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Precious fabrics were the starting point for Kiton’s fall collection. Each material had a 3-D effect, also reflected in the layering and different lengths and proportions of the garments.
Creative director Maria Giovanna Paone’s textile experience was obvious as she walked through the lineup at Kiton’s palazzo in Milan. Displayed around a fireplace in a living room space appointed with armchairs and rugs, the clothes oozed comfort and coziness, thanks to the luxurious fabrics selected by Paone.
A coat in double cashmere treated to look like sable was sprayed over for a silver effect and embellished with mink cuffs and collar. A cashmere flannel jumpsuit was sophisticated yet youthful, and a Yangir cashmere and silk jacket was just asking to be tried on.
Paone continues to develop the women’s line at the storied men’s wear company, leveraging its expertise and knowing that her target customer wants to look smart — and even more, to feel smart with clothes that have staying power.

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Luke and Lucie Meier’s fall Jil Sander men’s and women’s collection was a strong sophomore effort. They found solid footing in softness and comfort, contextualizing the lineup as a vision for the future, one of protection, humanity and sensitivity. An obvious way to take the house’s minimalist codes in a futuristic direction could have been purist, technical precision. “It’s not just machinery,” said Luke backstage. “We’re surrounded by technology and AI and all these things that are always in the news and in the consciousness. We thought, ‘Why can’t the future be beautiful, soft and human also?’”
The designers kept the essence of Sander’s signature simplicity with spare cuts and an abundance of white, as well as black, gray, navy and red. They breathed air and lightness into the aesthetic with tactile fabrics and silhouettes constructed to graze and float around the body. It was lovely. The opening look was an ivory blazer — tidy shoulders, short lapels — over a sheer white shirt and ivory skirt done in wide yarns of wool encased in silk organza. It was slightly padded and cushy but not bulky. A red T-shirt and skirt shaped like an oval around the hips came in gently

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For fall, Raquel Diniz said she reworked an Eighties inspiration, which translated in the research of fabrics with shiny effects. These jazzed up her signature uncomplicated and flattering maxidresses worked in a combination of micro and macro floral patterns. Tiny crystals punctuated a range of frocks and separates —  including a suit featuring the belt decorated by a jewel-like decorative button — crafted from velvet, which was also used for elegant dresses with front buttons and intriguing vertical cuts on the bodice.

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A PERFECT STORM: A few weeks after the announcement — and ensuing media frenzy — that the second season of “Big Little Lies” was definitely happening, Shailene Woodley confessed she “didn’t think anyone had expectations” about the series.
“There were no plans to do a second season, but the audience that watched the first begged for a second one,” she said ahead of the Salvatore Ferragamo show.

Shailene Woodley 
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Flanked by Danai Gurira, Virginia Gardner and Jack Lowden, Woodley said she was still awed by filming “Adrift,” due out this summer. It’s based on the true story of Tami Oldham, played by Woodley, and Richard Sharp, played by Sam Claflin, of “surviving in a class-five hurricane with little food for 43 days,” said the actress.

Virginia Gardner, Danai Gurira and Shailene Woodley. 
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“It was amazing, we filmed around Fiji — the elements, the nature…it was a profound experience and if I think that we were only pretending but someone actually did it, it was really inspiring.” To be true to the part, Woodley also had to lose weight, but she was game. “It was only for a short period of time,” she said with a smile.

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Homebuying in Mission Viejo in the fourth quarter outpaced countywide sales activity.

Using CoreLogic data, we compared sales patterns for all residences in the October-to-December period vs. a year earlier. Sales in Mission Viejo rose as 355 residences were purchased in the latest period vs. 321 a year earlier. That’s a gain of 11 percent vs. a decline of 1.3 percent countywide.

Here’s what CoreLogic’s homebuying report for Mission Viejo told us about activity in the fourth quarter vs. a year earlier …

Mission Viejo ZIP code 92691

1. 161 homes sold in the latest period vs. 147 last year. That’s a sales gain of 9.5 percent.

2. Median selling price of $670,000 vs. $639,924 in 2016, a gain of 4.7 percent. The median was 48th highest out of 83 Orange County ZIPs.

Mission Viejo ZIP 92692

3. 194 homes sold in the latest period vs. 174 last year. That’s a sales gain of 11.5 percent.

4. Median of $686,500 vs. $669,756 in 2016, a gain of 2.5 percent. The median ranked 43rd of 83.

… See full-year 2017 CoreLogic results …

Beach ZIPs | North O.C. | South O.C. | Mid-county

… and from 2017’s fourth quarter, eight countywide trends to ponder:

1. At the neighborhood level, prices were up in 66 of 83 Orange County ZIP codes compared to the previous year.

2. Sales rose in 38 of 83 Orange County ZIPs.

3. Builder sales were 1,544 — up 4.2 percent from a year earlier. Median selling price was $869,000 — up 0.2 percent from a year earlier.

4. In the cheapest third of the county’s market — the 27 least expensive ZIPs, median of $622,500 and below — 2,540 homes sold. That’s down 0.9 percent compared to a year earlier.

5. In the 27 priciest ZIPs — median of $789,050 and higher — 3,236 homes sold. That’s down 0.2 percent.

6. In the 11 Orange County ZIPs with medians above $1 million, sales totaled 720 homes, down 1.9 percent in a year. There were 10 seven-figure ZIPs a year earlier.

7. In the county’s 16 beach-close ZIPs, 1,484 homes sold in the latest period, down 0.6 percent vs. a year earlier.

8. As for relative bargains, there were six ZIPs with medians under $500,000 with total sales of 440 homes. A year earlier, 14 ZIPs had medians under $500,000 with 1,039 sales, or a drop of 58 percent in a year.

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SANTA ANA  — Police are investigating a stabbing that left a man wounded Friday night,  Feb. 23, on a Santa Ana sidewalk.

The attack was reported shortly before 8:30 p.m. in the 900 block of  East Third Street, Cmdr. Michael Claborn said.

The victim, whose named was not released, was transported to an area hospital with what appeared to be multiple, non-life threatening stab wounds, he said.

Neither a motive nor a suspect had been identified late Friday night in connection with the attack.