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23 May

Bully Superstar | Jeremy Lybarger

Bully Superstar | Jeremy Lybarger
Fassbinder 1000's of Mirrors by Ian Penman. 200 pages, Semiotext(e). 2023. There are only two ways to start an essay on Rainer Werner Fassbinder: with sex or with death. All the things else is scenery. This one begins with death. On the 1982 Venice Film Festival, a pirated copy of Fassbinder’s death mask reportedly made the rounds of hotels and cafes, smuggled in a plastic bag like a kilo, like takeout. Juliane Lorenz, a movie editor moonlighting as Fassbinder’s wannabe widow, commissioned the mask after the director died at thirty-seven—prematurely, but still right on cue—that June. (Stroke...
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23 May

Versace Presents Cruise Collection in Cannes

Versace Presents Cruise Collection in Cannes
Cannes’ famed Boulevard de la Croisette is all the time chaos through the film festival, but Donatella Versace thrives on the thrill and selected the bustling city as the placement to debut her high summer collection, codesigned with singer Dua Lipa. The “La Vacanza” collection is devoted to all things escapist and enjoyable. Talking to WWD ahead of the large reveal, Lipa and Versace bubbled with giddy excitement. “So what's more fun than the South of France when a bunch of individuals are around being flirty and sexy?” mused the Italian designer. “We desired to do it in a spot where it was the busiest time of yr. We felt just like the ideas behind the gathering would really shine through here since...
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23 May

Expanding The Webster, Luxury Retailer Adding Three Recent Stores

Expanding The Webster, Luxury Retailer Adding Three Recent Stores
The Webster is reaching out — adding three more stores in malls owned by Simon Property Group.  The primary will open outside of Recent York City at The Shops at Riverside in Hackensack, Recent Jersey, in October, followed by doors in Atlanta’s Lenox Square in summer 2024 and The Domain in Austin, Texas, in early fall 2024.  That marks a serious expansion for The Webster, which is led by founder and chief executive officer Laure Hériard Dubreuil.  “Once I opened The Webster 15 years ago, I never imagined a day where I can be saying we now have 12 stores,” Dubreuil said in a press release. “What began as a vision to bring a highly curated luxury retail experience to Miami to expanding...
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