Exotic materials are making inroads in automotive interiors from Aston Martin, Ferrari, Bentley, and Jaguar Land Rover.
Or $471 per strand.
WORKING TOGETHER: Lola & Leone has embarked on its first amenity partnership with the Royal Blues Hotel.
The year-old fragrance brand created by Olga Litvinenko is offering its signature fragrance at the boutique hotel located in Deerfield Beach, Fla.
“The collaboration is our first location in Florida and our first collaboration of this kind,” Litvinenko said. “The hotel is focused on art, food and well-being and that’s something that we emphasize as well.”
The signature scent, which is a blend of wood oils, rose, pear, bergamot and gardenia, will be available for testing in the hotel rooms and for purchase at the hotel’s boutique. The 3.3-oz. bottle retails for $195. The brand will also have its soy-based candle, which is infused with the signature scent, available for purchase for $72.
The Royal Blues Hotel
After meeting at a gala, Litvinenko teamed with hotel owner Edward Walson to combine their passions for philanthropy. A portion of the sales of the Lola & Leone products will be donated to a group of 10 charities, including the T.J. Martell Foundation, the Alzheimer’s Association and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, among others.
“We both have a similar interest in philanthropy,” Litvinenko said. “We wanted to see how we could work together
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Olivia Culpo held court Wednesday morning at ABC Cocina, where she introduced her new Express x Olivia Culpo collection.
The collection is Culpo’s take on power dressing and street style and emphasizes “GRL PWR,” which is emblazoned on some of the pieces. It’s essentially a wardrobe capsule for the girl on the go.
Discussing how she got together with Express, Culpo told WWD, “It was a pretty organic meeting. I worked with Express before on a few one-off things. I personally was always inspired to design things that are appropriate for the everyday girl at an appropriate price point so that anybody can wear it and feel good.”
The collection is inspired by “GRL PWR” and comes in XXS to XXL and 0 to 18.
The Express x Olivia Culpo collection hit 300 stores today, as well as online at Express.com/OliviaCulpo. The line is the first in a series of capsule collections (with other collaborators) that will be revealed by Express throughout 2019. Culpo’s collection is made up of 32 pieces, ranging in price from $35 to $138. The collection includes blazers, biker shorts, jumpsuits, sweats, sequin dresses and female empowerment T-shirts, in a palette of black and white, with pops of red, pink
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WORKING OUT: Pio Marmaï has had to hit the gym for his next role, in what he described at the Acne Studios show Wednesday afternoon as a “French superhero movie” directed by Douglas Attal. “There will be lots of fighting and things like that,” he said. “I’m working out a lot and trying to tone my muscles as much as possible, I’m eating nothing but broccoli.”
Chatting away to him, rising talent Félix Maritaud, who is nominated for best upcoming actor at the Prix Lumières next month, also has a new movie project up his sleeve, as well as working on several shorts.
Further down the front row, Yung Taco mingled with the likes of U.K.-based singer Bakar, who is working on his second album. “My last record was about the city, the next one’s a bit more personal,” he said of the project, which he hopes to release before the end of the year.
Sitting next to him, singer Eddy de Pretto is also working on his sophomore release after taking France by storm with his debut album last year. “It will be crazier and bigger than the first one,” he vowed.
De Pretto also has a French tour coming up, but has
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MILAN — Istituto Marangoni is launching a post-graduate scholarship program, partnering with a range of fashion labels.
The initiative aims to give 40 scholarships to graduates in fashion, business or marketing, as well as experienced professionals in the industry, and cover half of the post-graduate courses’ fees at the Istituto Marangoni outposts in Milan, Florence, Paris and London.
To determine the recipients of the first five scholarships, a series of contests has been launched in partnership with Etro, Balmain, Ermanno Scervino, Chantal Thomass and leading furniture firm Poliform.
Dubbed “Traditional Motifs, Innovative Prints,” the project developed by Etro invites contestants to present five innovative graphics revisiting the label’s signature motifs.
Balmain addressed social media marketing by launching the “Digital Audience: A Strategy for Monetization” project and calling for ideas for innovative marketing activities to increase revenues by leveraging the brand’s digital audience.
The “Reinventing a Collection” competition, run by Istituto Marangoni’s Florence unit and sponsored by Ermanno Scervino, encourages young talents to create a digital print of three total looks honoring the label’s spring 2019 collection, while the school’s Parisian branch teamed with lingerie player Chantal Thomass to invite contestants to conceive ideas for the brand’s future category extensions.
In addition, the school in London partnered
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VIRGIL’S BEAT: The Off-White men’s fall 2019 show was crawling with musical artists. Not only relegated to the front row this season, they spilled out onto the catwalk with Offset and Playboi Carti setting a new runway tempo: slow and steady wins the race.
But Virgil Abloh is better known for a fast clip, which was the subject of Aleali May’s musings ahead of the show.
“Between this and Louis Vuitton, I mean, I don’t know how he does it…schedule-wise, so I definitely commend him — he’s always been hard-working,” she said. May, who has more women’s Nike Air Jordan models up her sleeves, noted Abloh has come a long way since she worked with him at RSVP Gallery.
Madison Beer was one of the singing artists keeping the front row bench warm. Taking a break from the recording studio where she currently spends her days — every day — Beer said she thinks she’s hit a new note for her new album.
“It’s coming along amazingly — such a special sound, so brand new for me…it feels so good to come into my own sound and not have to be compared to other artists, and I can’t wait for people to be like,
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The former Calvin Klein creative director branches out with a unisex wellness brand straight from his native Brazil.
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