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Having worked hand in hand with Robert Lee Morris for years on jewelry with her own brands, Donna Karan always knew that she wanted to do something special for the artist within her Urban Zen space. “This reminds me of everything we’ve done together and now he’s taking it into another dimension and I see even more reasons to do it together,” she expressed.
Karan’s whole idea of Urban Zen is, “past, present and future” (through preserving culture and future education); she celebrated the works of Lee Morris’ as such through an intimate gathering of his latest sculptural works, displayed within the Greenwich space among photographs by Jimmy Nelson, sculptures by Karan’s late husband Stephan Weiss, and handmade accessories, home decor, textiles, clothing and more from artisans around the world.
“This is an official launch of the latest sculpture collection,” Lee Morris proclaimed. ”I’ve been making them and making them and making them and they piled up, so I had no more room in my studio. I happened to come to a birthday party for Stan Herman here [at Urban Zen] and Donna said, “What have you been doing?” and I showed her the pictures and she went, ‘I want
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WINTER WONDERLAND: Diane von Furstenberg has lit up Claridge’s hotel with her “Tree of Love” design for the holidays. The designer’s 6-meter, or nearly 17-foot, Christmas tree, unveiled during a Champagne breakfast on Tuesday, has transformed the hotel’s lobby into a midnight blue wonderland.
“I wanted to do a tree of love because trees are such an important and powerful symbol,” von Furstenberg said of her design, which takes the form of a forest tree instead of the typical Christmas fir tree.
To give it that festive look, von Furstenberg has covered the branches with 8,000 hand-painted silver leaves and hung 150 hand-blown glass heart baubles. To complete the wonderland theme, silver animal sculptures, from deer and owls to doves, were added to the base and on the branches.
“I wanted to show the beauty of the tree, it gets its strength from the roots, the branches go up to the sky, the flowers become fruits, it’s a home for birds, it provides shade for children, gives shelter to lovers and lastly, it’s a symbol of life and light,” the designer added.
December also marks the designer’s birthday, which is why she has chosen a zodiac theme as the tree’s backdrop. A zodiac print with the 12-star signs cover the walls of
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CULTURAL ATTACHÉ: French communications executive Jimmy Pihet has launched a new agency, Culture Mode, aimed at bridging the worlds of fashion and art by helping brands organize special events with cultural institutions.
Pihet, the former spokesman of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, French fashion’s governing body, will act as a link between luxury brands and art institutions, galleries and historic sites.
Among the services he provides are planning and organizing outings for VIPs around fashion shows or presentations, connecting fashion brands with museums and art galleries, creating itineraries for guests at press events, location scouting and advice on potential financial partnerships and sponsoring.
Pihet has served on the steering committee of the Sidaction fund-raising gala since its creation in 2002 and is a member of the supervisory board of the European Young Photography festival, Circulation(s).
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ICONIC HAT: Borsalino has created a new fedora style inspired by one of the brand’s most famous customers: Humphrey Bogart.
As part of the strategy to relaunch the Alessandra-based hat maker under the guidance of its new owner — private equity group Haeres Equita — Borsalino has partnered with the Humphrey Bogart estate on the creation of an exclusive fedora style.
Crafted from hare and rabbit fur, Borsalino’s The Bogart style reinterprets the classic fedora with a medium brim and a high dome. The gray felt is matched to a charcoal-gray grosgrain belt and lined on the interior with gray satin, which features Bogart’s silhouette and brand’s logo, both in gold. The black leather band inside the hat bears one of Bogart’s iconic sayings engraved in gold: “Do everything. One thing may turn out right.”
Retailing at $485, the hat is already available on the brand’s web site as well as at selected retailers worldwide.
Borsalino gained international visibility when Bogart sported the signature fedora hat in the Oscar-winning 1943 movie “Casablanca,” along with costar Ingrid Bergman, also wearing one of the brand’s hats.
Bogart’s iconic saying engraved in gold on the hat’s inside leather band.
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The hat maker said the partnership will be renewed
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LONDON — 032c, the magazine and apparel brand, took over The Strand in London on Monday night to unveil its women’s ready-to-wear collection. It followed the launch of its first men’s collection at Pitti Uomo in January.
“It was always somehow part of the goal to slowly move from merchandise to apparel and then to ready-to-wear,” said Maria Koch, founder and creative director of 032c.
The brand has been known to reflect contemporary culture and Koch cited this as the reason it decided to show outside the traditional fashion calendar. “There are no fashion weeks anymore, everyone’s doing drops and pre-collections and cruise and other things, so we just figured, why not do it when we felt it was the right moment?” she said.
Prior to that, 032c has been selling apparel and merchandise online and through retailers such as Farfetch, Ssense and LuisaViaRoma. “The great feedback on our merchandise was definitely a driving force behind launching ready-to-wear. When you see and feel that what you’re producing is successful and has a nice context for people, it just makes sense to do a little bit more,” said Koch.
Koch has designed for the likes of Jil Sander, Prada and Marios Schwab and some of the pieces
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