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...Estée Lauder and L’Oréal did not respond to a request for comment....
...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...“We’re not counting on travel retail to get back to prior levels,” chief financial officer Tracey Travis told analysts during an earnings call on Wednesday....
...The idea gained momentum the following month when Ganni, the Scandinavian clothing label owned by the LVMH-backed private equity firm L Catterton, promised it would phase out virgin leather by 2023 because...
....£17.75 Yapp Bros Begude, Esprit Pinot Noir 2021 Haute Vallée de l’Aude 13%Really convincing special selection from the hills of Limoux. Burgundy, eat your heart out!...
...In China, the beauty market has traditionally been dominated by a clutch of foreign brands including France’s L’Oréal, South Korea’s AmorePacific, Japan’s Shiseido and American group Estée Lauder....
....£16.80 Tanners Leonardo Erazo, Liberamé Rosado 2021 Itata 11.5%A pale salmon pink, artisanal blend of Cinsault and País grapes. Very fruity palate entry and excellent acidity....
...Xavier Hufkens’s roster includes everyone from Tracey Emin and Lynda Benglis to Paul McCarthy and Roni Horn....
...The new book has Billingham’s long-term coppers, the spikey Tom Thorne and Nicola Tanner, in a nightmare pursuit of a vicious female serial killer....
...That process took a foreign shampoo brand three years, Skinny China’s Tanner pointed out....
...Made from oak-aged Len de l’El, a local grape variety in Gaillac. Deep gold. Very sweet but fresh. Quite enough acidity for the marked sweetness. Gorgeously round and lively without too much alcohol....
....£13 The Real Wine Co Dom de l’Idylle, Vieille Vigne 2019 Savoie 11.5%Light, fresh and just the right side of watery because there is so much delicate fruit, with a hint of alpine flowers....
...I’ve been seeing Tracey for more than 20 years....
...Among the most precious items are the black-bordered calling cards that my great-great-grandfather, a wealthy, Cheshire-based tanner and hide merchant called William Long, used when he was staying at his...
...Residual sugar (just 4.5g/l) is negligible....
...Matthew L Tompkins is an experimental psychologist and professional magician....
...Beautifully balanced. 12.5% Sottimano, Bric del Salto 2016 Dolcetto d’Alba, Piemonte £14.95 Lea & Sandeman L&S has a range of bargains from this producer....
...Coates & Seely, La Perfide 2009 England £67.95 Lea & Sandeman So garlanded is this wine that L&S rations it to one per customer. Dense, confident and zesty....
...A real bargain. 14% Vignerons Ardéchois, Viognier Grès du Trias 2017 Coteaux de l’Ardèche, France £9.95 The Wine Society, £11.50 Yap Bros The Condrieu grape seems to thrive on the sandstone of the Ardèche...
...Whether through teaching — the late, fearless British artist Helen Chadwick, for instance, taught the similarly transgressive Tracey Emin — or second-hand books, they made their voices heard....
...This had the low dosage at disgorgement of 4g/l sugar but doesn’t taste at all austere. Tense but fully ripe. Very successful....
...Aldonia Vendimia 2015 Rioja 14.5% £8.95 Tanners 60% Garnacha, 40% Tempranillo. Fruit not oak soars out of the glass....
...of collage, and that Rodin’s anguished expressionism influenced more or less everyone: from Giacometti’s existentially vanishing figures to — quality here varies wildly — Baselitz’s clunky bronzes and Tracey...
...Tracey Lucas, equity release adviser at Needham Mortgage Centre, says equity release is increasingly used as a solution for older people with interest-only loans whose lenders would not extend the term....
...Le Clos Mosny 2015 Montlouis Sec (Justerini & Brooks, Waitrose) Cabernet Franc • Domaine de la Butte, Le Haut de la Butte 2015 Bourgeuil (Justerini & Brooks, Lay & Wheeler) • Couly-Dutheil, Clos de l’...
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