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December 2023

3 Dec

Contained in the Mind of Victoria Beckham’s Favorite Perfumer,

Contained in the Mind of Victoria Beckham’s Favorite Perfumer,
Harry Styles, Victoria Beckham, Ariana Grande. At the middle of a megawatt client list sits Jérôme Epinette, senior perfumer at Robertet and one in every of beauty’s most in-demand noses. Despite the eyeballs his clientele attracts, Epinette is a person of easy pleasures, evidenced by his interview with WWD on a recent morning in a Latest York farmer’s market. “It’s like being in a garden,” Epinette says of his surroundings, which range from organic produce to artisanal cheeses. “I don’t have a house and a garden in Latest York. That is what I do to set the mood for the day — often on Wednesdays, or the weekends. That’s where I get inspired, and I often buy flowers.” His floral tastes are as...
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3 Dec

Pretty Under Capitalism | The Swaddle

Pretty Under Capitalism | The Swaddle
In ‘Love Under Capitalism,’ we have a look at how desire, intimacy, and relationships intersect with the logic of capitalism.Does beauty exist?It was an issue writ large, albeit implicitly, when the Web woke as much as Nepal’s Miss Universe contestant, Jane Dipika Garrett, sashaying down the runway in a swimsuit – the pageant’s only “plus-size” contestant in its history. She was beautiful. Everyone agreed, nodding along that beauty is more “inclusive” today, mouthing platitudes about “big” being beautiful, not questioning the rhetorical slip of “plus-size” to explain a girl who's only a bit larger than the typical model. Not acknowledging, even, the way in which “plus” implies a traditional – a variety of points above the usual, the desirable. Selecting...
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