On Tuesday, Oscar de la Renta took its fall collection to lunch at Cipriani 42nd Street for an encore runway showing. It’s the second year that the brand has been the fashion sponsor for the Lying-In Annual Spring Luncheon, which raises support for the care of women in childbirth, specifically the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Lying-In Hospital.
“This is an exciting time for us at the hospital,” said Laura Forese, executive vice president and chief operating officer for New York-Presbyterian, noting the Alexander Cohen Hospital under construction and will occupy the top six floors of the David H. Koch Center and triple the facility’s existing space dedicated to neonatal care.
The fashion house had a perfectly captive crowd of current — and future — clients during the lunch, many of whom came donning their ODLR wares. The mostly female crowd included a roster of doctors and philanthropic socials, including Samantha Boardman Rosen, Serena Boardman, Nicky Hilton Rothschild, Lizzie Tisch and Lauren Santo Domingo.
“We’re so pleased to be here to present our fall 2017 collection, the debut collection of our creative directors,” said Eliza Reed Bolen, the late designer’s stepdaughter. “While it’s their debut as creative

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Functional fabrics and performance textile specialist Schoeller Textil AG has signed a production agreement with Swiss-Norwegian start-up Osmotex in a further step towards the commercialisation of an electro-osmotic membrane for moisture management in outerwear.

The Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh is launching a financial support programme for suppliers that it says will ensure major and costly safety measures can continue to be carried out as the organisation enters its fifth, and final, year.

Invista is investing over US$65m in state-of-the-art fibre production at its US-based Camden facility in a move aimed at significantly expanding domestic capacity of high-tenacity speciality fibres used in its Cordura fabrics.

Chinese e-commerce company JD.com has recorded its first quarterly profit since going public two years ago thanks to the integration of Walmart’s Chinese web business and the growth of online shopping in the country.

?US activewear maker Delta Apparel saw earnings improve in its second-quarter thanks to a gain on the sale of its Junkfood business and the implementation of a number of key initiatives to improve business results.

SANTA ANA – The 10 remaining U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at Santa Ana Jail were transferred out of the facility on Monday, May 8, 16 days ahead of the federal agency’s contract expiration date.

All were transferred to the Cibola County Detention Center, an ICE contract facility in New Mexico, agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice said on Tuesday.

The count for the ICE detainees – all transgender and in one housing module – on Monday was 10, and on Tuesday was zero, Jail Administrator Christina Holland said. Holland could not disclose what time the inmates were removed, but said the counts occur between midnight and 6 a.m.

“They’re removed from the housing unit and brought downstairs to the court release area and the ICE staff or whoever is transporting would meet them there,” Holland said. “Staff verify that the people removed are on the list to be removed, and after that ICE takes over. They identify all property, belongings the individual owns, it’s all gathered, they’re escorted to the vehicle.”

ICE gave Santa Ana a 90-day notification to terminate its contract at the jail in February, citing recent actions by the city to decrease the number of beds available, and the agreement expires May 24.

With the immigration detainees transferred, four of the jail’s eight housing modules sit vacant.

“They were the only ones in that unit, so as soon as they left, that module was vacated,” Holland said of the ICE inmates.

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO The city may soon file a complaint to the Federal Aviation Administration over new FAA-approved flight paths that some residents complain are sending planes over San Juan at lower altitudes.

They say that increased air traffic over San Juan and louder noise are impacting their quality of life.

City staff is drafting a letter to the FAA for council members to consider at their May 16 meeting. That’s one day after Orange County Supervisors Todd Spitzer and Lisa Bartlett host a public town hall meeting, at 6 p.m. May 15, at Laguna Niguel City Hall to discuss aircraft noise.

Residents of Laguna Beach, Dana Point, San Juan Capistrano and Laguna Niguel have complained about increased noise, and at a San Juan City Council meeting May 2, seven speakers addressed the issue.

Five complained about the noise. A sixth speaker asked the city to complain to the FAA about danger to its famous swallows from low-flying aircraft. A seventh speaker said he never hears planes over his home and the city should spend its resources elsewhere, like on potholes.

“Right now we’re getting 60 flights a day,” said San Juan resident Dennis Drager, who told the council he has been monitoring flights and there were only two or three a day, two years ago.

Local resident Nancy Gee said the new routes don’t allow airliners departing John Wayne Airport and other airports to gain enough altitude before they swing around to head east, flying over Dana Point and San Juan. Gee asked the council to seek an adjustment in the flight paths and elevations to protect residents from increased noise.

“I experience it daily,” Mayor Kerry Ferguson said. “I’ve noticed a real difference.”

Councilman Brian Maryott said he was shaken out of bed one recent night, so severely that if It happened regularly it would force him to move.

Council members pondered at length what to say in a letter to the FAA. Much of the discussion concerned Councilwoman Pam Patterson’s desire to complain that the FAA’s environmental analysis did not consider new lower flight paths possibly endangering swallows.

“They did not consider the impact it would have to the migration of the swallows that are a huge part of our heritage,” Patterson said. “We know that we’ve gotten a low-flying aircraft and it impedes the path of the swallows. The cliff swallows have been migrating every year from Goya, Argentina, to San Juan Capistrano and surrounding areas for over 200 years. The new flight path for low-flying jet planes is a 4,500 to 7,000 feet which also creates a possible threat to bird strikes.”

Laguna Niguel resident Ken O’Leary, from the group Citizens for No Plane Noise, said he has documented an airliner over San Juan at 4,000 feet and swallows can fly as high as 6,000 feet.

Ferguson said there have been recorded swallows strikes.

Councilman Derek Reeve voiced disbelief. “Do the swallows fly 6,000 feet over San Juan, or on the way from Argentina?” he asked. “I mean, they’re here. They’re picking up worms and stuff.”

Ferguson said the city should consult Dr. Charles Brown, a swallows expert who works with Mission San Juan Capistrano.

Councilman Sergio Farias said he could support a letter complaining about new flight paths over San Juan, but not a letter involving swallows.

The council, on a 5-0 vote, directed staff to draft a letter for council consideration. Farias said he can support a letter “that is not going to embarrass our city.”

Investigators are searching for two suspects who have convinced older people to go to banks and withdraw money; then the two grab the money and take off, police said Tuesday, May 9.

Two of these crimes, possibly linked, were reported in April. On the afternoon of April 11 an 84-year-old man in Santa Ana was approached by two men on the street who convinced him to go to the Wells Fargo on Main Street and Warner Avenue, the Santa Ana Police Department said in a bulletin.The man withdrew an undisclosed amount of money from his own account, and the suspects took it and fled.

Another similar crime was reported in Costa Mesa April 28 at a Citibank on Harbor Boulevard and Peterson Place. The two same suspects are believed to have approached a 68-year-old man walking home and started a conversation with him, Costa Mesa police said. They drove him to the bank where he withdrew money, and then they dropped him off.

Authorities are looking for two Hispanic men from 50 to 60 years old. One of them is 5-feet 6-inches to 5-feet 7-inches tall weighing 150 to 160 pounds with brown eyes, gray hair and missing teeth. The other is 6-feet tall to 6-feet 2-inches tall and weighs 160 to 170 pounds with brown eyes, gray hair and broken teeth. They were seen in a gold Ford Taurus. The pair are suspected of grand theft and crimes against the elderly.

“These suspects are known to loiter around banks and bus stops near banks,” the Santa Ana police bulletin states.

Anyone with information is asked to contact detectives in Santa Ana at 714-245-8545, asilva@santa-ana.org or in Costa Mesa at 714-754-5051, gmaridakis@costamesaca.gov. Anonymous tips can be submitted to 855-TIP-OCCS or occrimestoppers.org.

Oscar- and Emmy-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith was honored with the 2,611th star posthumously on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Goldsmith’s star was dedicated in the category of Recording at 6752 Hollywood Boulevard in front of the Musicians Institute. Goldsmith composed such classic scores as Chinatown, Patton, Planet of the Apes, The Sand Pebbles, A Patch of Blue, Poltergeist, Basic Instinct, Papillon, Rudy, Gremlins, Mulan and L.A. Confidential. The composer was sought-after by filmmakers, acclaimed by critics, and adored by the Hollywood music community.

Goldsmith received a total of 18 Academy Award nominations, and won the Oscar in 1976 for Best Music, Original Score for his powerful orchestral and choral score for The Omen. Two of the American Film Institute’s top 25 film scores of all time are by Goldsmith: Chinatown and Planet of the Apes. Goldsmith was nominated seven times for an Emmy and won five Emmys for his television music, including the landmark miniseries QB VII (1975) and Masada (1981), the TV-movies The Red Pony (1973) and Babe (1975) and the theme for Star Trek: Voyager (1995). He also received nine Golden Globe nominations for his film scores and seven Grammy nominations for the soundtracks of his various TV and movie scores.