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Beauty shoot with MAKE cosmetics, We See Beauty (2)

I love models. I love the way their bone structure causes light to fall differently on their face. I love they have to learn to communicate so much through their eyes, to tell the story you are trying to tell. I love how they can take on different looks and moods with just a change of styling. I love how they are aware photographically what to do with their bodies down to their toes. A model, to me, is a human canvas where we paint our stories. These are some photographs we made for MAKE cosmetics, I just love looking at her face.

 

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Beauty shoot with MAKE cosmetics, We See Beauty (8)

Beauty shoot with MAKE cosmetics, We See Beauty (6)

Beauty shoot with MAKE cosmetics, We See Beauty (5)    Beauty shoot with MAKE cosmetics, We See Beauty (9) Beauty shoot with MAKE cosmetics, We See Beauty (10)

Beauty shoot with MAKE cosmetics, We See Beauty (4)

Art Direction by Ariana Mouyiaris / Makeup by Ayami Nishimura / Hair by Naoki Komiya / Styling by Kat Typaldos

Go behind-the-scenes of the campaign shoot here, and learn how to get some gorgeous MAKE looks here and here!

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Ladies who Lunch

for a good cause

Central Park Conservancy (2)

I have never seen a fashion parade quite like this on 5th Avenue in all my years in Manhattan. Opulence, elegance, humor, chicness… anything goes when you are lunching with the world’s elite of society in Central Park’s stunning Conservancy at 105th & 5th for the 31st annual Frederick Law Olmsted Awards Luncheon.

Through the grand gates we arrived, heralded by trumpeters in the garden and champagne sparkling in flutes. Under a tent exploding in spring blossoms, we dined on mint pea soup and Maine lobster salad crafted by Abigail Kirsch. The event hosted by the Women’s Committee of Central Park Conservancy does more than just look fabulous at every age; they raise millions of dollars to ensure this park, for New Yorkers and for all those who vist from around the world, will remain beautiful and preserved for future generations to enjoy. Through robust applause, Anne S. Harrison (my new idol) announced they raised over 3 million dollars this season and furthermore accepted the largest gift to date of 100 million dollars to the Conservancy by Jenny & John Paulson.

So next time you lay on the lawn and gaze up at the trees or walk over the historic bridges in Central Park taking in this sweet escape from our concrete jungle, know that these lovely women are helping keep that possible for all of us, for all the years to come.

Special thanks to Tiffany & Co. for having me as their guest~

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Making of Palme d’Or

with Chopard

Chopard (7)

The Palme d’Or, or Golden Palm, the symbol of the Cannes Film Festival, has been given to the director of the best film every year since 1954. Chopard took over the creation of the award in 1998, after Pierre Viot, then president of the Cannes Film Festival, met Chopard’s co-president Caroline Scheufele. Dazzled and delighted by the creative energy of the company, he asked her to redesign the Palme d’Or. The award is now made in-house in their high jewelry department by the hand of one of their master craftsmen. The solid one-of-a-kind crystal is perfectly beveled along the edges in the shape of an emerald-cut diamond. The golden palm with its delicate heart shaped stem dances upward and shines like the sun.

We visited Chopard’s headquarters this past April in Geneva where they were working on this year’s award, and they took us through each step of the process: cutting the design in wax, making the form in gold, and shaping it to perfection before carefully assembling it to the crystal so it is ready to be delivered to this year’s 2013 Cannes Film Festival winner.

Chopard (2)

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Making of Palme d'Or by Chopard Cinemagraph

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We are so excited to be going to Cannes this year with Chopard and I certainly can’t wait to see where the journey ends for this precious award!

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Celebrating the Great Gatsby

Blue Book Gala

Living in New York means opening the door to the extraordinary: extraordinary buildings, extraordinary clothing, extraordinary jobs, extraordinary people… and once in a while an extraordinary party. When the champagne invite arrived in the mail to Tiffany & Co.’s Blue Book Gala, in celebration of the jazz age collection they created for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, I could have died from excitement.  With great artistic admiration for Baz (and you can guess how I feel about the Great Gatsby) we stood in a room surrounded by swinging girls in feathers, old standards dancing through the air, and sparkling diamonds that seemed to reflect every bubble of champagne.  It was a night in New York to remember, putting a big bow on the center of Manhattan…

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