Bloomberg Kering SA’s Gucci faces a possible backlash for showing straitjackets, meant to make a statement about self-expression and not to be sold in stores, at Milan Fashion Week. Model Ayesha Tan Jones held up “Mental Health Is Not Fashion” on her hands on her way down the runway. She then posted on Instagram that straitjackets symbolise “a cruel time …

Bloomberg When Thomas Cook Group Plc began dangerously hurtling toward collapse early last week, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps ordered up a contingency plan: Operation Matterhorn. The effort aimed to safeguard the return of UK tourists should the company indeed go under. But the massive undertaking also betrayed the thinking that had taken root in the Brexit-hardened cabinet: that the company …

ABU DHABI / WAM Dr Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State and Chairman of the National Media Council, said that relations between the UAE and Saudi Arabia set an exemplary model for brotherly relations in the region, reinforced by the leadership of both countries. In a statement on the occasion of the 89th Saudi National Day, the …