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L'OFFICIEL USA

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ANA DE ARMAS Volume 5, Number 29 | lofficielusa.com | L’OFFICIEL USA | 9 W 57th St New York, NY 10019 ■
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CHAIRMAN Dr. Calvin Choi CO CHAIRMAN Chris Brown CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Xavier Zee CHIEF CONTENT OFFICER Giampietro Baudo CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Benjamin Eymère CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER Anthony Cenname DEPUTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Maria Cecilia Andr
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Transatlantic LUXURY
Luxury brand Mark Cross has a long and winding American-French history. Founded in Boston in 1845 by Henry W. Cross and named after his only son, the company began its life as a luxury leather-goods outfitter for the equestrian set. It was acquired i
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On The SQUARE
Nestled in the middle of the ever-hip Lower East Side enclave known as Dimes Square, a new bar is blending equal parts Parisian cocktail café with effortlessly cool twentysomethings and just the right amount of New York attitude. Le Dive is exactly w
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Beauty RULES
While trends move at lightning fast speeds and the TikTok generation causes makeup products to go viral in a flash, Peter Philips’ approach to beauty is rooted in timelessness. It’s apparent in his work on the Dior runways, where the Creative and Ima
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Locked In
With its latest collection, Tiffany Lock, Tiffany & Co. features 18-karat yellow, rose, and white gold bracelets, and takes design cues from the brand’s functional padlocks of the early 20th century. In the 1950s and ‘60s, Tiffany’s once-utilitarian
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Art OUTSIDER
Amanda Wall knows what you’re thinking. She’d think it, too, were the shoe on the other foot. “I have an art career because of Instagram; I can admit that’s why people saw my paintings for the first time,” says a monotone Wall, cracking into a La Cro
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BEAD Theory
Since the aughts, Van Cleef & Arpels’ Perlée collection has riffed on the maison’s long history of using golden beads in its designs. Beginning in the 1920s, gold beads were used as borders around stones, before gradually increasing in size and becom
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Inside STORY
Architect and interior designer Charles Zana inherited a passion for building from his father, who was a real estate developer. But from a very young age, Zana was interested primarily in art. This can also be attributed to his father, who was fond o
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ANA Becomes Her
Los Angeles. Valentine’s Day, 2018. A Marilyn Monroe lookalike is cruising around Hollywood in her car. Could it be a celebrity impersonator en route to deliver an awkward in-person candygram? Perhaps. The less obvious guess would be Ana de Armas, in
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OPEN Door
Nestled in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district, the Lutetia Paris has long been a refuge for the city’s famous figures. Counting Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Serge Gainsbourg, Miles Davis, and Sonia Rykiel among its guests, the property is one of th
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French SPIRIT
What does it mean to be French? Everyone will have their own opinion, but, historically, certain ideas and images, places, and people, have had a profound influence on the sense of national identity. Among these are the city of Paris and the idea of
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EYES wide OPEN
Thank Gene Kelly for the cliché of an American in Paris. The moniker was also a 1951 movie, inspired by the music of George Gershwin, in which Kelly plays a WWII vet pursuing his craft as a starving artist who unknowingly falls in love with the girlf
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Fashion INCUBATOR
After two years of work, a former fire station in Paris’ 10th Arrondissement has reopened as sustainable fashion accelerator and community space La Caserne. For the next three years, 40 ready-to-wear and accessory brands will be in residence, includi
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PLAT du JOUR
For centuries, Paris’s highest and most purely “French” culinary scene has been defined by haute cuisine, with a very specific kind of ingredients, tone, and approach–and reserved solely for those who could afford the elite pricing. “Over 20 years ag
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L'O Dossier
L’OFFICIEL: How is your work emblematic of our time? ALEXANDRE MATTIUSSI: Each era has a distinct style; as such, the AMI silhouettes—pragmatic but made of high-quality materials—fit perfectly into ours. I also create my collections according to the
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L'lookback
The French girl saunters cooly down the streets of Paris in Yves Saint Laurent’s structured Le Smoking jacket, cigarette aptly in hand. The iconic take on menswear for women first entered the world of fashion in 1966, when Saint Laurent pushed the bo

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