There are a lot of exciting new developments in the Sachin & Babi world. An expansion of colorful evening tassel earrings, an exclusive collaboration with Saks called Ahluwalia by Sachin & Babi, and a growing e-commerce business with online exclusives that are direct responses to what customers have been asking for.
Launching in two months with fall, the Saks exclusive fills a white space in the eveningwear category for a particular price point. It contains slightly elevated gowns focused on higher-quality fabrications and allows husband-and-wife Sachin and Babi Ahluwalia to unfurl their feathers a bit more with playful treatments and embroidery.
Their resort collection took on the idea of harmony within discord, pitting seemingly opposing ideas against one another. “There’s a lot happening in our lives right,” Sachin said at a showroom appointment. “There’s an upheaval in our economy and politics and as designers we get influenced.”
The duo played with a varied group of prints — balancing graphic, enlarged polka dots on brushed cotton gowns against thick stripes, metallic floral jacquard and a mixed media collage pattern inspired by artist Cathy Cone’s exhibition at the Beekman Hotel. The designers were inspired by Cone’s disruption of black-and-white photographs with colorful paint and imposed

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Paul Andrew proudly showed his second collection for Salvatore Ferragamo at a space in TriBeCa. The installation focused mostly on shoes, which are historically at the core of the late Salvatore Ferragamo himself as well as the brand. “I wanted to reestablish the fact that we own certain codes of this house, which maybe people did not realize these codes were born here,” Andrew said. For starters, he explained that he looked at more than 15,000 pairs of shoes in the archives. “Going through one by one, there was an overarching theme that I noticed — so many of the shoes have flowers as a theme. So I thought it would be fun to make this season about florals,” he said.
And flowers he delivered. Andrew went on a photographic expedition to the London flower markets and came back with images of what would become the motifs and prints for resort. The floral prints were seen most prominently on single-toe pumps or as the ankle wraps on patent leather sandals.
“There’s a spontaneity and energy to these graphic flowers printed on silk but when you wrap and tie them the print becomes almost abstract and a softness emerges,” he said in his

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NEW YORK — A virtual trip to the museum is just the start of the new We Wear Culture project by Google Arts & Culture.
Initially started in 2011, Google Arts & Culture has delved into fashion for the first time and has done so with depth, linking more than 180 cultural institutions and museums from 42 countries. Extensively more than an online directory of objects, users can explore Street View experiences, 30,000-plus artifacts, more than 450 exhibitions, four virtual reality experiences, 360-degree behind-the-scenes films of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Conservation Lab and six Google expeditions. Academics and fashion historians will no doubt be elated by the prospect of such a dizzying amount of information, but We Wear Culture is equally geared for those who know little or nothing about fashion, according to Amit Sood, director of the Google Cultural Institute.
During a preview Tuesday, he said, “Most of this has been taught to us. Google is not a company that is known for fashion. My engineers would strongly agree with that. We wear hoodies and sit in front of our computers. But what we realized was we didn’t want to focus on the object itself but the

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THROUGH THE LENS: Photographer Nick Knight — or image-maker, as he prefers to define himself — has never been one to shy away from a challenge.
Since the beginning of his decades-long career, Knight has had a number of collaborations, from Yohji Yamamoto to Lady Gaga, and all of them proved to be “a way to get a sense of somebody’s head, to get inside a person’s mind. Collaboration is the joy in being able to see the light in someone else’s eyes.”
Yamamoto was his first important collaboration; Knight was 26 at the time and “completely endorsed his way of life.” The Showstudio founder recalled that time during a talk hosted last night by Sarabande, the London-based foundation named after Alexander McQueen’s 2007 spring collection which provides scholarships to students as well as housing artist studios at its headquarters for designers, artists and jewelers. Former Sarabande’s scholars include designers such as Molly Goddard and Liam Johnson.
For his first Patron event at Sarabande, Knight was in conversation with writer and creative consultant Mimma Viglezio, where he dished on his years of collaborating across the creative industries, how to discover new talents and Kim Kardashian’s highest merit.
“Gianni Versace asked me to work with him and I said no,” said Knight

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The fashion calendar in New York City continues to evolve and 2018 will be a year of significant change for the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
In releasing the preliminary lineup for the fifth edition of its men’s wear shows scheduled for July 10-13, the CFDA said that after this year, it will be losing its primary venue, Skylight Clarkson Sq in TriBeCa, a move that will force it to “re-examine” its approach to fashion shows.
“The official venue of New York Fashion Week is New York City,” said Steven Kolb, chief executive officer of the CFDA. The Skylight properties will no longer be an event space, so for season six of NYFW: Men’s in January and New York Fashion Week in February, there will no longer be a home base and the shows will be “decentralized,” he said.
In the past, the shows have called Bryant Park and Lincoln Center home and Skylight has been the primary space since 2015.
Mark Beckham, vice president of marketing, said the CFDA is searching out a variety of venues around the city — penthouses, hotels, galleries, screening rooms, exhibition spaces — and will work to match the designer with the appropriate space. It is also

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