In some ways, Clemente Bar began with a simple, perhaps even off-the-cuff, comment between close friends. Painter Francesco Clemente told Daniel Humm, the Eleven Madison Park chef, that he’d always wanted a drink named after him — in a similar vein of the Bellini, an homage to Renaissance painter Giovanni Bellini. Instead, Clemente now has a entire bar named after him. “It’s turned into a big project,” says Humm, the afternoon of the bar’s public opening this month. “It turned into really a labor of love.” Humm has opened the doors to Clemente Bar, located just upstairs from the three Michelin-starred Eleven Madison Park. The bar features two new large-scale paintings that Clemente created for the space, as well as a ceiling fresco. “It was very powerful to be with Francesco when he first saw it,” Humm says. “He obviously made the paintings, but then when he first saw them installed, which was two weeks ago, he was really overwhelmed by how beautiful it turned out.” “I imagine everythi
In this special episode of WWD Voices, Jenny B. Fine, editor in chief of Beauty Inc and executive editor, Beauty at WWD, interviews Jane Lauder, chief data officer and executive vice president, Enterprise Marketing at The Estée Lauder Companies, on the mainstage at the fourth annual WWD x FN X Beauty Inc Women in Power event in New York, on the intersection of leadership and AI. To listen to the episode, CLICK HERE. When Jane Lauder’s grandmother Estée Lauder began her eponymous beauty company, it was based on the one-on-one personal experience of knowing the customer or the client. Lauder pointed to the Clinique card catalog as an example, where sales associates would note product recommendations and purchases as well as personal details about the shopper. In 2024, however, artificial intelligence (AI) can make connections even more personal. In fact, Lauder said she believes that AI supports products and the consumer experience. “Sometimes we think about data being impersonal and tak