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Bernard Dubois incorporates nightclub references into Courrèges' Paris store

Dezeen

ges ' artistic director Nicolas Di Felice asked Dubois to create an interior that blends this distinctive visual language with subtle references to nightclubs. ges store, Dubois deliberately exposed the raw concrete walls, creating a contrast with the softness of the fabric and the carpet. For the brand's flagship store, Courre?ges

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David Rockwell’s 2021 Oscars set is both “intimate and grand”

Design Week

This is the third time Rockwell Group has designed the set for the Academy Awards, with the consultancy previously leading the design in 2009 and 2010. Melbourne-based artist and illustrator Karan Singh was behind the multi-coloured Oscars graphics shown on-screen. LED screens were also placed throughout the seating area.

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How Maison Francis Kurkdjian built a brand around the Picasso of fragrance

Inside Retail

Born of a collaboration in 2009 between Marc Chaya and perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, Maison Francis Kurkdjian has become a major player in the luxe fragrance industry, and is sold across more than 700 locations worldwide. Gradually, Francis and I were more and more often thinking about creating a fragrance house together.

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From Cobblestones to Cyberspace: VMSD Celebrates Its 125th Year of Service to the Retail Industry

VMS

cities,” says Steve Kaufman, former Editor-in-Chief of VMSD from 1998 until 2009. In 1925, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover said, “The Midas of advertising has given artists freedom and independence.”. In sharp contrast to the harsh realities of the Depression, the 1930s was the most elegant period in Hollywood’s history.