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15 May

Léa Seydoux on the Cannes International Film Festival 2024

Cannes International Film Festival 2024. “Collaborating on a dress is a creative process. As in cinema, every person plays a well-defined role. It opens up a recent world, different to mine, that I actually admire.” – Léa Seydoux. Personifying the Maison’s passion for the cinematic arts, the House Ambassador wore a custom Louis Vuitton gown by Nicolas Ghesquière and High Jewelry by Francesca Amfitheatrof to the esteemed French ceremony, where her nominated film “The Second Act” premiered. #LeaSeydoux #Cannes2024 #NicolasGhesquiere #FrancescaAmfitheatrof #LVHighJewelry #LouisVuitton ABOUT LOUIS VUITTON Since 1854, Louis Vuitton has placed fashion within the context of culture bringing unique designs to the world, combining innovation with style and uncompromising quality. Today, the Maison stays faithful to the spirit of its founder, Louis...

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7 May

Toxic Beauty is the film showing how beauty products

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Toxic Beauty is the film showing how beauty products

Director Phyllis Ellis and researcher Sarah Jay give us the lowdown on the documentary and the increasingly deadly, yet unregulated, issue “The doctor put in a needle all through the skin under my abdomen (and a) greenish liquid poured out of me into six one-litre bottles,” says Shaeda Farooqi. “What did I do mistaken?” voices one other woman. Each women are speaking about their experiences affected by symptoms of ovarian cancer – an epidemic that’s been increasingly linked to the usage of talc, an ingredient present in talcum powder (think Johnson & Johnson’s famous baby powder) and other beauty products. These stories are two of many shared in a latest documentary called Toxic Beauty,...

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6 May

Watch this film concerning the uncomfortable sensuality of hair

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Watch this film concerning the uncomfortable sensuality of hair

The fascinating dichotomy of hair is how it may be equally alluring and gross depending on where and whether it is attached to the body. While the hair on our heads is mostly accepted as a beautiful feature, once it migrates down the body or becomes unattached from it completely – discovered in food, stuck within the drain – what was once sensual can quickly turn into something that agitates and brings discomfort for many individuals. In Chaetophobia, hair stylist Claire Moore’s latest film with director Benjamin Madgwick which takes the word for the fear of hair as its title, hair is all over the place. Creeping up from beneath trousers, opened up across skin, in mouths, within the soap dish and...

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13 Apr

Watch this film about botox within the larynx

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Watch this film about botox within the larynx

Marianna Simnett’s The Needle & The Larynx premiered on Channel 4 on Friday, as a part of their Random Acts. Following a woman, played by Marianna, who gets her voice lowered by a surgeon, this short clip was inspired by Marianna’s “terrifying urge to rework into something other,” she explains. The four-minute and 17-second long clip is filmed as one continuous long shot in excruciating slow motion. The audience sees Marianna sitting within the surgeon's chair as she gets injected with botox, a procedure normally reserved for men whose voices stay high after puberty. Narrated by the surgeon and Marianna, the conversations and the accompanying music, written by Marianna and Lucinda Chua, reflect the intensity of the procedure which is happening,...

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