Hints and tips:
...Activist investor Barington Capital Group pushed L Brands to sell Victoria’s Secret for the benefit of its other business, Bath & Body Works, but a deal fell through before its closing date in 2020....
...When Yazgan’s team was looking to locate the hammam’s original tiles, they reached out to Tim Stanley, a senior curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, who connected them to Maury....
...And finally To the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sainsbury Gallery, where the tremendous touring Donatello retrospective has arrived in London — the UK’s first show ever devoted to the artist....
...After that interregnum, the only period in modern British history when republicanism became a genuine threat were the years of Victoria’s seclusion following Prince Albert’s death....
...“If you wander around the ceramics collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, you’d struggle to find pots of the same confidence, flair or imaginative form as those of Rie,” says Nairne, who...
...Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and former politician, reviews a fascinating new history of how we remember (or misremember) significant events....
...The decision to split the company in two comes after sales at Victoria’s Secrets and Bath & Body Works increased in the first quarter of 2021, with shoppers returning to buy lingerie and bath and home products...
...It’s not a mournful statement — east London’s Queen Victoria without her Prince Albert — and it’s nothing gothic, vampirical or witchy. I wanted to find out, then, about black’s rainbow of meanings....
...Consider the 3.7m visitors in the year to March 2020 to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, where a peony brooch by Cindy Chao will make its debut in the permanent collection when the...
...The Victoria and Albert Museum holds more than 19,000 items hailing from the then crumbling Ottoman Empire, today’s Middle East and north Africa....
...This 1918 design is by CFA Voysey and was based on a watercolour drawing in the archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum....
...The Sutherland household became famous for its liberal gatherings and in 1848 Frédéric Chopin played in the presence of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert....
...L Brands said that it would now seek to separate Victoria’s Secret from Bath and Body Works, the company’s other primary retail chain....
...s Secret or conduct a public offering of its Bath & Body Works business....
...Bath & Body Works, which the group also owns, has held up better, posting an 8 per cent rise in comparable sales in the second quarter....
...Victoria Rosamond has rejoined White & Case’s New York office as a partner in its M&A practice. She was previously at Katten Muchin Rosenman....
...Activist investor Barington Capital has pushed for a break-up at L Brands and called for changes that include selling Victoria’s Secret or listing Bath & Body on the stock exchange....
...London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, owner of the Madonna, had previously attributed the terracotta to another 15th-century sculptor, Antonio Rossellino. Now it is keeping its counsel....
...While overall net sales and like for like sales increased 3 per cent and 1 per cent during the period thanks to gains at Bath & Body Works, L Brands’ home and personal care chain, Victoria’s Secret remains...
...The 4 per cent fall for Victoria’s Secret offset a 4 per cent gain for L Brands’ personal care stores, Bath & Body Works....
...A breakdown by brand showed that comparable sales at Victoria’s Secret, the company’s largest division, tumbled 14 per cent from a year ago but rose 6 per cent at Bath & Body Works....
...This Sleeping Beauty quality makes them one of the best bits of an Osborne visit, and as you shuffle through, ogling the mahogany-boxed bath, the royal paintings (Victoria’s better than Albert’s), the twin...
...L Brands disclosed on Wednesday a sharper than expected fall in its March sales, but shares ticked higher after its Bath & Body Works business topped estimates....
...That trend points to the shifting dynamic between its best-known brands, as Victoria’s Secret starts to cede ground as L Brands’ top earner to Bath & Body Works....
...It was for one of those parlour-game questionnaires popular in the Victorian era, included in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s exhibition on the work of this fascinating figure — teacher, curator, architectural...
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