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YSL Beauty expands rewilding initiative

French luxury cosmetics brand YSL Beauty has announced two new rewilding projects in partnership with global non-government organisation Re:Wild as part of its ongoing commitment to help nature return to its wild state. Due to climate change and extensive human utilisation of nature’s surfaces, the wild is in decline, with almost 75 percent of...

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Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris celebrates all things gold

The Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the couturier’s first collection with an exhibition highlighting his love affair with glitz and gold. The ‘Gold by Yves Saint Laurent' exhibition is open until May 14, 2022, and examines the role gold has played in the couturier’s work. It features more than forty...

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YSL Beauty launches partnership with Re:wild to restore and safeguard biodiversity

Luxury cosmetics brand YSL Beauty has revealed the launch of a global programme, in partnership with NGO Re:wild, with the goal of protecting and restoring 100,000 hectares of land by 2030. Rewild Our Earth looks to reflect the label’s commitment to making a positive impact on both the planet and people, launching alongside YSL Beauty’s...

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Global cosmetics market forecast to reach 463.5 billion dollars by 2027

The global cosmetics market was valued at 307.69 billion dollars in the year 2020 and is now forecast to grow to 463.5 billion dollars by 2027. The huge demand for cosmetics is influenced by awareness among people about the benefits of cosmetics for their skin and hair which uplifted their average expenditure on cosmetics, says a new report by...

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A dramatic look at Saint Laurent's Fall 2021 collection

The dramatic location for Saint Laurent’s Fall 2021 collection was anything but ordinary. Vast, sweeping landscapes devoid of sun and partial to elemental ruptures of water, ice, wind and sand, were the backdrop for YSL creative director Anthony Vacarello’s post-pandemic world. It could easily have been a film set with the cast of Lost, so out...

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In Pictures: Saint Laurent launches homeware in the UK

French fashion house Saint Laurent has launched its range of lifestyle products by creative director Anthony Vaccarello in the UK. In a short press release, Saint Laurent explained that the homeware collection featuring towels, dinner plates and candle holders as part of its plan to continue to expand the “universe and the DNA” of the luxury...

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Saint Laurent to skip Paris Fashion Week

French fashion house Saint Laurent has announced via its social media that it will skip Paris Fashion Week for spring/summer 2021 as its looks to “take control of its pace and reshape its schedule” in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. The statement on Instagram said that it was “conscious of the current circumstance and its waves of radical...

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Saint Laurent to open leather goods factory in Italy

Kering-owned French luxury label Saint Laurent has plans to open a new manufacturing site for handbags and wallets outside of Florence. Francesca Bellettini, president and CEO of Gucci, told reporters that Gucci would be moving 340 workers to a new 29,000-square-foot site in Scandicci in addition to hiring another 300 workers. Saint Laurent has...

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4 Biggest trends you'll see in SS20

If you haven't already figured them out, here are some big trends for the coming season. While the winter winds still blow, it wouldn't hurt to take a look into what's to come for fashion trends during Spring/Summer 2020. Taking examples from runway shows of YSL, Stella McCartney, Versace, Tom Ford, Chanel and more, here are some of the biggest...

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Saint Laurent now selling couture condoms

It is the ultimate tight-fitting -- one hopes -- outfit that no man wishing to impress can do without. French fashion house Saint Laurent is now selling luxury gilt-wrapped condoms. Having made fashion history with "le smoking" tuxedo and skin-tight dresses, it is moving into sheaths of a latex variety. Its designer Anthony Vaccarello unveiled...

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Slimane and Vaccarello: Not all designers embracing the inclusive catwalk movement

The culture war has come to the catwalk. Divisions over race, gender and the climate crisis are bubbling to the surface in a world where political debate is usually about as welcome as bingo wings. Two of Paris fashion's biggest stars, Hedi Slimane of Celine and Saint Laurent's Anthony Vaccarello, have both warned of a new "puritanism". Slimane...

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Saint Laurent SS20 runway show in Paris

Saint Laurent presented it's Spring / Summer 2020 womenswear collection this week in Paris, with the iconic Eiffel Tower as the backdrop. The collection, designed by Anthony Vaccarello, is made up of the brands signature tailored wear and sleek black looks, on a stage lit by 100 moving light fixtures. The show was concluded by iconic british...