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Bumble celebrated its “most inspiring New Yorkers” campaign on Thursday evening with a dinner at Studio Ten at Industria, recognizing notables from Bumble Date, Bumble Bizz and Bumble BFF.
The list includes the likes of Brett Heyman, Misha Nonoo, Jillian Mercado, Laurence Chandler and Joshua Cooper of Rochambeau, Nell Diamond of Hill House Home, Amirah Kassem of Flour Shop, Meredith Melling of La Ligne, Julie Anne Quay of VFiles, Selby Drummond of SnapChat and celebrity stylist Andrew Gelwicks. Images of the campaign stars, blown to larger-than-life scale, decorated the Thursday event.
The campaign has been rolled out throughout New York since the beginning of the month and has popped up in more than 500 outdoor spaces, including subway stations and building murals.
Thursday’s party was hosted by Bumble’s heads of creative Erin and Sara Foster and Bumble chief brand officer Alex Williamson.
Artwork from Bumble’s “The Most Inspiring New Yorkers” dinner.
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U.K.-based luxury eyewear brand Linda Farrow today opens its third U.S. stand-alone store at 8409 Melrose Place in Los Angeles. The store follows Bal Harbour and New York locations opened within the last 18 months, reinforcing the brand’s presence in the U.S. The brand dabbled in the L.A. retail scene with a pop-up at Platform in Culver City.
The store follows the same creative direction as the units in New York and Miami, embracing femininity and masculinity, light, texture and color, all within 1,055 square feet. Founder and creative director Simon Jablon worked closely on the store’s identity to create an atmosphere of earthy luxury within a compact footprint.
An exterior view of Linda Farrow’s Melrose Place boutique.
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“Los Angeles has its own unique vibe and take on the international fashion scene, which is something we at Linda Farrow embrace and relate to. We couldn’t be more excited to have found the ideal space in one of best shopping streets in the world, Melrose Place,” said Jablon.
Mixing materials such as cast concrete and rough plaster with more polished elements like onyx, brass, and peach suede, the space creates a mix of textures to provide a backdrop for the glasses, which are displayed within
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From New York and London to Milan and Paris, designers have dictated the top spring fashion trends. The trends ranged from voluminous drama to insta-ready bike shorts. See below and click through the gallery above for WWD’s analysis of the overall strong season.
Here, a look at WWD’s top nine fashion trends from the spring runways.
BIKE SHORTS: The spring runways gave a new spin to traditional bike shorts through sartorial styling, updated fabrics and even a few unitard silhouettes.
COCKTAIL SHAKERS: WWD’s genre of the short, sexy dresses, garnished with ample sass and retro feel.
CRAFT FAIR: Artisanal flourishes lent an artful aura to the spring collections. Craft elements such as patchwork, fringing, fabric bundles and hand-painting infused the clothes with personality and emotion.
PASTELS: Gentle pastels were everywhere for spring. While frothy dresses worked the expected side of a gentle palette, designers also drew from it to infuse sporty and street looks with an offbeat prettiness.
PICTORIALS: Pictorials were all over the spring runways in jacquards, intarsias and a multitude of prints. Interpretations ranged from beachside imagery and outdoor scenery at Etro and Prada to Jeremy Scott’s Polaroid self-portraits with edge.
PLEATS: These aren’t your typical folds. Designers pushed their creative juices to make this season’s standout
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Kristin Prim is only 24, but she’s spent the last few years avidly collecting lingerie and getting a deep understanding of the market.
“I was having a hard time finding pieces that I wanted to consistently buy and I saw a gap in the market for items that were elevated and luxurious and sensual,” said Prim, who founded Prim Magazine, a fashion publication, when she was 13. “I knew that if I had this problem, there were a lot of women out there like me who wanted to see that, so I decided to put that out there with Lenoir.
According to Prim, Lenoir is a direct-to-consumer lingerie brand that’s female-centric. And she’s hoping to defy the misconception that creating a line for women means it can’t be sexy.
“A lot of times when someone says they are creating a line for women, underwire turns to spandex and lace turns to cotton,” said Prim. “There is something backward to thinking that a woman can dress in a sexual manner and it’s all about attracting a man. So, having a company exist that isn’t about women seeking validation from men was important to me.”
Prim, who received a business degree from Parsons but doesn’t have
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LOS ANGELES — At any given time, Union’s Chris Gibbs is juggling a multitude of projects.
On Thursday afternoon, he was busy at a photo shoot, stopping to take an emergency call for that shoot as he’s talking about Friday’s launch of his boutique Union’s collaboration with Adidas Spezial. Then there’s the budding apparel collection he’s funneling plenty of energy into, not to mention several collaborations in the works for ComplexCon.
Gibbs on Friday is set to mark Union’s capsule collaboration with Adidas Spezial, a line at the sportswear firm that takes its cues from the football casual culture and fashion arising out of the U.K. around the late Seventies and early Eighties.
The capsule is technically men’s wear, but with the trend in unisex, could be for women and includes a new take on the Adidas Garwen SPZL shoe in two colorways, a suit jacket and matching pant, T-shirt, sweatshirt and bucket hat.
“I really get psyched on specific product,” said Gibbs, who in 2008 bought the La Brea Avenue boutique long seen as a purveyor of what’s hot and what’s next in men’s fashion and streetwear from founders James Jebbia and Mary Ann Fusco. “The [Garwen SPZL] shoe is what started it all.
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