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...This week, the US electric-car maker roped in South Korean company L&F to contribute battery materials....
...snake chains appeared on the catwalk at Berluti (£200), and models wore glasses chains at Fendi, from simple gold-metal links paired with visor-like aviators to chains featuring the house’s signature “F”...
...The reaction was swift and probably not what he hoped for — the columnist Meghan McCain tweeted that Mr Geffen could help his country or “just stay on your f-king yacht Instagramming”....
...“Of course, you still don’t know if anyone will give a f***.” Hearing some actors explain their craft can be trying, but Spall has the endearing zeal of a madcap inventor....
...My style icons are Vanessa Paradis and Sofia Coppola – strong, low-key, smart women. They have different styles, but in both cases it’s simple, chic and effortless....
...Each is English — Ruth Wilson, Vanessa Kirby and Anna Chancellor. Two of them are red-haired....
...Examples include 3i Infrastructure, F & C Commercial Property and Ruffer Investment company....
...The Microsoft co-founder speaks to the FT’s Vanessa Kortekaas about the Gates Foundation’s Goalkeepers report, which tracks levels of poverty and disease. (FT)...
...Like Farage, his appointment was requested by the newly-elected president — in that case John F Kennedy. Unlike Farage, Ormsby-Gore got the job. He and JFK were life-long friends....
...Julia Ormond, although luminous, can’t hold a candle to Vanessa Redgrave’s bewitchingly vague Mrs Wilcox, and Joseph Quinn’s Bast lacks West’s crucial touch of pathos....
...Vanessa Houlder investigates MPs’ claims that Google is paying just a 3 per cent tax rate, while the FT View is that the tax authorities should bring a case before the courts to judge whether the company...
...In January, BMO Financial Group, a Canadian bank, agreed to buy F&C Asset Management for £700m....
...It has been a moment of unmasking, from Ukraine to Wall Street, both serious – revelations of deposed President Viktor F Yanukovich’s over-the-top lifestyle – and frivolous: the real names of secret elevator...
...There is a huge gulf between the subjects of Fashion, capital F-catwalk-trends, and image. And when we (I) write about politicians, it’s not actually about fashion; it’s about image....
...The whole point of M&S fashion, after all, was that it didn’t have the pretentions of Fashion with a capital-F; it was just where you went to get very good clothes at a pretty good price....
...And if Fashion-capital-F teaches us anything, it’s that done properly cheaper lines absolutely do not erode brand equity – just call them “entry points” and look to Marc by Marc Jacobs, Michael Michael Kors...
...The quarantined young woman’s name is Vanessa Asina. She is soon entirely poised in her demure clothes....
...Richard Wilson, chief executive of F&C Asset Management – which announced full-year results on Thursday – said: “We have cut costs and now we are looking at growing the company....
...It’s even got a catchy logo: Fendi for Fountains, or FFF, a play on Fendi’s own double F. Chic, no? Fashion to the rescue – what governments cannot do, luxury can. Branded philanthropy....
...In April 1961, a newly elected President John F. Kennedy launched an offensive against a phenomenon that he feared could undermine America’s future: aggressive tax avoidance....
...Vanessa Friedman is the FT’s fashion editor …………………………………………………………….....
...Indeed, the last time a politician’s vacation really worked in his favour was probably circa John F Kennedy on his boat, where photos showed the president looking impossibly glamorous and wind-blown in a...
...This sleeve, however, will be made from “8,800 round cut diamonds that are graded VS clarity and F in colour, each with their own, unique certificate of origin....
...When he entered office, President Obama may have been compared to John F....
...are about maintaining the myth that the surrounds the brand as much as revealing the clothes, so it was appropriate that the venue for this season’s cruise collection on Monday night was immortalised in F....
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