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Heretic Parfum partnered with the Edward Gorey Estate on an exclusive collection of room sprays inspired by Gorey’s illustrations and brought the collection to life in a lavish campaign. There are generally two types of people: Those who eagerly await Halloween all year long, and those who anticipate the end of spooky season so that…

Indian National Award-winning helmer Srijit Mukherji (“Chotushkone”) will direct a British-Indian co-production on Arthur Conan Doyle that blends the Sherlock Holmes creator’s real-life crusade to overturn wrongful convictions with elements from his iconic detective fiction. The feature, titled “Elementary, My Dear Holmes,” has secured backing from the Conan Doyle Estate as associate producer, with Shahnaab Alam (“The Lunchbox”) producing…

TLL Editor in Chief In licensing terms, as Sherlock Holmes might say, the game is afoot, as the Estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has appointed Renaissance Licensing as its exclusive licensing representative for North America. Under the new partnership, Renaissance Licensing will become the Watson to Conan Doyle’s famed detective character Sherlock Holmes, as…

Seventy years ago today, actor James Dean was killed while driving his sports car on a remote highway in Central California. Dean had made only three films but was already a star whose brooding performances captured a counternarrative to the 1950s. His death at age 24 helped make him a legend. Carroll Baker, who co-starred…

Houghton exhibition celebrates legendary artist’s offbeat, macabre sensibility  A pair of disembodied hands thrusts a cake topped with candles through an open window. A nearby menu announces only one course: cold boiled owl. A figure glances worriedly at an accumulation of boxes of chocolate. The caption: “The Horror of Having a Birthday.”  The offbeat illustration…

From the race track to the big screen, Steve McQueen operated at high-octane speed, always wearing a few choice essentials fit for the task at hand. And while his Tag Heuer Le Mans ‘Monaco’ watch might be out of reach for the average buyer, it’s now easier than ever to find a new edition of the Persol 714, his eyewear…

The graphic novel ‘The Blues Brothers: The Escape of Joliet Jake’ is set two decades after the seminal film, and The Hollywood Reporter has a first-look, as well as a foreword penned by Aykroyd. Dan Aykroyd is fired up for a new story about his beloved Blues Brothers. The Blues Brothers: The Escape of Joliet Jake is a…

One of three Tags dropped for the Monaco GP For the first time in the near-century history of the Monaco Grand Prix, the race has an official title partner — Tag Heuer. Already long associated with motorsport, the Swiss watchmaker is now more visibly embedded in the event than ever. To coincide with the partnership, Tag has released…

The latest iteration of Persol’s signature 714 sunglasses—famously worn by Hollywood legend Steve McQueen —premieres at Cannes Film Festival as summer’s must-have accessory. In 1968, Hollywood actor Steve McQueen stepped onto the set of The Thomas Crown Affair and, with a single accessory, changed the course of eyewear history — a pair of Persol 714 sunglasses. With their…