21-year-old Kylie Jenner has become the world’s youngest self-made billionaire according to Forbe’s billionaires’ list. The youngest Kardashian family member made her fortune from her best-selling cosmetics business promoted by Instagram postings with over 128m followers. She made her announcement ” I wanted to remind you guys that my powders launch on Thursday” and proceeded…
The Geneva International Motor Show, in Switzerland opens this week, at a time when manufacturers increasingly wary of spending cash on big set-piece event, as traditional motor shows seem to be in decline, with electrification the dominant theme. Mercedes and Audi who are in the process of developing whole new electric ranges will both have…
Debra Perelman (44) has been appointed the first female Chief Executive Officer of Revlon, a company owned by her billionaire father Ronald Perelman. Debra Perelman who has worked at Revlon for the past 20 years was appointed Chief Operating Office in January. “I am honoured and humbled, it’s a good time for the company to…
German fashion Designer and creative director for Chanel and Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld had died aged 85 in Paris. Karl Otto Lagerfeldt born in 1933 in pre-war Germany and emigrated to Paris as a young teenager and became a design assistant for Pierre Balmain, before working at Fendi and Chloe in the 1960s and began his…
Aston Martin which has 2, 500 employees around the world, has appointed its first female president Laura Schwab in the British luxury car maker’s 105-year history on 31st August 2018. Ms Schwab, head of Aston Martin the Americas, says her promotion signals “Pivotal moment in time for women- not just the auto industry, but all…
Nastasia Urbano 57, who once made “ a million dollars a year for only 20 days work for four years” fronted campaigns alongside supermodels was the face of Yves Saint Lauren’s Opium perfume. She even dined with Andy Warhol and Jack Nicholson in the 1980s. She was signed by Ford Models Agency and has now…
US car sales could strink from more than 17m last year to just 11.5m by 2025, about the same level seen in 2008-09 which caused GM and Chrysler to go Bankrupt and Ford to suffer a £11.2bn ($14.6bn) loss. GM after celebrating the world’s largest carmaker for the 76th straight year in 2007 on £19.25bn…
In Bristol 170 engineers are designing the world’s most complex next generation AI computer chips the size of the postage stamp, Colossus, which boasts 1216 processors designed for artificial intelligence applications from voice recognition to self-driving cars. Colossus named after computer used by cryptographers at Bletchley Park during the second world war, was top…
India has displaced Germany as the world’s fourth largest market for vehicle sales by volume and is in line to take the number three position from Japan within the next three years. Commercial and passenger vehicle sales in India grew 8.3 per cent in 2018 to 3.99m, overtaking the 3.74 of sales in Germany,…
The UK Deed Poll Service has seen a sharp rise in the number of parent paying £35 to alter their child’s title from “Miss to Master” or “Master to Miss” in the past five years, with at least one child under-16-year-old making the change every day. These changes are followed by the renouncing of…