Alice Temperley took her cue from a chapter of her latest book “Alice Temperley: English Myths and Legends,” referencing everything from old lace, patterns and potion bottles to frogs, feathers and crystals for this bohemian, ladylike range infused with a touch of the surreal.
Temperley said it’s about taking take lots of things and creating “your own magic. It’s sort of fantasy and mixing all of these beautiful elements.” She called the collection “a bit more fluid and a bit more fun and beautiful. She’s an alchemist. There is something magical about her.”
The designer sprinkled sequins over jumpsuits — one with a cold shoulder, another with cap sleeves — worked with more technical fabrics and experimented with structured materials.
There were flowy dresses aplenty, printed with potion bottles, butterflies, leaves and fish. A black lace and organza tea dress was adorned with floral embroideries and finished with sheer sleeves, while a navy cold-shoulder dress featured Temperley’s decorative needlepoint of butterflies, potion bottles, flowers and musical notes.
A big focus for Temperley was on day separates, a category that has now surpassed eveningwear. She rounded out the range with shirting, trousers, crop tops and skirts that were tailored or done in a stretchy jacquard.

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Orla Kiely referenced the feminist movements of the Sixties and Seventies for the capsule range L’Orla, which she designs with stylist Leith Clark.
Yoko Ono, Gloria Steinem, Marianne Faithfull and Frida Kahlo were among their muses, along with the marching protesters of the era.
“We looked at women who led in terms of freedom but, also in music and art,” said Clark.
“This year, and this current climate of the world, is about coming together, about women supporting each other and respecting each other’s differences further. Hopefully, it allows women to celebrate their femininity and feel strength from that. I think it is really needed right now,” said Kiely.
Kiely and Clark struck the right balance, creating soft ladylike dresses with a certain feminine strength and spirit.
The designers experimented with tulle in dresses that came long and short — in black or white — and were embroidered with delicate florals, or adorned with crochet trims and lace details. Flowers were also cast onto sheer sleeves and onto corduroy dresses, the pockets of bell bottom trousers and the collar of a cropped jacket. There were also drapey, knee-skimming smocked dresses done on a soft organza check in brown and blue.
Elsewhere, new accessories included a leather

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Stuart Vevers is well aware that ready-to-wear is a relatively new proposition from Coach. The customer is still getting used to it. Vevers has carefully constructed the brand’s identity clothes-wise, establishing a strong baseline through statement outerwear with a hardy Americana attitude — shearlings, varsity jackets — and saw resort as an opportunity to gently expand on that.
“This arrives in stores in November,” Vevers said. “I was thinking about the Coach girl dressing up because it felt really right this season.” That would be holiday party season, which requires festive attire. There were more dresses: Prairie styles came with star prints and riveted Western embroidery. A black slip had femininity and edge with lace and leather detailing, and a dress with a short, tiered tulle skirt had star burst embroideries. A cheeky print, featuring a penguin drinking Champagne, martinis and a glass of wine, was ready for a good time.
Vevers gave the look stylish grit and weight by layering the dresses under the signature outerwear, including satin varsities with scenic souvenir embroidery, a burnished leather jacket, a new double-faced wool and chicly wild Chewbacca-inspired shearlings. “There’s a thread of sci-fi — specifically ‘Star Wars,’” Vevers said. Playfulness and personalization was key to the look:

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There’s power in consistency, and Marissa Webb is nothing if not consistent in her design philosophy. Military elements and men’s wear influences with a feminized twist dominate the brand’s vernacular, with no exception for destination dressing. “I needed a holiday, and I had resort in my head. I want to go to Tulum. It’s very low-key and no fuss. I thought that was perfect,” Webb said of her inspiration at a private walk-through.
Hence the abundance of easy, striped cotton shirting and shirtdresses embellished with origami ruffles around the neckline and waist. Tucked into cropped, high-waisted leather trousers or baggy leather shorts, the resulting looks were classic Webb. “I think it was more about the structure of cotton, feeling like an easy fabric and at the same time being able to do so much with it,” Webb continued. The shirting element translated onto crisp cotton trousers that were wrinkle-free with a bit of stretch and also rendered in prints, including a plaid her father might don and tropical florals tying back to the theme.
The designer introduced an urban element via deconstructed trenches in cotton canvas and off-the-shoulder tops in her favorite military green. These were structured yet sexy, and stood alone

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FEELING THE PRIDE: American Eagle Outfitters will offer limited-edition AEO Pride T-shirts, tanks, boxer briefs and accessories with 100 percent of sales benefiting It Gets Better Project, a nonprofit organization focused on communicating to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth around the world that it gets better.
The campaign began today at ae.com and in select stores in the U.S., Canada and Israel and will run through the end of the month, while supplies lasts.
AEO will promote the partnership through social media, customer e-mails and in-store marketing and will encourage customers to take the It Gets Better Pledge and upload their own video at Itgetsbetter.org.
In Pittsburgh, home of AEO’s global headquarters, the company will sponsor Pride Pittsburgh by enabling associates to attend the Pride in the Streets concert and participate in the Pittsburgh Equality March on June 11.
In 24 select AEO stores, customers are invited to share their pride by taking photos in front of the Pride banner and have their photos uploaded to the company’s Times Square billboards on June 25, during the NYC Pride March. Also in New York, AEO associates will host a #WeAllCan float in the NYC Pride March on June 25 and customers’ photos will be

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MILAN — Federico Marchetti, chief executive officer of Yoox Net-a-porter Group, has been named “Cavaliere del Lavoro,” or “Knight of Labour,” on Thursday. This is one of the highest recognitions bestowed by the president of the Italian Republic, currently Sergio Mattarella.
“What a great honor to be made a Cavaliere,” Marchetti said. “My father, a hard worker who sadly passed a few months ago, would be very proud,” he added, dedicating the recognition to his memory and to “my 4,200 colleagues at Yoox Net-a-porter Group.”
In addition, Marchetti shared the award with all the young entrepreneurs in Italy who like him “work in a wonderful country despite the countless challenges faced every day.”
Along with Marchetti,  24 other Italian entrepreneurs were honored with the same title, including Urbano Cairo, president of Cairo Communication and RCS MediaGroup, which publishes the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera.
Established in 1901 by King Vittorio Emanuele III, the “Cavalieri del Lavoro,” recognizes Italian entrepreneurs who have distinguished themselves in different sectors of the economy and contribute to social development, employment, technology and the growth of “Made in Italy.”
Born in 1969 in Ravenna, Marchetti graduated with an economics degree at the Università Bocconi in Milan and earned an MBA degree

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PARIS — Mellow Yellow, the quirky Parisian footwear and accessories label, is equipped to dress customers from top to toe with the launch Thursday of a ready-to-wear collection.
A selection of creations from the Fall 2017  line is available as an avant-premiere on Mellow Yellow’s e-commerce site, but the aim, said brand director Magali Blanc, is to roll it out internationally as a fully-fledged lifestyle label.
Based on classics with pop twists, the collection channels two story lines: English garden and a back-to-school theme based on preppy red, navy, white and pale blue items. Items range from embroidered parkas and Made in France peacoats with printed linings to tartan bombers, Nineties-inspired sweatshirts and shirts splashed with quirky prints developed in-house.
Blanc said the brand, which launched in 2005 and was acquired by French family-owned group Eram four years ago, has already secured partners in the Middle East, with franchise store openings in Qatar and Saudi Arabia and two more due to open in Tehran, Iran, in the next couple of weeks. Asia, Britain and the U.S. are the other target markets, she said, with a corner due to open in Singapore department store Robinson’s in September.
The brand in two weeks in Montpellier in the South

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Moviegoers will get their first chance to see “Cars 3” when it hits theaters on June 16, but they can start buying apparel and accessories June 9.
In one of its more unusual collaborations, Disney has partnered with Sportie LA to open a pop-up shop adjacent to the retailer’s main store on Melrose Avenue. Running through Father’s Day June 18, the Sportie LA x Cars 3 “Fashion Pit Stop” will feature products from Cars 3 x Nascar collection by Fanatics, Illest, LA Rocks, Members Only, New Balance, Sphero, Pop Shoes, NCLA, Ipanema and Richer Poorer.
Josh Silverman, executive vice president of global licensing for Disney Consumer Products International, said the retailer aesthetic was a good fit and offered a gateway to a generation of fans who grew up watching “Cars” — both children and adults. “Sportie LA is an L.A. institution, they’re well-known sneaker heads for their on-trend offerings. They’re very much at the genesis of the hip culture,” he said.
Despite a reported $56.6 billion in 2016 consumer product sales, senior brass is counting on Disney Pixar’s “Cars 3” to help ramp up fiscal-year 2017 business. In a second-quarter earnings call last month, Disney’s senior executive vice president and chief financial officer

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T’S FOR A CAUSE: Alice + Olivia by Stacey Bendet has launched Communi-T, a capsule collection of T-shirts in partnership with Global Fund for Women. The Communi-T T-shirts will feature empowering slogans such as “Never underestimate the power of a girl who knows what she wants,” and “Well behaved women rarely make history.”
For every T-shirt sold, Alice + Olivia will donate 50 percent of net proceeds to the Global Fund for Women, which partners with groups who are creating jobs, encouraging entrepreneurship, fighting for workers’ rights and supporting women seeking leadership positions.

Alice + Olivia’s empowerment T-shirt. 

Stacey Bendet, chief executive officer and creative director of Alice + Olivia, said that her company is run by women, and the clothes are designed by women for women. “We believe that clothing is personal expression, what a woman puts on each morning is her daily art, her voice, something she shares with the world around her.” She said the T-shirts are “clothing with a call to action.”
“It’s important to have powerful women-led fashion brands like Alice + Olivia take a stand to empower women and help to mobilize more resources for women’s human rights,” said Musimbi Kanyoro, president and chief executive officer of Global

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The just-sold Project Ruya from Heesen Yachts has an interior themed around “kinetic energy.” The 154-foot yacht is a mover and shaker.