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...Malgorzata Szczesniak’s sets place us in a monumental waiting-hall, part train station, part function room....
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...In today’s newsletter: M&A tries to chart a US comeback Charlie Munger’s bet on Alibaba The rise and fall of a Chinese aluminium empire Is M&A back in the US?...
...A recent surge in Middle Eastern tourists, as well as US visitors buoyed by the strong dollar, has helped fill stores....
...We have a duty as a business to take into consideration the effect this will have in the coming years as we make long-term plans on where it makes most sense for us to invest.”...
...Let us be your locals...
...We all have physical tells that give us away. I break clients free of them.” Much investment has been placed on how to carry yourself in a public arena....
...The former Rassemblement National MP and niece of the far-right party’s leader, Marine Le Pen, has been offered to be a panellist on a roundtable at the conference that takes place this year at Longchamp...
...She wanted us to get in the moment. To put down our phones. To feel something....
...Hermès This season, the design house headed to the Paris Longchamp Racecourse (à la Dior), with everyone seated in the stands for the show....
...Longchamps? These surging crowds in their expensive sunglasses? That ludicrous giant yacht blocking the view across the harbour? Bah....
...Regent Street itself has become the go-to location for the big US brands, as well as French luxury group Longchamp, which opened its biggest European store there last September....
...“That probably has made it easier for us to stand by our artistic integrity and say, ‘These are the things that we want to do with our company,’ ” Laura Mulleavy says....
...Starwood has had its eye on Bogotá for a while, says Ian Ciappara, general manager for the US chain in Colombia. “Things are happening in Bogotá. The energy is electric,” he says....
...Why The apartment is a five-minute drive, via the Bois de Boulogne, from Longchamps Racecourse....
...J Crew, the US contemporary fashion label favoured by Michelle Obama, is poised to open a store there later this year....
...have been all over second-tier cities for a decade or more, during the last five years we have seen exclusive luxury fashion brands come into high-end retail centres: Prada, Bulgari, Fendi, Jimmy Choo and Longchamp...
...“We aren’t just taking market share from our US rivals – but from the world’s largest luxury good players,” Mr Idol said....
...Mr Solca sees lower priced accessories brands Coach, Michael Kors and Tory Burch in the US, Furla, Coccinelle and Moschino in Italy, and Longchamps and Gerard Darel in France as beneficiaries from the trend...
...Paris thoroughbreds The Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe takes place at Longchamp in Paris. preview@ft.com...
...And there’s more: China, which is currently sending a scare through the industry because of its slowing consumption, is the third biggest area in the world for handbag searches, after the US and the UK....
...slowest recovery in a century despite official figures set to confirm the nation has pulled out of a double-dip recession this week - Autumnal weather will provide a boost to Debenhams’ full year results - Longchamp...
...He was also inducted into the luxury world when the venerable French leather company Longchamp agreed in 2000 to make a bag he had first devised in 1993, using 200 metres of spiralling zip....
...The two-year-old beat a smart field of French and Irish horses by more than five lengths at Longchamp recently. The US also has a possible world beater in Maclean’s Music....
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