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...Christian Louboutin patent-leather loafers, £750 Dries Van Noten wool-mix blazer, £765, and wool trousers, £515....
...Tod’s leather skirt with python-effect embossing, £4,250. Annk faux-fur shoes, €200. Dinh Van white-gold and diamond ring, POA....
...Italian design brand Molteni&C returned to the festival with a Vincent Van Duysen-designed outdoor furniture collection plus its Porta Volta chair by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron....
...‘I now limit myself to one holdall’Teo van den Broeke on how to curate a city-smart travel wardrobe “Do they actually call you ‘Two Suitcases Teo?!’”...
...Smaller players such as Tod’s and Salvatore Ferragamo in Italy have struggled to keep up....
...At Le Bon Marché, jackets from Isabel Marant and Tod’s loafers were already marked down by 40 per cent....
...At the smaller end of the spectrum, Italian brands such as Salvatore Ferragamo, Tod’s and Prada are all grappling with the twin challenges of staying independent and managing succession, which could put...
...reduce” at HSBC; Recipharm rated new “hold” at Jefferies; Recordati rated new “hold” at Kepler Cheuvreux; SLM Solutions cut to “hold” at Deutsche Bank; Takeaway raised to “equal-weight” at Morgan Stanley; Tod...
...Diego Della Valle, owner of Tod’s, and Patrizio Bertelli, co-owner of Prada, have also ruled out sales....
...Antwerp designer Dries Van Noten last month also sold a majority stake in his closely-held design house to Spain’s Puig. Other entrepreneurs are giving the impression of taking to the ramparts....
...Thirty-five, the advent of the age of reason for the luxury consumer, according to the billionaire founder of the shoe group Tod’s....
...“Many banks are trying to determine if it makes economic sense to be principal market makers, and some have decided they don’t want to be,” says Tod Van Name, global head of FX and commodities electronic...
...A small section has modern paintings: Picasso and Sam Francis, for example, at Christophe Van de Weghe — one Francis sold on the first night at US$475,000....
...Victorian wines made by Tod Dexter with “drinkability” in mind above all else....
...“[Companies] such as Armani, Valentino, Gucci and Tod’s all sell directly in China, and they all need somewhere safe to dispose of their surplus stock.”...
...Tod’s, by contrast, is one of the few brands in Milan to have a genuinely new story to tell....
...“I think because the markets are going sideways at the moment it’s reduced demand for hedging, so derivatives have fallen too,” said Tod Van Name, Bloomberg’s global business manager for foreign exchange...
...A waterfall gushes against walls of velvety-dark Burmese stone, evoking the ethereal simplicity of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona pavilion....
...At the other end of the price scale Christophe van der Weghe had Warhol’s green “Little Electric Chair” (1964) tagged at $5.5m and a $5.8m Richter abstract attracted early interest....
...What is more, only 5 per cent of the market, or €7bn, is in the hands of the big brands such as Cartier, Bulgari, Van Cleef and Graff....
...In the coming months, unmarked trucks will secretly begin removing masterpieces such as Van Gogh’s “Postman”, Monet’s “House Boat” and Matisse’s “Joy of Life” from the original Barnes galleries....
...Dries van Noten showed a collection for next season replete with spin, splash, and pointillist prints, while a mere three days after the Paris shows drew to a close in London, Tod’s sponsored the Whitechapel...
...A Rolls-Royce served as Giorgio’s delivery van until 1987, when Hayman cashed in, selling his mini-empire along with its signature fragrance to Avon for $165m....
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