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...“The Body Shop is a business many of us grew up with,” Tristan Nagler, a partner at Aurelius, told the Financial Times in an interview....
...There are references to freedivers being paid to clear paths for ships in Thucydides’ 431BC account of the Peloponnesian War, while the earliest records of pearl diving in Japan date back at least 2,000...
...The title of Ghost Story, a new podcast written and hosted by the journalist Tristan Redman, is unremarkable, but the tale it tells is not....
...Natura paid €1bn to acquire the business from L’Oréal in 2017....
...It was bought by French cosmetics giant L’Oréal in 2006 and later acquired for £880mn by Natura in 2017....
...“For cabinets and beautiful, small side tables, it was a way of making wood look like a jewel,” says L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach....
...Those textural, trompe-l’œil effects interrupt the slickness of photorealism. “These visual cues of entropy are a demarcation of time, or real life,” the artist says....
...Piled up in a Martini glass, these “peanut pearls” look at first to be monkey nuts. But appearances are deceptive....
...The private equity firm plans to build out the company’s online presence, making it less dependent on sales from its physical stores, Aurelius partner Tristan Nagler said in an interview....
...Chaumet gold and diamond L’Épi de Blé de Chaumet ring, £10,200. Saskia Diez sterling-silver Long Star earring, €105 for a pair Paul Smith silk shirt, £425, and matching silk tie, £110....
...A tank dress in putty-coloured sequins and baguette rhinestones presented a more wearable option for the Oscars, (perhaps minus the trompe l’oeil outline of boxer shorts)....
...L’Atelier Nawbar opened its second boutique, in Riyadh, in May....
...Bonus points for the perfect French omelette at its restaurant, Brasserie l’Émil. An 11/10 recommend....
...Dries Van Noten silk-organza embellished bralette, £511, mytheresa.com Chanel wood-pearl and strass clutch, POA Soho Home oak Bead table lamp, £250 Klaylife clay-beaded Barrel table lamp pendant, A$828...
...the experience of each one, enclosing the viewer in the magic circle of a domestic world rooted in the real — opening from the crystalline panorama of Delft into light-flooded Dutch interiors, glistening pearls...
...harrods.com Pacific Compagnie brass-finish Full Moon lamp, €950 Pepe Albargues wool and wood Twin Moon chair, £3,650, pamono.co.uk Clio Peppiatt bead-embellished mesh Moon top, £350, selfridges.com L’...
...The Alps-inspired, tassel-style Fleuve De Glace pearl sautoir, for example, features detachable elements that enable the jewel to be worn in seven different ways, including two brooches, two bracelets and...
...Brown surely absorbed some of her taste for the morbid trompe l’oeil from Salvador Dalí, who liked to superimpose dewy female forms on ominous skulls....
...Tristan dies asking “Do I hear the light?”; Hockney says “I want people to see the music”....
...Production, Julia Lessere at Tristan Godefroy and Phoebe Asker at The Curated...
...Although I wasn’t persuaded by trompe l’oeil trousers painted to look like jeans, because ultimately, they still look like unflattering “dad denim”....
...The best bit of advice I’ve ever received is “take the gravel in a shell and make a pearl”. I can’t remember where I heard it but I wrote it down and have it pinned in front of my desk....
...Some Britons have reacted with pearl-clutching horror. Understandably so. UK equities have de-rated sharply....
...Van der Velden’s designs come to life at an L-shaped bench, with the typical half-moon cut into it enabling the jeweller to work up close. A tool display board hangs above it....
...Simone Rocha wool shorts, £625 L’Objet gold-plated metal and amazonite cocktail forks, £140 for four Louis Vuitton cotton, viscose and metal-fibre dress, POA Sophie Bille Brahe gold and diamond Nuit...
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