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...A noticeable temperature drop – and the novelty of the experience – gave us an additional energy boost that powered us through the first 700m....
...Galerie Mitterrand sold Les Lalanne pieces for up to £2mn – “prices nobody could imagine 10 years ago”, says Roberts, adding that “historically, 80 per cent of the market has sold to or wound up in the US...
...Frieze has “attracted a lot of galleries . . . but I wonder what it does really for artists who live here”, says César García-Alvarez, executive and artistic director of the Mistake Room gallery....
...Lupus sufferer Beatriz Garcia applied for a hospital abortion in 2013 after doctors diagnosed her foetus with a fatal abnormality....
...As always, drop your story ideas to me at sid.v@ft.com and have a great week....
...There were further wobbles when it was discovered that she would be arriving with Óscar Garcia Maceiras, a new and largely unknown CEO....
...“I think that’s sort of what you’re seeing happening around ‘Latinx’,” says García-Alvarez....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...Rodrigo Garcia Alvarez, founder of paraffin-free candle label Amen, speaks similarly about his customers. “Everyone was telling me, use styrofoam,” he recalls....
...Verónica López Álvarez sinks a long, T-shaped rod into the soft earth, pulls it out, smells it and screws up her face....
...“And no one can help us because other countries are as bad as we are or worse. We’re alone.” Additional reporting by Aída Meza in Lima...
...He is also encouraged by a “V-shaped” recovery in Asia, its largest market, and less dire forecasts for UK consumers....
...Sexy was also top of mind for Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia, co-creative directors of Oscar de la Renta and their own five-year-old label, Monse....
...Paul Sharma, a former UK financial regulator who now works for consultancy Alvarez & Marsal, says: “It is not entirely clear that current methods of interaction are resulting in good sales outcomes....
...There were, however, a handful of very successful female designers: Daisy Garcia, Helena Serrano and Gladys Acosta Avila among them....
...This involved the creation of interactive training workshops, rolled out for every lawyer in the US firm....
...Liikanen remains a probable alternative and would also be a good leader for the ECB for many of the same reasons as V. de Galhau....
...Elsewhere on Friday, — A history of prizefighting’s biggest money fights (John S Nash): While Mayweather’s bouts with Oscar De La Hoya and Canelo Alvarez set records, it was his match with Manny Pacquiao...
...The 144 bedrooms have been redesigned by Jacques Garcia and after a round, guests can unwind in the lavish spa that opened this year....
...“One of the challenges in the servicing sector is ‘what could be the future of these companies’,” says Javier García del Río, the chief executive at Solvia, which manages more than €30bn in assets and is...
...With the benefit of hindsight, and the help of a killer soundtrack, the V&A show aims to be a postscript to those confused times....
...In 2011 a US court ruled the ship was the property of the Colombian state....
...“We had relatively good macroeconomic developments in the UK, US, Spain and Poland,” said José Antonio Álvarez, chief executive....
...“We need a mayor who is going to stand up to a governor who is trying to do us in,” she says. “Not a mayor who is friends with him.”...
...The addition of former US regulator Sheila Bair in January had already provided the board with some transatlantic heft....
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