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Vogue Paris Translation: Editorial, November 2011

I have translated from French to English Emmanuelle Alt's editorial for the November issue of Vogue Paris which focuses on the science of beauty while taking time to chat with Kate Winslet and Joan Didion.

2011, année phare pour la beauté. Après une décennie de boulimie transformiste, la science s'allie à une certaine sagesse. La beauté tend vers un nouvel idéal, proche comme jamais du naturel parfait. Ce numéro détaille l'arsenal des techniques d'avant-garde dont on dispose désormais pour l'atteindre. Make-up du futur pour capter la lumière. Dopage cutané à l'aide de nouveaux carburants cosmétiques pour un look «fresh», indemne de stress. Micro-chirugie sélective prônée par les practiciens stars : on traque les rides de fatigue, on garde celles du charme, avec pour résultat un visage rayonnant qui préserve son expressivité — le nôtre, en mieux. Notre enquête sur ces nouveaux codes fait le tour du monde.

Hasard ou conjonction heureuse? La beauté, longtemps disqualifiée dans l'art, refait surface. Du Palazzo Grassi au Centre Pompidou du Metz, de la Fiac à Miami Basel, on assiste au retour de la séduction des formes et des matériaux, comme en témoigne Philippe Dagen, critique et essayiste. Signe des temps, la mode, bien sûr, s'allie à la tendance. Derrière l'objectif d'Inez & Vinoodh, la haute couture danse. Dans la rue, le blanc embellit et la maille seconde peau dynamise. Pour incarner la grâce, nous avons choisi deux visages. L'auteur américaine culte Joan Didion, dont l'adaptation française de L'Année de la pensée magique est donnée ce mois ci à Paris; la star oscarisée Kate Winslet, confondante de talent dans Contagion, de Steven Soderbergh, autant que dans dernier Polanski. Ou comment réussir en beauté.

2011, a banner year for beauty. After a decade of bulimic transformation, science has been combined with a certain wisdom. Beauty tends toward a new ideal, close to natural but never perfect. This issue details the arsenal of cutting-edge techniques that are available now to achieve it. Make-up of the future to capture the light. Doping skin using new cosmetic fuels for a "fresh" look, free of stress. Selective micro-surgery advocated by the star practitioners: it tracks the wrinkles of fatigue, it guards those of charm, resulting in a radiant face that preserves its expressiveness — ours, and better. Our investigation of these new codes went around the world.

Chance or happy combination? Beauty, long discredited in art, has resurfaced. From Palazzo Grassi to the Centre Pompidou Metz, from the FIAC to Art Basel Miami, we are seeing the return of the seduction of forms and materials, as evidenced by Philippe Dagen, critic and essayist. Sign of the times, fashion, of course, has joined forces with the trend. Behind the lens of Inez & Vinoodh, the high fashion dance. In the street, the embellished white and the mesh second skin energizes. To embody the grace, we chose two faces. The cult American writer Joan Didion, whose French adaptation of The Year of Magical Thinking is given this month in Paris; the Oscar-winning star Kate Winslet, astounding talent in Contagion, by Steven Soderbergh, as well as in the last Polanski. Or how to succeed in beauty.

Vogue Paris editorial image © 2011 Condé Nast. All Rights Reserved.

Reader Comments (4)

I think Conde Nast is on tight budget why? Cause they keep reprinting and publishing their old images on their past issue which i dont understand..why dont they create something original im sorry im just so pissed off..were french we dont need femininity and sweetness
28 novembre 2011 | Unregistered Commenterbernie
B, you are SO right! Forget the sweetness and light, we want darkness and irreverence.
30 novembre 2011 | Registered Commenterkellina
OMG kellina, I think you really have amazing journalistic talent, I think it is wonderful how you made the subtle reference to Carine´s "Irreverent". You are so witty. Your blog is my bible.
1 décembre 2011 | Unregistered Commentermanon
Manon, thank you so very much for your sweet words, you made my day! xx
1 décembre 2011 | Registered Commenterkellina

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