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...The plaster panelling in the salon, for example, is a trompe-l’oeil parchment, hand-patinated by a young Belgian artisan, Mathilde Van der Schueren....
...Inside, everything is painted in what I can only describe as the colour of Yves Saint Laurent’s Opium perfume....
...This is another painted room, with trompe l’oeil decoration by Fernand Renard....
...Within five years, CeraVe sales grew tenfold to exceed €1bn, joining the ranks of the group’s 11 so-called “billionaire brands” that include Lancôme, Garnier and Yves Saint Laurent....
...Despite the challenging environment, Chinese consumers drove growth in the company’s luxury segment — which includes high end names such as Yves Saint Laurent and Helena Rubinstein — particularly in premium...
..., while YSL cosmetic products are produced by L’Oréal....
...With the area’s good connections — Gare du Nord, Gare de L’Est and République lie on several Metro lines — it also appeals to her friends....
...Finally, the Salle de l’Horloge returns to the show’s Renaissance origins with the Capodimonte’s choicest drawings, led by two life-size charcoal and black-chalk cartoons....
...“You can’t be nude [in public], but you can wear costumes with trompe l’oeil body parts,” she says. “Absurd! Here, I’ll show you.”...
...Jones tossed those out alongside references to Yves Saint Laurent’s time as Dior’s dauphin in the late 1950s....
...Also pushing boundaries is Guerlain, which has collaborated with the Yves Klein Archives to create a 110th anniversary edition of its L’Heure Bleue perfume (€15,000)....
...Christie’s has secured Yves Klein’s three-metre-wide “Anthropométrie de l’époque bleue, (ANT 124)” (1960), which it will offer for about £24mn on June 28....
...Chef Yves Camdeborde, praised for having initiated bistronomy (the casual fine-dining movement), originally designed this place as a satellite for his brasserie Le Comptoir next door....
...Another is Yves Klein blue with yellow ripples. He stuffs his hand into a box and unwraps a large Santoku blade, and begins the assembly....
...In 2013 I was assured by a Paris-based wine lover that I absolutely had to taste the wines of Jean-Yves Bizot in Vosne-Romanée....
...Time passes, unhappiness, illness, follow, “but one look at Blanche’s work, and Proust could recapture his youth” says his biographer Jean-Yves Tadié. The portrait became Proust’s Dorian Gray....
...“I remember being inspired years back by a pair of Peggy Guggenheim’s earrings, made from tiny paintings by Yves Tanguy,” Niarchos explains....
...It was “a stimulation of the brand’s imagination” and new customers such as Yves Saint Laurent and John F Kennedy soon became clients....
...Like-for-like sales at its luxury unit, which includes skincare and fragrances brands as Lancôme, Valentino and Yves St Laurent, rose 20.7 per cent in the three months to September 30 from a year ago, climbing...
...best, it’s deeper than the surface — a true connection with the ideologies and aims laid out by Breton and expounded through the works of artists such as Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miró, Francis Picabia, Yves...
...access too to the storied haute couture salons, a spacious and elegantly appointed space flanked by 10 bay windows that occupies the coveted corner position overlooking the neighbourhood dining institution, L’...
...L’Oréal plans to launch corresponding devices for foundation and skincare....
...Also in the lot is a version of Magritte’s masterpiece L’Empire des Lumières, which the Belgian artist gifted to his muse Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet....
...Le Bon Marché, 24 Rue de Sèvres, 75007 Paris And the best gift I’ve received is a silk Yves Saint Laurent brooch with a single white flower, from my partner Alexandre....
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