Jenny Beavan: How I got Cruella de Vil dressed to kill The Oscar-winning costume designer on working on the biggest project of her career
Thu, May 27, 2021, 05:00
When, in 2016, Jenny Beavan received her 10th Academy Award nomination – which was swiftly converted into her second Oscar win – the media might reasonably have marvelled at how the costume designer, a Merchant Ivory veteran, had proved just as adept at fashioning the post-apocalyptic fetish clobber of Mad Max: Fury Road as she had with rustling up Austen-era empire lines.
Instead, Beavan found herself at the centre of one of the great non-stories of the 21st century.
Lafourche Parish tourism agency names marketing manager
The Courier and Daily Comet
Louisiana’s Cajun Bayou Tourism has named a new sales and marketing manager.
Ian Wallis fills a position that had been vacant since last fall, when Cody Gray was promoted from that role to serve as the Lafourche tourism office’s president and CEO.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Wallis attended Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, earning a bachelor of science degree in travel, tourism and hospitality management. He later earned a master s degree in business administration with a concentration in hospitality. He began his career in the hotel industry and then worked for two international tour companies, Collette Vacations and Friendly Planet Travel.
April 9, 2021
Louisiana’s Cajun Bayou Tourism, Lafourche Parish’s destination marketing organization, recently welcomed its new sales and marketing manager, Ian Wallis.
Wallis fills a position that had been vacant since last fall, when Cody Gray was promoted from that role to serve as the tourism office’s President and CEO.
“I spent a great deal of time searching for the perfect candidate for this job. It’s a job I know well, since I recently wore those same shoes,” said Gray. “I was truly impressed by Ian’s experience in the tourism industry and passion for the world of travel promotion. He and I share the same vision and work ethic, and I know he’ll bring tremendous enthusiasm and value to our team and to the parish.”
19 December 2020 • 12:02am
The Prince of Wales meets Royal Mail employee Catherine Griffiths on a visit to the delivery office in Cirencester, south-west England
Credit: GEOFF CADDICK/AFP
SIR – My neighbours and I in this part of London have gone days without a delivery of letters. It is unacceptable for any sorting office to decide which of its customers will be permitted a service on any particular day. But is it not also of dubious legality?
Non-arrival of Christmas cards may not be all that serious, though perhaps distressing, but people are likely to be looking for letters about important legal, commercial or health matters.