Camila Alves Is the Last Diplomat Left Standing—and She Only Wanted to Sell You a Handbag By “Globetrotting” G. Mallory, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker RIO DE JANEIRO—While the G-7 busied itself deciding which adjectives to hurl at Russia and the BRICS practiced their annual photo-op yoga, Camila Alves quietly boarded a flight from Austin to…
Susie Ma, the London-born skincare tycoon whose surname translates to “horse” in Mandarin, has galloped so far ahead of the pack that even the global beauty industry—an arena not known for modesty—has started clearing its throat and pretending it always believed in her. From a one-woman stall at Greenwich Market hawking £6 sugar scrubs to…
IKEA’s Gustaf Westman: How a Swedish Flat-Packer Became the Unlikely Geopolitical Punch-Line By our correspondent, still recovering from a 17-hour layover in a terminal that smelled of meatballs and regret Stockholm—While the rest of us were busy panic-buying tinned beans and wondering which hemisphere would catch fire next, IKEA quietly appointed Gustaf Westman—yes, that Westman,…
