FASHION Magazine

Sometime in my late 20s, I was wandering through the cosmetics department in Holt Renfrew when a sales clerk with well-pencilled lips asked me, “What do you use for moisturizer?” She had what I realize now was a masterly look of both pity and worry, as if the question itself was an act of charity. […]

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I love it when a product has a back-story steeped in history, such as the one behind Crème Ancienne by Fresh (from $167, fresh.com). When I met with co-founder Lev Glazman last week, he told me that when LVMH bought his company in 2000, one of the appealing things was that it gave him access to their labs, allowing him to expand on his ideas for products, such as the “ultimate” moisturizer.