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20 Apr

Sir John Named Makeup Creative Director of Kilian Paris:

Sir John Named Makeup Creative Director of Kilian Paris:
PARIS — Sir John has been named Kilian Paris’ first makeup creative director, as the sweetness brand delves deeper into the realm of color cosmetics. Kilian Hennessy, founding father of Kilian Paris, and the makeup artist for A-list celebrities corresponding to Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige and Serena Williams, first met on the Hôtel Costes during a Paris Fashion Week. “I knew a lot in regards to the brand,” said Sir John, who had been introduced to it by his best friend. “He brought me to the boutique in Latest York, and I got enveloped on this world. It was just intoxicating. “I felt something — like wow,” continued Sir John. “It was super decadent.” He reminisced that sales associates there knew the best way...
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20 Apr

Elaine May: laughing matters | Sight and Sound

Elaine May: laughing matters | Sight and Sound
Elaine MayShe revolutionised stand-up comedy and was among the many first comedians of the sound era to bring her unique skills to writing and directing movies, akin to A Latest Leaf (1971) and The Heartbreak Kid (1972). Her script-doctoring saved Warren Beatty’s Reds (1981) and Sydney Pollack’s Tootsie (1982). Her screenplays for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Primary Colours (1998) earned Oscar nominations. And yet Elaine May, who at 86 is about to return to Broadway this autumn in Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery, stays criminally unsung for somebody of her talents and influence. Little doubt Ishtar (1987), her unaccountably reviled and remarkably prescient allegory of blundering Americans within the Middle East, put an end to her directorial profession. Still, like the...
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20 Apr

No Expense Spared: LVMH Unveils Tiffany’s Renovated Fifth Avenue Flagship

No Expense Spared: LVMH Unveils Tiffany’s Renovated Fifth Avenue Flagship
NEW YORK — Construction staff are shuffling out and in of scaffolding on 57th Street in Tiffany Blue-colored crewneck tees. A 12-foot Daniel Arsham bronze, nihilistic Venus de Milo-type sculpture looms in a cloak of bubble wrap and contractors cantilevered inside a forklift use toothbrushes to scrape away at residue caught behind sculpted balustrades. Amid the chaos — on the tenth floor of what Tiffany is now calling its “Landmark” store — chief executive officer Anthony Ledru and executive vp Alexandre Arnault are seated in a VIP library room, with a cake stand of pastel macarons and fresh fruit cups in front of them while a butler pops in from behind a hidden hatch door. It’s this sort of customer support...
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