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COMPANY PROFILE The first to use 100% pure plant extracts, Clarins is now also known for its fragrances (Mugler, Azzaro and Clarins) and makeup. It is the No. 1 skin-care company in France and Europe. Courtin-Clarins calls Clarins a ?citizen of the world? company, financing arthritis research in more than 400 laboratories around the world and investing about $2.4 million a year in environmental and educational charities...
...When Vanessa Seward was hired by the late Loris Azzaro in November 2002 to help steer his flashy Parisian couture house back into fashion, the then 32-year-old assistant had no idea that one day she would take over the whole outfit. But she did know she had an affinity for the designer's glamorous, effortless style. In the late 1970s and 1980s, when Azzaro was famous for dressing bombshells like Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch, Seward was a schoolgirl growing up just around the corner from the glitzy Azzaro boutique on Paris's Faubourg St.-Honor?. "In fact...
What makes a great Oscar frock? A good backstory helps. DIANE LANE'S Loris Azzaro gown was among the last the Italian designer, who created body-clinging styles for stars like Sophia Loren in the '60s and '70s, made before he died at 70 last fall. "I liked that it was irreverent," says Lane, whose 10-year-old daughter chose the dress. "It went against the belle-of-the-ball look, that grande dame thing with the train and all the underpinnings and things." Ooh, take that, Renee Zellweger...
Model Carolyn Murphy wore a leaf-green vintage Loris Azzaro dress to this year's Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute gala, Dolce & Gabbana covered its flapper frocks in kelly-green fringe, and Roberto Cavalli accented his sport-inspired menswear collection with Astroturf shades. In Hollywood, on the heels of The Hulk comes Shrek 2, slated for release in June 2004, as well as three green pieces in the works: Neverland and Peter Pan, both adaptations of the book, and talk of a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie...
...Paco Rabanne recently created a suit of aluminum chain mail that weighs 34 Ibs. Says Francoise: "It forces me to exteriorize my sentiments, using only my voice, my eyes and my face." Translation: she can't move. Less weighty are the glittering chain tunics and boleros of Loris Azzaro, at 35 the fastest rising designer in Paris. True, the chain micro-dress he turned out for Brigitte Bardot's New Year TV special weighed eight pounds, but that did not prevent BB from wearing it several times since for dancing at New Jimmy...