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Leadership Shuffle at LVMH: New Faces at Fendi, Louis Vuitton China and Kenzo

This is Beirut, 08/04 10:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Luxury giant LVMH announced on Monday a series of leadership changes across several of its key fashion houses, appointing new CEOs at Fendi and Kenzo, as well as a new head of Louis Vuitton China, who comes from a top position at Apple. At Fendi, the Italian fashion house, Ramon Ros will succeed Pierre-Emmanuel Angeloglou as CEO starting July 1. ...

A Couture Journey in Paris with 'Dolce & Gabbana – Du cœur à la main'

Marie-Christine Tayah, 07/04 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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To visit “Dolce & Gabbana – Du cœur à la main” at the Grand Palais is to embark on a whirlwind journey through an intensely Italian scenography. The exhibition showcases over 200 unique Alta Moda and Alta Sartoria gowns, 300 handmade accessories and 130 pieces of furniture and antiques. Spanning 12,000 square feet, this all-encompassing ...

Bruce Springsteen Reveals Hidden Albums After Four Decades

Madeleine Cadoux, 06/04 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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American rock legend Bruce Springsteen announced Thursday that he will release a new box set in June featuring 83 previously unreleased songs across seven albums. Tracks II: The Lost Albums is set to be released on June 27. It includes full albums recorded between 1983 and 2018, many of which were mixed but never officially published, according ...

Anna Netrebko Returns to Royal Opera House Stage

This is Beirut, 06/04 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Russian superstar soprano Anna Netrebko — shunned on some world stages since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine — will appear at London's Royal Opera House later this year. Netrebko, 53, will star in a production of Puccini's Tosca from September 11, marking her return to Covent Garden after a six-year absence, the Royal Opera said on its ...

Great Writers, Gentle Neuroses, Small Literary Miracles (2/2)

Bélinda Ibrahim, 05/04 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Literature loves outsiders. But what it cherishes most are organized outsiders—those who turn their strangeness into a narrative engine, their questionable lifestyles into bursts of staggering productivity. This second part focuses on writers who today might be considered, depending on one’s perspective, either misunderstood geniuses or ...

Spielberg's Original 1982 E.T. Model Fails to Find Buyer

This is Beirut, 05/04 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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An original model of E.T., created for Steven Spielberg's beloved film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, did not find a buyer after being put up for auction, Sotheby's auction house in New York said Thursday. The piece, a little over a meter high and which had been estimated to fetch between $600,000 and $900,000, comes from the collection of Italian ...

Lifelike Kylian Mbappe Wax Figure Unveiled in London

This is Beirut, 05/04 10:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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France superstar Kylian Mbappe received one of the greatest honors that England can bestow upon a sportsman from a rival nation on Friday — a lifelike waxwork at London's Madame Tussauds museum. The statue shows the 2018 World Cup winner striking a familiar pose — arms crossed and wearing France's white away jersey from last summer's European ...

Great Writers, Gentle Neuroses, Small Literary Miracles (1/2)

Bélinda Ibrahim, 04/04 18:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Literature Writers Culture Neuroses

The act of writing is peculiar in that it lies at the crossroads of inspiration and method – between the sudden emergence of words and the mechanics of movement. For some authors, routine becomes a sacred ritual, a meticulously orchestrated sequence of gestures meant to ward off the terror of the blank page. Others find in it a form of ...

Boualem Sansal’s Speech for Freedom Published in Bookstores

This is Beirut, 04/04 17:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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This speech, given for “the German Publishers and Booksellers Peace Prize” and published in Gallimard’s Tracts collection, was originally delivered in Frankfurt, Germany, in October 2011. "The absence of freedom is a pain that drives one mad over time. It reduces a man to his shadow and his dreams to nightmares," Boualem Sansal declares in ...

First 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Movie Footage Revealed

This is Beirut, 04/04 17:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Evil Na'vi. Giant volcanoes. Airborne boats. The first-ever footage from Avatar: Fire and Ash, the sequel to two of the highest-grossing movies of all time, was debuted at the CinemaCon event Thursday. Out this December, the film "expands the beautiful world of Pandora and introduces two new clans," explained star Zoe Saldana, from the stage of ...

From Theft to Restoration: Shakespeare’s First Folio’s Journey Back to Durham

This is Beirut, 04/04 13:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The Shakespeare First Folio edition stolen from Durham University's Cosin's Library in 1998 is one of only 235 known to survive, and is valued at more than £1 million ($1.3 million). The First Folio, published in 1623, was the first collection of Shakespeare's plays and each version is unique. It is considered to be one of the most important ...

'Who Believes in Angels?': Elton John Launches Boldest Album Since the 1970s

This is Beirut, 04/04 12:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The British artist Elton John is releasing his new album Who Believes in Angels? this Friday, co-written with American singer Brandi Carlile, and which he describes as his "most innovative" record since the 1970s. "This album marks a new beginning for me," said the 78-year-old singer in an interview with British radio Smooth Radio. "It’s very ...

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