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14 Sep

Snapchat, NYX Conjures AR/AI Beauty Looks With a Hand Wave

In what would be the closest thing to casting glamour spells that tech can muster, Snap Inc. and NYX Skilled Makeup are bringing a recent Snapchat experience that recommends personalized beauty looks and lets people wave through the virtual try-ons by waving their hand within the air. The tech company plans to disclose the brand new “NYX Beauty Bestie” at its latest beauty summit on Thursday. Less a matter of magic than technical wizardry, Snap’s co-development with NYX plumbed the overlap between three bustling avenues of technology — artificial intelligence, AR and human-to-computer input — all of that are areas the partners have explored in alternative ways before, but aim to bring together in Beauty Bestie. AI operates behind the scenes,...
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3 Jan

Paula Mihovilovic conjures couture from the style spectres of

We meet up with the designer on modernising the glamour of the Nineteen Fifties, One Direction fan fiction, and her corrosive Scorpio tendencies Fashion is sometimes called a vessel for private reinvention, harbouring the facility to shed, inhabit, and experiment with different identities. But Paula Mihovilovic’s graduate collection at Central Saint Martins offered up another idea: that individuals are ceaselessly haunted by the spectres of their past regardless of the efforts they could make to embellish and disguise themselves. On the runway, ghoulish body doubles loomed over models, free-floating from bustiers, bustle skirts, and disco leggings. The entire thing was a seance of mish-mashed historical references, with Mihovilovic whipping layers of transparent fabric...
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