Dear Reader,
Today the Editorial Team of TextileFuture suggests three features for your reading.
The first feature is on Supermodel Stephanie Seymour on overcoming the loss of her son.
The second item is entitled “Want Big-Skirt Energy? How to Master the Statement Look”, it is on skirts as fashion item.
The third feature bears the title “ 42 Valentine’s Day Gifts That Add a Pop of Colour to Beauty and Wellness Routines”. Valentine’s Day is pretty soon, so get ready for the right gift.
All the three items are well written and were firstly published in the Wall Street Magazine.
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Here starts the first feature:
By guest author Derek Blasberg from the Wall Street Journal.
For her first photo shoot and interview since her son Harry’s death, Seymour opens up about her family’s tragedy and her four-decade career.
For more than 40 years, Stephanie Seymour has relished being in front of a camera. She’s one of the inaugural ’90s-era supers, one of the rare models who appeared on both haute couture runways and Playboy covers, blazing a trail for others. “The original baby woman” is how fellow supermodel Naomi Campbell refers to Seymour, describing her ability to be both naive and sensual, an all-American pinup and a high-fashion muse. Having worked with the biggest names in photography, including Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts and Peter Lindbergh, Seymour has built her career by happily submitting to the gods of the photo shoot.
Until this one.
“It was almost a year in the making, this shoot,” Seymour says two weeks after the images were taken for WSJ. Her speech is fragile, and she’s wearing a white crochet dress, her silky brunette locks pulled back with a white bow. The reason for her hesitation to be in front of the camera again? In January 2021, her 24-year-old son, Harry Brant, a model and beloved fashion-industry habitué, died of an accidental prescription drug overdose in New York City. Suddenly the flashbulbs stopped.
Seymour, 54, married paper-mill magnate and art collector Peter Brant in 1995. With his first wife, Sandra Brant, with whom he acquired Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine in 1989, Brant had five children. Seymour had one son, Dylan, from her first marriage to Tommy Andrews. Together, Seymour and Brant had three more children: Peter Jr., Harry and Lily. One of the blended family’s homes is a sprawling estate in Greenwich, Connecticut, which includes Jeff Koons’s Puppy sculpture from 1992 (a 40-foot, flower-covered West Highland terrier that sits at attention on their lawn), with the Brant Foundation’s art museum and a polo field nearby.
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For as far back as Seymour can remember, style was a love language for her two youngest sons, Petey, as he became known as a little boy, and Harry. “It was the cutest thing when they were in elementary school,” she says, telling a story about how Harry liked to volunteer to lay out outfits for her to wear to parent-teacher conferences. “I would say, ‘OK, you can choose my outfit,’ and then he would go through everything, the vintage, the everything, lay it all on the floor.” Once, he picked out a baby-blue vintage Christian Dior dress and matching baby-blue Manolo Blahnik pumps. “I’d say, ‘Harry, I can’t wear a vintage couture dress to a parent-teacher conference,’ ” Seymour recalls, “and he’d say, ‘Why not?’ ”
When they were tweens, the Brant brothers became fashion and society darlings for their detailed knowledge of fine art, haute couture and fine jewelry. With industry icons like Azzedine Alaïa and Campbell as family friends, how could they not? In a 2012 article called “Little Lord Flauntleroys,” Vanity Fair declared: “Peter and Harry Brant have emerged as the dandy teenage boulevardiers of New York society.” In 2014, Seymour was photographed for Harper’s Bazaar with the two of them dressing her up like a life-size Barbie doll, lacing up a pair of over-the-knee Tom Ford boots and helping zip her into an Anthony Vaccarello cocktail dress.
“I remember when he was 12, I’d take him to meetings and grown adults could not believe his mind and maturity,” Campbell says of Harry. “Steven Meisel loved him. Pat [McGrath] loved him. Everyone could see how special he was.”
Seymour took her boys shopping—a lot—and she remembers a specific Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane suit that Harry just had to have. “It’s a suit that I keep hanging in my dressing room, which is this big room where I keep all my stuff. I do my makeup there. I live in that room,” she says. “I looked at that suit one night and I said, ‘I’m going to put it on.’ It fit me.”
Her agents, collaborators and friends encouraged her to get back to work as a form of therapy after Harry’s death. It was Seymour’s idea to wear Harry’s suit for this shoot and to have her son’s name painted on her bare back. “If I think that Harry would love something, I do it, and it does help me with my grief,” she says.
Seymour with her husband, Peter Brant, and their children, including, from left, Peter Jr., Harry, Lily and Dylan, in 2013. Photo: Courtesy of Laura Wilson
She continues to find herself mourning in Harry’s closet. “It still feels so good to put his clothes on,” Seymour says. “I packed up these huge trunks with all his things, and I have this idea that I want to keep photographing his clothes because I think he would love it.” The brothers often socialized with top models who could have been younger versions of their mother. “He’s got this whole flock of women that would love to wear his clothes and be photographed,” she says. “That’s something I’m going to enjoy doing.”
Seymour says she was born to be in front of a camera. “I wanted to be a model since I was probably 5 years old,” says Seymour, who was raised in Poway, California. In old family photo albums, she is already practicing. “All the pictures [of me] growing up that my mom took, I’m posing in every one,” she says. “Now that I’m older, I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ I’m making the same body movements and expressions.”
In 1983, when she was 14, Seymour saw an ad in Mademoiselle for Elite Models’ “Look of the Year” contest, ended up one of the top finalists and soon signed with Elite. (“I did start working very young,” says Seymour, who has been repped by IMG since 1994.) “We met in London on a Warehouse [shoot] with Christy [Turlington], and we’ve been glued together since that day in the summer of 1986,” says Campbell, who was the maid of honour at Seymour and Brant’s wedding and is godmother to all of her children with Brant. “She’s been the same for all the decades that I’ve known her. She’s smart, and when she’s passionate, she shows up.”
“Remember that you can be anyone you want to be in a photograph, and take advantage of that,” says Seymour of her advice for aspiring models. Dolce & Gabbana coat, USD 11,100, dress, USD 2445, gloves, USD 645, and shoes, USD 795, select Dolce & Gabbana boutiques, Tiffany & Co. necklace, USD 10500, select Tiffany & Co. locations, Alaïa tights, price upon request, similar styles at Maison-Alaia.com.
Seymour modeled in many of Herb Ritts’s most iconic images taken at golden hour, the warm fleeting moments of a California sunset. The photographer died in 2002. “Herb and I were very, very close at a young age. I didn’t know very much about modeling then, but I was extremely aware of my body,” she says. “No one had ever been interested in photographing my face. But Herb taught me a lot. He was a wonderful person. It was really hard for me when he passed away.”
With Avedon, she says she felt as though she had enrolled in modeling graduate school. “Because of the age I was when I met him, I was ready to learn and go to another level,” says Seymour, who was in her 20s when they began working together. Her fondest memories are when he’d sit with her while she did hair and makeup and help get her in character for the day. “I was nervous every single day I worked with Dick,” she says. “It was about creating a character so he could get what he wanted. I was relieved for this short period of time I didn’t have to be myself, and that made it so much easier. I couldn’t do those things, but this other girl could.”
“I wanted to be a model since I was probably 5 years old,” says Seymour.
In one of her favourite collaborations with Avedon, she’s visibly pregnant (with Petey) and wearing a clingy, sheer dress, with her left arm raised like a dancer’s. “His specialty was movement and portraiture,” she says of the late photographer. When asked about advice to give anyone who wants to be a model, she conjures lessons from working with him: “Learn to use your hands and arms. Even the smallest of gestures make a big impact. Study Avedon to master movement, and learn from the great fashion icons of the past. Remember that you can be anyone you want to be in a photograph, and take advantage of that.”
When Seymour started dating Brant, an accomplished art collector, he changed the way she looked at her industry. She says she was insecure about her knowledge of modeling until Brant encouraged her to research its history. Who were the Basquiats and the Warhols of her world? “That really altered my mind,” she says. “That’s when I started collecting vintage couture.”
Seymour in her son Harry’s Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane suit. “It still feels so good to put his clothes on,” says Seymour.
At the house in Connecticut, Seymour has a special closet with museum-quality storage. “I started collecting when it wasn’t worth very much, so it’s huge,” she says of the collection. One of her favorite pieces is a Christian Dior dress from the 1950s, which she wore to a Met Gala, honoring the house of Dior, in 1996. “I was the only person wearing a real Dior dress,” she says with a smile.
Does she have a favorite design from her collection? “I have too many dresses to even answer this question,” she says. But, in an emergency, which one would she take? “Whatever I could get my hands on,” she says. “I wouldn’t be too choosy, because my collection is really great.”
One of the designers well represented in Seymour’s collection is Alaïa, whom she met as a young model and with whom she instantly formed an intimate rapport. (He died in 2017.) Like Campbell, she calls him Papa. Her sons would often stay with him when they’d go to Paris. Alaïa’s English was limited, and Seymour spoke to him in broken French. “He would correct me all the time,” she says, “but it’s amazing how he was able to communicate with people.”
As she speaks of Alaïa, who designed Seymour’s wedding dress, a mischievous, childlike smile appears. “Should I say what he did to me at my wedding?” she asks. “I can do that now.” The day before her wedding outside of Paris in 1995, Seymour was booked to model in Chanel’s couture show, designed by the late Karl Lagerfeld. “That’s a show where you’re fitted in couture. Every little part of that dress is stitched on your body,” she says. “I went to Alaïa’s studio, and I told him I can’t come during the day tomorrow [for the final wedding dress fitting]. And he just looked at me and said, ‘I don’t know if your dress will be ready’ in French. And I was like, ‘Really?’ ”
She realized Alaïa wanted her to cancel Lagerfeld. “He didn’t make me [cancel]; he didn’t have to say anything to me. I knew what he wanted,” she says. “It’s about your allegiance to someone you love.”
No longer booked with Lagerfeld, she showed up to Alaïa’s studio early to finish her dress. “He kept me on ice until about, I don’t know, 11 at night. And then he was ready to start working. But it was the greatest experience, as far as a fashion experience, I’ve had in my entire life. That will never change.”
Alaïa not only finished the wedding dress but also, with the help of event planner Robert Isabell, turned the basement of his Paris atelier into a discotheque for the party afterward, and Otis Day & the Knights performed. The photographer Patrick Demarchelier offered to take pictures but had too much fun, so he had only a few shots of guest and supermodel Kate Moss from early in the evening to give to the bride and groom afterward.
This past December, Seymour and her brood spent their second holiday season without Harry. “I try to just be present. For me with holidays, and I’m sure a lot of other people can relate, it’s difficult now because I’m always thinking of what’s missing,” she says. “But I’m really lucky. [We] have a lot of grandchildren. And there’s nothing that’s helped me get through all of this more than my grandchildren. And a lot of people say, ‘Well, they’re not your grandchildren. They’re Peter’s grandchildren.’ But they don’t feel that way, and neither do I. Nothing has given me more comfort than those kids calling me Grandma Stephanie.”
Seymour’s eldest son, Dylan, had his first son in October. “He had a little boy,” Seymour says. “And they named him Harry.”
This is the start of the second item:
Want Big-Skirt Energy? How to Master the Statement Look
Standout skirts dominated the resort and spring 2023 collections. Here, five big-deal styles to add swagger to your wardrobe.
By Fiorella Valdesolo from the Wall Street Magazine.
Feb. 3, 2023
LET’S REVISIT the opening sequence of the original “Sex and the City.” As you might recall, columnist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) is striding down a Manhattan sidewalk in a tank top and tulle skirt when a fashion disaster strikes: A bus emblazoned with her famous face rolls through a puddle and splashes her. A drenching is always amusing, but it’s her tutu that makes that scene indelible. The show’s costume designer, Patricia Field, was insistent on the garment, saying in an interview, “Whatever she’s wearing has to be completely original to last in time.”
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With the economy uncertain, we need clothing that can go the distance. If styled deftly, a skirt with BSE can do just that, said Roopal Patel, Saks Fifth Avenue’s fashion director. Paired with a structured blazer or biker jacket, she said, it can report to work. Conversely, a tank or white T-shirt relaxes it. Brooklyn editorial director Chloe King, 35, offsets the volume of her fulsome midi with a tidy knit polo and flat platform shoe. “[That] grounds the feminine shape in a quirky, less precious way,” she said.
Sherri McMullen, founder of an eponymous boutique in Oakland, Calif., suggests proportion plays. Two combos she envisions: “a pleated skirt over a trouser with a tailored blazer…or a maxi skirt with a simple knit and an oversize trench.”
But for the skirt itself to radiate truly swaggering BSE, it must be a great talking point, said Ms. Patel. Fulfilling Ms. Field’s master plan, we’re still referencing Ms. Bradshaw’s tutu. Below, five skirts you’ll still be thinking about in 2033.
With the economy uncertain, we need clothing that can go the distance. If styled deftly, a skirt with BSE can do just that, said Roopal Patel, Saks Fifth Avenue’s fashion director. Paired with a structured blazer or biker jacket, she said, it can report to work. Conversely, a tank or white T-shirt relaxes it. Brooklyn editorial director Chloe King, 35, offsets the volume of her fulsome midi with a tidy knit polo and flat platform shoe. “[That] grounds the feminine shape in a quirky, less precious way,” she said.
Sherri McMullen, founder of an eponymous boutique in Oakland, Calif., suggests proportion plays. Two combos she envisions: “a pleated skirt over a trouser with a tailored blazer…or a maxi skirt with a simple knit and an oversize trench.”
But for the skirt itself to radiate truly swaggering BSE, it must be a great talking point, said Ms. Patel. Fulfilling Ms. Field’s master plan, we’re still referencing Ms. Bradshaw’s tutu. Below, five skirts you’ll still be thinking about in 2033.
The Wall Street Journal is not compensated by retailers listed in its articles as outlets for products. Listed retailers frequently are not the sole retail outlets.
Here is the beginning of the third feature:
42 Valentine’s Day Gifts That Add a Pop of Colour to Beauty and Wellness Routines
This year, the love language we’re speaking is colour.
By Fiorella Valdesolo from the Wall Street Magazine.
Feb. 2, 2023
There’s nothing wrong with Valentine standbys like flowers or chocolate—opt for an arrangement with staying power like the paper creations conjured by Livia Cetti of the Green Vase (we’re partial to the jet-black hollyhock) or a box of single-origin truffles courtesy of San Francisco’s Dandelion Chocolate. But to fulfill Valentine’s expectations in a less expected way, we suggest going the beauty and wellness route, particularly with products that span the color spectrum (yes, the classic reds and pinks but also canary yellow and rich amethyst and pea green too). From indulgent face creams to artful makeup palettes to a Pilates machine that tucks away, here’s a list of products that are sure to become objects of affection. There’s nothing wrong with Valentine standbys like flowers or chocolate—opt for an arrangement with staying power like the paper creations conjured by Livia Cetti of the Green Vase (we’re partial to the jet-black hollyhock) or a box of single-origin truffles courtesy of San Francisco’s Dandelion Chocolate. But to fulfill Valentine’s expectations in a less expected way, we suggest going the beauty and wellness route, particularly with products that span the color spectrum (yes, the classic reds and pinks but also canary yellow and rich amethyst and pea green too). From indulgent face creams to artful makeup palettes to a Pilates machine that tucks away, here’s a list of products that are sure to become objects of affection.
Photo: COURTESY OF ISAMAYA; Courtesy of Parfums Christian Dior; Courtesy of Bakeup by Jo Baker
Painter’s Palettes…for the Face
Thanks to a bounty of TikTok and YouTube tutorials, creative experimentation with makeup is trending. So go for a painterly palette—Dior’s is a leopard-encased nod to the brand’s muse Mitzah Bricard, the ’50s-era fashion icon known for her love of all things leopard; makeup artist Jo Baker’s credit card–size versions for her new line, Bakeup, are slim but pack serious pigment payoff; and the colors in Isamaya’s rhinestone-studded, punk-rock Wild Star compact live up to its moniker.
Isamaya Wild Star Pressed Pigment Palette, USD 105; Diorshow 10 Couleurs Mitzah Limited Edition Eyeshadow Palette, USD 130; Bakeup by Jo Baker Micro Palm Palettes, from USD 24
Photo: Courtesy of Augustinus Bader; Courtesy of La Prairie
Another Kind of Little Blue Box
We know and appreciate Tiffany blue, but, for a different kind of radiance, consider two of beauty’s most covetable blue containers: Augustinus Bader and La Prairie. Augustinus Bader’s first foray into masks is, unsurprisingly, decadent—for maximum hydrating impact, slather on the formula overnight—while La Prairie’s Skin Caviar Luxe Cream’s lifting and firming effects have made it a skin-care icon.
Augustinus Bader The Face Cream Mask, USD 215, and La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe Cream, USD 555
Photo: Courtesy of La Double J; Courtesy of Gucci; Courtesy of Lele Sadoughi
Keep a Cooler Head
A show-stopping headband is a timeless accessory that also camouflages bedhead on those in-between blowout days. La Double J and Gucci’s prints were plucked from their covetable archives, while Lele Sadoughi’s spangled versions are being released alongside matching wallpaper (USD 60 per roll, by Wallpops), for those who want their home to mirror their hairdo.
La Double J Pinup Headband, USD 100; Gucci Flora Print Silk Headband, USD 545; Lele Sadoughi Bessette Headband, USD 145
Photo: epi.logic; santa maria novella
Everything’s Coming Up Roses
Made with rosehip seed oil, True Calm is a gentle face wash by Chaneve Jeanniton, a New York–based oculofacial plastic surgeon known for her eye aesthetic work; her skin-care line, epi.logic, has earned a following for its effective, pared-down formulas and chic packaging. Santa Maria Novella’s Acqua di Rose Toner, a refreshing dose of damask roses, has been calming complexions since it was first developed in 1381. It’s available (along with the brand’s beloved Melograno soap) as part of Moda Operandi’s new beauty curation.
epi.logic True Calm Rosehip Gel Cleanser, USD 55; Santa Maria Novella Acqua di Rose Toner, USD 35
Photo: courtesy of Hermès
The Lipstick to Keep Flashing
The heritage brand responsible for the ultimate status bag, Hermès is also behind a high-status lipstick collection. This trio of limited-edition hues—a pink flashed with orange, a coppery brown and a rosy beige—comes in cheery, cabana-stripe packaging.
Colour 7 Rouge Hermès Limited-Edition Lipsticks, USD 78 each
A Hair-Care Routine Upgrade
A hairdryer for Valentine’s? When it does all this, yes. The first heat tool from Tracee Ellis Ross’s curl-focused Pattern line has four attachments—a diffuser, a wide-tooth comb for detangling, a heavyweight brush and a concentrator nozzle for smoothing—plus several customised airflow and heat settings for a quick dry that preserves natural curl patterns.
Pattern Beauty by Tracee Ellis Ross Blow Dryer, USD 189
Photo: Courtesy of chanel; Courtesy of Tom Ford; Courtesy of tatcha; Courtesy of Westman Atelier
Red, Redder, Reddest
The emblematic Valentine’s Day color has representation aplenty in the beauty aisle. These four picks—a Chanel lipstick; Tom Ford’s jasmine sambac and morello cherry–laced fragrance; Tatcha’s limited-edition plumping facial essence in scarlet packaging; Westman Atelier’s cylindrical box of makeup brushes hand-crafted in Japan—are chic expressions of the classic hue.
Colour 10 Chanel Rouge Allure Velvet Luminous Matte Lip Colour in Paradoxale, USD 45; Tom Ford Electric Cherry Eau de Parfum, from USD 240; Tatcha Limited Edition The Essence, USD 110; Westman Atelier The Brush Collection, USD 575
Photo: Courtesy of MACHETE; Balmain Hair Couture
A Greener Take on Hairdressing
Matching malachite hair tools have a harmonious effect on the vanity. Machete’s combs and brush in fine Italian acetate have an instant heirloom quality. To hold freshly coiffed hair in place, turn to Balmain’s elegant gold-plated emerald clips.
Machete Everyday Detangling Hair Brush in Malachite, USD 140, No. 2 Comb in Malachite, USD 42, No. 3 Comb in Malachite, USD 35, No. 4 Comb in Malachite, USD 35; Balmain Hair Couture Limited Edition Barrette pour Cheveux, USD 510, and Bow, USD 245
Photo: Courtesy of Ourside; D.S. & Durga; Courtesy of Aedes de Venustas; Courtesy of Régime des Fleurs
Wearable Bouquets and Bonbons
Go with treats and flowers, but in a fragrant form: scents. David Seth Moltz, perfumer and co-founder (with his wife, Kavi Ahuja Moltz) of D.S. & Durga, says the story behind the brand’s latest fragrance is simple; it’s just pistachio—an olfactory version of an excellent Italian pistachio gelato with the slightest hint of vanilla, almond and cardamom. Régime des Fleurs’ Leather Petals is founder Alia Raza’s ode to New York, the osmanthus, davana, patchouli and leather blend meant to straddle the artificial and organic; think of it as an offbeat bodega bouquet. Perfumer Luca Maffei’s Amnesia Rose for Aedes de Venustas blends Moroccan rose absolute, Bulgarian rose essence, saffron, patchouli and oud for a scent that smells like a dozen roses through a veil of incense. And Moon Dust, one of three fragrances in the new Ourside line by Keta Burke-Williams, couches soft jasmine and anise in notes of vetiver and palo santo.
D.S. & Durga Pistachio, USD 280 for 100ml; Régime des Fleurs Leather Petals, USD 225; Aedes de Venustas Amnesia Rose, USD 245; Ourside Moon Dust, USD 196 for 50ml
USD photo: Courtesy of Bala; Courtesy of Frame Fitness
An Exercise in Colour
Bala’s bangle weights are available in sunny shades, like Soleil (shown), that may make those ankle lifts slightly less grueling; and, for Pilates devotees, Frame offers a streamlined reformer (slender enough to tuck out of sight in smaller quarters) that’s digitally connected with a built-in touchscreen to access an extensive, and exclusive, video library.
Bala Bangles in Soleil, USD 52; Frame Reformer, USD 4249 + USD 39 monthly video subscription
A Kaleidoscopic Cross-Body
Perhaps drinking more water, that age-old health resolution, would be easier to embrace with a significantly cooler way to carry it around? Susan Alexandra offers a rainbow-hued cross-body tote designed to hold just three basics: a water bottle, phone and wallet.
Susan Alexandra Essentials Bag, USD 298
Photo: Courtesy of Madame Gabriela/ French Farmacie
Mirror Stage
A very good excuse to put down the phone mirror in favor of an actual one: this palm-size compact in cherry-red Italian acetate. The set comes with two lip products (a scarlet-hued lipstick and a clear conditioning treatment) plus French Farmacie’s face oil serum hybrid.
Madame Gabriela x French Farmacie A French Affair Set, USD 145
Photo: Courtesy of RANAVAT; Courtesy of Herbivore; Révive; Shiseido; Tata Harper Skincare; Courtesy of Malin+Goetz
Full-Spectrum Skin Treatments
A new crop of skin treatments happen to be as colorful as they are compelling. The latest from Ayurvedic brand Ranavat, a hot-pink balm that melts into an oil on the skin, is meant to be used as a biweekly purifying treatment. Luxury skin-care brand RéVive’s mask blends glycolic, lactic and salicylic acids in a resurfacing mask. The sister product of Herbivore’s bestselling Nova serum, the Super Nova eye cream employs Vitamin C, Reishi peptide and turmeric to to brighten dark circles and depuff under eyes. The new Shiseido Bio-Performance Skin Filler Serums duo relies on MolecuShift technology for a firming effect designed to mimic injectable fillers. Tata Harper’s newest addition to her Superkind collection is the Bio-Shield Face Oil, which aims to soothe and address inflammation. And New York skin-care brand Malin+Goetz has finally ventured into retinol with its new Retinol Correcting Serum, which uses a .20% encapsulated version along with Vitamins C and E.
Ranavat L’Immortale Empress Restoring Moonseed Treatment, USD 125; RéVive Masque de Brilliance Resurfacing Multi-Acid Mask, USD 150; Herbivore Super Nova 5% Vitamin C + Caffeine Brightening Eye Cream, USD 48; Shiseido Bio-Peformance Skin Filler Serums, USD 295 for a set of 2; Tata Harper Superkind Bio-Shield Face Oil, USD 165; Malin+Goetz Retinol Correcting Serum, USD 70
Photo: Courtesy of Carthusia; Courtesy of mutha; Courtesy of Flamingo Estate
Splish Splash
For those who care in equal measure about style and substance in the products that populate their shower or bath, there are Italian apothecary brand Carthusia’s bath foam, inspired by its original eau de parfum; Flamingo Estate’s slabs of aromatic hand-poured bar soap, made using regenerative farming techniques; and a sloughing and smoothing body scrub by Mutha (purveyors of a body butter that now comes in a mini size for a perfect post-bathing add-on).
Carthusia A’mmare Bath Foam, USD 58; Flamingo Estate Garden Essentials Artisanal Bar Soaps, USD 100 for 4; Mutha The Nudist Body Scrub, USD 68
Photo: Courtesy of Tood Beauty; Courtesy of 19/99; Courtesy of Violette_FR
The Eyes Have It
Frequent mask wearing forced our attention on the eyes, and a wave of cool makeup to adorn them has helped retain that focus. The attention-grabbing color of these new additions—Tood’s electric blue mascara, 19/99’s Kelly green pencil and Violette_FR’s glimmering purple cream shadow—may look intimidating at first glance but can be highly wearable.
Colour 18 Tood Toodscara in blue mood, USD 24; 19/99 Limited Edition Precision Colour Pencil in Zold, USD 26; Violette_FR Yeux Paint Liquid Eyeshadow in Rêve de Dahlia, USD 31
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EU pledges EUR 1 million for landmark WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies https://textile-future.com/archives/104018
EU and Singapore launch Digital Partnership https://textile-future.com/archives/104169
COLLEGE MEETING: The European Commission transfers in the interests of the service a new Director-General for its Directorate-General for Research and Innovation https://textile-future.com/archives/104178
COLLEGE MEETING: The European Commission appoints a new Director-General for its Directorate-General for Budget https://textile-future.com/archives/104175
COLLEGE MEETING: The European Commission appoints a new Deputy Director-General for its Directorate-General for Human Resources and Security https://textile-future.com/archives/104181
The Green Deal EU Industrial Plan: putting Europe’s net-zero industry in the lead https://textile-future.com/archives/104194
President von der Leyen meets President Zelenskyy during the visit of the College to Kyiv https://textile-future.com/archives/104207
McKinsey: Introducing the Australian Consumer Loyalty Survey https://textile-future.com/archives/104301
Grammy Awards 2023
Beyoncé Wins Her 32nd Grammy, Making History at the Awards
McKinsey
McKinsey Monthly Highlights in February 2023 https://textile-future.com/archives/104385
McKinsey: European Transformation Summit: Fresh leadership perspectives https://textile-future.com/archives/104392
Health
CELLIANT IS CLEARED TO MARKET IN 50+ COUNTRIES; REGISTERED IN MAJORITY AS A CLASS 1 MEDICAL DEVICE https://textile-future.com/archives/104154
Health Union: the HERA laboratory network becomes operational https://textile-future.com/archives/104172
India
India Embraces Budgetary Caution – And Infrastructure https://textile-future.com/archives/104348
Partnership
Netflix, General Motors partnership https://textile-future.com/archives/104321
New Products
Karl Mayer: The symmetry makes the difference https://textile-future.com/archives/104241
Science
Swiss Empa: Financial support for Empa research project -Plant-based insulation materials as CO2 sinks? https://textile-future.com/archives/104003
Swiss Empa: Joining technology: With nanoeffects towards new joining processes https://textile-future.com/archives/104225
Switzerland
Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist: Nomination procedure launched https://textile-future.com/archives/104121
Switzerland and Japan hold talks on research and innovation https://textile-future.com/archives/104128
USA
Elliott Prepares to Nominate Slate of Directors at Salesforce https://textile-future.com/archives/104028
The College Board Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for African American Studies https://textile-future.com/archives/104198
U.S. Shoots Down Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon https://textile-future.com/archives/104374
Unemployment Falls to 3.4%, Lowest in 53 Years, Jobs Report Shows https://textile-future.com/archives/104336
WTO
DG Okonjo-Iweala welcomes Switzerland’s President Alain Berset to the WTO https://textile-future.com/archives/104010
WTO members appoint new chairs for fisheries and agriculture talks https://textile-future.com/archives/104035
WTO: Panels established to review EU complaints regarding Chinese trade measures https://textile-future.com/archives/104125
WTO Members discuss data on fishing subsidies and ocean resources for second wave negotiations https://textile-future.com/archives/104255
WTO: TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT – Members address development dimension of WTO reform agenda https://textile-future.com/archives/104326
Eleventh China Round Table marks Lao’s 10th WTO accession anniversary https://textile-future.com/archives/104332