Tom Ford Fetes Soleil Beauty Range in L.A., Announces Tmall China Debut

The sun seems to shine on Tom Ford wherever he goes, even inside the Beverly Hills restaurant Mr. Chow, where on Wednesday he hosted a party to celebrate his spring 2019 Soleil fragrance and beauty collection, which is about to go big with an online flagship April 25 on Alibaba Group’s Tmall. “Soleil Blanc is our number-two-selling fragrance in the Asia Pacific region, and we’re launching on Tmall, which is a huge outlet in China, so that’s what this is all about,” he said of the soiree, attended by influencers from near and far, including Meiqi Meng, Ning Chang, Rocky Barnes and Erica Pelosini. (The Estée Lauder-owned brand flew in 18 influencers from China, such as Meiqi; three from Korea, four from Latin America, four from EMEAI and one from the U.K.) Hometown L.A. friends including Jon Hamm, Elizabeth Hammer, Cornelia Guest and Ford’s husband, Richard Buckley, also attended. “Soleil is important globally, but also specifically to the Asian Pacific region,” he said of the fragrance and collection of sheer lip colors, highlighting powders and bronzing gels, which grew out of a one-off alternative to his other, richly pigmented and intense colors. “I created Soleil originally because when you are in a

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