How Restaurants Became an Arena for Much More Than Food
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
How Restaurants Became an Arena for Much More Than Food
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Why Actress and Entrepreneur Tracee Ellis Ross Spent 2 Years Redesigning the Hair Dryer
Tracee Ellis Ross founded her haircare brand Pattern in 2019 to create products supporting and celebrating natural hair. Writer Andrew Bevan interviews the actor and CEO about why she decided to launch Pattern, her own experiences with beauty and haircare and why she wanted to develop a new hair dryer. Bevan also dives into the Black representation in the beauty industry.
FAST COMPANY
Glossier opened a new flagship store on Spring Street in SoHo, New York. Writer Rachel Strugratz takes us on a tour of the store, and dives into the trajectory of the brand so far. Since its launch in 2014, the millennial pink beauty brand has seen its ups and downs – but received more scrutiny than most D2C brands. Almost like some were hoping for the brand to fall apart. With its new CEO and renewed approach to wholesale, Glossier might be back on top.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Writer Marissa Gluck explores the sudden popularity of Gaetano Pesce’s interior pieces as backdrops for a multitude of movies and series. Gluck dives into the renewed interest in the designer's work and Pesce’s exhibition at Frieze L.A.
Los Angeles Times
A great essay by writer Ligaya Mishan on the relationship between hosts and guests. She explores how people working at restaurants and those visiting them interact with each other – and how that interaction has changed since the pandemic. “The restaurant has become an arena for both sides, the servers and the served, each wary of the other, each suspecting themselves undervalued and taken advantage of,” Mishan writes.
T MAGAZINE
Writer Stephen Wallis visits the Upper West Side home of Interior Designer Nina Barnieh-Blair. Nina shares stories from her childhood, her approach to designing her own home and her career.