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Warby Parker will continue its habit of signing unconventional collaborators. The eyewear brand has now partnered with multihypenate Amanda de Cadenet on two styles, both sun and optical.
The designs are named for her twin children. The Ella optical style has been designed in jet black. The Silvan style — designed for optical and sun — is fabricated in a translucent Peony, finished with silver-mirrored lenses for sun.
The collaboration — priced at $95 and upward — will hit stores on Jan. 31, as well as Warby Parker’s web site.
De Cadenet is known for her photography and television work. To mark the collaboration, Warby Parker has made a donation to de Cadenet’s #girlgaze project — a web site and digital platform that celebrates imagery by female creatives. Inez Van Lamsweerde, Amber Valletta and Collier Schorr are among those who sit on its panel.
De Cadenet said of her project with Warby Parker: “I’ve worn glasses for a long time and knew that, eventually, I wanted to design my own pair that was both affordable and chic. There was no better brand to turn to than Warby Parker; our ethos is so aligned, and they’ve been a dream to work with. I’m proud that our collaboration frames

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For the spring couture shows, designers offered different takes on tailoring — proving that even high fashion can be borrowed from the boys.

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Is New York becoming a fashion ghost town?
Not quite. There are roughly 150 shows on the fall 2017 official schedule after all. But nowhere is fashion’s state of flux more evident than in New York. In the last week, two of the creative pillars of the New York shows — Rodarte and Proenza Schouler — revealed plans to recalibrate their collections to the January and July couture schedule, showing only two times a year in Paris beginning for spring 2018. Hood by Air and Vera Wang are also headed to the City of Light for fall 2017, Wang showing in tandem with her French Legion of Honor award.
Add to that the fact that Opening Ceremony opted out of New York Fashion Week this year, showing its see-now-buy-now collection at Lincoln Center on Jan. 28 via a collaboration with the New York City Ballet. Then there’s Tommy Hilfiger, Rebecca Minkoff and Rachel Comey, all of which are showing in Los Angeles rather than New York, at least for the fall 2017 season.
Where does this leave New York Fashion Week? Will more designers stray from the American fashion capital?
Rodarte and Proenza Schouler both stated that their decisions to move were business-driven, echoing

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Kenzo continues its eccentric, cerebral bent with the unveiling of its spring campaign.
Creative directors Humberto Leon and Carol Lim have cast a troop of vivacious entertainers, including actress Tracee Ellis Ross, actor Jesse Williams and musician Kelsey Lu.
They have been photographed by the Los Angeles-based twin duo Jalan and Jibril Durimel, jointly referred to as Durimel. The Kenzo job marks their first global campaign.
Durimel’s images will be accompanied by a short, original film written and directed by Grammy nominee, Kahlil Joseph — who led the creative team for Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” HBO spectacular. The short — Joseph’s second work for Kenzo — is scheduled to premiere in Los Angeles on Feb. 9 in the lead-up to the Grammy Awards. It is set to be titled “Music Is My Mistress,” and marks Lu’s acting debut.
The campaign images will launch in the March issues of magazines including Vogue; T, the New York Times magazine, and Wallpaper.

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The US government is considering imposing tariffs on 85 European imports – including viscose rayon staple fibre – in retaliation for what is says is the EU’s discrimination and ban on American beef products.

The US athletic footwear industry grew by 3% in 2016, generating US$17.5bn despite a turbulent fourth quarter, but the year will still go down as “slightly below average” thanks in the main to the sports retail landscape over the last 12 months.

Plans mooted by the Trump administration to impose tariffs on imports from Mexico have escalated tensions between the two countries, although there is confusion over the exact nature of the proposals.

The executive order signed by president Donald Trump on Friday (27 January) banning people from seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the US, has been criticised by Nike chief executive Mark Parker.

Retail sales volumes fell unexpectedly in the year to January following robust increases over the final quarter of 2016 – but growth is expected to return next month, figures show.

Luke Tadashi and Tommy Nowels, the California natives who design Bristol, drew from a few sources for their collection, which is new to the New York Men’s Day schedule. The NBA was the primary reference and Tadashi said Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady and Allen Iverson’s off-court style during the early Aughts influenced the line, as did rules and restrictions, specifically the rules that players were forced to abide by when the NBA established a dress code in 2005.
“These rules stripped players of their personal identities, but they also improved the way they dressed,” Tadashi said. “Many times when we are given constraints, we get more creative.”
The looks hit on the notes that are trending within streetwear — velour, bomber jackets and matching monochromatic sets — but what felt fresh were the cropped tartan pants, the shearling-collar coat with red racing stripes, and the dusty color palette, which was influenced by California landscapes. Also interesting was their use of fabrics, which were all Japanese. The Tito suit, which consisted of a bowling shirt and matching cropped pants, was made from linen while a classic sweatsuit style was reimagined in terry cloth and updated with pin tuck pants.
Tadashi and Nowels, who won Gen Art’s

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