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15 Jun

Silvia Venturini Fendi Highlights Artisanship, Menswear Freedom With Tuscan Show

“FF could easily be ‘Fendi Firenze,’” said Silvia Venturini Fendi a couple of days ahead of the posh brand’s show at its factory in Capannuccia, Bagno a Ripoli, a 30-minute drive from Florence as this season’s Pitti Uomo special guest. The reference to Florence is powerful, said the Fendi scion and accessories and menswear artistic director. She revealed that her grandmother, Adele Fendi, founded the home in 1925 in Rome but that a couple of years earlier she had learned the craft from cousins who were leather goods artisans within the Tuscan city. “We're about to have fun our centennial and so it’s inevitable to reflect on what’s been done, and likewise by way of transparency, which I believe goes to be...
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27 Mar

EXCLUSIVE: Julien Dossena Is Embracing ‘Freedom’ at Jean Paul Gaultier

“A succession of wows, constant astonishment” is how Julien Dossena described the hours spent trawling through the Jean Paul Gaultier archive in preparation for his role as guest couturier at the home next July. “It brought back memories, it brought back sensations,” said the designer, who first learned in regards to the “enfant terrible” of Paris fashion as a toddler growing up in Brittany, having stumbled across a television program about Gauliter. “When you're touching all those pieces, you'll be able to try to grasp the considering that allowed him to reach at that exact reference, mixed with one other reference that makes it unique and at the identical time super French, mixed with that cool, Nineteen Nineties grunge feeling — yet...
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16 Jan

Campbell Addy On Feeling Seen, Representation, and Freedom Of

British-Ghanaian photographer Campbell Addy is amongst a recent class of Black image-makers redefining image-making. Centering Black subjects, creating truly diverse sets, interjecting their stories into the cannon, and demanding to be seen. Over the span of his six-year skilled photography profession, he’s shot the likes of fashion royalty Naomi Campbell, Debra Shaw, and Adut Akech, popular culture icons like Tyler the Creator and Beyoncé, and countless magazine covers, fashion editorials, and campaigns. His work speaks for itself. It’s daring, transcendent, and incredibly intimate. “People have auras, colours, and energies and I try to choose up on that—to see them,” Addy tells ESSENCE. This intimate visibility is the topic of Addy’s forthcoming (it’s already available to UK readers, set to release...
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26 Aug

Dua Lipa Sings George Michael’s ‘Freedom’ for brand new

Libre is about to get more intense. The hit fragrance from YSL Beauté is launching its fourth iteration of the scent, with a “le parfum” level that amps up the facility. Dua Lipa returns because the face of the fragrance for the brand new campaign, with stills shot by photographer Tyler Mitchell and a brief film from Grammy-winning music video director Jenn Nkiru. Lipa takes on the anthemic George Michael song “Freedom,” updated for the TikTok generation. Selecting the name “Libre,” which suggests “free” in French, may need been a stroke of luck when it was chosen in 2019. “We worked on this a couple of years ago, and once you see the best way the world goes today freedom has never been...
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