Lipstick: what do you want to mouth?
Audio 48:30
“If you're sad, add more red and attack,” Gabrielle Chanel said.
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By: Emmanuelle Bastide
1 min
“
If you're sad, add more red and attack,
” Gabrielle Chanel said.
A daily gesture, lipstick is indeed part of the beauty routine of many women.
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Before the pandemic, around 10 were sold per second in Europe, in the United States, they were even 7 in 10 women to wear them.
Both a symbol of submission and the emancipation of women, wearing lipstick is not entirely trivial.
It is found as well on the lips of prostitutes, as suffragettes, passing by movie stars.
Who are the women of today who wear lipstick?
Between simple coquetry and political commitment, what is hidden in a tube of lipstick?
With :
Rebecca Benhamou
, journalist and author of
Sur la bouche - An insolent history of lipstick
(Premier Parallèle)
Marie-Jeanne Serbin Thomas
, editor-in-chief of
Brune Magazine
Khady Niang Diakhaté
, professional makeup artist and founder of
African Make-up Academy
, the first professional makeup training school in Dakar, Senegal
And at the end of the program, the portrait of
Zarifa Adiba
, a young 23-year-old violinist and first Afghan conductor.
She had to leave her country to flee the Taliban regime.
Our reporter
Charlie Dupiot
met her during her stay in Paris for the release of her book co-written with the collaboration of Anne Chaon,
The Indomitable - Le destin d'une jeune Afghane
(Robert Laffont - Versilio)
Musical programming:
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Lipstick
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Soundgasm
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