Collectively, Uniform Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts

Aella, the digital brand whose motto is “Made for a woman who wears the pants” — a reference to its comfortable, machine-washable and flattering styles — will operate a pop-up shop in Manhattan with several like-minded brands. Uniform: The Collective, as the pop-up is called, will run from March 7 to March 31 at 501 Lexington Avenue.
Aella, which bowed in 2014, has been sold in temporary shops at Bloomingdale’s 59th Street flagship and several of the retailer’s California locations.
Uniform will feature products that make up a modern woman’s daily uniform, including Aella’s work-to-play clothing, Neely & Chloe handbags, Thelma shoes, Peet Rivko skin care and Mave New York shaving products.
The pop-up will be designed and merchandised like a boutique and furnished with Los Angeles retailer Capsule Home’s streamlined furniture and sleek fixtures.
Rather than opening individual pop-up shops, the participating brands decided to band together since they target the same type of consumer and their products don’t overlap. “Our customers are all ambitious go-getters who want to own quality items they can use day in and day out,” said Eunice Cho, Aella’s founder. “The brands we’re working with create the modern woman’s ‘go-to’ items, including the LBP (little black pant) that she can wear 24/7, classic loafers that are comfortable enough to traverse the town and timeless and durable leather

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Theory, Lola Team Up for International Women’s Day

Aligning with International Women’s Day on Wednesday, Theory and Lola, an organic cotton tampons company, have partnered on limited-edition kits featuring fashion, health, beauty and home products.
One-hundred percent of each kit purchase will benefit Girls Who Code. Kits will retail for $50 and will be available at Theory stores nationwide and online at theory.com starting Wednesday.
The kits contain a Theory x Lola limited edition “Be Heard” T-shirt, (retail value, $85); LOLA three-pack tampons ($9 for full box); Hanky Panky organic cotton thong ($18); Goop revitalizing day moisturizer ($10); Lulu Frost beaded tassel keychain ($90); MoonJuice power dust ($30); PF Candle Co. mini soy candle ($11), Inscape three months of meditation ($39); Ritual one-month vitamin subscription ($30); Rodin Olio Lusso face oil ($170 for full size); S’well 9 oz. bottle ($25), and Tula Probiotic purifying cleanser ($28).

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Trina Turk Designs Cabanas for The Diplomat Beach Resort

TURK’S CABANA QUARTET: Trina Turk has teamed with The Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Fla., to create four exclusive cabana designs featuring fabric and patterns from the brand’s 2017 collection.
The custom-designed cabanas are part of the resort’s $100 million transformation. The resort, which stayed open during the renovation, will officially launch March 31.
“We created print, pattern and color groupings that reflect the optimistic spirit of Trina Turk and The Diplomat Beach Resort,” said Turk, who used a palette of pinky corals, turquoise, yellow and shades of blue inspired by tropical flowers, the sea and sunshine. The cabanas feature  free-flowing draperies, lush pillows, candles, ice buckets and side tables that fuse fashion with function. All items featured in the cabanas are available for purchase through trinaturk.com.
The new cabanas will also serve as home base for anticipated pop-up shops and specialty experiences for guests and locals in alliance with Turk throughout the year.
“This collaboration with Trina Turk perfectly speaks to the core ethos of The Diplomat Beach Resort and the exclusive guest journey we bring to South Florida,” said Shai Zelering, managing director, Head of Asset Management, Thayer Lodging Group, Brookfield Hotel Properties. “The fresh, vibrant colors and design of these exclusively

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Valentino RTW Fall 2017

Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli started his fall design process by posing to himself a question of a sort deep thinkers could mull forever: “What’s new today?” His answer: Nothing, really. Yet it’s fashion’s job to salvage that blunt reality by reimagining the not new into that which is gloriously so, which at its best awes and even inspires. As Piccioli concluded, “It’s new when you see things that you already know, and you connect them in a different way.”
That’s what Piccioli’s tenure at Valentino has been all about, first in concert with Maria Grazia Chiuri and now, on his own: He’s made us rethink romanticism as aspirational grail rather than reactionary folly, at least as much as such a thought can manifest in fashion.
Yet Piccioli understands the need for forward motion, and that, no matter how enticing the Valentino world of Renaissance-worthy damsels done up in exquisitely decorated silks, today’s women also have to dress for day, which he made the focus of his collection. To that end, he worked two disparate themes into a beautifully cohesive narrative: Victoriana and the Memphis design movement of the Eighties, the former for the depth of its romanticism, tinged with decadence; the latter, for its

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