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Sylvie Marchand

Senior Correspondent

Sylvie Marchand covers Designers, Fashion News and Runway.

Articles by Sylvie Marchand

The Map of Smell: Fragrance Families Explained, and How to Find Your Signature Scent

The Map of Smell: Fragrance Families Explained, and How to Find Your Signature Scent

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The Science of Sunscreen: What SPF Really Means

Best Sunscreen — The Science of Sunscreen: What SPF Really Means

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Victoria Unikel

From Canvas to Grimoire: The Art of Victoria Unikel

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The Mood Board as Creative Manifesto: Reading the Visual Language Before the Garment

Mood Board Design — The Mood Board as Creative Manifesto: Reading the Visual Language Before the Garment

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The Real Story Behind Artificial Intelligence in Art: How the Images Are Made and What They Ask of Artists

Artificial Intelligence Art — The Real Story Behind Artificial Intelligence in Art: How the Images Are Made and What They Ask of Artists

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How to Read a Painting: A Beginner's Guide to Composition, Color and Symbol

How to Read a Painting: A Beginner's Guide to Composition, Color and Symbol

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The Long Fact Check: How a Cover Story Stays True After Print

How Fact Checking Works — The Long Fact Check: How a Cover Story Stays True After Print

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How to Start an Art Collection on a Modest Budget: Buying Emerging Artists, Prints and Editions Without Getting Burned

How to Start an Art Collection on a Modest Budget: Buying Emerging Artists, Prints and Editions Without Getting Burned

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Finding Your Creative Direction: A Guide for Young Artists

Creative Direction Career — Finding Your Creative Direction: A Guide for Young Artists

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How to Build a Portfolio: What Gets a Creative Hired, and What Gets a Portfolio Skipped

How to Build a Portfolio: What Gets a Creative Hired, and What Gets a Portfolio Skipped

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The Street Outside the Show: What London Fashion Week's Best Looks Are Actually Saying

The Street Outside the Show: What London Fashion Week's Best Looks Are Actually Saying

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The Seam as Signature: How Construction Details Become a Designer's Calling Card

Seam Construction Fashion — The Seam as Signature: How Construction Details Become a Designer's Calling Card

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The Contour Blueprint: How Makeup Artists Map the Face for Camera

Makeup Contouring Techniques — The Contour Blueprint: How Makeup Artists Map the Face for Camera

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Sculptural folds of undyed cloth on a plinth

The Museum Argument: How the Costume Institute Put Fashion in the Canon

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Infographic chart of British wardrobes across social classes from pub to countryside

The Potter Who Dresses the Country: Grayson Perry, Claire and the Argument of a Garment

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A wool shift dress pieced together mid-air like a Mondrian canvas, with black grid lines becoming visible across the fabric.

The Grid and the Body: How Yves Saint Laurent Turned a Mondrian Painting Into a Dress

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Minimal editorial chart of a founder succession with family and foundation nodes

Giorgio Armani 1934 To 2025: The House Without Its Founder

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Scale model of a mirrored runway set lit by coloured volumes in a studio

The Set Designer Does the Talking: Scenography as Fashion's Loudest Voice

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Stacked tan vegan-leather shopping totes on a bright retail counter

Not for You — For Everyone: Telfar Clemens and the Bag That Repriced Luxury

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Tailored coat with crochet panel draped over archive books in daylight

Dressing the Diaspora With Sources: Grace Wales Bonner and the Scholarly Wardrobe

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Empty dim gallery with large dark canvas panels in deep maroon and plum tones

The Color Field Winter: What Rothko Taught the Minimalist Coat

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Design studio with assistants fitting a tailored jacket and discussing sketches at dawn

Jonathan Anderson At Dior: One Designer, Every Collection

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Guests taking their seats along an empty runway minutes before a show

The Front Row Is a Cast: The Choreography of a Show

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Wig stand holding an unfinished sculptural updo in a daylight workroom

Hair as Sculpture: From the Mod Bouffant to the Architectural Updo

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Dark exhibition gallery with a glass case and moths in spotlight beams

The Museum Settled It: Alexander McQueen, Savage Beauty, and the Runway as Authorship

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Couture atelier with a rose-pink silk gown pinned on a tailor's mannequin

Pierpaolo Piccioli At Balenciaga: The Couture Lesson Applied

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Hands applying vivid face paint to a calm model in daylight studio

Isamaya Ffrench: The Provocateur Building Beauty for the Music Generation

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Clear glass carafe of water beside translucent skincare bottles on stone

The Glass Skin Decade: What K-Beauty Changed in the Editorial Face

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Bolt of dark tweed beside leather samples and cotton canvas on an atelier table

Matthieu Blazy's Chanel Debut: The Run-Up, Documented

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Makeup artist's hands holding gold pigment before a mirror backstage

Pat McGrath, Gold at Versace, and the New Backstage Authority

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Sunlit weaving studio with a wooden floor loom and undyed cotton threads

Structure, Not Decoration: Anni Albers and the Textile Lesson Fashion Hasn't Finished

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The Casting Director's New Authority: Who Assembles Fashion's Faces

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Empty sixties boutique with rails of coloured pinafores in daylight

King's Road, Hemline Up: Mary Quant and the Invention of the Everyday Modern

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Design studio table in Milan with sketchbooks, fabric swatches and a gold Medusa-shaped paperweight

Dario Vitale At Versace: What The House Change Actually Signaled

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Vintage brass lipstick tube open beside a small painted lip impression

The Cupid's Bow Mouth: How the 1920s Drew the Lip

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Black-and-white contact sheets and silver gelatin prints on a museum work table

Richard Avedon, the Motion Still: The Whitney Retrospective of 1994

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Calvin Klein Obsession: The Campaign That Made a Brand a Worldview

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Seamstress hands pinning a white muslin toile on a dress form

The Architect of the Shoulder: How Cristóbal Balenciaga Trained Spain, Then Taught Paris to Cut Differently

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