SENSUAL FEELING: Leave it to Pamela Anderson to reinject some sensuality into the world. In the countdown to lights down at the Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood show in Saturday, the diehard activist shared some color on a book she’s co-writing for the fall called “The Sensual Revolution.” “It’s about hoping the world doesn’t forget how to make love. I think we’ve become very desensitized, and that the human connection is missing, the art of being together. I think being an activist is sexy, and being engaged in the world is romantic,” said Anderson, who took in the show next to Rita Ora.

Rita Ora at Vivienne Westwood 
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“I’m doing it with a friend. We both come from different worlds, but we both agree that relationships are suffering because of so much access to imagery and things like that,” she added about the book.

Pamela Anderson at Vivienne Westwood 
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The actress didn’t seem too excited about the “Baywatch” movie due out in May, in which she makes a cameo appearance. “It was the best job in the world, and it’s just bizarre to look at characters I refer to as Mitch as The Rock,” she said referring to Dwayne Johnson

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ART IN MOTION: Max Mara opened the doors of its Rue Saint-Honoré boutique in Paris on Thursday evening to celebrate the launch of its limited-edition Prism in Motion collection of sunglasses, created in collaboration with artist Shantell Martin.
Martin, whose signature is stream-of-consciousness works in black marker pen on white canvas, created a tableau especially for the brand featuring circles, lines, squares and written messages.
“I did the initial drawing with this 3-D tool I made that allows you to draw with more than one pen at a time; I like that there’s a little bit of technology behind the fashion,” said Martin. “The inspiration was mainly motion and seeds in the form of positive messages.”
The work was then digitally reproduced and divided into 1,000 different pieces, which were reproduced on cat’s eye-shaped sunglasses, making each pair unique.
The eyewear, manufactured under license by Safilo Group, went on sale in a handful of Max Mara’s flagships on March 2, and a few pairs are also available to buy online.
Guests at the event included actresses Gabrielle Lazure, Audrey Fleurot and Inès Sastre and perfumer Kilian Hennessy.
Later this month, Martin, who was born in the U.K. but is based in New York, is set to

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TAT’S THAT: Tattoos are a very personal thing — you either love them or hate them. But avid fans of body art and ink-elusives alike were out in force Friday evening during Paris Fashion Week to celebrate Tod’s Tattoo, a collaboration between the Italian leather-goods brand and well-known tattoo artist Saira Hunjan on a capsule collection of handbags and shoes.
First unveiled in London last September, the tie-up was celebrated with a pop-up space in the brand’s Paris flagship, complete with the U.K.-based artist’s designs on the walls, in time for fashion week.
Hunjan, aka “The Girl With the Golden Needle,” was sitting behind a table in the corner, busily tattooing away on a handbag, drowning out the babble of the crowded store with the noise of her needle.
The in-demand artist has collaborated with brands before, but this was the first time she had directly tattooed actual products. “It takes quite a long time because the leather can absorb so much ink, there’s a lot of cleaning involved,” she said. “But the leathers I can just tattoo — when you’re working on people, they complain, so maybe in this respect it’s easier.”
Tod’s SpA chairman Diego Della Valle, who jokingly tried to persuade guests

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FOCAL POINT: Front-row chatter at Haider Ackermann’s fall show centered on one square-inch of silver plastic — a gleaming pasty that was the only thing standing between Nicki Minaj’s breast and the wider world.
But the best-selling female rapper was less focused on causing a stir than on stirring her own imagination. Since arriving in Paris on Wednesday, Minaj had attended fall shows including H&M, Balmain and Rick Owens.
“I’m definitely getting inspired,” the artist said. “This is a great way to get some visuals I could use in videos or in photo shoots.”
The Rick Owens show had been a high point for Minaj. “People probably think I wouldn’t like that, but I do — it was so different,” she said. As for Olivier Rousteing’s Balmain, “That’s always a movie. When I saw that show I was thinking, wow, I could take some of this inspiration out on tour.”
Minaj was perched between music producer and “How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are” co-author Caroline de Maigret and the singer Lou Doillon. During the show, Minaj perked up at the sight of an electric blue pantsuit, snapping a photo.
The model and musician Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis took a break from recording to come out for the show. “I’ve been in the studio

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BACK IN A NEW YORK GROOVE: Valentino continues to make New York the home of its pre-collections. The house will hold a resort runway show in New York on May 23. The location has not been confirmed. Pierpaolo Piccioli staged a fairly elaborate runway show for his most recent pre-fall collection in New York in January at The Beekman Hotel. Prior to that, when he and Maria Grazia Chiuri were still copiloting the brand, they often showed their pre-collections in New York via presentation.

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Pasties on deck.

Immediately upon her arrival at Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri set about tackling what has long been a challenge for the house: daywear. She undertook that task at a politically charged moment in the culture, a moment that spurred her to include her now-famous “We should all be feminists” T-shirts in her debut collection last season.

Still, it was a surprise during a backstage preview when Chiuri used the word “genderless” as part of the appeal of the color blue, on which she built her fall collection. If there were ever a house with a gender-specific aura, it’s the historically ultrafeminine Dior (though its men’s in the age of Hedi certainly had crossover appeal). It would be a total misrepresentation of the conversation to imply that Chiuri dwelled on the concept of gender fluidity, or that it was a primary reason for her invocation of the color. (That distinction goes to a quote from Christian Dior, written in “The Little Dictionary of Fashion.”) But it does speak to a matter that could get in Chiuri’s way if she’s not careful. In a perfect world, none of us would let our jobs compromise firmly held philosophical and ideological beliefs. But slogan clothes aside, pants, jackets and shirts are

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Life isn’t always easy on a living legend, and not because the world expects too much of you. Sometimes, the world is all too ready to give you a pass. Just ask Yohji Yamamoto. “I felt I needed to change,” the designer said backstage after presenting an exquisite show. “After more than 40 years, I became too famous. People normally respect me without any reason.” Come again? “Like a legend,” he continued. “I don’t like it. I want to make people surprised or inspired. I needed real creation.”
He delivered, in a manner that resulted in a complicated romance. “If the outfit looks romantic that’s alright,” he said, though his primary intention was to create something “avant-garde.”
This was Yamamoto’s most abundant collection in some time, and his most lyrical, his past two more austere and tougher in attitude. As he’s done sometimes in the past, Yamamoto featured his own guitar playing on the soundtrack, this time reciting lyrics as well.
The collection played like a dream, a complicated dream, one with stylistic roots in Victoriana as well as in the designer’s own imagination and signatures. Yamamoto went on an extravagant exploration of construction, cutting and draping in ways that amazed – and

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