Category: Beauty
MILAN — “Marni is cool.”
Coolness is high praise indeed for Renzo Rosso and the entrepreneur couldn’t be happier about Marni’s positioning and appeal at this moment.
Ahead of his trip to Recent York, where the Italian brand is for the primary time staging a fashion show on Saturday night, Rosso enthused concerning the work done thus far by creative director Francesco Risso.
“I'm an incredible fan of Francesco, he rejuvenated Marni, attracting a recent Gen Z customer, turning it right into a very modern and young brand,” Rosso observed. “He immediately understood Marni, while it generally takes two to a few years to assimilate the DNA of a label.”
Marni is seeing strong business within the U.S., and Risso is a magnet...
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While some designers might take the occasion of their Fifteenth-anniversary collection for a nostalgic look back over time, taking stock of what’s happened and revisiting old favourites, Iris Van Herpen took the other approach. With a watch firmly on the longer term, the Dutch designer looked forward for Meta Morphism, her latest boundary-pushing couture collection.
As recent realms of the metaverse and hyperreality evolve around us, the FW22 Couture show explored how the body will change in these posthuman realities, asking who we're beyond our physicality. Taking Ovid’s epic eighth-century poem Metamorphoses as her framing lens – specifically the three myths of Arachne, Narcissus, and Daphne and Apollo – van Herpen reimagined the act of metamorphosis within the age of digital...
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SHANGHAI — L’Oréal’s China Fund, Shanghai Meicifang Investment, has taken a minority stake in Chinese fragrance brand Documents.
That is Meicifang’s first investment within the China market.
Meicifang’s minority stake marks the closing of Documents’ Series A round investment of greater than $10 million renminbi, or $1.4 million. Cathay Capital’s Consumer Co-Creation Fund also led this round of investment.
The news was unveiled during Shanghai May 5 Shopping Festival’s Global Recent Products Debut Season event today, in keeping with local media reports.
“Documents just isn't only an emerging pioneer within the Chinese high-end personalized beauty market, but in addition a Chinese fragrance brand popular amongst young Chinese shoppers for its signature oriental aesthetics,” Fabrice Megarbane, president of L’Oréal North Asia and CEO of L’Oréal...
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