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HIGH SHINE: Istanbul-based label In the Mood for Love is turning its attention to the London market.
The two-year-old brand, best known for its exuberant sequined creations sold at contemporary price points, quickly built a presence across key European retailers including Printemps in Paris, Tsum in Moscow and La Rinascente in Italy and now sees an opportunity to continue its growth trajectory in the U.K. market.
To introduce itself to the market, the label has tapped the London-based influencer Soraya Bakhtiar. Bakhtiar, who said she was drawn to the maximalist nature of the brand, brought together a group of fellow influencers and London-based designers to celebrate the label, hosting a dinner at Blakes Hotel, which came complete with sequined place mats and pink sparkly scrunchies used as napkin rings.
Guests included handbag designers Tara Ghazanfar and Gunes Mutlu; personal shopper and influencer Bettina Looney; jeweler Anissa Kermiche and author Katherine Ormerod, who all came dressed in sparkly creations and trendy padded headbands to match.
Bettina Looney and Soraya Bakhtiar
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The event was followed by a trunk show at the Connaught hotel.
“We wanted to work with a girl who’s just like us, Middle Eastern but also a big traveler and with an international outlook, so
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NEW YORK CALLING: Savile Row tailor Ozwald Boateng will hit York on May 5 with an immersive fashion experience at the Apollo theater in Harlem, showcasing the brand’s first women’s collection.
The show will be a celebration of culture, diversity, music, history and fashion and mark the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance, “starting with a short film on Africanism, and guiding us into the future of artificial intelligence,” according to the company.
VIPs within sports and entertainment are expected to appear at the former Givenchy designer’s runway show, the brand added.
Boateng, whose parents immigrated to the U.K. in the Fifties, was the youngest designer of African descent to open a business on London’s Savile Row. He founded his company in 1995, and was part of a new bespoke movement that catapulted him to international recognition.
Known for his bright flashes of color and twist on classic British tailoring, his brand offers in-store bespoke services as well as RTW men’s wear and items such as ties, shirts and knitwear.
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RAINBOW EFFECT: Salvatore Ferragamo is putting sustainability and two of its creative studio designers under the spotlight.
The Florence-based luxury label has unveiled a capsule collection of accessories dubbed 42 Degrees, created by the studio’s designers Flavia Corridoni and Luciano Dimotta.
The range includes a men’s and women’s chunky sneaker, a backpack and a shopping bag crafted from Made in Italy and eco-friendly materials, including wet white chrome and metal-free tanning leather; natural rubber dyed with vegetable tans; a completely organic fussbet insole made of corn, kenaf and wool and a textile fiber coming from recycled plastics employed for the multicolor ribbons appearing throughout the collection.
Designers of the in-house creative studio were challenged to “create accessories with sustainable materials and coherent with the signature style of the brand,” the company said. A jury, including the company’s vice chairman James Ferragamo; the brand’s creative director Paul Andrew; Guillaume Meilland, Ferragamo’s head of men’s wear, as well as journalists and digital influencers evaluated their works.
Drawing inspiration from the iconic 1938 Rainbow wedge style, designers Corridoni and Dimotta developed the collection starting from “styles with a simple production process, but featuring innovative details, [such as] a multicolor ribbon as the leitmotif of the collection and
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VARDA FOREVER: If you look closely, you can just about make out her signature bowl haircut.
For its 72nd edition, running from May 14 to 25, Cannes Film Festival has chosen to pay homage to French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who died on March 29, making her the first female director to be immortalized on a Cannes Film Festival poster.
The photo chosen for the poster, taken in August 1954 as Varda was directing her first film “La Pointe Courte” at just 26 years old, depicts the filmmaker crouching on a collaborator’s back to get the perfect shot.
“You can feel the strength of her engagement: she would do everything to create, everything to overcome hurdles,” said festival president Pierre Lescure, speaking at the presentation of the Official Selection lineup for the 2019 edition of the festival, held on Thursday at the UGC Normandie cinema on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris.
There are four female directors in this year’s lineup out of the 19 competing for the Palme d’Or, one more than the 2018 selection.
Among these are French-Senegalese director Mati Diop presenting her debut “Atlantiques,” set in a suburb of Dakar, and Austrian director Jessica Hausner’s “Little Joe.” Two French directors complete the female
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SHANGHAI BOUND: Prada is set to stage its first men’s show outside of Milan. The Italian company revealed Thursday that it will hold its men’s spring-summer 2020 collection in Shanghai on June 6. The location is still undisclosed.
“China has always occupied a prominent place in Prada‘s imagination: in particular, the city of Shanghai and its rich cultural life,” said Miuccia Prada in a statement. “The attitude and identity of Shanghai, its dynamic fusions of past and present, old and new, are sources of constant exchange and interest.”
The event coincides with the 40th anniversary of the twinning of the cities of Shanghai and Milan.
In 2017, the company, which is publicly listed in Hong Kong, established Prada Rong Zhai, a new cultural institution in Shanghai. Prada and her husband, chief executive officer Patrizio Bertelli, restored the 1918 mansion Rong Zhai unveiling the site in October that year with a fashion show of the brand’s 2018 Resort collection. Prada’s goal was to turn the historic villa into a flexible site for cultural activities. Originally designed for the family of tycoon Yung Tsoong-King (1873 to 1938), known in his day as the Flour King of China, Rong Zhai is one of Shanghai’s finest Western-style garden villas.
Prada is not entirely abandoning
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Meet the Earth Polo, the first product born from the brand’s new commitment to sustainability.
Complete with skeet shooting, horseback riding and elk hunting, this Colorado home has it all.