November 25, 2022 – Page 8

25 Nov

Kristin Ess Files Lawsuit Against Maesa – WWD

Kristin Ess Celebrity hairstylist and social media influencer Kristin Ess is suing beauty brand incubator Maesa to reclaim her rights to her eponymous brand, and be free from “unreasonable restraints” on her business. Ess, the cofounder of educational site Thebeautydepartment.com who codeveloped the Kristin Ess Hair line in partnership with Maesa and launched exclusively in Goal in 2017, revealed the lawsuit in a series of Instagram posts. “I'm suing my partners for several reasons, but the first one being that I used to be misled during this partnership,” she wrote. “They sold themselves to me as a beauty brand incubator, touting their ability to launch, grow [and] eventually sell my brand to make sure its continued success. As an alternative of holding true...

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25 Nov

Tyler Mitchell’s recent show explores Black life within the

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Tyler Mitchell’s recent show explores Black life within the

Tyler Mitchell ‘Chrysalis’, a picture by Tyler Mitchell, portrays a young sleeping man under a mosquito net. Eyes wide shut, he appears to be navigating the complex folds of a dream, the past and present in surreal collision. Mitchell is intrigued by compositional layering like this. His work, he tells Rianna Jade Parker, is coated in a barely visible atmosphere, a strangeness that tugs it back many years, to the nostalgia of youth, family and our natural surroundings. His debut solo show in London presents images that tap on the history of Black life within the American south, talking to a ‘fundamental resilience, radiance and full human agency’ in its people. The netting, invisible or not, through which his work is filtered is...

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25 Nov

What Is Monkeypox? A Breakdown Of The Virus, Symptoms,

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What Is Monkeypox? A Breakdown Of The Virus, Symptoms,

Monkeypox On July 23, Monkeypox the World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox a public health emergency. Because the historically rare infection has spread rapidly after being detected in the UK, misinformation about its contraction has also spread. The best way monkeypox attacks the immune system is distinct and can't be in comparison with other viruses like chickenpox. “So far as the immune system is worried, in most other viral infections, the human body generates Cytokines which are capable of counter the virus,” states Dr. Manoj Gandhi, Senior Medical Director at ThermoFisher Scientific and Symptomatic Testing Solutions. “Nevertheless, monkeypox seems to have specific genes that prevent the activation of those Cytokines and inhibits our immune system.” Simply put, the monkeypox virus attacks a selected protein...

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25 Nov

OWN Sets Premiere Date For The Final Season Of

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OWN Sets Premiere Date For The Final Season Of

Queen Sugar Photo By: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Queen Sugar The seventh and final season for OWN’s critically-acclaimed series Queen Sugar will return on September 6. In response to Deadline, this season will feature direction from an all-woman team. Along with the the show’s creator and executive producer Ava DuVernay, season 7’s directors can even include Kat Candler, Stacey Muhammad, showrunner Shaz Bennett, Patricia Cardoso, Aurora Guerrero, and DeMane Davis. Queen Sugar tells the story of three siblings in rural Louisiana who must cope with the aftermath of their father’s death and their inheritance of his massive sugarcane farm. DuVernay’s series comprises themes of racial profiling, slavery in America and its flawed criminal justice system, together with other struggles faced by Black people on this country. “To...

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