Month: August 2022

Cami Téllez of Parade, wearing a dress by Khaite. Sophia Wilson Cami Téllez isn’t afraid of a little neon. On a recent rainy afternoon, the 24-year-old CEO and creative director opens the door to her Tribeca apartment in a silky chartreuse blouse and trousers. Parade, the irreverent underwear brand she launched with cofounder Jack DeFuria
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Space Runners is creating designs for the metaverse.Courtesy of the designer Space Runners Could Be the Next Supreme Have Decentraland wearables left you wanting a bit more than crypto company logo tees and basic hoodies for your metaverse look? Space Runners, the first NFT metaverse fashion brand and the largest independent fashion project on blockchain,
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“Senna,” Netflix’s biggest and most ambitious series ever in Latin America, now has a director, seasoned Brazilian film-TV action thriller director Vicente Amorim, whose credits include “Good” with Viggo Mortensen and “Yakuza Princess,” with Japanese American singer Masumi and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Portraying the life of Formula One racing genius Ayrton Senna,“Senna,” produced for Netflix
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Music and film may have brought Jay Chou to his current standing, but he has also been actively cultivating his presence in the art world. And he is becoming ever more serious. It’s not hard to find Chou sharing images of artworks by blue-chip artists from Peter Doig to Jean-Michel Basquiat with his 7.4 million
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Jay Chou likes to think big. His latest music release, “Greatest Works of Art,” is not just the Mando-pop king’s first full-length album after a six-year hiatus. The album’s elaborate, international production of its eponymous first single and the accompanying music video, features the “cameos” of some of the biggest names in art history. It
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Negotiations between producers and crew over U.K. TV drama negotiations have collapsed. U.K. crew union Bectu has confirmed its members have voted overwhelmingly to reject an offer put on the table by U.K. producers’ body Pact. “Our members have voted to overwhelmingly endorse Bectu’s position in response to the latest offer from Pact and given
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Like many major stars today, music-actor-artist Jay Chou is experimenting with turning his brand value into non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. The experience to date has had mixed results. In June, he joined forces with Lionel Messi, Neymar and other players at Paris Saint Germain (PSG), France’s leading soccer team, to launch a metaverse art project
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Acting and directing were not on Jay Chou’s mind when he first began his music career nearly two decades ago. But over the years, he has accumulated several memorable film and TV roles locally in Asia and in Hollywood. And, between music ventures, he has sat in the film director’s chair. “I was born to
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Modern-day production in Argentina lifted off from its new Argentine Cinema, born over 1991-95, in Brazil with Walter Salles’ 1998 “Central Station,” in Mexico from Carlos Reygadas’ 2002 “Japón.” Now, Latin America is seeing second-phase expansion based out of smaller markets, driven by the energies of forward-thinking production companies determined to not just build slates
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Buenos Aires-based Maravilla Cine, producer of 2018 Berlin Panorama player “Marilyn” and San Sebastian 2020 New Directors’ hit “That Weekend,” has boarded “Diamond” (“Diamante”), the first fiction feature from Bolivia’s Yashira Jordán which is shaping up as one of the standout titles at this year’s Locarno Open Doors. Maravilla Cine joins “Diamond” lead producer Empatia
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Cannes Cinéfondation winner Michael Labarca will hit Locarno’s Open Doors next week with his feature debut project, “Kids Swimming in the Lake,” produced by Venezuela’s Todos Los Ríos, France’s Ticket Shoot Films and Chile’s Oro Films. For Venezuelan movie projects, such international co-productions are not only a virtue but a necessity, “due to the crisis
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Bollywood A-lister Alia Bhatt is enjoying a roaring 2022. “Gangubai Kathiawadi,” in which she played the central, title role, had its world premiere as a Berlinale gala screening, was a box office success and was the #1 non-english film and the #1 film in 25 countries on Netflix globally. “RRR,” in which she’s one of
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