Haute Beauty Hosts A Mind And Body Wellness Day At Showfields Miami

BY BROOKE KLAIMAN

AS YOU RUN FROM EVENT TO ART SHOW AND BACK TO YOUR favorite restaurant for a midday meal, it can’t hurt to dedicate time for your mind, body, and wellness. Art Basel Miami Beach is known to be one of the most intense weeks here in the 305, which is why we at Haute Beauty decided to use our experts and wellness powers to our advantage by hosting the first-ever Haute Beauty Wellness Day at the beautiful Showfields Miami space on December 1, 2022.

Wellness Day began with attendees heading straight to their Atman Spirit mats for a 30-minute class by the beautiful Alexis Gulliver, certified yoga instructor and developer of the ALIVE method. While guests were taking big inhales and exhales, flowing into position, and being surrounded by gratitude, our Haute Beauty expert and celebrity esthetician Lana Mar of Face Fit Bar was upstairs working on her facial fitness, literally. A unique concept, Face Fit Bar gives you a natural facelift without fillers or surgery. Mar and her team of estheticians provided each guest with 20-minute facial-fitness sessions, adding to the Zen of the day.

As the line of people grew and wellness day attendees awaited their turn to glow, guests socialized among themselves and enjoyed the other offerings available to them.

On tap in the drink department were Odyssey Elixir’s flavorful energy and focus drinks, Wölffer Estate’s Summer in a Bottle wine, Dr Smood’s refreshing cold-pressed juices, OTO CBD-infused mocktails, and Margs sparkling margaritas infused with real tequila and all-natural ingredients. While guests enjoyed their beverages, Gussi Hair’s new Mane Squeeze flat iron was also being put to use. Whether you were looking to straighten your hair, curl it, or give it a beachy look, the on-site hairstylist was ready to give you the glam you deserved.

For those who couldn’t make it to the day’s first yoga session, Gulliver began another session that flowed directly into a gorgeous sound healing experience by Emilia Garth.

As waves of people came and went, they were gifted goodie bags filled with Dr Dennis Gross Alpha Beta peels and peel pads, OTO CBD hand cream, Glosslab gift cards, Malin + Goetz Lip Moisturizer, Reset Bioscience Energy and Hydration shots, Primally Pure Deodorant, Charlotte’s Web CBD Balm Stick and Hemp Extract-Infused Sleep and Calm gummies, and IGK’s Good Behavior spray ― the stuff of a wellness guru’s dreams.

Essentially, there was no better way to kick off the month of December than to use the busy week of Art Basel to host an epic wellness day.

Louis Vuitton is a fashion house of codes: a house built on innate design rules that are undeniably Vuitton. For the Louis Vuitton Spring-Summer 2023 Icons collection, Nicolas Ghesquière, the artistic director of women’s collections, reveals the dynamic persona of the Louis Vuitton lady. Ghesquière whisks us away into the effortlessly feminine personality of Louis Vuitton through airy silk crepe de Chine gowns and whimsical prints while also calling on the sophisticated character with tailored blazers and posh Peter Pan collars. The Louis Vuitton lady also likes to have fun; she is reinvented through the new Sparkle Pump and is carefree with classic handbags like the Capucines in a summer white and the Twist in a plush baby pink shearling. And above all, the Louis Vuitton lady is a lady true to the rules of the house.

FASHION DIRECTOR: ADRIENNE FAUROTE

PHOTOGRAPHY: MARK SQUIRES

STYLIST: ANNY CHOI

HAIRSTYLIST: TERRI WALKER AT THE VISIONARIES USING KEVIN MURPHY

MAKEUP ARTIST: SIMON RIHANA AT ART DEPARTMENT USING TOM FORD BEAUTY

MODELS: LEILA GOLDKUHL AT NEXT MANAGEMENT

PHOTOGRAPHY ASSISTANT: ZACK HUGHES

SHOT ON LOCATION IN LOS ANGELES

ALL CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES BY LOUIS VUITTON

THE WORLDS OF LOUIS VUITTON AND RENOWNED JAPANESE ARTIST YAYOI KUSAMA HAVE COLLIDED ONCE AGAIN — MAKING A GLOBAL RETURN LIKE NEVER BEFORE.

BY ADRIENNE FAUROTE PHOTOS COURTESY OF LOUIS VUITTON

Ten years after debuting the special collaboration, Louis Vuitton has launched the sequel to its partnership with Yayoi Kusama. Best known as an avant-garde artist through her vibrant installations and unique perspective of infinity as expressed through dots, Kusama first painted a Louis Vuitton trunk in 2012. This made history for both her work as well as Louis Vuitton’s forward-thinking movement of tapping artists to tell the maison’s story. Today, Louis Vuitton and Kusama’s collaboration returns in a larger-than-life masterpiece. This second installment puts Kusama on an even bigger scale (quite literally with her figure seen towering over Louis Vuitton boutiques from Paris to Los Angeles), amplifying her extraordinary art and celebrating her as one of the most successful living female artists in the world — with a Louis Vuitton twist, of course.

Bolder. Louder. More extravagant. The new collaboration is allencompassing, including a range of product categories across menswear, womenswear, handbags, sunglasses, fragrances, and more, reimagined with Kusama’s signature motifs and themes of dots, flowers, pumpkins, and faces.

At the heart of both Kusama’s work and Louis Vuitton’s timeless heritage is the integral theme of infinity, which is woven throughout the collaboration. Emblematic of this notion of infinity are the iconic dots being seen around the world right now. Playfully painted dots in a primary color palette and sleek silver metal dots embellish all things Louis Vuitton, from classics like the Capucines and Neverfull to the interiors and exteriors of boutiques like those on New York’s Fifth Avenue and Beverly Hills’ Rodeo Drive.