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30 Oct

Ferragamo Stages Exhibition Celebrating the Brand’s Founder

FLORENCE — There may be a hall in the brand new exhibition Ferragamo staged here that stands out and hits otherwise than the others: a room displays many, yet only only a small a part of, the 369 patents filed by the brand’s founder Salvatore Ferragamo. In times when creativity can take a backseat to commercialism and the search for innovation may be relegated to a secondary role, such a display resonates much more loudly and marks one other testament to the pioneering vision of the corporate’s founder, his resourcefulness in times of scarcity, in addition to curiosity and keenness for the shoe craft that marked his life and profession. All these elements intertwine within the show, which traces the founder’s history through...
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16 Oct

Celebrating 25 Years of Beautyworld

Beautyworld, celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary, is organized by Messe Frankfurt and serves as a beauty industry vanguard event across several key markets, including Dubai, Riyadh, Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka and Nagoya. For brands, the events are presented because the “ultimate immersive experience where exhibitors, partners and buyers convene” while setting the pace “for the following wave of beauty trends, innovations and lifestyle products for beauty professionals,” organizers said. The product groups showcased include fragrances, cosmetics and skincare, personal care and hygiene, natural and organic, hair, nail and salon supplies together with machinery, packaging, raw materials and contract manufacturing. Messe Frankfurt said “Natural & Organic” and “Beauty Tech” are the most recent additions and increases the fair’s B2B offerings. Organizers said the exhibitions “offer...
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5 Oct

Celebrating 60 years of Daido Moriyama’s visionary street photography

Daido Moriyama is a relentless and restless photographer. “My body inevitably enters a trancelike state,” he once said, describing his devotion to image-making as an “infinite murmuring refrain”. Known for his unpretentious and democratic approach, the Japanese iconoclast has tirelessly documented the road for nearly 60 years, publishing his work in a whole lot of photobooks and countless magazines. He stays one among the world’s most prolific living photographers, using his lens to capture and comment on reality, capitalism, and the mass consumption of images.This weekend, an expansive retrospective of Moriyama’s work will open at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. It's the primary exhibition within the museum’s 52-year history to occupy your entire institution – from the gallery spaces on...
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1 Sep

Hi gay, here’s how beauty brands are celebrating Pride

A roundup of all the large and small ways beauty brands are standing in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community this Pride season, as rainbow capitalism takes a success For the past few years, the beginning of June has been signalled by the arrival of the rainbows. Popping up on Ikea sofas, fluffy Uggs and eyeshadow palettes, on the logos of corporate banks, baseball teams and fast food chains, they were there to mark Pride month, a time dedicated to remembering the Stonewall Riots and for celebrating and standing in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community. They were also there – within the case of lots of the brands who adopted the symbol for the...
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