John Pearse - 163 - Alain Elkann Interviews
Alain Elkann Interviews
CONVIVIAL CELEBRITY CLOTH CUTTER. John Pearse has been tailor to an eclectic range of stars such as Mick Jagger and Jimi Hendrix and gentlemen with bohemian taste for many years. Now aged 77, for the last 40 years he has worked from his shop in Meard Street, in the heart of London’s Soho.
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Sasha Suda - 162 - Alain Elkann Interviews
Alain Elkann Interviews
CONNECTING THE PAST TO THE PRESENT. Sasha Suda is a Canadian art historian. Since 2022 the former director of the National Gallery of Canada has been the director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), whose building is a civic landmark and whose encyclopedic collection is world-renowned.
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Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara - 161 - Alain Elkann Interviews
Alain Elkann Interviews
THE WORK OF A LIFETIME. For over 40 years Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara has been involved with the natural history, ecology, behaviour, taxonomy and conservation of marine megafauna. He has a passion for whales, dolphins, seals, sharks and manta rays.
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Dambisa Moyo - 160 - Alain Elkann Interviews
Alain Elkann Interviews
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND HUMAN PROGRESS. Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian-born economist and writer whose books, articles, and public lectures centre on the creation of wealth in a global economy.
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Anton Corbijn - 159 - Alain Elkann Interviews
Alain Elkann Interviews
THE IDEA IS THE START OF EVERYTHING. Anton Corbijn is a Dutch interdisciplinary artist. Born in 1955, the celebrated portrait photographer has produced some of the most powerful pop culture imagery of the 21st century. He is also a video maker and film director, working with luminaries such as Philip Seymour Hoffman, George Clooney and Helen Mirren.
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Esther da Costa Meyer - 158 - Alain Elkann Interviews
Alain Elkann Interviews
THE SASSOONS: A FASCINATING FAMILY. Esther da Costa Meyer is Professor emerita in the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, and Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. Her recent curatorial work at the Jewish Museum in New York includes The Sassoons, co-curated with Claudia Nahson.
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Lina Ghotmeh - 157 - Alain Elkann Interviews
Alain Elkann Interviews
BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER. Architect Lina Ghotmeh was born and raised in Beirut, where she studied at the American University. In 2005, while working in London and collaborating with Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Foster & Partners, she won an international competition to design the Estonian National Museum. Following this victory, she co-founded her first studio, DGT Architects, in Paris. Upon delivery of this project in 2016, she had established Lina Ghotmeh—Architecture. Ghotmeh has won several prestigious awards, has delivered multiple commended projects and designed the Serpentine Pavilion...
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Stephen Buchmann - 156 - Alain Elkann Interviews
Alain Elkann Interviews
INSPIRED BY BEES. Stephen Buchmann is a pollination ecologist specializing in bees. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Entomology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London who works towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected. In his most recent book What a Bee Knows Buchmann explores the thoughts, memories and personalities of bees.
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Antoine Compagnon - 155 - Alain Elkann Interviews
Alain Elkann Interviews
A SENSE OF TIME. Antoine Compagnon is a literary critic, writer, and professor emeritus at the Collège de France, specializing in Marcel Proust. He is Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. The author of numerous books on literary criticism and history, he was installed as one of the 40 members of the Académie Française known as “the immortals” in May 2023. He was recently appointed the first writer in residence at the musée du Louvre.
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Jennifer Guidi - 154 - Alain Elkann Interviews
Alain Elkann Interviews
AN EXPERIENCE OF JOY. The artist Jennifer Guidi works and lives in Los Angeles. Represented by Gagosian, Massimo de Carlo and David Kordansky Gallery, her work has been exhibited around the world. Her solo exhibition Mountain Range is on view in the Richard Rogers Gallery at Château La Coste, Aix-en-Provence, France, until September 3rd 2023, and from September 16th to January 7th 2024 the Orange County Museum of Art in California will host her first institutional exhibition in the United States.
info_outlineWHICH ROADS WILL CHINA FOLLOW TOWARDS 2035? Dr Yu Jie is senior research fellow on China in the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House.