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Cynthia Rivas Shares Her Own Skin Care Routine
The first thing I do in the morning if I’m washing my hair is put in an Olaplex hair mask. I shower and do my face massage as I’m cleansing, usually with the Cleansing Complex from iS Clinical. I use Oribe Hair Alchemy Resilience Shampoo and Conditioner or Rōz Foundation Shampoo and Conditioner. One or two times a week I’ll use C & the Moon Malibu Made Body Scrub. I like Nécessaire Eucalyptus Body Wash and I really like Le Labo Santal 33 Shower Gel or Body Bar. I always apply my skin care to the face, neck and chest. First, the iS clinical Pro-Heal Serum Advance+ and then a targeted serum for a concern I’m having. Next I use Skin Better Techno Neck Perfecting Cream. I’ve used MBR CytoLine Eyecare Cream 100 for years. For my final skin-care steps, I apply Reparative Moisture Emulsion from iS clinical and EltaMD UV Clear. On my hair I use the Roz Hair Milk Serum and Santa Lucia Styling Oil every day, even if I haven’t washed my hair, because it helps with frizz. My latest obsession has been the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer. It’s worth every penny. I also love the ColorWOW Dream Coat Supernatural Spray. Every time I use it, people ask if I got a professional blowout, and it lasts for days.
I feel naked if I don’t have Chanel’s Le Volume mascara, Hourglass brow pencil and Anastasia Brow Gel on. If I’m going out, I’ll use a tiny bit of No.1 De Chanel Revitalizing Foundation just where I have redness. I like my skin to show through. I’ll use Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Sun-Kissed Powder blush and eye shadow. For lips I like to use Charlotte Tilbury Lip Cheat and Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb. At night I always double cleanse. The first cleanser is usually Bioderma Sensibio to remove that first layer of makeup and sunscreen. The second step actually cleans your skin. I use N°1 De Chanel Red Camellia Powder-to-Foam Cleanser. Twice a week I’ll apply a mask, like Chanel Hydra Beauty Camellia Repair Mask, and jump in the shower. Then maybe I’ll use May Linstrom’s Clean Dirt to exfoliate.
If I’ve done a face scrub, I won’t use a retinol. Instead, I’ll use Hydra-Cool serum from iS Clinical and targeted serum for rejuvenation, like this EGF Serum. Then I’ll apply the neck cream, Restorsea Pro Firming Eye Serum and my eye cream, followed by my face cream or SkinBetter AlphaRet. I use Chanel Sublimage La Brume Intense Revitalizing Mist throughout the day to refresh my skin or I apply it right before my night moisturizer and Restorsea’s LipMagic exfoliator. I take iS Clinical Active Peel System with me when I travel and will do it before an event. I wear Le Labo Santal 33 body lotion and perfume and I also love Costa Brazil Aroma perfume. I gravitate toward grounding, earthy scents.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
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The Surrey Returns to Manhattan’s Upper East Side With Textured Interiors and a New Restaurant
While Manhattan has seen a flurry of new hotel openings in the past few years, much of that activity has happened downtown. But next month, the Upper East Side will get a debut of its own with the Surrey, a Corinthia Hotel, the first U.S. property from the Malta-based company, which currently has hotels throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Art Deco high rise on Madison Avenue sits amid the neighborhood’s blue-chip art galleries (Gagosian is around the corner) and a few steps from Central Park. The 16-story building had been a magnet for the city’s socialites and celebrities since opening in 1926, and this new iteration is the result of a four year renovation — and the latest New York City hospitality project by Martin Brudnizki, who recently designed the interiors of Tribeca’s Fouquet’s New York and the Fifth Avenue Hotel in NoMad. For the Surrey’s 100 guest rooms, the London-based Brudnizki decided on a color palette dominated by soft neutrals, while adding details like woven wall coverings, green and slate blue beds, and marble-topped side tables. Art plays a big part, too: Works by American superstars George Condo and Robert Mapplethorpe mix with emerging contemporary artists like Ethan Cook and Gizam Vural. The hotel’s dining venue, meanwhile, is another newcomer to the city: Casa Tua, the seafood-focused Mediterranean restaurant that has outposts in Miami, Aspen, and Paris. Both guests and the public are welcome here, though a second-floor members’ club offers a more private uptown experience. The Surrey, a Corinthia Hotel opens Oct. 1; from $1,000 a night; corinthia.com.
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Titus Kaphar Mines His Memories for Paintings on View in Los Angeles
In 2022, the Connecticut-based artist Titus Kaphar started writing about his relationship with his father, jotting down memories. It began as a way for Kaphar to share his past with his sons, but the writing soon morphed into much more — a screenplay for his first narrative feature film and the inspiration for a new series of paintings that will be displayed at the Gagosian gallery in Beverly Hills, Calif., this fall. The film, “Exhibiting Forgiveness,” which stars André Holland and will be released in theaters later this year, tells a semi-autobiographical story based on Kaphar’s experience of reconnecting with his father after a long separation. The oil paintings depict various images and scenes from the film and are also placed within its scenes. “As the character is going through an emotional event, these paintings start to appear to him in a magical realism sort of way,” Kaphar says. A 2023 painting titled “You want it back?” depicts a fictionalized representation of the artist’s childhood home, its roof brownish pink against a purple sky. The bright palette is meant to contrast with the feelings of the people who populate Kaphar’s paintings. “There’s a line in the film where [the protagonist] says, ‘Is it just me or are bad memories more saturated than good ones?’” Kaphar says. “It’s this idea that sometimes in our lives the difficult things that happen play louder and brighter than the good things that happen.” “Exhibiting Forgiveness” will be on view Sept. 13 through Nov. 2 at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, Calif., gagosian.com.
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The Italian Men’s Wear Brand Canali Marks Its 90th Anniversary With a Capsule Collection
The Italian tailoring house Canali was founded in 1934 by the brothers Giacomo and Giovanni Canali in the wooded Lombardian commune of Triuggio. Specializing in men’s wear since its inception, the company found particular success comparatively early in its history with the introduction, in 1958, of moisture-wicking raincoats, which have since become a staple not only of Canali’s offerings, but of Italian men’s wear as a whole. Now, on the occasion of its 90th anniversary, the brand is releasing a six-look capsule collection consisting of suiting, knitwear, accessories, and, of course, raincoats. Single- and double-breasted jackets and pleated trousers feature interior selvage trimming exclusive to the capsule that reads “Canali 90th.” The message also appears inside the sleeve cuffs of button-downs and along the inseams of five-pocket jeans. The collection’s cashmere knitwear includes a pullover crew-neck sweater, a button-up cardigan and a fringe-trimmed scarf all in Brianza green, a muted blue-green shade often used by the house and named for the province north of Milan where Triuggio is situated. Also unique to the capsule is a reimagined Canali logo, a shield-shaped emblem featuring the house’s founding date beneath a swan, a bird whose feathers repel moisture like the raincoat it’s pictured clutching in its bill. From $150 for accessories, us.canali.com.
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Two Artists Explore the Domestic in a Marin County Exhibition
The artist JB Blunk’s work was closely linked with the land that surrounded him. Blunk, who died in 2002, created stone and wood sculptures that emphasized organic form, influenced by the lush topography of his longtime Northern California home in Marin County. “Tabletop,” an upcoming exhibition at Blunk Space, the Point Reyes Station, Calif.-based gallery founded in 2021 by Blunk’s daughter, the curator Mariah Nielson, provides an updated look at how art might reflect the place where it was made. It combines the whimsical, brightly colored paintings and prints of the Oakland, Calif.-based artist Lucy Stark with a series of playful objects fashioned out of tin by the Guadalajara, Mexico-based designer Fabien Cappello. Picnic scenes from Stark appear in soft peaches and bristling greens inspired by the California coast’s pale clay soil and scraggly pine forests. Cappello’s pieces, some of which match the palette of Stark’s paintings, were made after the artist visited Blunk’s former home this past January and are from his “Objetos de Hojalata” series (2022–), which is influenced by Mexican tin art. In a stroke of collaboration, one work by Stark, painted directly on the outside wall of the gallery as a nod to Mexican sign-painting, portrays a watering can made by Cappello. “Tabletop” will be on view from Sept. 7 through Oct. 19 at Blunk Space, Point Reyes Station, Calif., blunkspace.com.
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