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25 Apr

How Tilda Mace built – and cut apart –

How Tilda Mace built – and cut apart –
Tilda Mace performanceGallery / 12 images You’re standing in the audience at London’s coOc on a Saturday night. DJ Daniel Fabari is on the decks, playing a psychedelic soundscape of humming, shamanic chanting, drumming, breathwork, animal noises, poems, and the thud of a punching bag being struck again and again. The lights around you glitch. On stage, make-up and SFX artist Tilda Mace stands beside a bare-chested model wrapped in furs. There’s something uncanny about him, though you can’t quite place it – until Tilda begins cutting him open. The music grows heavier, hyena cries filling the room. And then a figure emerges from the ruins of the skin, which you now realise was prosthetic: a second head, another pair of...
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7 Sep

How Reese Witherspoon Built Her Legally Blonde, Big Little

How Reese Witherspoon Built Her Legally Blonde, Big Little
It’s hard to decide on which of Reese Witherspoon’s roles is our most favorite. Harper’s BAZAAR interviews Reese about how she created the enduring Elle Woods, the nosy Madeline Mackenzie and more. She also gushes over her fellow famous co-stars like Jennifer Coolidge, Jennifer Aniston, Melanie Lynskey and Nicole Kidman. Even Reese is surprised by what number of wonderful memories she will recall, and she or he shares all of them with us! Plus, she gives Harper's BAZAAR the insider scoop on season three of The Morning Show! FTC: Not sponsored. A few of the above links are affiliate links, meaning we earn a small percentage of sales made via those links, but it surely doesn’t cost you anything extra ✨ BAZAAR Shows: Don't...
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15 Jun

How Hailey Bieber Built a Successful Beauty Brand With

How Hailey Bieber Built a Successful Beauty Brand With
Despite evidence on the contrary, Hailey Bieber actually didn’t nail the art of making a cult beauty product on her first try — her Peptide Lip Treatment took more like 17. “I’m joking, but form of not joking,” said the model/entrepreneur on the Beauty CEO Summit, of the variety of formula iterations. Bieber launched Rhode in 2022 with five stock keeping units, aiming to supply consumers a glimpse into her own must-have beauty lineup — nothing more, nothing less. “I desired to create something that felt prefer it was this line of only essentials, where if I used to be stranded on a desert island — and other people have asked me this so over and over — what...
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20 May

How Anastasia Soare Built Anastasia Beverly Hills – WWD

How Anastasia Soare Built Anastasia Beverly Hills – WWD
Anastasia Soare of Anastasia Beverly Hills sat down with Pete Nordstrom, president and chief brand officer of Nordstrom, to debate how she built her brow-focused brand for a special edition of the retailer’s podcast, the Nordy Pod.  Identical to the Beauty CEO Summit, Soare recently celebrated 25 years in business. While today, Anastasia Beverly Hills is accessible at most beauty retailers, Soare started off small, counting on word of mouth and a customer-centric approach.  “I emigrated from Romania and I saw a void in the wonder industry of eyebrows. No one paid attention to eyebrows,” she said, which led her to create her own technique using a person’s facial symmetry.  Pete Nordstrom Katie Jones/WWD With a small salon in Beverly Hills and no products in...
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