PETIT BOTTER: In the countdown to their debut collection for Nina Ricci during Paris Fashion Week, Botter’s Rushemy Botter and Lisi Herrebrugh have unveiled their soon-to-launch adult ready-to-wear capsule for Petit Bateau — part of their lot as the winners of the fashion section of the 2018 Hyères International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Fashion Accessories.

Rushemy Botter and Lisi Herrebrugh 
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The design duo were invited to reinvent the brand’s signature pieces while respecting its traditional savoir faire, following in the footsteps of past Hyères festival winners including Satu Maaranen, Wataru Tominaga and Vanessa Schindler.
Botter and Herrebrugh are based in Antwerp, but grew up in the island of Curaçao and the Dominican Republic, respectively, with Caribbean style and ocean pollution among key themes in their work. Here, the latter surfaced in stripes made from scans of plastic bags recovered on beaches or streets forming wavy lines on a twist on the marinière.

A look from Botter’s capsule for Petit Bateau. 
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Other highlights in the women’s and unisex line include a yellow raincoat with a transparent extension splashed with bold hand-painted florals, with Petit Botter stamped on some of the other looks.
The collection will hit a selection of stores and the Petit Bateau e-commerce site in France

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Like every season of New York Fashion Week, the fall 2019 schedule is seeing another crop of fashion, beauty and lifestyle pop-up shops offering everything from customizable dresses and inclusive designs to aura readings and “sex dust” cookies. Brands, such as Altuzarra and Batsheva, are making their first foray into stand-alone retail outposts at NYFW, while others, like Dirty Lemon and Moon Juice, are continuing their retail strategies with new wellness and Valentine’s Day-themed events.
Here, a look at the seven pop-up shops to check out during New York Fashion Week.
1. 11 Honoré
For its runway show Wednesday night, size-inclusive e-commerce site 11 Honoré offered guests scannable Shopify QR codes to shop the spring and pre-fall looks they were seeing on the runway directly on their smartphones. The e-tailer is continuing this concept for its pop-up shop, where customers can shop from pieces seen on the runway and other styles available on the site from brands such as Altuzarra, Brandon Maxwell, Chromat, Jason Wu and Prabal Gurung, among others.
The 11 Honoré pop-up is located at 157 Hudson Street and will be open until Feb. 14.
2. Altuzarra

The Play Corner at the Altuzarra pop-up, where there are handbags to carry and to swing on. 
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Taking to the runway for fall isn’t necessary. Taking the collection to Paris to sell absolutely is.
That’s the current mind-set at Monse, as for the second consecutive fall season the brand will forego a formal show. Instead, designers Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia have enlisted Kristian Schuller to shoot their look book, which will feature Amanda Murphy, and the brand will hold showroom appointments in New York and Paris.
While the designers remain undecided about whether to opt off the runway for spring as well, in something of a paradigm shift they will definitely stage a formal show for resort 2020.
At a time when brands increasingly opt to go their own way when it comes to presenting their collections, the Monse designers and chief executive officer Renee Prince Fillip thought long and hard about the traditional schedule vis-à-vis the realities of their business. Their no-show decision for fall took into consideration the complications of staging two shows in a single season, as Kim and Garcia have done most seasons since taking over the creative helm at Oscar de la Renta. An even bigger consideration: the frustrating reality of fall markdowns. They determined that the scale of the fall business doesn’t justify the

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