Yuki Kani has joined BETC Etoile Rouge in the role of creative director and as part of the creative teams helmed by ECD Jasmine Loignon. BETC Etoile Rouge is an agency within the BETC group, dedicated to luxury, fashion, and beauty brands.
After graduating from the Tama Art University in Tokyo, Kani began his career at Carré Noir, before joining BETC and later BETC Luxe as art director. During his 12 years at BETC he worked for brands like Air France, Evian, Lacoste, Giorgio Armani fragrances and Van Cleef & Arpels.
In 2013 he joined Mazarine as sr. art director and worked exclusively on luxury, fashion and beauty brands such as Carolina Herrera, Baume&Mercier and Issey Miyake.
After a stint with the McCann Beauty Team for l’Oréal Paris, he returned to Mazarine as sr. art director and art supervisor for Diesel fragrances, Cacharel, DKNY and Chopard.
At BETC Etoile Rouge, he will be in charge of creative for Le Bon Marché, on both advertising and publishing, as well as luxury brands from AccorHotels group and the Coty group. He will also be working alongside Delphine de Canecaude with former Etoile Rouge brands like Ofée, Dior Fragrances and Louis Vuitton.
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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