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Paris Fashion Week Fall Trend 2017: Tartan

Designers went mad for plaid, rocking looks usually associated with bagpipers, preppy dads and punk rockers.

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Bacelar’s TheCurrent Pushes Open Innovation

Liz Bacelar, the founder of Decoded Fashion, has a new baby called TheCurrent.
The firm’s mission is to gather retail and brand leaders around the world through an open-innovation environment to help companies cut down on their research and development costs while they discuss and create cutting-edge solutions to help firms increase sales.
Bacelar said the collaborative focus of an open-innovation environment is the best way economically for companies to track the trends and innovate together. She noted firms that have in-house incubator programs often don’t get too far due to its cost structure. “When you innovate internally, you can’t move as fast as you are [restrained] by the company’s limitations. An open-innovation [process] can filter all that is going on, and then you can act fast [on what’s important to you],” Bacelar said.
Bacelar called Decoded Fashion step one in the process, which was aimed at getting the decision-makers in the fashion, beauty and retails sectors to talk with emerging tech firms. TheCurrent represents stage two, with less of a focus on talking and more on “doing relevant things together,” she said.
Also new is an accelerator program that will be offered in September. The business model for TheCurrent has three components: Scouting

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First Lady Melania Trump Talks Gender Bias on International Women’s Day

LADIES FIRST: In what was her most pointed remarks to date that defined issues that she will focus on, First Lady Melania Trump spoke of the struggle for equality, her former immigrant status and the need to challenge gender bias in all its forms as part of International Women’s Day on Wednesday. She also emphasized the importance of education as the most powerful way to promote and ensure women’s rights.
In honor of International Women’s Day, she addressed a White House crowd that included members of the United Nations Women for Peace Association and Girl Scouts of America. Calling for greater inclusiveness regardless of race, gender or ethnicity, Trump encouraged attendees to share in her campaign for a world with more tolerance. FLOTUS had conversations with guests, according to Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, senior adviser and chief strategist to the First Lady, who gave details on the event.
Her designer of choice for the occasion was Ralph Lauren, with a sleeveless black wool dress with leather trim details on the shoulders. The announcement of next month’s Easter egg roll at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue seemed almost incidental considering what else is in store.

Melania Trump in Ralph Lauren on Wednesday.
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In an exclusive to WWD, it was revealed that the First

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Retailers Praise Paris — Even With the Rain

PARIS — A week of torrential downpours did nothing to dampen the mood at Paris Fashion Week, with buyers lauding the French capital for turning out fresh versions of wardrobe staples that retailers hope will have cash registers ringing come fall.
From men’s wear-inspired tailoring to Eighties and Nineties influences, streetwear, ath-luxury, Americana and punk, a myriad of attitudes were at play for next season. Key ingredients included velvet, tartans, checks, metallic, the color red, glitter and lashings of fur — of the faux and eco varieties.
Among the standout shows of the season, buyers cited Balenciaga, Dries Van Noten, Off-White and Valentino. Also highly lauded were Dior, Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Loewe and Fenty Puma by Rihanna.
Coco Chan, head of women’s wear at Stylebop.com, said the collections overall were more grounded. “The ‘reality principle’ that has taken root in fashion definitely shaped the Paris shows, but that doesn’t mean the magic was missing from the catwalks — it was just of a more practical sort, and that might be the news of the season,” she said, citing Balenciaga and Céline as front-runners of this trend.
“This bodes particularly well for business come fall as most, if not all, of the collections can be distilled to focal

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Hermès Dwntwnmen Event to Take Over Downtown Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — Hermès is no stranger to Los Angeles, but the storied house is set to make its biggest splash yet tonight with its “Dwntwnmen” event.
Held in and around a 60,000-square-foot warehouse on the outskirts of the buzzy downtown Los Angeles Arts District, the event will fete the men’s spring 2017 collections via an outdoor runway show featuring several new-for-L.A. items (including sneakers and T-shirts, natch), and a custom-built environment celebrating color and craftsmanship.
Under the aegis of Hermès men’s artistic director Véronique Nichanian, the “world of Hermès” is brought to life with artwork by British artist Anthony Burrill, who conceived the colorful Dwntwnmen logo and the slogans “I Like It” and “What Is It,” as well as those denoting each area.
Those spaces start with an anthropomorphic photo corner for arrivals — Hermès is not one to splash its logo on any old step-and-repeat — then lead into a street-turned runway flanked by the existing buildings’ graffiti. Notable details include a colored light installation made to decorate the music agency that flanks the runway and custom-painted wooden stools (for 900 seated guests and roughly 300 standing) that match the citron and cobalt of the brand’s logo.
After the show, industrial garage doors

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