A growing number of brands have begun opening doors to guest designers, but it is a practice that Frame says they’ve been using since its inception.
The contemporary brand’s latest collaboration is with model Imaan Hammam, who told WWD she’d love to get going on a second collaboration as soon as possible. Erik Torstensson, cofounder of Frame, laughed in response saying, “nothing is confirmed.”
Despite resistance to confirming a follow-up to the still pending collection, Torstensson and Jens Grede, cofounder of Frame, agreed that working with Hammam was a seamless experience, saying it was the energy she brought to the project that “makes it fun.”
Hammam’s collection marks the sixth collaboration for Frame though Grede and Torstensson said the capsules really cannot be compared to one another as each is a personal endeavor. For Hammam, the project was another chance to use her platform to celebrate freedom, diversity, equality and female empowerment. “That’s what we try to do [each time],” Torstensson said. “We try to facilitate a vision.”
 “She is a natural creative director,” Grede said. “I think that we know when we meet someone and they just have that natural ability and she is her own best stylist, her own best editor and she

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THAT’S THE TICKET: “We’re very patriotic,” said Kyra Kennedy, wearing a red Chiara Boni La Petite Robe jumpsuit and standing beside her cousin Cara Kennedy Cuomo in a blue one, before the label’s Saturday night show.
While Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary will ramp up political conversations nationwide, the Kennedy kin are accustomed to unsolicited election-related conversations. Cuomo (whose mother is Kerry Kennedy) said, “Beyond the Kennedy side of things, my dad [New York Gov. Andrew] is a primary Democratic figure and people very sweetly and flatteringly ask, ‘So, is your dad going to jump in the race?’…when you look at the Democratic field as it stands now, there is such a variety of options from the Democratic socialist left to the center left. And the center left model didn’t work when Hillary Clinton ran. But the extreme left model seems not to be resonating with as many people as one might hope. It’s going to be interesting to see where the party falls come primary time.”
While Cuomo works for an investment firm that supports sustainable companies, Kennedy works for Gabriele “Bebe” Morat’s Redemption clothing company. Wearing a red and black Redemption jacket capelike, Kennedy said the company’s activewear launch Thursday would

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The 2020 Oscars may have gone without a host for its second consecutive year, but the Academy relied on a number of high-impact musical performances to bring some much needed energy to the awards ceremony.
As is tradition, all nominated best original songs were performed at the 2020 Oscars, including a performance from “Frozen II” that brought together singers from around the world that voiced the role of Elsa and a special performance by Elton John, who ultimately went home with the Academy Award.
Read More: What You Didn’t See on T.V. at the 2020 Oscars
The show also had a few of surprise performances, namely by rapper Eminem, who performed his Oscar-winning song “Lose Yourself” 18 years after he was absent from the Oscars to pick up the award.
From Janelle Monáe’s energetic opening number to Billie Eilish’s “In Memoriam” performance, here are six must-see 2020 Oscars performances.
1. Janelle Monáe’s Opening Number

Musician Janelle Monáe kicked off the 2020 Oscars with a performance that paid tribute to some of the year’s nominated films, including a nod to “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” and bringing on-stage dancers dressed in costumes from films like “Joker,“ “Us,” “Queen and Slim” and “Little Women.” Monáe was also

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Oscar de la Renta designers Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim aren’t finished with New York Fashion Week just yet.
Fresh off presenting their punk-themed fall 2020 collection for Monse, the duo will showcase their newest looks for de la Renta with a presentation at the New York Public Library on Feb. 10.
Catching all the action will be easy: On Monday night at 9 p.m. ET, you can check out the below video player to see what’s next for the label.

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It’s the largest yacht built by the shipyard to date.

No expense was spared to turn the former Villeroy mansion into a lavish sanctuary in the heart of the Golden Triangle.

The NASCAR legend reflects on his career, current role in the sport and why he’s driven to philanthropy.

The restaurant space he left five years ago was still there for the taking.

A tale of two cities that dress as one? The suits, sweater vests and polar fleeces typical of Midtown Manhattan office lunch lines are being imitated with a certain irony downtown, where creative circles have begun “festishizing” the yuppie wardrobe.
A generation of creative freelancers with little more exposure to 9-to-5 culture than reruns of “The Office” are finding new appeal in Eighties preppy and yuppie codes. Louche pin-striped slacks, argyle sweater vests and loafers have become a cool, genderless uniform for a youth that is, ironically enough, increasingly disillusioned by the large corporations where these styles originated.
Vaquera’s Patric DiCaprio wryly characterized the look as “a golfer dad with a skateboard.” There’s the designer and model Ana Kras attending a party in a sweater vest and oversize suit; writer and “Uncut Gems” actress Hailey Gates in a cable-knit sweater and navy blazer looking like a vintage Ralph Lauren ad; the florist Marisa Competello carrying an L.L. Bean tote in lieu of a purse, and Isaiah Barr, frontman of the underground jazz group Onyx Collective, in a blackwatch plaid wool trenchcoat in promotional images for his newest album.

Michael Kors, fall 1984; Jacquemus, men’s fall 2020 
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Yuppie suiting and formalwear

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This will go down as the year the Oscars red carpet tried to go green. But what does green mean exactly?
Wear it once but make it compostable? As if Louis Vuitton would ever allow it. Nevertheless, the French fashion house went all in for sustainability on Sunday, creating two custom looks using eco-friendly materials (more on that in a minute), as luxury brands raced to use the Oscars’ global fashion platform to prove they are doing something to save the globe.
Kaitlyn Dever was a knockout in a custom red Louis Vuitton strapless gown and stole made of GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) Taroni silk-satin embroidered with red-blue beads at the Vermont Atelier in Paris, certified according to the Oeko-Tex Standard 100 and approved by the Red Carpet Green Dress organization. Who knows what all that gobbledy-greengook means exactly, but it sounds good coming from a brand whose parent LVMH has faced criticism for not signing the United Nations’ fashion industry charter for climate action.
“You realize you can amplify and alter behavior,” said Dever’s stylist Karla Welch of the awareness the gown could bring, which hopefully will translate to action. “We are showing a big brand can lead — and I

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