Month: March 2019

As the husband of Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel, Gauthier Destenay has an insider’s view of the world stage. At Tuesday’s Fashion 4 Development’s First Ladies Luncheon at The Pierre, the Belgian architect shared his thoughts on how fashion can lift up impoverished communities and help enlighten others. Earlier this year, France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron singled him out as her “favorite” first spouse in an interview with Paris Match. He tagged along with…

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Although it’s officially fall, beach season lives on in the world of Cynthia Rowley and Maisonette. The designer has teamed with the children’s e-tailer for an exclusive capsule collection of children’s clothing, inspired by beach culture on both the East and West coasts. The 13-piece CaliYork collaboration includes wetsuits, sweatshirts, beach bags and towels, available in both children’s and women’s sizes. Prices range from $55 for the towel to $265 for the women’s wetsuit. “We…

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PACK YOUR BAGS: First Lady Melania Trump rounded up fellow first spouses and other dignitaries Wednesday morning at the United States Mission to the United Nations. FLOTUS used the occasion to reveal details of her upcoming trip to Africa which will include stops in Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt. “Whether it is education, drug addiction, hunger, online safety or bullying, poverty or disease, it is too often children who are hit first, and hardest, across…

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Nashville’s fashion, music and culinary scene will be making a monthlong stop in New York at the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg via a pop-up shop event, Oct. 1 to 29. “Greetings from Nashville” showcases the work of the Tennessee city’s “top designers, artists, makers, musicians and chefs,” according to The Callaway — the Nashville-based communications company that is curating the event. Libby Callaway, founder and principal of the firm said vendors that are being presented include Barista Parlor, Third Man Records, Little…

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BEAUTY MARKS: Rankin, designer Steven Tai and the U.K. charity Changing Faces have worked on a project that thrusts women with disfigurements, marks and scars into the spotlight, and aims to shatter conventional notions of beauty. “Portrait Positive,” a book and campaign, was conceived by Tai and Stephen Bell, a London-based events manager, and features images of 16 women with visible facial and bodily differences. The women were shot by Rankin and are wearing designs by…

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ARTS AND CRAFTS: Seven young artists have won a sponsorship jackpot from Tiffany & Co., part of an ongoing partnership with the Outset Contemporary Art Fund. The jeweler provides promising arts graduates with rent-free studio space for a year to help them refine their work and kick-start their careers. Richard Moore, the brand’s divisional vice president, store design and creative visual merchandising, revealed the names of the seven winners for this year during a breakfast…

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Click:geotextile wholesale British Airways has turned to London designer Ozwald Boateng to design new uniforms for its 32,000-person staff. The OBE-honored designer, who launched a women’s collection earlier this year, will have his work cut out for him shadowing British Airways employees to get a better understanding of the demands of their various jobs. Boateng will be figuring out just how the uniforms need to hold up and will have booking agents, pilots, in-flight crew…

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FOREVER YOUNG: Mastermind, the magazine created by fashion stylist Marie-Amélie Sauvé, has put together a photography exhibition celebrating youth, a theme of its fourth issue, which came out Sept. 3. Housed at the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in the Marais, “A Generation” features the work of three photographers — Jamie Hawkesworth, Charles Fréger and Raimond Wouda. It opens today and will run until Oct. 6. “We wanted to put the spotlight on younger generations at school,”…

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COSTUME PARTY: There’s no slowing perennial overachiever Karl Lagerfeld, who has designed two Chanel costumes for the pas de deux of “Bolero,” which will be performed by Diana Vishneva, prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Ballet, and Aurélie Dupont, director of dance at the Paris Opera Ballet, at the latter company’s opening gala at the Palais Garnier on Thursday night. The performance will be part of a new entry into the repertory of the Paris Opera…

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EARLY BIRD: Despite giving one of her first live performances since the birth of her daughter Kulture, Cardi B was among the guests filing into the 10 a.m. Mugler show in Paris on Wednesday. The “Bodak Yellow” rapper posed for photographers in a tailored black jacket that was cut open in the back to reveal sheer cycling shorts with lacing details — as well as a glimpse of her black thong. She was up at…

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