Red lipstick is the symbol of glamour and chic à la Parisian. Both intense and flamboyant, lipstick brings a woman’s beauty to the next level.
Category: Beauty
The concept of beauty is also about icons. Screen or fashion icons and iconic cosmetics inspire each other. In our “Beauty: Perfumes and Cosmetics” category,...
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The Essence of YSL with le Smoking Draped Around It
The bottle is identical: chiseled and draped. Bringing to mind the sinuous alleyways of Paris, evoking the tousled sheets that still carry the faint scent of a Parisian who’s already made her escape. This perfume that fills the room with its carnal, sensuous notes is nuanced with odors of cranberry and blackberry, and tied together...
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Gisele Bündchen, the New Muse of Chanel Beiges
“With admirable art, [Pygmalion] carved of ivory pure, giving it a beauty with which no woman can be born.” Ovid illustrated already, from ancient Rome, the paradigm of the feminine beauty. He presented Galatea, a statue to the pure and natural materials, rivaling the trappings of divine Venus. Ivory, an opine material between white and...
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Chanel’s Latest Volume
After its emblematic Inimitable and Sublime, Chanel is completing its line of iconic mascaras with a new volume-enhancing creation. This never-before-seen brush is simply dubbed “Volume”, and it’s making quite a name for itself with its perfect simplicity. Its “snowflake” brush allows for the superposition and reversal of long and short bristles for luscious, colorful...
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Opium by Yves Saint Laurent
With this scandalous creation, Saint Laurent offered the promise of many a sensual, seductive moment wrapped up in heavy layers of mystery that, like opium, promised to open the door to a forbidden universe where a torpid mind would at last let the senses take over. This spiced nectar from the Far East was as potent...
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Shalimar de Guerlain: A Perfume Legend
This perfume, created in 1925 by Jacques Guerlain, is the product of pure chance. Indeed, it is said that this legend was born by adding a dose of vanilla to a bottle of his famous perfume Jicky. A perfume inspired by a love story, that of Shah Jahan, emperor of the Orient, who imagined a...
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Prada Candy L’Eau by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
“Je m’appelle Candy”. Next to her, two men try to steal the spotlight. The mischief in the air is as electrifying as the scent that is riling these two gents up: Candy l’Eau, the new Prada perfume. Miuccia Prada has called on three talents from the cinema world: Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, for the...
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Exhibition: N°5 Culture Chanel at the Palais de Tokyo
5: a fabulous, universal number for a “female perfume with a female odor”, ordered from Ernest Beaux by Gabrielle Chanel in 1921. This fragrance would almost instantly become iconic, with a unique and timeless shadow over all in its wake. “I am launching my collection on May 5th, the fifth month of the year, let’s...
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Holiday Nail Polish
The magic of the holidays is now raining down on your nails in sparkles. Let yourself be swept away by these nail polishes. Classic in black or more eccentric in snow or peridot, few will be able to resist their bewitching charm.
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2012 Flashback: The New Nude by Dior
Grace, natural beauty: both of them are elements that loath pretenses. Dior has been integrating them into its work since 2005. The makeup line Diorskin Nude is able to draw up a perfect skin tone, without flaws or even color for that matter. Dior gives the illusion of a naked skin, naturally pink, peachy, or...