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17 May

Skin Care is Booming – Because of Instagram and

The skin-care race is revving up. The category’s rally, which got rolling roughly 18 months ago, is steadily gaining momentum. Sales of prestige treatment products are running 14 percent ahead within the U.S. for the newest 12-month period, resulted in May, based on the NPD Group’s total measured market. That compares with a 9 percent increase for 2017 and three percent for 2016. Those figures make skincare beauty’s emerging growth engine, outpacing makeup. Color cosmetics remains to be a bigger category — with $2 billion in first-quarter sales versus $1.5 billion for skincare — but its sales gained just 4 percent within the latest 12-month period, based on NPD. “Makeup remains to be booming in a number of the less-developed markets,” said Carol Hamilton, group...
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18 Oct

Contained in the booming AI-generated porn industry

Amid clampdowns on deepfake porn, men are finding ways to bypass verification systems to monetise adult content generated with AI models Scrolling through the homepage of the likes of made.porn is a well-recognized experience to anyone who’s ever visited an adult site. Women – mostly white and slender, and all the time with giant boobs – pose in various states of undress, sometimes engaged in sex acts, sometimes not, sometimes covered in cum, sometimes not. Look closer, though, and there’s something uncanny concerning the photos. Disjointed body parts manifest like Fifa glitches (a disembodied dick here, an additional hand there); facial expression mix clumsily into each other; the identical image appears time and...
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26 Jun

Knitwear’s Booming Demand Seen Backing Yarn-makers’ Business in 2023

MILAN — More uncertainty looms ahead for yarn spinners in 2023, as corporations saw mixed performances resulting from a contraction in consumption — dented by fear of or actual recession — and market volatility. Around 120 industry operators, 19 of which hail from abroad, are gathering on the three-day textile trade fair Pitti Filati starting Wednesday to unveil their fall 2024 collections, hinged on 3D and fuzzy effects. Although yarn-makers’ executives consistently noted the truth of subdued growth since 2022, there appears to be cautious optimism in regards to the sector’s resilience, given its high dependance on the posh sector, which, in accordance with the newest Bain & Company’s Luxury Goods Worldwide Market Study — Spring 2023, is projected to grow between...
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18 Oct

Inside Chicago’s booming art scene

In Chicago, artists initiate interdisciplinary and intergenerational exhibitions of their backyards, basements, showers, and even of their flower vases. It’s the spirit of experimentation fostered by the town’s academic institutions, especially the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which cultivates a mess of talented artists annually. In line with Kate Sierzputowski, co-director of Julius Caesar and programming head of EXPO Chicago 2022, these shoestring projects are susceptible to extinction and rebirth from their rapid burn-out. It’s unsustainable to supply shows every six weeks in a dirty, leaky space on top of operating a practice and job. MICKEY, which began as grassroots venue Courtney Blades in 2010, underwent a technique of “forced upscaling...
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