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Tory Burch Shares Her Makeup and Skin-Care Essentials
Interview by Laura Regensdorf
I get up around 6:30 or 7. I go work out sometimes, or I get right in the shower after I play with my dogs. I use Olaplex, which I really love — it has changed my feeling about shampoo. The thing I’ve used since I was little is Erno Laszlo’s Sea Mud soap, a simple black bar soap. My mom still uses it, too. I go out a lot with towel-dried hair and a rubber band. If I use a dryer, which is infrequent, I put a little Dallas volumizing spray in my hair at the roots. I love my Dyson. I like saving time, and it dries my hair extremely quickly. I have this really incredible brush by Snow Fox Skincare. It has metal spikes, which doesn’t sound very friendly, but it is.
I prefer unscented body care. Right now I have Clarins body lotion, but I also like Barbara Sturm’s. It’s that balance of being hydrating but not too oily. I don’t want to feel sticky all day. I have a natural deodorant that I love, called Corpus. And I’m pretty loyal to fragrances. I’ve been obsessed with scent for a very long time — my mom always had this great vanity of fragrances. I love our new one, Sublime. Partnering with Shiseido has been incredible; I would say we worked for two years on it. The alchemy of leather and rose and notes like osmanthus and vetiver make it addictive. It’s not feminine or masculine, which I find interesting. I don’t use a lot on my face. I’ve always loved the Guerlain orchid serum. One thing I found recently is the CosRx Snail Mucin Essence. I sometimes use a Murad matte lotion or Chanel face cream. I’m really vigilant about protecting my skin in the sun. I wear Shiseido sunscreen, and then I use an SPF spray by Kate Somerville. I play a lot of tennis, so it’s easy to reapply. I love an infrared blanket. I use the one from HigherDose at night right before I go to bed, and then I’ll take a quick shower. It’s like a form of meditation. There’s a woman who I see for lymphatic drainage massage — her name is Marina [Baratashvili]. And I’m going to Ricari Studios next week — I can’t wait.
I feel like wearing too much makeup is aging. I mean, I like foundation, but with a little translucency. The base that I use is Armani, which has been discontinued. Everything I love is discontinued! It’s called Designer Lift Foundation, and it just has a finish that’s really natural. Versed’s Smooth Landing Advanced Retinoid Eye Balm is great to put under coverup. I like Nars’s Soft Matte Concealer, under the eyes and wherever I need it. I use a MAC blush called Dainty, which feels like you’re outside on a fresh day with cool air, and then add a little Guerlain bronzing powder. I do like eyeliner. I found a new one by Mally in Iced Plum because my other one was discontinued. A thicker pencil is great because you can blend it easier. And Armani mascara, called Eyes to Kill. I don’t wear a lot of lip color. One I’ve been using lately — I’m a creature of habit — is [a shade] called Sheer Petal, by Sisley. I love the Neutrogena makeup wipes at the end of the night or sometimes in the morning, if there’s still eye makeup left. I can’t live without them.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
Try This
A New Collection of Bed Linens, Made to Mix and Match
By Zoe Ruffner
During her three-year tenure in Balenciaga’s creative department, Laura Tanzer had a front-row seat to the time-honored tradition of haute couture craftsmanship. Now, in partnership with her wife, the former professional tennis player Jessica Simpson, the Zurich-based Central Saint Martins graduate has extended that sartorial savoir faire to the home with Millaux, a new line of bedclothes. “We take such time to decide what to wear, but a lot of people overlook what they put on their beds,” says Simpson. Created in heritage Italian and Portuguese ateliers, the made-to-order range combines historical artistry with a playful opulence inspired by centuries-old chateaus. The initial offering includes jumbo-striped European flax linen sheets, jewel-toned Egyptian cotton sateen pillowcases and 610-thread-count orchid-dotted duvet covers dreamed up by the textile designer Fiona Blakeman, who has previously worked with the fashion designers Phoebe Philo and Grace Wales Bonner. Much like a collection of clothes, the 20 debut pieces, each of which is sold individually, are meant to be mixed and matched. From $190, millaux.com.
Wear This
Gold Jewelry Rescued From the Junk Pile
By Janet Siroto
In New York, unwanted jewelry often finds its way to a scrapper in the Diamond District, where it’s melted down into ingots. Unless, that is, it’s rescued by Elisa Casas and Ruby Sinclair, the mother-daughter team behind the business Tales From the Junk Pile. The TriBeCa-based duo visits their sources on 47th Street (an area immortalized in the 2019 film “Uncut Gems”) and dig through tangled chains and mangled money clips to pluck out vintage treasures that they restore and sell, mostly through Instagram. Recent finds include: disco-era hoop earrings, fringey Cleopatra necklaces, jingling bangles, stackable patterned eternity bands and chunky gemstone rings, ranging in price from $250 into the thousands. “I get most excited when something superold turns up, like a squirrel-motif pendant I recently found engraved with a date from 1854,” says Casas, who previously owned the Chelsea Girl vintage clothing boutiques and City Girl cafe in SoHo. New stock is posted daily on Instagram, where it’s typically snapped up in minutes. The duo finds beauty in giving the pieces a second chance to shine — and triggering trends. “I posted an antique rosary or two recently, and now we can’t source them fast enough,” says Sinclair. “The wait list is over 300 and counting.” instagram.com/talesfromthejunkpile.
Stay Here
An Ace Hotel Opens on the Athens Riviera
By Dalya Benor
After establishing itself with artsy, lively properties across North America and in Japan and Australia, the Ace Hotel group now has a new location in Europe: Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Glyfada, a beach town about a 20-minute drive south of Athens’s Acropolis. The hotel’s 120 rooms, some with views of the sea, surround an outdoor pool where nonguests can book a cabana for the day. Also on the ground floor is the hotel’s main restaurant, Sebastian, which serves a Mediterranean take on bistro classics such as chargrilled lamb burgers with feta and cumin mayonnaise and a green goddess Caesar salad. The hotel’s interior design is intended to be an introduction to Athens’s thriving art scene: a mural by the French artist Claire Manent decorates the facade of the building, while guest rooms have prints by the Greek painter Alekos Fassianos and works on paper featuring amphorae by the Greek artist Eleni Psyllaki. The Ace has enlisted local businesses to curate other experiences: guests can browse magazines and books curated by the Monastiraki bookstore and gallery Hyper Hypo, choose among bottles selected by the wine bar Wine Is Fine and sip tea from the Athens-based spice purveyor Daphnis & Chloe. From $536 a night, acehotel.com/athens.
Covet This
Design Objects Made of Surplus Hermès
By Jameson Montgomery
The French fashion house Hermès was founded in 1837 and, for nearly the first century of its existence, it specialized solely in equestrian bridles and saddlery. In the years since, it expanded to include leather goods, men’s and women’s apparel and housewares. In 2010, the company founded Petit H, a workshop with the aim of transforming surplus material from the house’s many ateliers into collectible objets d’art. Recent creations include a clay carafe sculpture with a leather top handle taken from a Kelly bag, a mosaic coffee table made of porcelain shards from the house’s tableware, and a fully playable guitar crafted from wood initially destined to become a saddle tree. This month, a Petit H collection will land in New York alongside a special installation designed by the Dominican American artist Lucia Hierro at Hermès’s sprawling shop on Madison Avenue. New pieces include a decorative wheelbarrow that doubles as a stool designed by the jeweler and artist Gilles Jonemann; porcelain-and-lambskin bento boxes in the shapes of an egg, burger and hot dog; and a particularly autumnal stool designed by the artist Shinsuke Kawahara that features an assortment of colorful mushrooms. Coinciding with the New York installation, Hermès will host a series of workshops where visitors can transform surplus materials into their own Petit H creation. Open to the public from Oct. 11 through 26, prices on request, hermes.com.
Visit This
A French Hotel With a Focus on Fine Dining and Wickerwork
After a three-decade tenure at the restaurant Le Clos des Sens, the chef Laurent Petit is returning home to open a new venture with his wife, Martine Petit, in Langres, a fortified town in northeastern France’s Haute-Marne department where Laurent grew up. Le Clos Vauban’s eight rooms and two restaurants sit within a restored 19th-century house whose original details, such as a grand wrought-iron staircase and oak parquet flooring, were preserved. With France’s only basket-making school 14 miles away, the hotel is also a celebration of wicker, with rooms mostly furnished with local flea market finds and wicker pieces made by local craftspeople. Wicker sculptures also dot the surrounding acre of gardens, which supply the restaurants. The tasting menu-only Bulle d’Osier focuses on Haute-Marne’s forest cuisine, offering dishes like local venison with black cabbage from the garden, wild mushrooms and black currants, while the more casual Mirabelle has an à la carte menu with dishes including Saône River pikeperch with pumpkin confit. From $268 a night, closvauban.com.
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