Men’s Grooming Brand Provides Men With The Bare Essentials To Enhance Their Manscaping Experience
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MANSCAPED,
the below-the-waist grooming company providing precision-engineered
tools and accessories for a simple and effective manscaping routine,
announced today that its Essentials
Kit
will hit shelves nationwide at Target
stores.
A distinctive men’s grooming package featuring products specifically
designed to trim a man’s most intimate areas, the Essentials Kit is a
must-have for every man’s grooming routine.
MANSCAPED x Target
MANSCAPED
Essentials Kit contains the Lawn Mower 2.0 and Crop
Preserver – together these two grooming essentials work to change
the ordinary man into a refined MANSCAPED gentleman:
The Lawn Mower 2.0 – The precision-engineered electric trimmer, and cult favorite, features a 6,000 RPM motor, anti-nick SkinSafe™ and QuietStroke™ technology, and the brand’s signature replaceable ceramic blade head to minimize painful tugs, snags, and cuts when trimming a man’s most delicate areas.
Crop Preserver – The below-the-waist, anti-chafing ball deodorant with aloe vera provides up to 24-hours of Active pH Control™, keeping a man’s most sensitive areas dry, fresh, and cool.
“MANSCAPED
started and continues to lead the manscaping revolution and offering
these popular products in Target stores will no doubt spread the
ever-growing popularity of men’s below-the-waist grooming across the
country,” said MANSCAPED Founder and CEO, Paul Tran.
“We are thrilled to have our products available at Target so
that every man can experience the confidence and refinement that
MANSCAPED provides.”
Utilizing
humorous marketing videos and posts across all channels of social
media, MANSCAPED was the first company to provide men with the right
tools and formulations for safe, simple, and superior men’s
below-the-waist grooming hygiene. The MANSCAPED product line includes
precision-engineered tools and features Active pH Control™,
essential ingredients for helping the refined gentleman stay clean,
dry, and healthy. MANSCAPED products range from $9 to $74 and can be
purchased online at manscaped.com
and in Target stores nationwide.
Holiday Window Unveiling to Include Live Performance by Idina Menzel, the voice of Elsa in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Frozen 2”
Saks
Fifth Avenue today reveals additional details of their
holiday collaboration with Disney. The two brands will come
together to delight shoppers this holiday season with dazzling
“Frozen 2”-inspired windows, exclusive product and
a one-of-a-kind in-store experience.
(PRNewsfoto/Saks Fifth Avenue)
“The
holiday season is an important moment for Saks and gives us an
opportunity to stretch our imagination,” said Marc Metrick,
President of Saks Fifth Avenue. “Each year we look for ways
to entertain our customers and connect on an emotional level through
meaningful experiences. Our collaboration with Disney is the perfect
way to capture the joy of this time of year and we look forward to
bringing this one-of-a-kind concept to all stores across the country
and our digital platforms.”
Saks
will debut its holiday windows on Monday, November 25 and
continue its long-standing tradition of holding a spectacular holiday
show in the middle of Fifth Avenue. The epic unveiling event will
include a musical performance by Idina Menzel (voice of Elsa)
of a song from the “Frozen 2” Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack, along with a song from her upcoming holiday
album, “Christmas: A Season of Love.” The
production will also include a 10-story-tall theatrical light show
and entertainment from a 50-person choir, along with a flurry of
Disney entertainers. The event will be livestreamed on
Saks.com/Holiday and
Disney.com.
DISNEY’S
“FROZEN 2”-INSPIRED WINDOWS
Inspired
by Disney’s “Frozen 2,” Saks’s center six windows of
the flagship store will bring scenes from the film to life. The
displays will depict Elsa and Anna’s extraordinary journey to
discover truths about their past while encountering the four spirits
of nature. Adored characters Olaf, Kristoff, and Sven will also
appear throughout the vignettes as they champion the sisters along
the way.
HOLIDAY
WINDOWS
Saks Fifth Avenue Holiday 2019 Light Show Rendering
Saturated
color, texture and cavernous landscapes inform the overall
composition of the remaining windows that wrap the building.
Theatrical lighting in bold hues illuminate the landscapes and create
a surreal environment—a perfect backdrop for mannequins dressed in
over-the-top designer fashion.
Saks Fifth Avenue x Disney’s Frozen 2 Window Sketch
Also
featured is Ferrero Rocher® premium chocolate. The two corner
windows of the store will display the brand’s signature pyramids made
of fine hazelnut chocolates delicately wrapped in gold foil.
DISNEY’S
FROZEN 2 ENCHANTED FOREST EXPERIENCE AT SAKS
Disney’s
Frozen 2 Enchanted Forest Experience at Saks will be an
immersive, wonder-filled experience that will offer visitors the
chance to be transported to the spectacular world of “Frozen
2” and experience Anna and Elsa’s journey through the
enchanted forest, encountering the four spirits of nature and other
beloved characters along the way. Located on the ninth floor of the
New York flagship store, the activation will run from Tuesday,
November 26 through Tuesday, December 24. Tickets are $5
each (+ taxes and fees) and Saks will donate $5 from the sale of each
ticket to New York-Presbyterian Phyllis and David Komansky
Children’s Hospital. Tickets can be purchased at
Saks.com/Frozen2.
SAKS
X DISNEY FROZEN 2 PRODUCT
Currently,
special “Frozen 2”-inspired fashion, accessories and
giftable items are available at all U.S. Saks stores and on Saks.com.
Created in collaboration with designers like Roberto Coin,
Converse and S’well, shoppers can purchase product
inspired by the beautiful imagery and elements from the film.
Exclusive to Saks are “Frozen 2” limited-edition Elsa
and Anna dolls. Designed by Disney store artists, the dolls will
awaken a new spirit of adventure in Disney fans and collectors alike.
GIFT
GIVING & SERVICES
Saks Fifth Avenue 2019 Holiday Book Cover
Holiday
Gift Guide:
Customers can find Saks’s
ultimate guide to exclusive gifts and designer delights within the
120-page Holiday Book, featuring
Idina Menzel on the cover. Available now in stores and on Saks.com.
Holiday
Concierge: For the
holiday season, Saks offers a dedicated digital concierge to assist
customers with all of their gift-giving needs, including, shipping,
delivery, or simply finding that perfect present. Customers may
access the holiday concierge 24/7 on Saks.com/Locations/Services
beginning on November 15.
Holiday
Gift Guide Chatbot: Available
on Facebook Messenger beginning on November 15,
the Holiday Gift Guide Chatbot curates the perfect gift
recommendations from Saks.com based on the user’s needs. To access,
visit Saks Fifth Avenue’s Facebook page and click “Send
Message.”
Fifth
Avenue Club: Customers can make an appointment with the Fifth
Avenue Club (FAC), located at select Saks stores, and work with
an expert Style Advisor to find everything from gifts for
loved ones, to a must-have holiday look. Throughout the holiday
season, the FAC will also offer gift wrapping and assistance with
shipping.
The
International Lounge:Shoppers
from abroad can visit the International
Lounge,
which offers a multi-lingual concierge to assist with service needs
including luggage and coat storage, package pick-up and more.
SOCIAL
MEDIA
Saks
Fifth Avenue and Disney welcome viewers to connect via their social
media channels, listed below, and to follow #SaksHoliday and
#SaksxDisneyFrozen2 for insider access.
Barrie
A. and Deedee Wigmore have promised 88 superlative examples of
American Aesthetic Movement and Gilded Age decorative arts
and contemporaneous paintings from their collection—one of the
preeminent holdings of late 19th-century American art in private
hands—to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The gift is part of
The Met’s 2020 Collections Initiative celebrating the
Museum’s 150th anniversary.
“Comprised
of prime examples of American decorative arts and paintings, all
created around the time The Met was formed, this gift has particular
resonance in the Museum’s anniversary year,” stated Max
Hollein, Director of The Met. “We are deeply grateful to Met
Trustee Barrie Wigmore and his wife, Deedee, for their exceptional
generosity.”
Aesthetic
Splendors: Highlights from the Gift of Barrie and Deedee Wigmore will
be on view in the Museum’s American Wing beginning December
2, 2019, in a gallery named for Mrs. Wigmore and devoted to
decorative arts of the Aesthetic Movement of the 1870s and 1880s.
The Met’s temporary installation will evoke the scrupulously
restored interiors of the Wigmores’ home (which was constructed in
the same period), with reproduction wallpapers of the same era as
their collection. While a few of the works have been included in
major exhibitions, most of those on display have never been seen by
the public.
Aesthetic Splendors: Highlights from the Gift of Barrie and Deedee Wigmore: One of the most exceptional examples of the the Aesthetic Movement is a large Herter cabinet with delicate marquetry decoration of butterflies and spiderwebs, intricate carving, and gilding. (Image provided by The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Speaking
about the gift, Mr. and Mrs. Wigmore said: “Having our
collection go to the American Wing is like having it stay in the
family.”
The
focus of the Wigmores’ collection is art dating from the 1860s to
the early 1890s, a period that coincides with many significant
cultural achievements in New York, including the founding of The Met
in 1870. The enormous wealth earned by post–Civil War
industrialists and financiers gave rise to what is known as the
Gilded Age—a period when highly skilled craftspeople, mainly
immigrants, produced sumptuous objects for a discerning clientele.
The
Wigmores’ holdings are a testament to their commitment to
collecting works of the highest quality. Assembled over four decades,
the collection features outstanding works by luminaries of American
art. Their early focus in American painting was on members of the
second generation of the Hudson River School, including
multiple works by Albert Bierstadt, Sanford R. Gifford, John
Kensett, Alfred Thompson Bricher, and Jervis McEntee.
Because the Wigmores began collecting at an early date, they were
able to acquire some of the finest examples by these leading artists.
Among the highlights of their collection are the many masterful plein
air (on the spot) oil sketches of the American wilderness, which they
purchased at a time when these vibrant, quickly executed works were
overlooked; today, they are much sought after and highly valued.
These sketches provide a window into the artists’ thought processes
and served as inspiration for their large-scale paintings. Of
particular note are the plein air study and the much larger finished
canvas for Gifford’s 1877–79 work An Indian Summer Day on
Claverack Creek. The collection of paintings are in gilded,
19th-century frames that the artists of the Hudson River School
regarded as critical to the aesthetic presentation of their work.
The
Wigmores were pioneers in collecting the decorative arts, especially
furniture and artistic brass furnishings, of the 1870s and 1880s, the
period when the Aesthetic Movement was in full favor in
America. They concentrated on premier furniture firms—including
Herter Brothers and Kimbel & Cabus of New York and
A. and H. Lejambre and Daniel Pabst of
Philadelphia—that catered to a wealthy clientele. One of the most
exceptional examples is a large Herter cabinet with delicate
marquetry decoration of butterflies and spiderwebs, intricate
carving, and gilding. The Wigmores were among the first to recognize
the significance of “art brass” (decorative objects made of
bronze), and their impressive holdings include exuberant work by
principal makers, notably the Charles Parker Company in
Meriden, Connecticut.
Costume Institute Benefit on May 4 with Co-Chairs Nicolas Ghesquière, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Emma Stone, Meryl Streep, and Anna Wintour
The
Metropolitan Museum of Art recently announced that The Costume
Institute’s Spring 2020 Exhibition
will be About Time: Fashion and Duration, on view from
May 7 through September 7, 2020 (preceded on May 4 by
The Costume Institute Benefit). Presented in The Met Fifth
Avenue’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, it
will trace more than a century and a half of fashion, from 1870 to
the present, along a disruptive timeline, as part of the Museum’s
150th anniversary celebration. Employing philosopher Henri
Bergson’s concept of la durée—time that flows, accumulates,
and is indivisible—the exhibition will explore how clothes generate
temporal associations that conflate the past, present, and future.
The concept will also be examined through the writings of Virginia
Woolf, who will serve as the “ghost narrator” of the
exhibition. Michael Cunningham, who won the Pulitzer Prize
for Fiction for his novel The Hours, which was inspired by
Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, will write a new short story for the
exhibition catalogue that reflects on the concept of duration.
The
exhibition will feature approximately 160 examples of women’s
fashion dating from 1870—the year of The Met’s founding and the
start of a decade that witnessed the development of a standardized
time system—to the present. The majority of objects in the show
will come from The Costume Institute’s collection, including
gifts made as part of The Met’s 2020 Collections Initiative
in celebration of the Museum’s 150th anniversary.
A
linear chronology of fashion comprised predominantly of ensembles in
black will run through the exhibition reflecting the progressive
timescale of modernity, and bringing into focus the fast, fleeting
rhythm of fashion. Unlike traditional chronologies, which reduce the
history of fashion to a limited number of decade-defining
silhouettes, this timeline will be presented as a ceaseless continuum
that is more complete and comprehensive in scope. Interrupting this
timeline will be a series of counter-chronologies composed of
predominantly white ensembles that pre-date or post-date those in
black, but relate to one another through shape, motif, material,
pattern, technique, or decoration. For example, a black silk faille
princess-line dress from the late 1870s will be paired with an
Alexander McQueen “Bumster” skirt from 1995, and a
black silk velvet bustle ensemble from the mid-1880s will be
juxtaposed with a Comme des Garçons “Body Meets Dress –
Dress Meets Body” dress from 1997.
The
exhibition will conclude with a section on the future of fashion,
linking the concept of duration to debates about longevity and
sustainability.
“This
exhibition will consider the ephemeral nature of fashion, employing
flashbacks and fast-forwards to reveal how it can be both linear and
cyclical,” said Max Hollein, Director of The Met. “As
such, the show will present a nuanced continuum of fashion over the
Museum’s 150-year history.”
The historic bequest includes over $80 million and more than 375 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, decorative art objects, and rare books
The
Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today (November 13, 2019) an
exceptional bequest of over 375 works from the late Jayne
Wrightsman (1919–2019), Trustee Emerita and one of the most
generous Benefactors in the Museum’s history. The bequest includes
significant gifts to the departments of Drawings and Prints,
European Paintings, and European Sculpture and Decorative Arts,
as well as to the Department of Asian Art, the Department
of Islamic Art, and The Watson Library. In total, Jayne
and her husband Charles Wrightsman (1895–1986) have given
more than 1,275 works to The Met.
Daniel
H. Weiss, President and CEO, states: “Jayne and Charles
Wrightsman served as model patrons and standard-bearers for a
generation of donors. Their legendary eye for art was exceeded in
magnitude only by their unwavering dedication to The Met collection,
galleries, and staff. They truly became part of the Museum’s family,
and we are eternally grateful for the infinite ways they profoundly
impacted—and will continue to impact—this institution.“
Max
Hollein, Director, states: “Jayne Wrightsman’s
extraordinary bequest is a capstone to more than half a century’s
worth of inspired acts of generosity. Nearly every aspect of the
Museum has benefitted enormously from the Wrightsmans’ devoted
patronage. They have enriched the lives of countless visitors to The
Met through their gifts of rare, beautiful, and priceless works of
art, and their legacy will long be remembered and celebrated by all.
The Met would not be what it is today without Jayne and Charles
Wrightsman.”
In
addition to this gift, Jayne made provisions for substantial
additional funding to the existing Wrightsman Fund, of which
over $80 million has already been received by The Met. The fund
supports ongoing acquisitions of works of art from Western Europe and
Great Britain created during the period from 1500 to 1850. The
support comes at a time of financial stability for the Museum, as
described in its recently released Annual Report for fiscal year 2019
(July 1, 2018–June 30, 2019). The Wrightsman bequest helped the
Museum achieve a total of $211.5 million in new gifts and pledges in
FY19. The bequest will also be reflected in the current fiscal year
that will end on June 30, 2020, and in years to come as the
Wrightsman Fund continues to receive funds that are an ongoing part
of the bequest.
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