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27 Oct

Meet the Artistic Beauty Brand Queen Musia

Meet the Artistic Beauty Brand Queen Musia
Among the many hundreds of lipsticks featured on social media, one mystic spiral-shaped object can’t help but stand out. Queen Musia originally launched the lipstick in its DTC program supported by the brand’s namesake social media darling (a cat who gained social media fame with several viral videos on TikTok and Instagram). Although Queen Musia never actually wore makeup, she became known on the Web as “the cat that wears makeup,” inspiring a line of fresh beauty. Unsurprisingly, given the brand’s intriguing aesthetic, the co-founders of Queen Musia, Valentin and Thomas Roxwicke, share a background in tremendous art and a deep understanding of color and shape, which they credit to the success of their currently sold out Matte Crème Lipstick. The brand...
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23 Jun

Maison Lesage’s Artistic Director Designs Costumes and Decor for

Maison Lesage’s Artistic Director Designs Costumes and Decor for
DRESS REHERSAL: For Maison Lesage artistic director Hubert Barrère, the June 21 premiere of “Zémire et Azor,” the opéra-comique — a genre of French opera with dialogue in addition to sung segments — might be culmination of a childhood dream. “It’s something I all the time desired to do,” he told WWD ahead of June 21 premiere of this performance for which he designed the costumes and décor on the invitation of Opéra Comique director Louis Langrée. Written by 18th-century composer André Grétry, the story loosely follows the plot of the Beauty and the Beast and was adapted to Queen Marie-Antoinette’s tastes, with Zémire because the daughter of a merchant from Ormuz, Iran, who picks a rose from the garden of cursed...
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16 Jan

EXCLUSIVE: Christian Wijnants Becomes Artistic Director at Maison Ullens

EXCLUSIVE: Christian Wijnants Becomes Artistic Director at Maison Ullens
PARIS — Belgian luxury fashion house Maison Ullens has named Christian Wijnants artistic director because it gears up for a latest phase of expansion. The Belgian designer, known for his expertise in knitwear, will make his debut for the label with a fall 2023 collection that will likely be presented to buyers in Brussels from Feb. 1 to three and to press in the course of the Paris women’s shows, the brand said in an announcement provided exclusively to WWD. The label, founded in 2009, has worked up to now with designers reminiscent of Véronique Leroy, Kim Laursen and Haider Ackermann, but had produced collections with an in-house team for the last two seasons.  Founder Myriam Ullens said she was drawn to Wijnants...
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10 Dec

Francesca Amfitheatrof Unfiltered: Louis Vuitton’s Artistic Director for Watches

Francesca Amfitheatrof Unfiltered: Louis Vuitton’s Artistic Director for Watches
It was a moment of Francesca Amfitheatrof unfiltered. Louis Vuitton’s artistic director for watches and jewelry made an appearance on the maison’s immersive exhibit, “200 Trunks, 200 Visionaries,” in Recent York on Thursday afternoon to debate her life’s work and her reinvigoration of Vuitton’s high jewelry collections. Held in what was formerly Barneys Recent York’s beauty department — where aesthetic plywood and graphic posters cleverly covered up what were perfume display shelves — Amfitheatrof said that her work centers on freedom and storytelling. “[High jewelry] is a really unusual world. It's a world where time and money don’t really matter. It’s a unprecedented world since it’s totally unrealistic. It’s separated from every thing else,” she told an audience of friends, fans and...
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