Eighties Streets
Michael Kors has a new limited-edition graffiti capsule of jackets, shoes and bags inspired by New York City street art in the Eighties. To celebrate the launch, Kors enlisted two fashion professionals who lived through Eighties New York fashion the first time around. Candy Pratts Price and hairstylist Christiaan collaborated on window displays, featuring a floor-to-ceiling screen print of Kors in his aviators, and rotating mannequins wearing the graffiti merch and sculptural wigs while snapping selfies of themselves in front of the backdrop.
Before Pratts Price became a high-profile editor at Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Style.com, she was recruited by Marvin Traub to be creative director of Bloomingdale’s window displays and storefronts. Christiaan, meanwhile, is responsible for some of the most influential haircuts in fashion, including Debbie Harry’s choppy crop in the Seventies and Grace Jones’ flattop in the Eighties.
To kick off the launch, Kors and Pratts Price did a video that will be released July 11. The displays will appear in the Michael Kors stores at Rockefeller Center and Flatiron in New York, Regent Street in London, Corso Vittorio Emanuele in Milan, Mandarin Gallery in Singapore, Jing’An Kerry Centre in Shanghai and Ginza, Japan. — JESSICA IREDALE by Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne sent out an invite to an event Wednesday night in TriBeCa. The invitation, which also had the branding for Moët & Chandon, read: “A piece of ground that belonged to them, on which they could plant their feet, permanency.” The designers had created special bottles for the spirits brand that were unveiled during New York Fashion Week last September.
A spokesman for the company declined to provide further details on Wednesday’s event.
In December, the designers said they would be taking a break from showing their collection during NYFW in February as
“the company is in the midst of stepping away from the traditional industry format and launching a new direct-to-consumer concept.” The company said details would be shared in advance of the launch later this year and that the brand would be “refining” its product assortment, “delivery cadence,” and restructuring it organization.
According to retailers who had carried the line, the final Public School wholesale collection was shipped for spring.
— JEAN E. PALMIERI terpart to the runway collection. You can imagine how the tigers work in kids stuff and the party dresses and the color palette.”
The collection is a combination of babies, boys and girls and includes unisex clothes. Loehnis noted that “those with a very long memory” might remember that Net-a-porter had a very edited selection of kids’ wear over 10 years ago, but the Gucci pop-up is the first since. It comes shortly after Mr Porter launched a multibrand boys beachwear pop-up, which has performed well. Loehnis said for Net-a-porter, the plan was to launch with a single brand and make it exclusive.
“Net-a-porter is devoted to women and women’s wear and [Gucci kids] was something special we thought we could offer our customers — or the children of our customers — as a special one-off event rather than as a permanent offer, which is not to say it’s the only thing we’ll do in the category,” she said.
To accompany the launch, Mark Shearwood shot a campaign featuring kids in an antique photo booth. Loehnis declined to estimate sales volume for the pop-up, but said “it’s set for six weeks, but we envision it probably won’t last that long” before the products sell out. — J.I. sale accounts at Vision Expo East. According to the company, the styles will “take cues from Draper James’ vibrant, upbeat ready-towear and accessories collections, celebrating femininity with a contemporary take on Southern charm.” The line will range in price from approximately $160 to $215.
Witherspoon, Draper James’ founder and creative director said of the endeavor: “I am thrilled that Draper James is partnering with Altair Eyewear Inc., a leading expert in optical eyewear, to create a new line of glasses. As a lifestyle brand, I feel it’s important to continue to add new categories that meet the everyday needs of our customers both in style and function.”
Marchon’s president and chief executive officer Nicola Zotta added of the partnership: “We are excited to embark on this venture with Draper James, a unique brand with a fresh point of view. We look forward to partnering with Draper James and Reese Witherspoon on expressive optical eyewear collections that complement the brand’s lifestyle and extend the current assortment into an exciting new category and market.” — MISTY WHITE SIDELL fashion industries, one member pointed out. Merkel promptly reacted, telling Bär to draw up a list of “how much which country spends what in [fashion industry] funding…and we’ll see.”
Merkel also came away with some positive support. Paris-based designer Lutz Huelle, who was invited by the council to close fashion week with a “best of” his last two collections at Berghain Friday night told Merkel, “As a German living outside of Germany, I can just say we are so proud of you.” To which there came a lively round of “hear, hear.”
His praise wasn’t meant as a political party endorsement, he explained to WWD. “You have to be proud of anyone who shows humanity in these times, and you can’t ignore the human aspect of her work. There are loads of people out there who like Germans because of that.” — MELISSA DRIER Kate Bosworth as a couple trying to evade murderous factions in a bid to reach a safe haven.
Bohen, meanwhile, was already a keen motorcycle fan and a seasoned biker. The actor has even ridden recently from Zürich to Vienna with fellow enthusiast Kevin Frost, amfAR’s chief executive officer, to get to the Life Ball earlier in June. Frost revealed that they’d stopped en route at the Swarovski Kristallwelten in Vattens, Austria.
Later that evening, fans in the U.S. had Bohen on television as rancher Ryan in the Paramount series “Yellowstone,” also starring Kevin Costner. This is not the first time the actors have worked together: in the 1994 Lawrence Kasdan “Earp,” they both played the titular character at different ages.
After a heavy couture schedule, Carine Roitfeld was there to enjoy her evening, elegantly sidestepping any questions on whether she’d seen any new names to add to her fashion lineup for the Cannes amfAR auction.
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Dr. Hermann Bühlbecker, owner of 350-year-old German family-owned chocolate manufacturer Lambertz, surveyed the fashionable crowd with the eye of an expert. “We have our own fashion event called Lambertz Monday Nights,” he said.
The evening was only a short respite for Peter Dundas, whose collection was shown the previous day. This summer he has a pop-up in Mykonos and a temporary flagship on New York’s Mercer Street in the works. “I’m already late on the next collection,” he rued.
While the evening wasn’t meant as a fund-raising opportunity, a friendly auction under de Pury and auctioneer Andy Booth netted $600,000 for the charity. On the block went an oil painting by Paris-based American contemporary artist JonOne, a Plexiglas-and-neon mixed-media piece by Emmanuelle Rybojad, a Happy Ocean watch from Chopard, an oil pastel sketch by Martial Raysse, two invitations for the 2019 Golden Globes as well as a print by photographer Christopher Makos of Andy Warhol.
As American musician Aloe Blacc, who sang on the late Avicii’s “Wake Me Up” anthem, took to the stage, guests could finally unwind, including de Pury. “I’m just as obsessed with music as I am with art,” he revealed. — LILY TEMPLETON