A beautiful brunch at Loring Place, the “in” restaurant of the moment, that featured hand-embroidered napkins and specialty cocktails, set the mood for Lela Rose’s fall outing. Models walked through while guests enjoyed their salads and tartares. This wasn’t the first time Rose ditched the runway; last season, she hosted a similar fete at Café Altro Paradiso. “You know I love entertaining, so I just thought this would be a better way,” she said. No one was complaining. “It’s really important — especially now — to make beautiful things. I find tulips to be very cheerful,” she added. So almost everything at Lela Rose was coming up tulips: There were tulip-print dresses; they were embroidered and painted on short and long frocks and pantsuits. But it was the off-the-shoulder suiting that gave the lineup a more modern edge.

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Edun’s design collective has often referenced Mickalene Thomas’ photography book, “Muse,” which includes the artist’s Polaroids, collages and portraits of black women inside colorful, retro-furnished interiors strewn with African patterns and textiles. For fall, after the whole team journeyed to Africa together for the first time, the book resonated even more strongly.
They approached Edun’s latest lineup with elements of contrast in mind — maxis versus minis, sleek versus voluminous, modern versus raw. It resulted in an eclectic collection that worked artisanal textiles and graphic patterns into urban, street-ready silhouettes. Zebra stripes, one of the collection’s signature motifs, showed up on a silk dress with a knotted, cutout waist and hand-printed leather trousers.
One of the coolest looks featured yellow textured patent leather from Morocco, which the team fashioned into a cropped motorcycle jacket, trousers and gloves to match. Other standouts included a black coat and miniskirt with inventive wool and leather embroidery in an alternating stripe pattern. Chunky sweaters, hand-knit in Madagascar with 3-D texture, made for luxurious layering pieces to style underneath dresses and leather bra tops.

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MPG chief executive officer Ash Modha has an overall mission for the 30-year-old label: to create innovative, technical and functional fashion for contemporary men and women on the go.
According to Modha, MPG is beyond ath-leisure; it blends active and everyday for the street. The design team is always looking for ways to develop new and innovative technical fabrics, and MPG has become the incubator of their ideas. For the women’s collection, the team gave a nod to classic sportswear with tech blazers and pin-striped trousers inspired by men’s wear. The designers also created cool mixed-media outerwear; case in point, a nylon puffer combined with knit.
The collection also had plenty of great bomber jackets, anoraks, crop tops and leggings. The men’s wear portion combined tailoring and multipurpose pieces to take you through your day. There was strong outerwear with reflective properties and moisture-wicking to keep you looking cool and comfortable. The design team also showed knit denim trousers and a variety of joggers. Overall, this collection was a perfect combination of street-chic and athleticwear.

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Versace released a limited-edition bracelet to celebrate Saint Valentine’s day. Named “All Love Is Love,” the adjustable leather braided accessory features the brand’s signature logo tag and a Medusa Head-shaped charm in gold tone.
Two additional round-shaped pendants have been also designed to customize the bracelet. These feature crystals or red and gold heart motifs.

Versace’s “All Love Is Love” bracelets. 
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Available on the brand’s online store, the base model retails at $225 while the additional charms are available at $125 each.
To celebrate the lovers’ festivity, Versace also released a 45-second video, in which couples in Milan are wearing the bracelet and are asked to share what love means to them. The reactions mainly praise equality, freedom and respect.

Along with the dedicated #AllLoveIsLove hashtag, a shorter and alternative version of the video has also been shared on the brand’s official Instagram account.

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“It’s a new downtown Herrera,” said Emmy Rossum on Monday morning, patiently awaiting Carolina Herrera’s fall collection. The Herrera loyalist had followed the designer down from her show venue of the last few seasons, The Frick Museum, to a space on Little West 12th — a fact she seemed certain would be reflected in the designs. “I mean, she’s quintessentially New York, so uptown, downtown, doesn’t really matter.”
Rossum was joined by Karolina Kurkova, Hilary Rhoda, Nicky Hilton, Prabal Gurung, Emily Robinson and Skyler Samuels and in addition to pledging her excitement at seeing the new collection, spoke about how the designer is inspiring her in her own career changes.
“I just finished directing an episode of a show for TNT called ‘Animal Kingdom,’ with Ellen Barkin. I go back to my show [‘Shameless’] in the summer; I did a movie for Netflix this summer, it’s called ‘A Futile and Stupid Gesture,’ if that’s still the name. It’s a comedy — and I’m working on writing and directing,” Rossum said. “It’s my second time directing and I’m doing another episode of my show this year, and maybe another Showtime show. I really like it. One thing about Mrs. Herrera that I think is so

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An L.A. Lipstick Launch: Fashion brands aren’t the only ones landing in Los Angeles.
Dior Beauty joined Rebecca Minkoff and Tommy Hilfiger in taking its show on the road to the city of angels. The color cosmetics authority drew Amanda Steele, Ahna O’Reilly, Camila Coelho, Aimee Song, Jaime King, Portia Doubleday and Julianne Hough to West Hollywood, Calif., hotspot Delilah Wednesday to check out its range of Dior Addict Lacquer Sticks, high-shine and hydrating lipsticks in sleek packages and 18 shades.
“In the process of creating this new line, L.A. became a source of inspiration, driven by the links that Dior has with Hollywood and also, of course, by the wonderful Jennifer Lawrence,” said Peter Philips, creative and image director of Dior Makeup. “It was obvious for us to launch in L.A. to make our story a full circle. Dior and L.A. have, through our shared love for beauty, a long and exciting affair.”
For the affairs of the evening, social media influencers and the celluloid famous experimented with the Dior Beauty lacquer sticks on their puckers in shades such as Party Red, Underground, Alive, Sassy and L.A. Pink to keep the bash buzzing with props to the West Coast.

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Prps is moving back into women’s.
Donwan Harrell, Prps’ founder and designer, believes there’s a need for different types of denim, and as a result, he’s relaunching the women’s collection for spring.
“I was looking at women’s denim out in the stores and it was all the same. It’s all dark, skinny, stretch pieces that don’t differentiate from brand to brand. I wanted to create something that was bold and stood out,” said Harrell. “Designing for women allows me to have more creative freedom than when I design for men, which made creating this collection extremely fun. I got to run wild.”
The collection, which has been picked up by Ron Herman, Shopbop, American Rag and Revolve, is made up of 25 to 30 pieces and retails from $198 to $535 for specialty pieces. The denim in the assortment consists of overalls with vintage washes and patches, boyfriend jeans with a slight taper, drop-crotch jeans with paint splatters and skinny jeans coming in a variety of washes. Apparel includes bomber jackets and a patchwork denim dress.
The last time Harrell created a women’s collection was fall 2011. Harrell said he had to abandon the line to focus on building his affordably priced Prps Goods

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Could Lacoste be the next French brand to collaborate with Supreme?
According to market sources, a collection is in the works. Neither Supreme nor Lacoste would comment on the project.
A Lacoste collaboration with Supreme would come after the streetwear brand’s recent partnership with Louis Vuitton, which debuted its collection last month at the luxury brand’s men’s fall show in Paris. The assortment, which includes cobranded products ranging from sneakers to graphic T-shirts to an almost $70,000 trunk, will be available in July. James Jebbia, the brand’s founder, was present at Lacoste’s fall show in New York on Feb. 11.
Supreme is well-known for working with long-standing brands on products — repeat collaborators include Schott, The North Face, Vans and Stone Island — but the Louis Vuitton news was a watershed moment for the luxury market, which has always mined streetwear for ideas but is starting to make its relationship with the popular category more official.
“Now the fashion world has come to us,” Angelo Baque, Supreme’s former brand director, previously told WWD. “It used to be straight copy or inspiration, now it’s the other way around, whether it’s Vetements, Off-White or Gucci. Gucci is streetwear. They are selling hoodies and denim.”
Supreme also recently confirmed via its Instagram

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