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5 Feb

In pictures: Charlie Le Mindu reinvents couture with hair

In pictures: Charlie Le Mindu reinvents couture with hair
Charlie Le Mindu, SS26 CoutureGallery / 27 images It’s the last day of couture week in Paris, an hour before Charlie Le Mindu’s first fashion show in a decade, in the edgy, far-flung Oberkampf neighbourhood. The backstage is buzzing, and there is hair on every surface. It hangs from clothing racks, it’s on the bodies of the models, it sits on tables and it’s pinned to the walls. It’s being clipped, snipped, ironed and tweaked for Le Mindu’s first-ever haute couture show. A decade ago, Le Mindu was a fixture at London Fashion Week for his hair-raising fashion shows. He then changed his career course to focus on costumes for opera and ballet, creating work for a few select clients like Doja...
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2 Feb

Frédéric Malle Reinvents Five Beloved Estée Lauder Fragrances for

Frédéric Malle Reinvents Five Beloved Estée Lauder Fragrances for
The 12 months is 1953. A 27-year-old Queen Elizabeth II is crowned. The Oscars are broadcast on television for the primary time. And a shower oil called Youth-Dew is dropped at market by a budding beauty entrepreneur named Estée Lauder.The remaining of the story goes somewhat something like this: While most ladies only wore perfume on special occasions, they began going through bottles and bottles of the jasmine- and patchouli-spiked bath oil because they loved its lingering scent. This sparked a shift in consumer behavior, and shortly enough, a spritz of perfume was considered a part of a lady’s on a regular basis beauty routine. Following the success of Youth-Dew (which eventually spawned a fragrance spray by the identical name),...
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