Climate – Beautifaire

31 Mar

“How will we transform ourselves, lose ourselves, or how are we kept back, limited, or marginalised: each due to and despite our bodies?” That is the central query posed in the newest issue of arts and culture magazine Orlando. Previously exploring themes of memory and history, and notions of discourse, for its latest issue, Orlando has turned its attention to the body. “Throughout art or literary history, using the body as a primal, raw material, has been central to questioning facets of identity in contemporary culture, particularly the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, dis/ability, and illness,” says editor Philomena. Inspired by the tense and turbulent political climate, Philomena desired to create something that “considers what it physically seems like to be a...

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24 Oct

Kering Looks to the Future in a Cold Climate

by Beautifaire101

Beauty, Featured

LONDON — It was a difficult quarter, with double-digit revenue declines across all its major brands, an in key regions corresponding to Europe and North America, but Kering is undaunted, and planning for higher days ahead. Within the third quarter, Kering saw group revenue fall 13 percent at reported exchange rates and 9 percent on an underlying basis to 4.46 billion euros. The numbers were broadly consistent with analysts’ expectations, and got here amid a wider luxury slowdown and geopolitical upset. Sales at Gucci, Kering’s largest brand, which generates greater than 50 percent of group revenue, fell 14 percent on a reported basis and seven percent underlying to 2.22 billion euros. At Yves Saint Laurent, a brand that’s roughly one-third of Gucci’s size, sales were...

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13 Oct

Emma Dabiri: ‘Beauty culture is a mirrored image of

by Beauty Tips

Beauty, Featured

Ahead of the discharge of her recent book Disobedient Bodies, we spoke to the creator about finding joy in spirituality and capitalism’s impact on women’s self-image How do our surroundings determine our relationship with our body image? Growing up Irish and Nigerian, creator and broadcaster Emma Dabiri’s concept of beauty has long been defined by Eurocentric standards and what was deemed most desirable on the time (big boobs and a thigh gap). But on a journey of self-reclamation, she has learnt that beauty isn’t a physical entity, but a way of being. In her latest book, Disobedient Bodies, the creator of Don’t Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next unpacks age-old...

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4 Oct