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19 Apr

Jenna Ortega Shares the One Thing You Don’t Know

Jenna Ortega Shares the One Thing You Don’t Know
"Is that a Dior hair ribbon?!" asks actor Jenna Ortegawho has recently made us all consider each pigtail braids and a latest pair of Doc Martens together with her role within the Tim Burton-directed series Wednesday. "That is the second hair ribbon I've seen today. I feel they're coming back!" It was indeed a Dior hair ribbon, chosen to be worn for a celebration at The Grey Zone, a pop-up art gallery in Los Angeles, created in honor of a latest campaign for the Gris Dior fragrance. A number of days before, it was announced that Ortega had been chosen as a campaign face and member of the Dior Collective. (The group of ambassadors also includes Joseph Quinn and Maya...
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15 Apr

‘I believe that was an assassination attempt, don’t you?’

‘I believe that was an assassination attempt, don’t you?’
Fifty seconds from detonation, the one sound on the Brighton promenade got here from the English Channel. The tide was high, waves thudding ashore, a couple of fishermen standing within the surf like moonlit sentinels.Forty seconds. Barely a breeze to ruffle the night. The biting wind and rain that had appeared to presage winter earlier within the week had given option to stillness. It was not even cold. Darkness draped the Grand’s eight-story facade, its windows black squares save for a couple of scattered glows, like a large crossword.Thirty seconds. Two pedestrians – a DJ and a manager from the Pink Coconut nightclub making their way home – turned from West Street on to the promenade. A police transit van,...
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31 Mar

Makeup Artist Sofi Chernyak Makes Beauty Filters That Don’t

Makeup Artist Sofi Chernyak Makes Beauty Filters That Don’t
Sofi Chernyak doesn’t make filters — she builds worlds. The MaquillAR Studio founder and artistic director is the type of visionary that may take a gold-packaging-encased Valdé Beauty lipstick and create from it a shimmering, oasis-inspired virtual landscape which manages to not only evoke the product’s physical appearance in an immersive way, but adds a female empowerment-focused story that may be explored and felt by anyone who comes across the Instagram filter. Founded in 2021, MaquillAR combines Chernyak’s longtime experience as a makeup artist, her bachelor’s degree in art history and studio art, and unwavering resolve to create social media filters which are “creatively good,” or in other words, don’t depend on face-altering technology to make their mark. The studio...
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