Frédéric Malle’s next designer collaboration (after 2013’s Dries Van Noten par Frédéric Malle and 2017’s Alber Elbaz par Frédéric Malle Superstitious) will be for the Swedish luxury fashion house Acne Studios. Acne Studios par Frédéric Malle will debut in mid-April…
Frédéric Malle talks about the new Estée Lauder Legacy Collection: Azurée Legacy, Estée Legacy, Knowing Legacy, Private Collection Legacy and White Linen Legacy.
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“The minute I sold my company to Estée Lauder, I said that I wanted to do this,” says Malle. [...]
“This is where she tortured perfumers,” Malle says with a laugh, gesturing around the ornately-decorated, jewel box-like space. (The view of Central Park is so breathtaking, one has to wonder if visitors ever found it distracting during meetings.) Malle is, of course, not being literal, but referring to Lauder’s famously high standards for fragrance. For example, Beautiful, a blend of orange flower, mandarin, and rose that launched in 1985 and went on to become one of the brand’s bestsellers, was the result of “many, many months” of Lauder mixing iterations at the very same desk that sits in the corner of her office today, says Malle.
— Frédéric Malle on the upcoming Estée Lauder Legacy Collection. Read more in Reinventing a Beloved Fragrance Is Risky Business at Allure.
Estée Lauder will launch the Legacy Collection in Feburary, with five of the brand’s fragrances (Azurée, Estée, Knowing, Private Collection and White Linen) in updated formulas developed by Frédéric Malle working with perfumers Anne Flipo, Carlos Benaïm and Bruno Jovanovic…