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...When Lily Jones, aka Lily Vanilli, was thinking how to mark 15 years of her East London bakery – which has made cakes for everyone from Elton John and Madonna to the V&A and 10 Downing Street – she knew...
...A century ago, the London Society, an influential civic group, produced a plan for London’s future made up of contributions from such leading Edwardian architects as Edwin Lutyens and Aston Webb....
...Her enveloping wool coats and handsome V-neck jumpers, tucked into full skirts, had a cosiness and casualness that made them appealing for the office, something Wickstead said her customers are increasingly...
...Kane’s clothes are conversation starters, cool rather than conventionally pretty....
...The furniture is a mix of old and (then) new: 17th and 18th-century pieces meeting bespoke designs by Webb and Morris himself....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. Views are personal. merryn@ft.com. Twitter: @MerrynSW...
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...I’d also been to the V&A and seen one of his famous japonisme sideboards: the earliest versions may date from the late 1850s but it is a spectacularly modernist piece of geometric design....
...Merryn Somerset Webb comments that as a fightback against Wall Street, the movement is hopeless: “The money that banks and fund managers make comes from trading commission and fees — not from their investment...
...Merryn Somerset Webb, the FT columnist, will be taking questions from investor readers at the FT Weekend Festival....
...“Everything happens in this room,” says 72-year-old Tangye, a former tutor and head of womenswear design at Central Saint Martins whose pupils included John Galliano, Stella McCartney and Christopher Kane...
...Merryn Somerset Webb, by contrast, argues that the crisis should inject some reality into the debate around the energy transition....
...Both may be less a disaster-in-waiting and more a sign of the pent-up demand that, in normal life, would make a V-shaped economic recovery likely in the developed world....
...Street Fighter V Champion Edition for PlayStation 4, £24, amazon.co.uk...
...Claer Barrett, consumer editor (pictured below), discusses the question with FT columnist Merryn Somerset Webb and Damien Fahy, founder of investment website Money to the Masses. (FT)...
...From the safety of her home office, Merryn Somerset Webb is bucked by the sight of thousands of Londoners packed on Bournemouth beach and uses it to “hail the V-shaped recovery” (FT Weekend, Opinion, June...
...Certainly Merryn Somerset Webb’s FT Weekend opinion piece “Hail the dawn of a V-shaped recovery” (June 27) is an optimistic take on the hoped-for end to the current economic concerns, especially as cases...
...Merryn Somerset Webb Dividends are not dead but after a dire year for corporate payouts investors should take a closer look at earnings. Thanks for reading....
...Christopher Kane made his cardi disco-ready, in a fuchsia hue with a deep V-neck and crystal trim — a sexy update on the sweater dress....
...When appointed head of Nasa by Kennedy, James Webb immediately urged the president to double the budget for the moon landing programme....
...Having seen the departure of Stella McCartney, and since parting ways with Christopher Kane, the Kering group is currently focused on investing in those labels it thinks might ape the success of its power...
...In the UK, they visit the V&A museum, Michelin-starred restaurants, Shakespeare’s Globe theatre and Blenheim Palace....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. The views expressed are personal. merryn@ft.com. Twitter: @MerrynSW...
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek....
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