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...XTX, one of the world’s biggest proprietary trading and market-making groups, had sought to use Aviva Investors’ and L&G Investment Management’s money-market funds to invest some of its own cash....
...Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Manby Mary L TrumpUnflinching account of life on the inside of the Trump family by the former president’s niece....
...Earlier this year, L’Oréal snapped up minimalist soap maker Aesop in a $2.5bn deal....
...After there was a street wear happening with the incredible success of Virgil Abloh. I was out of trend. And after this I think there was quiet luxury, and I still believe I’m out of trend.” He smiles....
...His swirling evocation of transmogrifying harmonies brought another reference to mind: the incense-laced aural plumes of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin....
...L’Appartement is the home of Florence Cools and her husband when they’re in Paris – and the showcase of her Antwerp brand, La Collection....
...Virgil and Euripides made the case for her execution; Ovid and Dante damned her to hell....
...In February, Williams was unexpectedly appointed creative director of the brand’s menswear, a post that had been empty since the death of his predecessor, Virgil Abloh, in November 2021....
...Alexander Chula triumphantly upends the familiar narrative....
...Shown in the Maison de l’Unesco, this was a diplomatic tour de force of designer innovation, fashion engagement and don’t-scare-the-horses luxury stalwarts....
...I am taken along a passageway from the church to the refectory, a whitewashed L-shaped room with limited but tasteful religious decoration....
...The rest comes from visitors; fees, events and the support of many Friends worldwide (l.saintleger@vaux-le-vicomte.fr, for details)....
...In an updated prospectus, Birkenstock said that it would sell stock at between $44 and $49 per share, which would raise up to $1.6bn for the company and its private equity owner L Catterton....
...His family’s shop will survive, he believes, because “elegance and comfort never goes out of style”. 148 place de l’Église, Megève, France; aallard.com; @aallardmegeve...
...She previously worked at L’Oréal and Chanel. It will focus on developing products for Kering brands including Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Pomellato and Qeelin....
...When current Aix intendant Pierre Audi hired McBurney to direct Alexander Raskatov’s A Dog’s Heart in Amsterdam 13 years ago, they created something that was almost a new genre; Audi remains one of the only...
...At Alexander McQueen the mood manifested in a bewitching headmistress feel, with sharply shouldered black and chalk stripe tailoring pieces worn with white shirts and black ties, academic-style gowns and...
...Virgil, in the Aeneid, borrowed from Greek epic forms to create a foundational story for the Romans....
...Artwork: Mesh Installation, 2022, by Márton Nemes Alexander McQueen viscose Ottoman-knit and raffia-fringed dress, POA....
...Martine Rose, a London-based designer who is mooted, at time of writing, as a possible successor to the late Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton, has made a neat line of logo referencing....
...But he has also recently realised his own long-held directorial ambitions with his debut feature film, L’enfant du Paradis....
...Many were fantasy proposals — stretch jersey lit from within, as if mapping a constellation across the body, a trompe l’oeil print impersonating nudity, a conch shell as a handbag....
...Creed’s best-selling men’s fragrance Aventus — of which just 100ml costs £295 — takes inspiration from characters such as Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte....
...Many pulled away from that word — not least the late Virgil Abloh, with whom Nigo collaborated on a series of capsule collections for Louis Vuitton and who famously declared “streetwear is dead”....
...Over in Aldeburgh, restaurateur George Pell opened the buzzy L’Escargot Sur-Mer – a sister to his Soho outpost – in the summer of 2020....
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