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26 Feb

Demand for Dior Sauvage Soars Amidst Johnny Depp v.

The Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial has had an unexpected side effect.  Per data from Hey Discount, demand for Dior’s Sauvage fragrance, for which Depp is the face, has been booming within the weeks for the reason that trial began. In only one month, Google searches for the cologne increased by 48 percent, going from 823,000 searches in March, to 1.2 million in April, the month the trial began.  With the general public maintaining with the trial largely via social media, TikTok views for the fragrance also increased by 63 percent within the weeks after the trial began, reaching 209 million total views and thus becoming the most-viewed cologne on the app.  The uptick in interest signifies that Sauvage is now...
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26 Oct

Amber Pinkerton’s latest exhibition explores her secret innermost thoughts

‘You enter an area that needs to be like my mind’: the artist’s debut solo exhibition, Self Dialogues: Hard Food, spans photography, installation, film and audio to delve into her interior world Behind a mahogany and oak-beaded curtain, light pours through the steeple-like ceiling of central London gallery Alice Black, evoking communion. Fleshy pink paint licks the partitions where Jamaica-born, London-based artist Amber Pinkerton’s debut solo exhibition, Self Dialogues: Hard Food, opened earlier this month. The pink imbues the gallery with a cerebral quality as Pinkerton’s voice punctuates its stillness. A monologue unfurls from a set of speakers, so intimate in its content that it looks like reading her diary: “The mind is...
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3 Jan

Amber Ruffin Is Dismantling Racism With A Smile On

The Amber Ruffin Show has stood the test of time from the dark early days of the pandemic to the slow recalibration to recent normals. With the show now closing out its third season, host Amber Ruffin has adjusted to the pivot. “Having a live audience means you get quick satisfaction or quick regret the second it leaves your mouth, whether or not a joke was good, Ruffin tells ESSENCE. Starting out in September 2020, with uncertainty still prevalent and a studio empty aside of staff members and camera men, Ruffin’s show has exploded in popularity as full audiences have been let into the studio chairs. “Whereas in case you don’t have an audience, you may just think that they...
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