ZOE’S NEW PROJECT: Gymboree, which was rebooted in July with a new on-trend line of apparel and accessories and a redesigned experience in stores, turned to Rachel Zoe to help further amp up the brand. The celebrity stylist, who has two children, Skyler Morrison Berman, age seven, and Kaius Jagger Berman, four, will curate holiday looks and codesign a collection for spring. Zoe last month showed her 31st ready-to-wear collection of her eponymous brand in Los Angeles.

A dress from Rachel Zoe x Gymboree. 

Zoe created a video of her favorite dressed-up styles from Gymboree’s holiday collection, which can be seen at gymboree.com. Her picks, which include looks for special occasions and family photos, are available in stores and online today. A boys’ metallic silver Windbreaker and girls’ denim jacket with faux fur collar, are two standout items. A holiday gift collection will bow in early November with Zoe’s choices for boys and girls. Rachel Zoe x Gymboree, a limited-edition collection of clothing and accessories for boys and girls, will be launch in the spring with a fresh and pretty sensibility for girls’ styles and cool California aesthetic for boys’ looks.

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TOKYO — Bally launched its latest artist collaboration at its flagship in Ginza here on Wednesday, unveiling a series of limited-edition products while hosting the opening of an exhibition by London-based street artist Shok-1. The project is the second in a series of artist collaborations curated by music producer Kasseem Dean, who goes by the name Swizz Beatz.
Frédéric de Narp, chief executive officer of the Swiss brand, began his career in Japan and still retains a high level of admiration for the country and its culture. He said that his decision to have a creative collective — rather than a single creative director — head Bally’s design activities was inspired by the country he once called home.
“This creative collective mindset, for me, was born in Japan. This is what I wanted to learn from the Japanese culture, what belongs to the Japanese culture, and what the Japanese are the best at,” he said. “This sort of respect and working together as a group, it’s a cliché, but it is true. And it’s not a fact of a one-woman show or a one-man show. It’s a fact of a group, and I believe in this, especially for a brand that has

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DIVA MOMENT: Alessandra Facchinetti has designed the costumes for Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo opera, which will take place on Oct. 27 at the St. Gallen Theater in Switzerland.
Facchinetti is the former creative director of Tod’s women’s collections, a role she left in 2016 after joining the luxury brand three years earlier. Before that, Facchinetti, a former Gucci and Valentino head designer, had worked with Pinko to launch the Uniqueness brand in 2011.
Facchinetti designed approximately 90 costumes for the main roles, created in the atelier of the St. Gallen Theater. These are uniforms, tailcoats and capes designed for men and sumptuous dresses for women. The designer emphasized the selection of dark colors, ranging from plum to petrol green.

A sketch by Facchinetti 
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Conducting the orchestra is the Lithuanian Modestas Pitrenas, and the opera is directed by Nicola Berloffa.
Thanking Berloffa for the opportunity and his guidance, Facchinetti said she admired “his contemporary, but at the same time respectful, vision of the opera. We had a wonderful, professional exchange.”
The designer, whose father is musician Roby Facchinetti and whose brother is DJ and singer Francesco Facchinetti, expressed her passion for music, cinema and theater, and said she always believed she would have liked to try her hand in

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