Day 1 of Clinique’s Repairwear Laser Focus Wrinkle & UV Damage Corrector event (see previous blog post for background) was, much like LA itself, fun and fascinating (despite the inclement weather. Expecting temperatures in the high 80s, the Moodie Report packed only one wrap and believe me, it’s going to see a lot of action
Miscellaneous
Dubai Duty Free backs another winner
In the months and years to come there will be many a good reason to look back with fondness on this year’s running of the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby, which took place at The Curragh in Ireland’s County Kildare on Sunday. First, there’ll be the great sporting memories. Champion trainer Aidan O’Brien is a
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Miscellaneous
The Moodie Report’s LA Adventure
The Moodie Report is once again on the road as part of the key beauty launch season – this time it’s a case of California calling; today’s Blog comes all the way from Los Angeles, where Clinique is unveiling a major new de-ageing serum called Repairwear Laser Focus Wrinkle & UV Damage Corrector. This journalist
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People
A personal message from the Publisher
The moon has a face And it smiles on the lake And causes the ripples in time I’m lucky to be here With someone I like Who maketh my spirit to shine – Warren Zevon, ‘Don’t let us get sick’ Regular readers of The Moodie Blog will have noticed that I have been less than prolific
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Miscellaneous
The sweet smell (and taste) of success?
Fragrance houses have long collaborated with other sectors such as fashion, jewellery, accessories – even cars – but Elizabeth Arden is advancing into new territory, the confectionery sector, via its latest alliance with singing superstar Mariah Carey and Bazooka Candy Brands, a division of Topps Company. The three-way partnership is poised to launch a new
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Events
A fitting tribute to Freddie
2010 marks the 10th anniversary of the tragic death in an accident of young Freddie McGuire, the infant son of Scorpio Distributors Managing Director Stuart McGuire and his wife Joelle. To mark that anniversary, Stuart (above) is embarking on an extraordinarily daunting fund-raising effort on behalf of the Freddie McGuire Charitable Trust and I’m going
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Miscellaneous
Qatar Airways answers China’s call
It’s almost two years to the day since China Duty Free Group launched a worldwide industry appeal to aid the victims of the terrible earthquake in Sichuan Province in May 2008 – a disaster that killed 70,000 people and left 300,000 injured. The earthquake was the catalyst for the creation of the China Duty Free
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People
Holland branches out into Montenegro
One of the fascinating things about the global travel retail industry is how it operates at so many levels in so many countries. One industry executive who has travelled to more of those countries than most is Jonathan ‘Chaps’ Holland’ (below, right), Managing Director of Singapore-based Jonathan Holland & Associates. Chaps sent us these pictures
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Miscellaneous
Lady Million Dresses for Success
The fragrance launch season is still in full swing, and The Moodie Report was back in Paris recently, for the hotly-anticipated launch of Lady Million, the feminine counterpart to the hugely successful Paco Rabanne 1 Million men’s fragrance. As befits the fragrance concept, Puig pulled out all the stops for this event, which featured a
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People
Goodbye to a gentleman
[Photo courtesy of DFNI] News of the death of former International Tax Free Trader Editor Peter Tipthorp will sadden all those who remember him. Trade media is one of the most competitive sectors you will find and the rivalry is sometimes less than the friendly kind. Peter would have none of that – he was
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Airports
Kypriaka breathes life back into Lefkara lace
Come with me on a journey, high into the hills above Larnaka in Cyprus. I’ll tell you a story of an age-old craft that is, against all the odds, winning its battle to survive in the modern world. I’ll show you a group of women, one as old as 82, who weave sublime magic with
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