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Cotton tank top and leather belt DSQUARED2 Straw hat @ LES MAUVAIS GARÇONS Necklace and bracelet @ DARY’S Necklace HARPO Wool jacket, cotton gilet and cut–off jeans, silk scarf and straw hat SAINT LAURENT BY ANTHONY VACCARELLO Vivienne : Polyamide swimsuit, denim trousers, leather and monogrammed canvas belt, and gold metal necklace LOUIS VUITTON Pre–Fall–Winter 2020–2021 Necklace DINH VAN Lawrence : Wool sweater Joseph : Leather, wool and cashemere Teddy jacket LOUIS VUITTON Pre–Fall–Winter 2020–2021 Jewellery, model’s own…

FUN PARADE This summer, accessories come in popcolours. SHOWTIME XXL Sunglasses look you straight in theeye. NECK OF STYLE Scarves are back, in pastel or printed fabrics. MELLOW YELLOW Sunny, tangy tones fire up the silhouette.…

Perfume is not only the first beauty product young generations buy, it is also their favourite cosmetic. “It’s the most accessible product from luxury brands, which have a keen following and give the new generation something to aspire to,” says Pierre Bongert, Fine Fragrance category manager at Takasago. “What they like most of all are marine fragrances, very 1990s, and notes borrowed increasingly from the female olfactory wardrobe,” adding “It’s a mistake to believe that a young person’s fragrance is necessarily sweet, fruity and even rather foody.” Youngsters today have more technical expectations, and distinct desires for perfumes that smell fresh and clean and, above all, have a sillage that lasts. When it comes to design, the perfume must embody values that speak to them: inclusiveness, gender fluidity, respect for…

MODEL She was twelve when she was spotted on the street by the Elite agency. Fifteen, when she won the Elite Model Look competition. And sixteen, last year — an eternity — when she took to the Paris runways for the first time, pulling off a royal flush, with a string of shows for Prada, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Miu Miu, and even Karl Lagerfeld’s last collection for Chanel. She was at the same time the face of Steven Meisel’s Loewe campaign. In a word, Mona Tougaard’s track record is nothing short of perfect and she still hasn’t turned eighteen. But beyond her already impressive CV, it’s her stunning physique that commands superlatives. Born in Aarhus, the second–largest city in Denmark, on 3rd April 2002, Mona has Danish, Somalian, Ethiopian and…

ACTOR Can the love of art be passed on genetically? The question is a legitimate one where the Schneider family’s concerned. The father, Jean–Paul, was a ballet dancer and stage director. The mother, after working in advertising, took up drawing and sculpture. The French couple moved to Quebec in 1996 and acquired a video-club, which provided hours of entertainment for their five sons. “My parents always encouraged us to develop our artistic leanings without pushing us into dance or the theatre,” recalls Vassili, the youngest, born in 1999. “My brother Vadim was precocious, writing poetry at 15, singing and acting… We all really admired him.” When Vadim died at an early age in a car accident, his younger brothers followed in the path he had set out for them. Jean–Paul…

ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN With over a billion and a half downloads, major venues sold out all over France, mesmerising concerts in Japan and Australia, not to mention the prestigious Californian Coachella festival, mind–blowing numbers of views for his YouTube videos and top featured artists, Mehdi Benjelloun is still only 20 years old! After studying the cello (among other things) for many years at the Conservatoire, this young French artist from Rouen has stormed onto the electro scene with his cracking sense of melody and rhythm. Electro is his music of choice, but he’s often played in orchestras and is a skilled classical musician, which gives his work an appeal not often encountered in DJs who are not musicians. “When I compose,” explains Petit Biscuit, “I always start from something organic: a…

LATIN LOVER Shawn Mendes’ life began on the Net in 2013. First, at the age of fifteen, he became a cyberstar from his bedroom in Toronto, by uploading song covers to Vine, a now defunct application that was used to post six–second videos online. Before long, millions had been captivated by this musical speed dating, and a year later, his online popularity landed him a contract with a major record label. These days, all his songs are longer than six seconds, and even though his success is worldwide, he is still very much anchored to the Internet. Born on 8th August, 1998 in Toronto to a Portuguese father and a British mother, Shawn Mendes is a child of the 21st century who grew up with a computer at his fingertips…

When Delfin Finley, nails painted silver, arrives at the Paris café where we’ve arranged to meet, his relaxed, slightly pouty demeanour can’t quite conceal a thin veil of stress. Only a couple of days earlier, he’d walked the runway for Louis Vuitton’s men’s Autumn/Winter 2020–2021 collection, moving through the surrealist set of clouds and sky. Honoured to have been part of artistic director Virgil Abloh’s show in the Tuileries, he insists “It was only my second ever time on a runway.” Delfin Finley is 25 years old: “It’s great that I can help Virgil out, especially as clothes have always been important to me. Sometimes more important even than the people who wear them. That’s definitely something to explore […].” A smile. “What I mean is, it gives me ideas…

The obsession with youth has been a reality throughout history. In the beginning, it symbolised a worldwide fascination with strength and beauty, rooted in, let’s say, an aesthetic dimension. Today, it is far more than that: this source of awed admiration has become a wellspring of influence. Young people are now a minority in society, yet paradoxically their power is increasing. Probably because they embody the future in a completely new way. And they fully intend to prevent others stealing it from them. Free of the torments of the past, and the upheavals of both history and tradition, young people have their sights firmly set on the future, acutely aware of the battles that lie ahead. Technology–wise with complete mastery of the social media, they have consolidated their — instantaneous…

SONNY HALL INSTA BOY Social media is where today’s boys and girls come out to play (and get themselves noticed). Influencers are everywhere — including on the front row of the fashion shows — most of them fundamentalist consumers vainly attempting to reenchant their own lives. Thankfully there are some exceptions. Sonny Hall is one. The British model’s mother died of an overdose when he was four years old and he grew up in care. At one point he was addicted to alcohol and drugs himself but has been clean for over two years now. His rebirth is all the more spectacular as it took place on Instagram, where his dandy style quickly acquired a fanbase — he now has 131,000 followers. Naturally he became a model and, at 21,…

It is the privilege of childhood and adolescent friendships to be less predictable than adult relationships. Personalities are still being formed and, as configurations shift, so the chemistry between individuals changes. Sébastien Lifshitz spent five years filming Anaïs and Emma, high–school students in a provincial French town. He too was surprised they not only knew each other but enjoyed each other’s company, forming the singular duo that became the precious raw material for his documentary, Adolescentes. Anaïs is extrovert, determined, feet firmly on the ground; Emma, meanwhile, is swoony and indecisive, freshly alighted from the residual bubble straight out of a Sofia Coppola movie. That the project took place over such an extended period meant Lifshitz was able to build up an extraordinary amount of trust with the girls, their…

FASHION DESIGNER Anyone seeing Christopher John Rogers’ designs for the first time would do well to reach for their sunglasses. The colours he uses literally dazzle, with a palette ranging from almost fluorescent canary yellow to tomato–red, flashy apple green or shocking cerise pink… It’s rather like being in a Disneyland sweetshop. The volumes are extravagant too, with huge flounces, pannier skirts, giant collars, and XXL taffeta knots. There’s no real need to point out that his style reflects a tremendous love of life. It becomes even more apparent when when we ask him about his background. “I was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1993. My parents weren’t in the fashion world. It was the super–heroes’ costumes in comic books that woke me up to fashion, in particular X–Men’sStorm…

FILM–MAKER At nineteen, Phillip Youmans, has joined the circle of gifted young film directors, who include Chantal Akerman and Xavier Dolan (respectively eighteen and seventeen when they first came into the public eye) with his first feature film, Burning Cane. The career of this African–American prodigy from New Orleans got off to a flying start with a do–it–yourself fairy tale the American indie film world so loves, and is characteristic of the fast track approach made possible — at best — by the Internet and social media. Youmans wrote, produced and shot his first feature film while he was still at school. He financed it partly from crowd-funding, then, when it came to the crucial editing process, managed to convince film director Benh Zeitlin to come on board. Zeitlin had…

POP ICON Fourteen is a young age to be dreaming of a career, including for Billie Eilish. At home in the rundown Highland Park neighbourhood of Northeast Los Angeles — pre–gentrification — a battleground for rival Latino gangs, she was just another reclusive teenager locked in her thoughts, never off social media and madly in love with Justin Bieber. But hers is a fast–moving era and before she even had time to realise, she woke up an icon. All it took was one song to change the course of her life. A song written and recorded with her older brother, in her bedroom, for a dance teacher who wanted to hear her voice. A modern–day, everyday romance that compares love to falling through napalm skies. She uploaded it to SoundCloud…

It’s been a meteoric rise, one that is rare on such a global scale, for the Franco–Moroccan author Leïla Slimani and her second novel, Lullaby. Winner of the Goncourt literary prize in 2016, it sold over a million copies in France before becoming an international best–seller, translated into forty–five languages. Glamorous, committed, a feminist and hedonist, a social critic and an activist, she turned down President Emmanuel Macron’s offer to become culture minister, but accepted an unpaid position to promote the French language abroad. A mother of two but still constantly travelling, in the course of four crazy years she has addressed the political, social and environmental upheavals that paved the way for the twenty–first century’s new decade in an eruption of anxious questions. She’s currently working on a trilogy…

KIM JONES FASHION DESIGNER How old were you in this photo? Where and under what circumstances was it taken? I was 16 years old in this picture. I was in a photo booth in Brighton Station with my friend Lucy Male tickling me outside. The picture was for my college pass. What kind of teenager were you? I was a ring leader mainly. I wasn’t badly behaved but knew how to get people together! Who were your idols? There were two people in my life who have been really important in helping give to me the confidence to do what I do. One was Louise Wilson, who was my tutor and very dear friend after leaving college, and the other person was Lee McQueen, who was like an older brother.…

“Tidy your room!” It’s the battle cry of many an exasperated parent who, refusing to relinquish the little control they still have over their darling offspring, makes a last–ditch attempt to impose their authority. As though the disorder or decoration of the domestic cell, now an impenetrable fortress, were the sign of a chaotic mind that must be nipped in the bud if their teenager is to grow into a “responsible” adult. Most teenagers are unfazed and slam the door on what they know to be empty threats. There’s nothing to tidy anyway because everything is where it should be, here in this burrow, a place to quietly nest among the totems, figures to admire, a last soft toy and sexual fixations lining the walls, staining the sheets. It is…

APPLIED ARTS The tried and tested revitalising power of Miracle Broth, but with a formula kickstarted by a few drops of oil, to make your skin glow. And it all comes all in a jar sporting Mario Sorrenti’s ocean photos. Regenerating Oil €190, and Mario Sorrenti skincare for Crème de la Mer, €285, La Mer. E A pinch of Vitamin C in a daily dose of hyaluronic acid will provide the punch you need when the day gets off to an awkward start. Hyaluronic Acid Serum, €34, and Vitamin C powder, €34 Merme (at Oh My Cream). FRESH LIVING Used alone or together with the time–release crème, these “limited life” extra fresh serums supercharge and hydrate the skin. Oleosomes Crème d’Apport, €79, Sérum CaR, €63 and Pe+C serum, €39, Odacité…

A HOMAGE TO ORIGINALITY Thomas Delattre, head researcher at the Centre for Studies in New Consumer Patterns at the Institut Français de la Mode, oversaw filming of Radical Fashion Kids, a documentary in which teenagers between the ages of 13 and 19 give their take on their relationship to fashion: “They all have a rapport with luxury brands, which, with regard to labels such as Vuitton, Burberry, Supreme or Off–White, can become an obsession.” Pierre–Louis, 17, an aficionado of Supreme, stresses that, in addition to how they look, it is important for the clothes he buys to be rare items: “With Supreme, what I like is that they produce limited editions so no one has the same as you.” This is a new gauge of desirability in a sector that…

COUNTRY RAPPER The rhythm and cadence of the scene are reminiscent of a Quentin Tarantino spaghetti western. A low–angle shot of a pursuit on horseback, a nervous–looking young fugitive clinging desperately to a bag of loot, disappearing into the distance. Welcome to Old Town Road, 1889. This is the fantasy Far West film set that Lil Nas X has chosen for the opening scene of his first video. Along with Chris Rock and country’s living legend Billy Ray Cyrus, the rapper from suburban Atlanta appears as a roguish cowboy. The perfect choice to match the vibe of one 2019’s biggest hits. This video for “Old Town Road”, released in March 2019 and recently awarded a Grammy, in fact accompanies the second version of this unlikely single. A song cutting across…