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...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...A gambit to raise cash for US rival Carlyle Group’s latest buyout fund has come up short....
...(Twitter, v University of Cambridge)...
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...Arrival’s deal with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V values the company at $524mn....
...If you have a shorter neck, choose an open-neck or V-neck style, and wear your hair up. Don’t fancy a tulle skirt?...
...In a mid-1950s essay, Roland Barthes described plastic as “the first magical substance which consents to be prosaic”....
...We need a dress to help us feel beautiful, sexy or even ladylike. And certain dresses emerge that really do this.” The best of these, she says, act “like a sort of shield”....
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...The change in fortunes marks a dramatic rehabilitation engineered by the group’s self-assured founder Ken Griffin....
...“Let me be perfectly clear, absolutely not,” Griffin said. (FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
...Mr Griffin, 50, already owns an extensive portfolio of properties in the US....
...Optimists believed a “v-shaped” economic recovery was just around the corner, while others foresaw a slower “Nike swoosh” of a rebound....
.../ From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...With the new threat to sue from a coalition of US states, it’s going to be a tough call to make for the US regulator. DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...Neither do we need to ponder the meaning of Father Dougal McGuire’s penchant for wearing a V-neck tank top over his clerical robes in Father Ted....
...Drop us a line: Due.Diligence@FT.com Broadcom clearly isn’t afraid of a fight....
...A High Court ruling last year in the case of Brevan Howard v Reuters, which was upheld by the Court of Appeal, has reminded us all — not least in the field of business journalism — that the courts have restrictively...
...As head of the Vote Leave campaign, one of the most enjoyable events I did during Britain’s EU referendum campaign was a lunch with Roland Rudd from the Stronger In side....
...This helps to remind us that photographs on paper are objects as much as images....
...“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.”...
...Emma Elwick-Bates, a Briton who recently moved to New York to join Vogue US, also favours white....
...Net-a-Porter, which started a dedicated internet bridal boutique in 2009, says its best-sellers still tend to be labels such as Lanvin and Roland Mouret, where prices hover around $5,000....
...Thiel, who trained as a lawyer and worked as an investment banker before making it big among the engineers of Silicon Valley, arrives looking trim and wearing a blue V-neck sweater with no shirt underneath...
...What caused a stir was the designer’s low V-neck mermaid gown with bandeau accent, modified from her autumn show....
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