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Nina Ricci Spring/Summer 2012 Campaign video

Raquel Zimmermann gives an eerie performance in this Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin video for Nina Ricci.

Bobbi Brown At Ease

It’s the antithesis of a natural woman campaign that Bobbi Brown would take on for her brand. The New York Times recently interviewed the woman who sells 21 million ‘units’ of cosmetic products each year in The Mogul Next Door.

Photograph by Andreas Laszlo Konrath.Unlike most moguls, Bobbie Brown married Steven Plofker three months after she met him in 1988 and settled in Montclair, MJ — and stayed there.  She loves New York but has also shunned much of the city’s go-go glamour-grind.

In a wonderfully humanizing interview by Joan Juliet Buck, Bobbie Brown explains the place of family and fashion in her life:

“I love New York. I don’t love that New York thing,” she says. “My husband taught me I don’t have to be part of it. I remember one time when I really had to make a decision. It was early in my career, and it was Yom Kippur, and I felt guilty doing a cover for Cosmopolitan with Francesco Scavullo on Yom Kippur. My husband and my young child were coming into the city to get me for dinner. Scavullo said, ‘Why don’t you come out to dinner with me and Jean Paul Gaultier?’ And then my husband walked in. I’ll never forget: he was wearing a blue striped shirt, vertical stripes, and Jean Paul Gaultier was wearing his blue and white striped sweater, horizontal stripes — and I stood there saying, ‘Bobbi, pick a door, because you can’t do both.’ And I picked my husband and the kid — and that was good. As happy as I was to be working with Scavullo, that was not my life.”

Read on at New York Times

DIPLOMATES @ Paris

DIPLOMATES is a design and production studio based in Paris, France specializing in production development and design of spatial narratives in various formats that are always aesthetically distinctive. Through their rich client portfolio, including projects for coveted labels including Adam Kimmel, Damir Doma, Bernard Willhelm, Pierre Hardy and Van Cleef and Arpelsamong others, the team has come to be known for its specialization in  unique environments derived from a creative process of mixing ideas, materials, sounds and any possible spatial means. The result becomes a fusion of creativeness manifesting itself into design production. Read on at Yatzer.