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27 Dec

The photographer finding strength in being an ‘unlikeable’ woman

Millicent Hailes is an unlikeable woman. “I don’t quite fit into small, quiet, sometimes invisible spaces anymore. I'm going beyond where a likeable woman should go,” she says. A creative director based between LA and London, Hailes has spent the last decade cleaving at the perimeters of up to date womanhood – borders that, she believes, are less permeable than culture might let on. Since graduating from LCF in 2012, Hailes has turned her hand to photography and filmmaking, collaborating with a few of pop’s most recognisable protagonists – Billie Eilish, Dorian Electra, Migos, and Young Thug – while her personal work supplants staid notions of desire and acceptability via strip clubs and feminine bodybuilders.  Last yr, Hailes funnelled these ideas...
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21 Dec

Wish to see your orgasm? Measure its strength? Try

Co-founder and engineer at sex tech company Lioness, Anna Lee is making it possible to measure your pleasure Someday, a long-time user of the Lioness vibrator contacted the corporate to ask in the event that they could diagnose her broken vibrator. Previously, the device had recorded the info from her orgasms as a ‘volcano’ pattern (more on that later), but now her sessions were showing up flat on the graph. “We checked the firmware, the hardware, the software, and we couldn’t find anything incorrect with it,” says Anna Lee, co-founder and head of engineering at Lioness. “So we asked, did something occur on the day when the info really starts flatlining, and he...
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20 Oct

Hermès Sales Jump 24.3% in Q3 on Strength of

PARIS — There have been no hurdles for Hermès International because it continued its winning sales streak within the third quarter. Revenues were up 3.1 billion euros, boosted by Asia and the U.S., with currency fluctuations working in its favor. Sales were up 24.3 percent within the third quarter. That handily beat analyst predictions, with a consensus estimate of 15.3 percent growth at constant exchange, and forecast sales within the 2.9 billion euro ballpark. “The strong performance within the third quarter reflects the desirability of our collections all all over the world and the relevance of our values. We move forward with confidence and caution while continuing to bolster our integrated model, rooted in France and committed to job creation,” said chief...
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21 Sep

Jessica Alba on Fueling Your Inner Fire, and Femininity

Actress-turned-entrepreneur Jessica Alba founded her clean lifestyle and wonder brand, The Honest Company, in 2012. In 2021, the corporate went public, making it certainly one of only seven female-led IPOs on the U.S. stock market that yr.  Since founding Honest, Alba has gleaned much about navigating the business world, and much more about herself — each as an entrepreneur, and a human being, Alba told Jenny B. Tremendous, WWD’s executive editor, beauty, on the Women in Power conference hosted by WWD, Beauty Inc and Footwear News in September. “I’m at all times evolving, changing and learning,” Alba said. “[Honest] is simply 10 or 11 years old; if you've kids, consider a 10-year-old kid — they don’t know anything. So, in the event you...
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