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...The Veneto-based company, whose private equity owners are seeking a valuation as high as €1.3bn, has held preliminary talks in recent weeks with groups including rival Safilo as well as the Franco-Italian...
...The Franco-Italian group, created through a €50bn merger in 2017 of the late Leonardo Del Vecchio’s eyewear group Luxottica and French lens manufacturer Essilor, acquired Israeli hearing technology start-up...
...In the seaside provinces of Andalusia, whose traditional Costa del Sol tourist magnets include Málaga, Marbella and Torremolinos, Spain’s meteorological agency issued 63 severe heat warnings in August, which...
...Additional reporting by Tom Wilson in London This story has been updated to reflect the fact that Trafigura ended up supplying crude to the refinery as had been planned...
...Santiago Thirty-one years ago, the Chilean company Explora opened its first lodge — a stylish white-walled retreat looking right up at the peaks of Torres del Paine in Patagonia....
...Stylist’s assistants, Tess Pisani, Xenia Settel, Franco Garcia and Jade Paturel. Hair assistant, Kyoko Kishita. Make-up assistant, Miki Matsunaga....
...Del Pino was the one with the limp....
...It was very classic Tom Ford, although perhaps still a little too copy-and-paste. Despite that, it was well executed....
...regime of dictator Francisco Franco....
...“Think of Barcelona when Franco fell. Think of Berlin when the wall fell,” he says. “When a dictatorship ends — when the mafia collapses . . ....
...billionaire boardroom battle in Italy SBF tells his side of the story During his speedy ascent, jailed crypto wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried deftly used endorsements from some of the world’s most famous people — Tom...
...“I was like the Del Boy of South American barbecue equipment.” In 2016, a showcase at London food festival, Meatopia, led to wider industry attention....
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...The designs for this metro were by Franco Albini and Franca Helg (for this and many other stations), with graphics by Dutchman Bob Noorda (who also designed the signage for the New York subway with Massimo...
...The 2024 line-up includes Metallica (May 29), Lana del Rey (June 4), Green Day and Doja Cat (both June 16)....
...Guillermo Francos, Milei’s candidate for interior minister, disputes such gloomy assessments....
...Among the 60 artists blowing the top off the Ahoy Centre in Rotterdam this year are US pop stars Janelle Monáe and Lizzo, UK rappers Stormzy and Little Simz and legends Tom Jones and Van Morrison....
...After 1898, when Spain lost its colonies of Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico in a war with the US still remembered as “the Disaster”, the author Ramón del Valle-Inclán declared bitterly, “Spain is a...
...February 27 to June 16; further information and tickets here ‘La Forza del Destino’ and ‘Turandot’, The Metropolitan Opera The Met Opera’s first new production of Verdi’s La Forza del Destino in almost...
...Declining support for an independent Catalonia In the post-Franco era, public support for Catalonia’s secession from Spain reached its peak between 2012 and 2019 — the latter date, two years after separatist...
...Just this September, the company released its own update with Tom Hanks playing Geppetto surrounded by slick digital technology. Del Toro sets off hard in the other direction....
...Co-owned by importers Beattie & Roberts and charcutier George Jephson, Newington Green’s Cadet (supposedly pronounced “Cad-ey”) has an impressive pedigree: Tom Beattie managed Clapton’s P Franco, a perennially...
...High-end, niche perfume is a fast-growing category, and Paysandú and New York are priced higher than Chanel No 5 (£136) and Tom Ford’s Private Blend range (its Rose Prick eau de parfum is £386)....
...There are numerous other examples in cinema: Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone (2001) and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) used fantasy to bring the traumas of the Franco dictatorship and the Spanish civil...
....£19.99 Virgin Wines Neudorf, Tom’s Block Moutere Pinot Noir 2020 Nelson (14%)Pretty, flattering fruit....
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