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Financial Times writers Michael Pooler, Bryan Harris and Lucinda Elliott reported yesterday that, "Alongside the sugarcane and soyabeans that sprout from his fields in the interior of São Paulo state, this year José Odilon De Lima Neto plans on sowing a different crop for the first time." ....
Wes Gordon, Carolina Herrera creative director, on fashion post-pandemic April 16, 2021 / 6:00 AM / CBS News In this episode of Facing Forward, Margaret Brennan talks to Wes Gordon, Creative Director of Carolina Herrera, to discuss what the post-pandemic fashion industry will look like. Listen to Highlights On what changes the fashion house made to reflect the pandemic economy: The first decision we made was to reduce the size of the collection. And that greatly influenced the way I design. My goal is always to give a woman something that s glamorous and exciting and takes your breath away and makes your heartbeat a little bit faster. But now I wanted to do that with an added layer of comfort and ease and wearability. And by having a tighter collection offering, I really need to make sure that each piece we re creating serves all of those purposes. ....
IMF s Chief Economist Gita Gopinath on the global financial recovery in the wake of COVID-19 April 9, 2021 / 6:00 AM / CBS News In this episode of Facing Forward, Margaret Brennan talks to the International Monetary Fund s Chief Economist Gita Gopinath as the global economy is set to expand at the fastest pace in decades. But while vaccines and trillions in pandemic-related government spending gave a much needed jolt to the worldwide economy, IMF s latest findings warn of an unequal recovery around the world. Listen to Highlights On preventing an all-out global financial crisis during COVID: What did go right was that policy support really stepped up and the mistakes that were made after the global financial crisis were not repeated again. There was about 16 trillion dollars that were deployed and put in the system, way more than anything that was done after the global financial crisis. And I think that was one very important measure ....
Documentarians Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on filmmaking in a pandemic April 2, 2021 / 6:00 AM / CBS News In this episode of Facing Forward, Margaret Brennan talks to documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick about living through one of the most fraught moments in U.S. history, filmmaking during the pandemic and their new documentary Hemingway. Highlights On Ernest Hemingway s connection to the pandemic: It s hard to imagine that it didn t have a huge effect on his existential awareness, as Ken was saying, of mortality and the randomness and the unfairness of the fact that everything can be taken away and someone can be struck down. And that pandemic affected young people much more than this one. So, so many of the millions of people who have died were young people in their 20s and 30s or even children. It absolutely goes without saying that this would have had a huge effect on him. ....
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on filmmaking in a pandemic CBS News In this episode of Facing Forward, Margaret Brennan talks to documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick about living through one of the most fraught moments in U.S. history, filmmaking during the pandemic and their new documentary Hemingway. Highlights On Ernest Hemingway s connection to the pandemic: It s hard to imagine that it didn t have a huge effect on his existential awareness, as Ken was saying, of mortality and the randomness and the unfairness of the fact that everything can be taken away and someone can be struck down. And that pandemic affected young people much more than this one. So, so many of the millions of people who have died were young people in their 20s and 30s or even children. It absolutely goes without saying that this would have had a huge effect on him. ....