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☆ Lucien Pellat-Finet, Fashion’s ‘King of Cashmere,’ Dies at 78
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Rachel Felder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Lucien Pellat-Finet, the French fashion designer whose brash, irreverent and unapologetically expensive sweaters earned him the nickname King of Cashmere, died on Feb. 26 in Trancoso, Brazil, where he had owned a home for more two decades. A niece, Camille Dauchez, said that Mr. Pellat-Finet (pronounced pell-ah fee-NAY), who had Parkinson’s disease, died in a swimming accident. Sometimes, skulls were additionally tweaked with details like a stuck-out tongue, aviator sunglasses or a tilted sailor’s hat. They came in neutral colors like black and navy as well as vivid shades of orange, pink, green and camouflage prints. Instead of a traditional sweater’s somewhat boxy cut and ribbed cuffs at the arms and waistband, a Lucien Pellat-Finet pullover was essentially a luxe T-shirt, as the makeup artist Tom Pecheux put it, in “the shape of Fruit of the Loom.”

Persons: Lucien Pellat, of Cashmere, Camille Dauchez, Pellat, pell, pullover, Tom Pecheux Locations: Trancoso, Brazil

☆ In the Beauty World, the Holidays Are Always Top of Mind
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Rachel Felder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

SustainabilityAnd this year, many beauty sets include full-size products instead of tiny miniatures. The larger sizes make sense, “especially if you want the consumer to use a product enough so that they want to purchase it again,” said Anna Keller, a senior global beauty and personal care analyst at the market research company Mintel. Selfridges’s 2023 version was released on Sept. 22; six weeks later, the store reported, it had sold 80 percent more calendars than during the same time period in 2022. Still, for some consumers, “they feel very expected at this point,” Ms. Keller said. Strategically, she added, it’s better for brands, “to think of Advent calendars as more of a mini-sampling experience,” so they can “really tie into that idea of small, highly giftable products that either you can gift yourself or share with other people.”

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☆ Yes, R. Crumb Made a Yoga Mat
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Rachel Felder | Chris Schalkx | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

During the summer of 2022, I was lucky enough to visit the home of the comics artist couple Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb in a remote town in the south of France. Kominsky-Crumb, in good health at the time of our meeting, died of pancreatic cancer less than six months later. She was, with apologies to Crumb, the more personable of the two. Which brings us to this, Crumb’s touching tribute to his wife in the form of a yoga mat, with art based on an old flier he’d made for one of Kominsky-Crumb’s classes. It’s not something Crumb himself would ever use, but it’s the contrast in their personalities that makes their work so captivating.

Persons: Aline Kominsky, Crumb, Robert Crumb, Covid, ” Crumb, grandkids, Jane Fonda, he’d Locations: France, California

☆ After a Single Glance, an Unspoken Connection Blossomed
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Rachel Felder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As they got to know one another — “It was a little awkward because I’d been looking at him for six months,” Mr. Bittar said — Mr. Bittar explained that he was a single father. Mr. Bittar, who is gregarious and vocal, grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. His father, Robert Bittar, is of Syrian descent and his late mother, Helen Bittar, was of Irish-Catholic descent; both were professors. Mr. Bittar began selling jewelry on the streets of downtown Manhattan as a scrappy teenager. “The differences are so obvious it’s kind of ridiculous,” said Todd Parmley, a software company executive who has known Mr. Bittar for more than two decades.

Persons: Miner, Charlie, ” Mr, Bittar, Mr, “, ‘, Robert Bittar, Helen Bittar, Charles Miner III, Claire Miner, ”, Todd Parmley Organizations: East, Bucknell University Locations: Bay Ridge , Brooklyn, Manhattan, Connecticut, Darien, Fairfield

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