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13 Oct

Travel Retail Resets for a ‘Recent Normal’ – WWD

Travel Retail Resets for a ‘Recent Normal’ – WWD
CANNES, France — A latest normal. That's what travel retail beauty executives are grappling with and focused on through the recent TFWA World Exhibition and Conference. The Cannes, France-based event, held from Oct. 1 to five, was fittingly dubbed “Open World” by trade show organizers. Every little thing is now open to discussion and evaluation, as travel retail resembles nothing prefer it did in 2019, pre-coronavirus pandemic. “The patron doesn't want the identical thing as before,” said Gwendoline Bommier, director merchant perfumes and cosmetics, duty free global at Lagardère Travel Retail. There's that, coupled with today’s volatile geopolitical and economic contexts making for an uneven channel recovery, amongst other aspects. “The world has shifted dramatically since 2019,” said Alexandre Callens, president global travel retail...
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14 Feb

5 models deconstruct the style industry’s definition of ‘normal’

5 models deconstruct the style industry’s definition of ‘normal’
5 models deconstruct the style industry Short film and editorial All Types of Things champions the experiences of models ranging in ages, ethnicities, body types, and identities by questioning what normal means to them Latest editorial All Form of Things is testament to the style industry’s growing understanding of what constitutes “normal”. Created by a Berlin-based team of creatives, including directors Alejandra Ruiz-Zorrilla and Rosa Lisa Di Natale, creator and stylist Ourania Marmara, photographer Michele Di Dio, producer Ronja Prinz, and casting director Julie Sinios, the project champions the experiences of eight models – of ranging ages, ethnicities, body types, and identities. Through the photo series, Marmara utilises different items of clothing to distort and enhance model’s body shapes. The resulting images query...
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3 Oct

Gilla Band: Most Normal – review

Gilla Band: Most Normal – review
Gilla Band: Most Normal – album review. (Rough Trade) Out October sixth available here DL | LP | CD   Gilla Band remain one in all the best groups to emerge out of a generation obsessive about, blessed, and possessed by, a certain raging noise. Entirely their very own to construct, entirely their very own to interrupt. By Ryan Walker. Never exactly no wave or precisely post-punk or finitely indie because there isn't any longer enough safety (has there ever been without the bags of boredom that comes nestled in such defiant taglines and terms?) in things which can be precise, or finite. Yet Gilla band brands us, break us, rebuilds us, by branching out into something else, something higher, something heavier....
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