Paris Fashion Week Events to Mark fiftieth Anniversary of

19 Sep

PARIS — To mark the 50th anniversary of the event that WWD dubbed the “Battle of Versailles,” director Deborah Riley Draper plans a special screening during Paris Fashion Week in tandem with a design competition backed by two of the participating houses. The 1973 gala went down in history because the night that put American fashion, and African American models, on the map. It was the topic of Riley Draper’s 2012 documentary “Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution” and he or she plans to adapt it right into a feature film once the writers’ strike is lifted. To mark the anniversary, her production company Coffee Bluff Pictures has teamed with French fashion house Ungaro and the With Love Halston Foundation to sponsor a...

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7 Jul

The Mark, The Standard and Other Hotels Double Down

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The Mark, The Standard and Other Hotels Double Down

Luxury hotels are going deeper into wellness and no wonder: Wellness tourism accounts for $436 billion of the $4.4 trillion global wellness economy in keeping with the Global Wellness Institute, and is anticipated to succeed in $1.1 trillion by 2025. Whether or not it's in-room spa services, fitness programming or sleep-boosting mattresses, hotels globally are providing guests with health-centric experiences through ongoing partnerships, that are also providing additional exposure for emerging wellness concepts. Where: The Mark Hotel, Latest York City Partners: Dr. Barbara Sturm and Clean Market What: Earlier this yr, The Mark Hotel introduced its Wellness Menu, offering guests an array of fitness, beauty and wellness services. To create the menu, The Mark partnered with Dr. Barbara Sturm and Clean Market...

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29 Jun

Soft Tailoring, Genderless Silhouettes Mark Shift at Paris Men’s

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Soft Tailoring, Genderless Silhouettes Mark Shift at Paris Men’s

PARIS — With Pharrell Williams’ celebrity extravaganza at Louis Vuitton, the Fête de la Musique and the Pride parade, Paris was in feel-good mode through the recent men’s collections and the trade shows were no exception, with buyers and types largely upbeat for spring 2024. Tranoï took place on the Gaïté Lyrique, a former concert hall on the sting of the Marais that just reopened as a cultural center aiming to bridge creative industries, where the trade show has signed for 3 seasons through 2024, when pressure on venues can be particularly tight because of the Paris Olympics. With 50 exhibitors this session, the space has the opportunity of expanding further for future editions, said Tranoï chief executive officer Boris Provost. In...

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13 May

Lush CEO Mark Constantine on Birding, Conservation – WWD

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Lush CEO Mark Constantine on Birding, Conservation – WWD

For Mark Constantine, cofounder and chief executive officer of Lush, business and pleasure often go hand-in-hand. “I actually have my interests, after which I assume that I can’t bring all of them to my work,” he said. But an effort to impress his wife spun his love of botany — an inspiration for the creation of Lush — into birding. “I used to be 19, with my wife, and he or she was into birds,” Constantine said. “We were mainly keen on botany, that was my first interest — useful plants for on a regular basis life, and clearly, I used to be very keen on using botanical things in products. Birding is far harder to do than botany because birds fly...

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