece....
...Allen, an American who lives in Bangkok, fell into the business by chance....
...McDarrah/Getty Images; Stuart Ramson/AP; Tiffany & Co/Peter Lindbergh; Airbnb...
...Tiffany Ng, an analyst at Renaissance Capital, says: “While the global IPO market was more muted this year, issuance in Asia and Europe rebounded strongly in the fourth quarter after a particularly slow...
...Europe was the only sour note in the latest quarter for Tiffany & Co as the high-end jeweller reported a jump in earnings and lifted its profit forecast for the year....
...● Expectations for estate agent Foxtons’ interim results will be riding high after the British housing market experienced a stellar six months of growth, writes Kate Allen....
...I was never quite carried away by his plot-driving yen to escape his mother – nor by John Tiffany’s serviceable direction....
...question to our minds is how the company plans to deleverage, with disposals likely to be the preferred route albeit we do not think an equity rights issue can be fully discounted at this stage,” said Mike Allen...
...Tiffany Garden Museum Collection in Nagoya....
...He and his wife Fernanda Kellogg, who is chair of the Tiffany & Co Foundation, purchased a dilapidated 28-acre farm in the historic town of Aiken, South Carolina....
...“There’s cachet in owning an artist-designed vase versus just a vase from Tiffany,” Quinn says....
...to other Tiffany sites.”...
...Extracted from ‘Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Lustre’ by Dana Thomas (Allen Lane, £20. © Dana Thomas 2007....
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