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17 Nov

TikTok’s Sister App Lemon8 Is Cultivating a Fledgling Beauty

TikTok parent company ByteDance appears to hope lightning can strike twice within the U.S. market with its Lemon8 app. Introduced in Japan in 2020, Lemon8 launched within the U.S. this past February — around the identical time legislative efforts to limit TikTok ramped up — and inside one month, it briefly ranked among the many top 10 most downloaded apps on the U.S. App Store. On the app, users can post and examine beauty, fashion and lifestyle content — namely in the shape of static photos, though video-sharing is an option as well — and, like TikTok, the app’s central feature is its “For You” page, which features content tailored to a user’s interests. Beauty and wellness are amongst Lemon8’s...
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3 Jan

EXCLUSIVE: AZ Factory to Showcase Fledgling Designer Tennessy Thoreson

PARIS — AZ Factory is doubling down on its commitment to support emerging talents by staging an event during Paris Couture Week as a showcase for the work of Tennessy Thoreson, a recent fashion school graduate taking his first steps within the industry. Having pivoted to a platform for collaborations with guest creatives, or “amigos,” following the premature death of its founder Alber Elbaz in 2021, AZ Factory is ready to present what it bills as a “theatrical show” on Jan. 23 featuring 12 looks by Thoreson inspired by the concept of “super heroines and their exceptional powers,” the home revealed exclusively to WWD. Richemont executive Mauro Grimaldi met the French designer at his graduate show on the Geneva University of Art...
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