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...L’Oréal Sector: cosmetics / HQ: Paris, France Key stat: Online sales jumped 53 per cent in the first quarter....
...We were living almost “off the grid” — no phone reception or TV — even as we were surrounded by L’Occitane toiletries and very fine wine....
...Joseph Goebbels could love — not that the mainstream isn’t close.”...
...From €200; Calle de Velázquez 48, 28001 Madrid (+3491-432 0989; www.guaimaro.es). A recent “find” is the boutique hotel Fundació l’Olivar in Ventalló, Spain....
...Thus Brix Smith Start found herself living in a grotty flat in 1980s Manchester, married to irascible Mark E Smith, playing in The Fall and co-writing some of their best albums, as told in her enjoyably...
...The moment that jolt of authenticity is compromised and the trust between the voyeur and the wearer begins to break, the game is over.”...
...; “T & E – We Love What You’ve Done With The Place”; “Lost Our Asses”; “Elvis Has Left The House”. The range and rage, the despair, compassion and fortitude are mind-blowing....
...And I’d always been a compulsive reader, I read all the time [Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, US crime writer Rex Stout, Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene are among her favourites]....
...“He was like an average Frenchman living a normal life – nothing special but nothing wrong with it either,” says Jean-Pierre Le Gall, deputy mayor of Pont L’Abbé, his Breton home town....
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