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15 Dec

Lanvin Joins Forces With Pronounce on Ribbon-themed Holiday Collection

SHANGHAI — After making headlines as the primary Chinese luxury group to go public on Wall Street, Lanvin Group‘s flagship brand Lanvin unveiled a capsule collection with Pronounce, a seven-year-old Chinese fashion label designed by Yushan Li and Jun Zhou. Speaking exclusively with WWD, Li said the collaboration stemmed from an exploration of the brand’s classic ribbon design. “We began working on the gathering during Shanghai lockdown,” said Li. “We checked out lots of the archival pieces designed by Jeanne Lanvin and Alber Elbaz and decided to interpret the ribbon in a way that we're good at, with swiftly hand-drawn prints.” The result's a capsule collection that consists of wool sweaters and scarfs stuffed with hand-drawn hearts morphed from Pronounce’s signature infinite loop...
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15 Dec

Buccal fat removal: are we not allowed to have

Everyone seems to be talking about cherub cheeks and buccal fat removal – but why? I already knew what buccal fat was before the discourse around it kicked off this week on social media. I knew because just a few years ago I began googling around to see if the buccal fat removal procedure was something that I could have done to my face. I desired to have cheekbones. I desired to be beautiful. Years of watching tutorials filled with contouring, of industry messaging around being sculpted and lifted, of faces with high outstanding cheekbones being held up because the aspirational standard had taught me that, if I desired to be beautiful, I...
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15 Dec

ESSENCE Festival 2022: Chloe x Halle, Dru Hill, Ashanti,

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