CONSUME

The Triple Black Lambo

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The Invisible Stilheto Booty

 

Eat With Us

Scallop Risotto — transcendence

Pigeon, Fois Gras, & Blood

Artic Char and Lime Butter

Henny & Warm Milk

 

We Are Eating

 

A Brief Update

We are the VP of an Iranian holding company which operates in credit card services market, as well as construction, energy, oil, and shipping. We have sign a joint venture with a cash transaction service from Kazakhstan, in the new company we have been elected as CFO. Yesterday, at the Dubai Silicone Oasis it was our signature on the seven figure check guaranteeing rack sever space and several hundred square meters of prime office space. Additionally, we are investigating gold interests through out west africa and take our internet domaining activities very serious.

We live in a villa near the beach with a gay from Abu Dhabi who watches golden girls on repeat throughout the night, a south african surfer beach bum — the kind who is also excited about everything, and most recently two male models from Roma. They speak no English and use a truely unbelievable amount of hair product.

If there was more, it couldn’t be told.

 

TRUCK EVERYTHING

 

This Happens Every Day

 

Gray Cars

 

Lacroix

A member of the ruling family of Ajman made a formal takeover bid for the Christian Lacroix, giving the French fashion house a much needed funding boost four months after it filed for bankruptcy protection.

Leon Falic, the president of the Falic Fashion Group which is selling the couturier, said the offer was filed by Sheikh Hassan bin Ali, a nephew of Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid, the Ruler of Ajman, in the competition tribunal in France.

He would not confirm the value of the bid, but it is reported to be around €70 million (Dhmn).

“It’s sad for us on one side, because there was an emotional attachment to the brand, but happy because it is going to the right hands and will be developed,” said Mr Falic in a phone interview.

The Christian Lacroix company has never made a profit since it set up by Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of the luxury retail conglomerate LVMH in 1997. In 2005, it was sold to the US duty-free retailer Falic. However, as the luxury market took a downturn, Christian Lacroix’s sales lagged, and the firm filed for bankruptcy protection in June.
Mr Falic said the tribunal, which is meeting on October 20, is likely to approve of the takeover bid because of Sheikh Hassan’s pledge to keep the company’s 125 employees on staff, and invest “a lot” of capital in building the brand. Mr Falic added that Sheikh Hassan’s bid has received the blessing of Mr Lacroix himself.

“The designer himself is very excited, and his excitement has been spread around to everyone else,” Mr Falic said.

Sheikh Hassan plans to keep the whole company intact including both ready to wear and haute couture — one of the deciding factors in accepting his bid, said Mr Falic.
“When we heard we got his interest, we dropped all our discussions with everyone else,” said Mr Falic. “He can buy it and develop it the way it should be developed.”

 

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The End Is Near

First we said good-bye to Polaroid, now it’s Kodachrome. What’s a film sentimentalist to do? After 74 years of making the color film used by many of photography’s greats, Kodak announced Monday that it’s ending Kodachrome’s production. (Credit: Kodak) Kodachrome makes up less than 1 percent of Kodak’s total sales for still film, according to the company. Digital cameras are obviously the main culprit contributing to Kodachrome’s demise, but photographers are also using newer kinds of color film that are easier to process. Only one photofinishing lab in the world still processes Kodachrome–Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kan. Photographers like Kodachrome for its warm colors and fine grain, which are perfect for shooting portraits. The famous portrait of the Afghan refugee girl with the bright green eyes that graced the cover of National Geographic in 1985 was taken with Kodachrome film by Steve McCurry. But even McCurry has moved onto digital and other still film. Even though Kodachrome is largely known as still film, it has also been made for movie formats, including 16mm. In the past three years, Kodak has come out with several new professional still films and motion picture films. Kodak is donating its last rolls of Kodachrome to the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, N.Y. One of these last rolls will be shot by McCurry, with the photos donated to the museum. Dwayne’s Photo said it will continue to process any leftover Kodachrome until 2010.