Last week I was invited to London to the Estée Lauder Companies’ Fall Preview, which provided a mightily useful sneak peek at the group’s forthcoming key launches for the autumn/winter season. (I know – autumn/winter! In the UK we’ve sent out a search party for spring and summer…) Many high-profile launches stood out, as did
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Dubai Duty Free serves up another ace
Last night, fresh off a plane from Istanbul (more of which another time!) this writer high-tailed it across London to one of the summer season’s hottest tickets: the annual WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) Pre-Wimbledon Party. Looking short next to the amazing Ana Ivanovic I was a guest of Dubai Duty Free, the presenting sponsor of
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Mann Power
Well, I did it. Yesterday I ran my leg of The Moodie Multi-National Marathon. And it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be – reader, it was much, much worse. Today is no better. I’m stiffer in the hips than Gavin Henson on Strictly Come Dancing. In hindsight, my night-before preparation was perhaps
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Cometh the hour; cometh the Mann
They say time flies when you’re having fun. It also flies when you’re supposed to be training for a Marathon. And for most normal people, that’s anything but fun… Pleasure and pain in such close proximity… In February – just four short months ago – I blogged about my intention to run in the second
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Sole Man: Christian Louboutin enters the beauty business
Some things are just meant to be. News that iconic French shoe designer Christian Louboutin has teamed up with Batallure Beauty to create a collection of luxury beauty products must surely have provoked just one reaction from his army of fans worldwide: “What took you so long?” The first fruits of the Christian Louboutin Beauté
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Loewe’s Natural Talent
We’re a versatile bunch at The Moodie Report, and fortunately, very little fazes us. Interview with Madonna? No problem at all. Dinner with Julia Roberts? Don’t mind if I do. Lunch with a matador? All in a day’s work. Hang on, did you say matador? Yes indeed, in every sense, we have serious range… The
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Living La Belle Vie with Lancôme
Last month I interviewed Madonna; on Wednesday I had dinner with Julia Roberts. The fact that there were nearly 300 other people in the room made it no less special, believe me. Stunning views from the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild The event in question was the official reveal of the new feminine fragrance from Lancôme,
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Meeting Madonna
They say you should never meet your heroes. Well, sometimes they say wrong. For this writer, meeting Madonna last week in New York City, at the launch event for her debut fragrance Truth or Dare, was an unrivalled “pinch me” moment, in a 16-year travel retail career that has contained a whole host of amazing
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Podding along at Heathrow T5
“Be careful what you wish for,” my favourite aunt used to caution. At long last I think I know exactly what she meant. Yesterday, for the first time ever, en route to NYC for today’s Truth or Dare by Madonna fragrance launch, I was upgraded. But contrary to what you might think, it didn’t actually
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A colourful time in NYC with ck one
There were cocktails on the roof terrace of the Standard. A private gig by Dev. An achingly trendy hotel in NYC’s Chelsea district. And male models in their underwear (I saved the best till last). The occasion? The official reveal of the hotly-anticipated ck one color collection, from Coty Prestige. The make-up is being introduced
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The heeling power of Heathrow
As the peak f&c launch season gets into its stride, The Moodie Report is once again on the road – and in the air. I write this Blog somewhere above the Atlantic, en route to New York City: one of my favourite places on the planet, alongside Louboutin HQ in London and, of course, Cardiff’s
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Getting a boost with BB for the boys
In f&c terms, you know a trend has got legs when even the boys start to get in on the act. Step forward the new Lab Series for Men BB Tinted Moisturiser SPF35, which made its debut in selected Asian travel retail doors in December, and is now rolling out into South Korea and Japan.
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Time to Mann up for another Moodie Marathon
Here we go again. It’s time for the (gulp) second Moodie Multi-National Marathon, in support of Hand in Hand for Haiti. Somebody warn the staff at my gym. I think three of them are still having therapy after trying to train me for last year’s event. The others have probably left. Running Mann goes the