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PARIS — The long queues in front of leading luxury stores in Paris this weekend might suggest they were holding the high-end equivalent of a Black Friday sale.
But the crowds gathered outside Dior headquarters on Avenue Montaigne, the Guerlain flagship on Avenue des Champs-Elysées or the Chaumet salons on Place Vendôme weren’t looking to part with any cash — just to catch a glimpse behind the scenes of some of the 70 brands that form LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.
From Oct. 12 to 14, the world’s biggest luxury group held the fourth edition of its Journées Particulières open-doors event, which gives members of the public worldwide a rare opportunity to meet the craftspeople who make everything from Louis Vuitton handbags to Tag Heuer watches and Berluti shoes.
The event is the brainchild of Antoine Arnault, head of communication and image of LVMH, who launched the biennial initiative in 2011 to counter a perception that the group was only interested in making money. It has steadily grown in size, with this year’s edition drawing a record 180,000 visitors, up from 145,000 in 2016.
Arnault kicked off proceedings with a cocktail party on Thursday at the group’s headquarters, where he posed with his father,
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The yearlong celebration of Sonia Rykiel’s 50th anniversary continues with another special project: Generous Sweaters.
Creative director Julie de Libran thought that a capsule collection of sweaters with charitable causes was apropos to celebrate the queen of knits’ golden anniversary. De Libran enlisted a group of international, influential women to design a limited-edition sweater, the proceeds of which will go to a charity of their choosing. The group includes actresses Kirsten Dunst, Sofia Boutella and Kristin Scott Thomas; architect Kazuyo Sejima; model and activist Liya Kebede; artist Langley Fox and ballet dancer and artistic director of the Korean National Ballet Sue-Jin Kang. The charities include La Maison des Femmes, Planned Parenthood, Ving, Hope & Home for Children, Le Refuge, Lemlem Foundation, Okaeri-Gohan Shokun and the Children’s Hospital of Seoul National University.
“These extraordinary women have been much involved in the creative process, each talent has given her precious time to this charity-driven sweater capsule,” said de Libran. “I’m thankful they jumped into this initiative, focusing on charities helping women around the globe. It means a lot in 2018.”
The global launch of the capsule for Sonia Rykiel stores is Nov. 5. In the U.S., 10 Corso Como in New York will carry the collection
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Continuing his 50th anniversary celebration, Ralph Lauren is launching the Polo Bear Collection, which combines Swiss watchmaking with the Polo Bear — a favorite icon in the designer’s world.
The collection represents the first time Lauren has created timepieces specifically for the Polo brand. The four bears that are featured are Flag Bear, Martini Bear, Preppy Bear, and Spectator Bear, each inspired by his personal style and retailing for $2,000 apiece.
In an interview at his Manhattan office last week, Lauren, who was dressed in an embroidered RL sweater and sat at a coffee table overflowing with memorabilia — including two stuffed Polo Bears — said the idea of the watches was just for fun. They’re not smart watches, nor are they rife with complications such as minute repeaters, chronograph, time zones or moon phase.
“It’s purely a fun project. It was not about who’s out there and what are they doing. I find that when I do things like this, with a smile on it, it works. It’s not planned to be a big thing. If it is, we’ll take it, but it’s not planned. I find for me, that’s what works,” said Lauren, chairman and chief creative officer of the $6.2 billion
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Stella McCartney has launched Stella McCartney Cares, a charity registered in the U.K., that will support breast cancer awareness, among other causes. The designer has long been an advocate for breast cancer awareness; her mother Linda McCartney died from the disease in 1998. The platform’s first initiative will be the donation of 1,000 of McCartney’s Louis Listening post-operative mastectomy compression bras to women undergoing breast cancer treatment. The bra can be requested on stellamccartneycares.org/pink.
“It’s a cause so close to my heart and the reason I designed the Louise Listening bra is my experience of seeing someone that I loved go through such a traumatizing operation, a mastectomy,” said McCartney. “I found that the mastectomy bras available at the time were just another moment where [breast cancer patients] lost their femininity and they lost a sense of who they were as a woman. I wanted to create a product that really is still beautiful and still feminine and still celebrates the power of being a woman.”
The Louise Listening bra was introduced in 2015 and the 2018 version has been modified to include soft internal pockets for use with prosthesis, wide adjustable straps and an extended size range of small to extra
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Aquaria is advancing her career in rapid fashion.
The winner of season 10 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” has been signed to IMG, and will also be the new entertainment editor for Dazed magazine. Born Giovanni Palandrani, the makeup artist and entertainer said she set a goal earlier this year — after skyrocketing into the pop-culture spotlight by nabbing the show’s trophy — to make a name for herself, not only as a drag queen, but as a general talent.
“Linking up with IMG has given me an opportunity to expand my career and my name into all sorts of different markets and career avenues,” Aquaria told WWD exclusively, adding that IMG facilitated the link-up with Dazed as well.
So what will those markets and career avenues be? Modeling (runway and editorial), more television, acting and makeup — although Aquaria noted that she’ll probably still be creating looks for herself when she does get in front of a camera.
“If I have the opportunity with some fantastic makeup artist, I would more than happily allow them to turn my face into whatever they are imagining,” she said. “But I know a lot of the draw to me with brands and designers is that they like my
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