ROMAN ACCOLADE: Bulgari is teaming with Rome’s Maxxi museum, a cultural institution established by the late Zaha Hadid and dedicated to 21st-century arts, to launch the Maxxi Bulgari prize.
The accolade is an evolution of the annual Premio Maxxi competition and it aims to support the museum’s efforts to spotlight young contemporary artists.
As part of the partnership, Bulgari and Maxxi tapped a panel of experts to select the finalists for the prize, including Hou Hanru, artistic director at Maxxi; David Elliott independent curator; Yuko Hasegawa, artistic director at Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries in London.
The finalists will be revealed during an event, to be held on October 3 at the Bulgari Hotel in London, as part of the Frieze art fair. Following the announcement, a series of works by the shortlisted artists will go on to be showcased at the Maxxi, in an exhibition curated by Giulia Ferracci.
Jean Christophe Babin, Bulgari’s chief executive officer, said the company aims to promote the works of Italian artists on a global scale, as part of the initiative.
“The Premio Maxxi sees Italy at the center of the work of the artists involved. Supporting a prize

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Frank Everett is back at Sotheby’s.
Everett, a pied piper of New York’s jewelry scene — oft spotted at glitzy events at the invitation of bejeweled clients — has returned to the auction house after a brief stint as Graff’s U.S. sales president.
Everett’s homecoming sees him taking up new responsibilities as senior vice president, sales director for Sotheby’s luxury division. While previously only responsible for jewelry, he will now help expand the auction house’s luxury group — including jewelry, watches, wine, cars and “experiences.” Sotheby’s is also looking to get into the fashion game and has begun exploring how sales might include clothing, fashion jewelry and accessories.
The auction house officially unveiled a designated luxury division earlier this year. Before that, its component departments operated autonomously.
Said Everett in a statement: “After briefly turning back to retail I realized my talents and my passion truly align with auction. My favorite part of the job at Sotheby’s revolves around telling the stories about the works of art and the people who cared for them — from the personal collection of Mrs. Paul Mellon to the fascinating history revealed in the Stotesbury Emerald.
“I’m excited that my role will now cross the entire Luxury & Lifestyle

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GIVING LIP: L’Oréal Paris and Balmain Paris today unveiled the advertising campaign for their soon-to-launch capsule collection of lipsticks.
The campaign lensed by Nico Bustos embodies the “Balmain army” attitude of the brand: creative director Olivier Rousteing is captured storming across a Paris rooftop at dawn — the Eiffel Tower seen on the horizon — flanked by 12 models of different origins and backgrounds including Lara Stone, Neelam Gill and Alexina Graham. They each sport a different Balmain look offset by lipsticks from the line.
According to a joint statement released by the brands on Monday, the casting is meant to reflect “three tribes of L’Oréal Paris and Balmain Paris femininity,” much like the line’s Rock, Couture and Glamazon themes, each housing four shades designed to suit a range of complexions and send “a message of beauty in diversity and female empowerment.”
Ysaunny Brito, Soo Joo Park, Doutzen Kroes model what is termed as the star shades from each of the groups. The 12 lipsticks stand in line at the bottom of the image, topped with the tagline, “United, We are Invincible.”
As reported, the line — due to launch in early September in select points of sale where L’Oréal Paris is already carried — marks the first

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Nike is leveraging the excitement around New York Fashion Week and the U.S. Open to tell its own stories.
The sportswear brand is continuing its New York Made campaign, which first launched in November, and will offer a variety of events, brand activations and product releases over the course of two weeks.
“Nike has had a long history in NYC,” said Helen Kim, vice president and general manager of Nike NYC and east territory. “We are excited to continue this story and be a part of cultural moments with great product stories.”
Nike will start things off by paying homage to star tennis player Roger Federer with RF19, a temporary space highlighting the player’s style and New York’s sneaker culture that will open on Aug. 23. This space will also feature the release of Federer’s latest New York Collection and a new styles from Nike Zoom Vapor and Air Jordan 3.
In partnership with Virgil Abloh, Nike will introduce Nike Off Campus at 23 Wall Street on Sept. 6. This space will showcase the Ten Icons by Abloh and serve as a cultural learning environment. There will be a series of workshops with leading contemporary designers. Nike hasn’t confirmed that they will release their

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How do you bottle a museum-quality artwork? Just ask San Francisco-based artist and perfumer Bruno Fazzolari, who created a fragrance for an upcoming exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art. Not only will museumgoers be able to experience his sandalwood scent with pineapple and black tea notes as part of “Unsettled,” a group show about the Greater West, on view from Aug. 26, 2017, to Jan. 21, 2018, but they’ll be able to purchase 9-ml. and 30-ml. sizes of the scent onsite and through his web site. It also comes in a limited-edition, 50-ml. bottle in Vaseline glass, shaped like a mushroom cloud, which glows atomic green in black light, a nod to the state’s nuclear testing. “These ingredients speak to cultural tensions in the settling of the West,” said Fazzolari, “and how fragrance and other aesthetic pleasures like drinking tea drove colonial contact.” The exhibit contains works by Ed Ruscha and Nicholas Galanin, among others, and will travel to the Anchorage Museum in 2018 and the Palm Springs Art Museum in 2019.

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