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Forbes
15-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Misela Opens First Manhattan Store In Noho
Inside the new Misela store By now New York City Mayor Eric Adams is infamously known as a big fan of Turkey's but it also seems Turkey is a fan of the Big Apple. At least when it comes to luxury accessories. Two brands, Misela and Serena Uziyel have both opened retail spaces in the past month as their customer base expands. It also points to the ongoing larger trend of brands focusing on DTC in their own retail spaces whose locations are easily determined based on online data. For Misela, founded by Serra Türker Bayr, the downtown cool of Bond Street beckoned. The brand's roots began in New York when Türker Bayr, launched Misela in 2008 with a largely wholesale business model. The brand, whose names refers to the first two letters of Serra and her sisters name, is produced in Turkey and hit the market during the indie accessories boom and garnered prestigious industry recognition, selling at Henri Bendel and Scoop in their heyday. As the brand grew, so did Serra's as she got married and started a family, she eventually returned to Turkey full time. The Anatolia chevron style is a customizable bag in a variety of styles By 2012 she had opened her first store in Istanbul. 'We started growing the brand there slowly, shifting from wholesale to DTC. The brand got bigger so along the way I wanted to expand internationally, and I opened a boutique in London in 2019,' said Türker Bayr adding, 'I always wanted to come back to New York because my heart was always kind of here because I knew this market and this woman, but I was waiting for the right time.' A hallmark of the brand is its chevron leather pattern which can be customized in various color and stitching details on a variety of totes, carryalls, small leather goods and even suitcases. The made-to-order styles cost the same as items in store and on the shelf. A whipstitched leather trim also comes in 80 colors to accent the twelve base colors. Initials and the brand's Eye of the Tiger motif—a design with roots in Ottoman Empire and Eastern philosophy is a modern talisman for strength and vitality—motif can also be added to bags. Once ordered the bags which are made in Turkey, take 15 to 20 days to be created and delivered. Average price points range from $880 for an Edna tote in Anatolia print to the Sienna doctor's bag style in Los Angeles laser cut pattern for $1,300. Türker Bayr promises a special design for New York. 'I'm a textile designer, originally and I wanted to create this fabric to create timeless handbags. I played around with some designs and I created a zig zag within a Chevron,' she explained. The Belgravia taxi cab yellow style is unique to New York. The brand also features soft leather styles such as quilted styles and laser cut styles that recall architecture motifs. 'There's always a source of inspiration. For example, this I call Theia print which is an alternating diamond pattern,' she explained. Since opening the store in the UK, Misela has leaned into digital marketing which helped build a US customer base, currently focused on New York and Los Angeles. Meanwhile back at home base, the brand opened a new headquarters in Istanbul, a four-story building with two floors dedicated to selling. A design atelier and headquarters occupy the other two floors. 'We partner with galleries for creative approaches in seasonal room concepts. These have been so loved so we wanted to do the same idea here in New York,' Türker Bayr added.
RTÉ News
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Chloë Sevigny's Magic Farm is a vivid but slightly underbaked comedy
Magic Farm, Argentine-Spanish filmmaker Amalia Ulman's second feature after 2021's El Planeta, is a vivid, wacky, convincingly performed but slightly underbaked culture-clash comedy. A team of obnoxious, self-absorbed American filmmakers, who make attention-grabbing, off-kilter online videos, head off to a rural town in Argentina to interview a bunny ear-wearing musician who has gone viral. The only thing is, due to poor communication and lazy research, they've landed in the wrong South American country. Desperate to save their reputations and make good on the considerable expense of hustling this quintet of content creators to such a remote location, they set about grilling the locals about potential stories to shoot, all the while ignorantly ignoring the enormous health crisis story under their noses. The team is headed up by jaded presenter Edna (Chloë Sevigny) and her slimy producer-husband Dave (Simon Rex), who soon hurriedly returns to New York to deal with an icky legal issue. Edna is left to pick up the pieces alongside her three young crew members - the inept, whiny producer Jeff (Alex Wolff), impressively coiffed and sweet sound guy Justin (Joe Apollonio) and steadfast cameraperson Elena, played by Ulman herself, who is both the only Spanish-speaking member of the group and the only one who seems to have her head on her shoulders. They team up with the kindly hostel manager (Guillermo Jacubowicz), connected local woman Popa (Valeria Lois) and her beautiful, chronically online adult daughter Manchi (Camila del Campo) to try and concoct a story. While Magic Farm is breezily watchable, aided by the pleasingly lurid cinematography, perfectly pitched performances and occasional zingy one-liners, there's a sense that we never get to scratch the surface of any of the characters. In a somewhat underwritten role, Sevigny brings a stoic resignedness to Edna, Wolff is transformed as a hot-mess ladies man and Apollonio and Jacubowicz bring a tenderness to their sweet and unexpected bond. Some genuine moments poke through the absurdist, deadpan humour, and the intermittent gimmicky camerawork gives the proceedings an enjoyably trippy feel, there's a sense Magic Farm never quite fulfills its considerable potential.
The Age
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
A piercing, poignant tale about love, loss and writing
FICTION Love Unedited Caro Llewellyn Picador, $34.99 Caro Llewellyn's Love Unedited is a piercing and poignant story of love, loss and writing that speaks to the magic of working with words, and the humanity too. Llewellyn's novel begins as the main character, Edna, meets her former lover at the Melbourne cafe The European and is transported back in time. I found myself transported back in time, too, to the kernel of truth that made me a reviewer. I remembered how when I was taking my final exams at school I used to live stream the PEN World Voices festival, and found myself caught up in the glamour and the gravitas as a global grouping of writers engaged in discussions about how writing can give hope, and courage, and takes hope, and courage, to produce too. This festival was directed by Llewellyn, who had relocated to New York after directing the Sydney Writers' Festival, and would later become chief executive of Australia's hub of literary writing, The Wheeler Centre. When I learnt Llewellyn had written a romantic roman-à-clef about an editor who worked with a literary author, I was ready to be caught up in the whirlwind romance of their work with words. There is plenty of romance to Love Unedited, and much of it is the romance of independence: work, travel and having the courage of your convictions. Llewellyn's protagonist Edna sees men on scooters in Coney Island and gets on the back of a motorcycle in Paris and the reader is swept up in the adventure of the journey. The romance of the novel is also of the kind more familiar from Shakespearean comedies: star-crossed lovers traversing oceans to be together only to find themselves separated by the tohu bohu of the exigencies of life. Edna falls in love with a serious writer marked by tragedy. What comes next is a romance that is between the novel and the reader, but Llewellyn shows hope and courage in the way she depicts a story that reads beautifully on the page and, beyond the page, carries a sense of longing and sacrifice familiar to the great love stories of our time. One of the story's most delightful surprises is the novel-within-the-novel that we realise we are reading when an Australian editor, Molly, living with an Italian chef, encounters Edna's story of love, loss, and what they ate. The story that unfolds between the editor and the writer is reminiscent of confrontations between master and pupil or author and subject that are familiar in coming-of-age stories such as the recent Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore film May December. As in Ian McEwan's Atonement, the lived experience of the story comes closer to tragedy than romantic comedy and the justice of love is best served when the writer uses her imagination to find the truest and most romantic ending for the story. In this way, Love Unedited is a great tribute to the courage it takes to write, and the hope we invest in books as readers.
Sydney Morning Herald
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
A piercing, poignant tale about love, loss and writing
FICTION Love Unedited Caro Llewellyn Picador, $34.99 Caro Llewellyn's Love Unedited is a piercing and poignant story of love, loss and writing that speaks to the magic of working with words, and the humanity too. Llewellyn's novel begins as the main character, Edna, meets her former lover at the Melbourne cafe The European and is transported back in time. I found myself transported back in time, too, to the kernel of truth that made me a reviewer. I remembered how when I was taking my final exams at school I used to live stream the PEN World Voices festival, and found myself caught up in the glamour and the gravitas as a global grouping of writers engaged in discussions about how writing can give hope, and courage, and takes hope, and courage, to produce too. This festival was directed by Llewellyn, who had relocated to New York after directing the Sydney Writers' Festival, and would later become chief executive of Australia's hub of literary writing, The Wheeler Centre. When I learnt Llewellyn had written a romantic roman-à-clef about an editor who worked with a literary author, I was ready to be caught up in the whirlwind romance of their work with words. There is plenty of romance to Love Unedited, and much of it is the romance of independence: work, travel and having the courage of your convictions. Llewellyn's protagonist Edna sees men on scooters in Coney Island and gets on the back of a motorcycle in Paris and the reader is swept up in the adventure of the journey. The romance of the novel is also of the kind more familiar from Shakespearean comedies: star-crossed lovers traversing oceans to be together only to find themselves separated by the tohu bohu of the exigencies of life. Edna falls in love with a serious writer marked by tragedy. What comes next is a romance that is between the novel and the reader, but Llewellyn shows hope and courage in the way she depicts a story that reads beautifully on the page and, beyond the page, carries a sense of longing and sacrifice familiar to the great love stories of our time. One of the story's most delightful surprises is the novel-within-the-novel that we realise we are reading when an Australian editor, Molly, living with an Italian chef, encounters Edna's story of love, loss, and what they ate. The story that unfolds between the editor and the writer is reminiscent of confrontations between master and pupil or author and subject that are familiar in coming-of-age stories such as the recent Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore film May December. As in Ian McEwan's Atonement, the lived experience of the story comes closer to tragedy than romantic comedy and the justice of love is best served when the writer uses her imagination to find the truest and most romantic ending for the story. In this way, Love Unedited is a great tribute to the courage it takes to write, and the hope we invest in books as readers.
The Guardian
02-05-2025
- General
- The Guardian
Eileen Russell obituary
My mother, Eileen Russell, who has died aged 90, was one of the original Greenham Common peace women. As our family home in Berkshire was so close to the RAF base at Greenham, she became a source of great support to many women who went there in the early 1980s to protest against nuclear weapons, and she is still remembered fondly by many who met her. Offering a hot bath and serving up vegetable soup were among the many ways she supported the cause. Born in Plymouth, Eileen was the younger daughter of Edna (nee Fry), an artist and milliner, and Mervyn Arthur, the local chemist. She grew up and went to school around the Totnes area of Devon. Both parents were active members of the local Labour party, and one of their proudest moments was being photographed at an event with Nye Bevan, the founder of the NHS. Eileen met Peter Russell, a Yorkshireman, while studying at Seale Hayne Agricultural College in Devon; they married in 1957 and had four children, Mathew, Katherine, Anna and me. After moving around the country a lot with Peter's work as a civil servant with the Ministry of Agriculture, in 1976 they moved (with Edna) to a smallholding in Headley, Berkshire. The 'family' grew significantly at that point, to include horses, dogs, cats, chickens, guinea fowl, a parrot and a boa constrictor named Angelina. Eileen was interested in politics, and joined Newbury CND in the early 80s. This led to her taking part in many demonstrations, and eventually joining the protest at Greenham Common. When CB radios were introduced in order for the camps to keep in contact, Eileen's 'handle' could only be one thing: Dragon. It was a name she had first been given by one of my brother's friends, and remained her affectionate nickname for the rest of her life. Even the grandchildren called her Granny Dragon. In 1987, my parents retired and moved to Hayle in Cornwall, taking Edna, who was well into her 80s (and still doing etchings) and me with them. In the following six years, Eileen and Peter divorced, and both Edna and Peter died; Eileen decided to return to living in Devon on her own. She was still known to ride a moped down to the local shop at 80, and was a very keen and knowledgable gardener into her 90s. Her interest and support for various political and humanitarian causes continued throughout her life, and, as an environmentalist, what she didn't know about companies' eco-credentials wasn't worth knowing. Eileen is survived by her children and seven grandchildren.
