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It’s been all about Alessandro Michele’s eclectic exuberance over at Gucci for some seasons now, but the design house has been pipped at the post as the world’s ‘hottest’ brand. Each year, the Lyst index, together with Business of Fashion, analyses data from over 65 million consumers, five million products and 12,000 brands to work out the … Read More →
They will tell you that celebrity fragrances are over, and maybe they’re right, but only to a point. It is true, that after the celebrity fragrance boom of the mid-to-late 2000s, people have scaled back on buying fragrances with celebrity names attached to them, and started optioning to buy higher end (“higher end”) fragrances with less frequency. Buying fewer … Read More →
It’s a summer Friday morning in Manhattan, and Emmanuel Saujet has just settled into a corner table at the NoMad Hotel’s atrium restaurant. Though the Flatiron District hotel is hardly a cheap place to score breakfast (oatmeal will set you back $16 here), the NoMad has no dress code—jeans, polo shirts and hoodies predominate. Yet … Read More →
The recently concluded Lakme Fashion Week brought to the fore a new spectacle in the fashion world. Rather than keeping it strictly commercial, a few designers defied conventions by presenting admirable avant-gardism in their shows. Runways are usually flooded with tall and slim models clad in the best of couture with their high heels strutting … Read More →
Perfume is ubiquitous in Grasse, a medieval town in the south of France that produces many of the flowers used to concoct the earliest fragrances. As demonstrated by the three books below, the industry has inspired much analysis, and these writers offer readers insight into the back-room deals, ingredients and people involved. PERFUMES The A-Z … Read More →
The sheets of an unmade bed are soaked in a familiar and mildly rebarbative scent. A child at his school’s “show and tell” session informs his classmates that when you smell something, it means bits of it have gone up your nose – which is why you should never go in the bathroom straight after your … Read More →