Kendra Wan has been appointed a senior creative at agency enso. In her new role, Wan will work with enso’s copywriters and designers to develop creative concepts, provide art direction and serve as a liaison between clients and creative teams. She will report directly to Davi Sing, enso’s executive creative director.
Wan graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Carnegie Mellon and earned a Master’s degree in Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. She started her advertising career at Platform/W+K London, working for brands including Nokia, Fairtrade and Emeco which brought her to W+K Shanghai, where she worked in the creative team on Converse, Levi’s, and Tiffany & Co. Wan also worked within the creative teams for the Beats by Dre accounts as well as completed product design and development for the brand. Three years later, Wan was a creative lead at LOVE where she worked on Nike, Miss Sixty and Johnnie Walker. Wan is also the founder and creative director of her own brand (dra/wn) and founded a fashion line of coats (Prepared & Embraced).
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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