Richemont promoted Nicolas Bos, the chief executive of its fast-growing Van Cleef & Arpels unit, to the role of group CEO in a management shakeup announced Friday. Current CEO Jerome Lambert will return to a chief operating role from June 1, the Swiss luxury group said. The nomination comes as Richemont reported mixed results for […]
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Xpeng AeroHT, an affilaite of Xpeng, aims to deliver its flying car to customers in 2026, the Chinese electric vehicle maker’s co-president told CNBC on Friday, Last year, Xpeng AeroHT introduced the Land Aircraft Carrier — a large truck with a flying two-seater passenger electric drone inside. The flying car can detach from the truck,
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WASHINGTON — Whether it’s tapioca balls or computer chips, Taiwan is stretching toward the United States and away from China — the world’s No. 2 economy that threatens to take the democratically ruled island by force if necessary. That has translated to the world’s biggest maker of computer chips — which power everything from medical
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Since 2022, Netherlands-based tannery Ecco Leather, supplier to top luxury labels and parent company Ecco Group’s namesake shoe brand, has brought in casts of creatives to design for its collaborative project aimed at raising awareness for the material’s potential, At.Kollektive. For its fifth season, the project will get a new name — Ecco.Kollektive — and
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The deadline is approaching to register to receive a piece of Apple’s $35 million settlement with iPhone 7 or 7 Plus users who experienced audio issues with their device’s microphone. Those eligible to make a claim can be awarded $50 to $349 from the tech giant. The settlement is restricted to United States residents who
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LANSING, Mich. — Six men working as part of a criminal organization in Michigan have been arrested in connection with the theft of more than 400 vehicles worth about $8 million, authorities said Thursday. The men, between the ages of 18 and 25, were arrested Wednesday by a police task force and charged with conducting
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Robin Bernstein was looking for something else when she stumbled on a bit of information about a murder in 19th-century upstate New York. That accidental discovery served as inspiration for “Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit,” a new book by the Dillon Professor of American History and chair of the
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A collection of stories covering Harvard University’s 373rd Commencement. Harvard Commencement has long been an important day for Katarzyna Hanley. Over the decade that she worked in the Registrar’s office at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, she had essential responsibilities to ensure the event went off without a hitch, such as maintaining the official
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London-based womenswear brand Chopova Lowena has been named the winner of the 2024 British Fashion Council/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund. Founded by Central Saint Martins graduates Emma Chopova and Laura Lowena in 2017, Chopova Lowena is known for its mixture of folksy and sportswear design elements — seen in its popular pleated and pinned kilt-style skirt
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When schools closed in March 2020, Ilana Kofman ’24 kept up her spirits by summoning one thought. “I was so excited for my senior prom,” she recalled. “I had bought a dress and started practicing makeup in my free time, because there was not much else to do.” Kofman was “devastated” when the event was
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