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Forget plain pink, blooming gel is the new fluid nail art trend taking over salons

Forget plain pink, blooming gel is the new fluid nail art trend taking over salons

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more After a period dominated by understated, plain pink manicures, a new wave of nail art is sweeping through salons, bringing with it a desire for movement and fluidity. The latest technique capturing attention is ‘blooming gel’, a Japanese-born innovation promising unique, diffused designs where no two creations ever look quite the same. At its core, blooming gel is a clear, highly fluid gel with a lower viscosity than standard nail varnish. This unique consistency allows it to disperse colour in ways traditional formulas cannot, creating distinctive patterns. Rhiannon Thayre, a nail art specialist from Paint Nails London, explains: “Blooming gel creates soft, diffused designs like marble, aura or reptile effects.” She adds, “It gently spreads outwards on its own, creating a blurred, almost misty …

V&A Dundee celebrates the history of the catwalk, from discreet salons to today’s extravaganzas | Fashion

V&A Dundee celebrates the history of the catwalk, from discreet salons to today’s extravaganzas | Fashion

Published by Sam Flores

In 1971, Manolo Blahnik created shoes for the designer Ossie Clark’s catwalk show in London. Relatively new to shoemaking, the Spanish designer forgot to put steel pins in the heels of the shoes, which meant that models wobbled, unbalanced, down the catwalk. Blahnik thought it was the end of his career. But the press thought it was a deliberate style; the photographer Sir Cecil Beaton even christened it “a new way of walking”. The sandal in question, a green suede heel with ivy leaf embellishments, is just one treasure currently on display at the V&A Dundee’s new exhibition, Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion Show, which helps bring to life more than 100 years of history, charting its journey from the discreet salons of 19th-century London and Paris all the way up to the extravaganza it is today. According to the museum’s director Leonie Bell: “The fashion show influences every single thing that we choose to wear and what we’re able to buy, so we’re trying to show that.” Balenciaga blue velvet gown from spring/summer …

NADA Is Building New Generation of Collectors Through Series of Salons

NADA Is Building New Generation of Collectors Through Series of Salons

Published by José Betancourt

Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. There are obvious hurdles to becoming an art collector, chief among them money and space. But then there are the less obvious ones, and chief among these is the intimidation factor: Contemporary art, and the galleries that show it, can seem scary or snooty or both, and a lot of people just don’t feel comfortable in art spaces. The New Art Dealers Alliance has recently started to tackle this problem head-on by hosting a series of collectors’ salons, NADA Collects. Related Articles If your first thought is that this might threaten to dumb down the enterprise, it’s helpful to recall—as the writer Domenick Ammirati reminded on his Substack a year or two ago—that Colin de Land,the freewheeling proprietor of American Fine Arts gallery and the avant-gardest of the avant-garde art dealers of the 1980s and ’90s, hosted occasional classes for would-be collectors. For Heather Hubbs, longtime director of NADA, the idea emerged organically from NADA’s overall mission of “empowering galleries.” NADA has …