The campaign for Comme des Garçons Zero, with creative direction by Brazilian artist Samuel de Sabóia.
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Surging demand for luxury products during the pandemic
The two reclusive brothers who own Chanel saw their net worth increase by $5 billion as the surging demand for luxury products during the pandemic boosted profits at the French fashion house.
The Wertheimer family’s Cayman Islands holding company for Chanel received two $2.5 billion dividends in 2021, according to U.K. filings—the largest annual payout the company ever recorded, Bloomberg reported.
— Read more in Meet the brothers who just pocketed $5 billion from surging demand for Chanel at Fortune (via Yahoo Finance).
Collection Noire The Emblematics
Videos for five fragrances from the Collection Noire at Serge Lutens: La Fille de Berlin, then below the jump, Fleurs d’Oranger, Ambre Sultan, Chergui and Féminité du Bois.
A variation in the analysis results
Chromatography analyses showed that out of 133 natural and synthetic ingredients tested, the technology induces a variation in the analysis results for 118 of them: 93 being difficult to quantify, 25 being difficult to identify.
In the main, according to Symrise, 40% of tested raw materials were affected by Cryptosym and 29% of them were completely “encrypted” by the technology.
— Fragrance and flavor company Symrise has developed a colorless and odorless base that blurs the results of gas chromatography, making it harder to copy a fragrance. Read more in Symrise blurs chromatography analyses to protect their fragrances at Premium Beauty News.
Italian love
A quick spot for Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Italian Love. (If you'd prefer to see some kissing, see last year's spot for Light Blue Forever; if you'd rather see David Gandy and Bianca Balti, here you go, and here's another).