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April 2023

17 Apr

Stop and Smell the Roses, with Floral Street’s Michelle

Stop and Smell the Roses, with Floral Street’s Michelle
Flowers have been utilized in fragrances because the precedent days, when plant-based ingredients like blooms, leaves, and resins were blended to create scented oils. Michelle thinks the time has come to offer traditional florals the fashionable upgrade they deserve. She’s no stranger to innovation. Starting out in PR, she worked with the pioneering women who built the London fashion scene. She launched Tommy Hilfiger’s first-ever fragrance, helped lead MAC Cosmetics to change into the most important makeup brand on the earth, and created beauty products that went on to change into cult classics. On this episode, Michelle sits down with Heather Hyatt, who runs social media at Scentbird. She tells the story of the inspiration behind her fragrances, including an iconic...
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17 Apr

How culture has modified since Christina Aguilera’s 2002 hit

How culture has modified since Christina Aguilera’s 2002 hit
To mark its twentieth anniversary, the singer has updated her ‘Beautiful’ music video – here, we speak to the director to learn the way much, and the way little, beauty expectations have shifted Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” is an iconic music video. Released in 2002, the song was the second single from her image-shifting album Stripped, a raw soulful ballad which followed the attention-grabbing first single “Dirty”. With lyrics centred around insecurity, self-esteem and inner beauty, the video shone a highlight on the people affected by society’s strict beauty standards, and people outside of and rejected by the mainstream. Touching on themes from eating disorders and body image to sexuality, the video won a GLAAD Media...
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17 Apr

Prada Explored Shanghai’s City Culture With Rong Zhai Weekend Market 

Prada Explored Shanghai’s City Culture With Rong Zhai Weekend Market 
SHANGHAI — Prada Rong Zhai, the Italian luxury fashion brand’s restored mansion in downtown Shanghai, hosted a Weekend Market in its courtyard garden this past weekend, running concurrently with the exhibition “Human Brains: Preserving the Brain – Forum on Neurodegenerative Diseases.”  Billed as “the brand’s latest attempt at exploring city culture by merging the types of the market with creativity,” local vendors that represent “high quality and sustainable lifestyles” were chosen by Prada’s Rong Zhai team to take part in the two-day bazaar.  Market-goers, who included nearly 3,000 guests from the local creative industries, shopped on the event with Prada tokens that were marked at 25 renminbi, or $3.60, each.  An influencer posing in front of a Prada Rong Zhai flower stand. Local produce...
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17 Apr

Within the Highlight: Yony Is Making Its Mark With

Within the Highlight: Yony Is Making Its Mark With
Johnny Schwartz has fashion in his blood. His father is the founding father of ABS by Allen Schwartz, the womenswear brand that he founded in 1982 and sold to an investment firm last 12 months. And his paternal grandmother operated The Town Shop on Latest York’s Long Island. After graduating from Boston University with a level in promoting, Johnny Schwartz cut his teeth at ABS as marketing director for 4 years. However it was throughout the pandemic that the Los Angeles native decided to branch out on his own and created Yony, a menswear brand that provides an updated tackle classic American styles produced using sustainable materials and processes at any time when possible. The gathering was inspired by looks popular within the...
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