A WINNING TRIFECTA: In honor of The Recent School’s 74th annual Parsons Profit, the university will salute some top-shelf talent — supermodel Naomi Campbell, Balmain’s creative director Olivier Rousteing and Neiman Marcus’ Geoffroy van Raemdonck.

This 12 months’s event might be held May 24 at Cipriani Wall Street in Recent York City. As in years past, the gathering will have fun the honorees’ contributions to design, retail, fashion, philanthropy and social justice. This 12 months’s gathering might be held on a Wednesday as an alternative of a Monday.

The three honorees have also been singled out for being visionary figures of their respective industries. One other draw was their commitment to the transformative power of design, which aligns with The Recent School’s and Parsons’ mission, vision and curriculum.

Campbell, Fashion4Relief founder, for instance, on Friday thanked Dr. Makaziwe Mandela, The African Gate and the European Parliament in Rome for honoring her. Campbell vowed to “at all times fight for human rights and repeatedly support campaigns against racism in fashion and beyond” in an Instagram post to her 14 million followers.

Rousteing also attracts extensive media coverage. He just teamed with Beyoncé to codesign a group titled “Renaissance,” named after the megastar’s album and tour.

Because the chief executive officer of Neiman Marcus Group, Raemdonck commonly teams with designer brands and earlier this 12 months directed the relaunch of the Neiman Marcus Awards, which honored Brunello Cucinelli, Jonathan Anderson of JW Anderson and Loewe and Amina Muaddi.

The Recent School’s profit may also raise funds for scholarships to assist students explore art, design, liberal arts, music, technology and social innovation.

In an announcement, Yvonne Watson, interim executive dean of The Recent School’s Parsons School of Design, described the honorees as “industry leaders who’ve profoundly inspired our students.” Watson also “praised their longstanding commitment to the values that guide Parsons in all the things we do.” — ROSEMARY FEITELBERG

KERING’S WINNER: Kering has named Rosângela Rennó the winner of its 2023 Women in Motion Award for photography, in recognition of the Brazilian artist’s work on discarded images rescued from various sources, from flea markets and web photos to institutional archives.

She is attributable to receive the prize on July 4 in the course of the photography festival Les Rencontres d’Arles, which can host the primary major exhibition of her work in France. Supported by the Women in Motion program, the show will run from July 3 to Sept. 24, and Rennó will give a chat during an event on the Théâtre Antique in Arles.

“She’s going to present her work and share with the audience her personal journey and her view of girls’s place in photography and society normally,” Kering said in an announcement Friday. “Her work is an in depth exploration of time, of forgetting, and the social and psychological changes that affect memory.”

Rennó is understood for appropriating and reworking archival photographic material into an art installation or a book of photography. In 2013, she received the festival’s Historical Book Award for her work on the pictures stolen from the National Library of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.

Initially geared toward highlighting work by women within the realm of film, Women in Motion was founded in 2015 on the Cannes Film Festival. Kering expanded this system by adding the photography award in 2019, and said Friday that it has renewed its commitment to the Arles festival for an additional five years.

The prize is accompanied by an endowment for acquiring works of the winner for the festival’s collection. The previous recipients were Babette Mangolte, Liz Johnson Artur, Sabine Weiss and Susan Meiselas.

Kering may also support an exhibition of photographs taken by late director Agnès Varda in 1954 before and in the course of the shooting of the film “La Pointe Courte.” A key figure within the French Recent Wave with movies like “Cléo From 5 to 7,” Varda was one in every of the primary participants within the Women in Motion program of film talks. — JOELLE DIDERICH

VIVA VALLI: Giambattista Valli is the newest luxury name to land at Harrods, with a pop-up shop on the primary floor that’s set to run until May 28. It offers a collection of the designer’s resort 2023 collection, together with Valli’s pink Paglia di Vienna capsule, which is exclusive to the shop.

The designer celebrated the opening with a dinner on Harrods’ balcony — which was covered attributable to the rainstorms plaguing London. Guests including Isabel and Ivy Getty; “Bridgerton” actress Charithra Chandran; Emma Weymouth, and Ikram Abdi sat at a mile-long table dotted with pomegranates and small lamps with matching red shades.

It was a homecoming for Valli, whose label sold at Harrods earlier in his profession, and his pop-up shares a floor with other international designer brands including Prada, Celine and Saint Laurent.

“It’s back to Harrods, celebrating on the historic balcony with a part of my U.K. Valli family. It’s been an actual thrill,” said the designer, who was wearing black — and his signature pearls — for the evening.

Those pearls adorned the table, too, with guests sipping Giambattista Valli vino from Feudi del Pisciotto. The Cerasuolo di Vittoria red is an element of a group made for top fashion labels, and Valli designed the bottle’s black label with a single string of graduated white pearls.

Dinner included burrata, sea bass and mushroom risotto followed by crème brûlée, crumble and sorbet. The dinner was the newest in a string of Valli events within the U.S. and Europe, which kicked off with a dinner at Caviar Kaspia on Melrose Place in Los Angeles last October, before the restaurant officially opened.

Harrods is one in every of Valli’s many projects and he has a busy few months ahead. He’s opening a latest showroom near Place de l’Opéra in Paris, and can stage his summer 2024 couture show in early July. — SAMANTHA CONTI

WME’S NEW LEADERS: WME Fashion has named Jeni Rose and Kate Stirling senior vice presidents and co-heads of fashion representation, leading IMG Models and The Wall Group globally. Ali Bird has been named senior vp, global talent strategy and incubation for WME Fashion.

As part of those changes, Ivan Bart, president of IMG Models, will develop into senior adviser to IMG Models, serving as key counsel across its global business.

“Ali, Jeni and Kate each bring over 25 years of worldwide expertise to our business. I couldn’t be more confident of their leadership and vision for the long run. They’ve a proven track record of driving meaningful opportunities for our talent and partners,” said Susan Plagemann, president of WME Fashion, who assumed the role last August.

“I sit up for working alongside them as we proceed to create value and discover interesting opportunities across fashion, beauty, luxury, retail and well beyond,” she said.

Of their latest roles, Rose and Stirling will give attention to identifying opportunities that strategically pair talent with meaningful brand partners and cultural moments that fuel connection and broaden their sphere of influence. Bird will expand efforts to create access for historically underrepresented populations in fashion, while discovering and developing the very best talent from across the globe.

Brooke Wall has been named chairperson of The Wall Group, and on this latest role will strategically seek the advice of with The Wall Group leadership team because the business continues to grow.

During his carer, Bart has discovered and developed many models’ careers in addition to worked with leading celebrities. He joined IMG Models in 2009 as senior vp and managing director and was named president in January 2014. He has helped uncover a generation of stars that became household names, including Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid, Hailey Bieber, Carolyn Murphy, Shalom Harlow, Ashley Graham and Joan Smalls. During his time as president, he also encouraged diverse casting and inclusion and propelled the successful careers of models comparable to Alek Wek, Hari Nef, Precious Lee, Zach Mike, Quannah Chasinghorse and Paloma Elsesser.

In 2012, Bart was on the helm of the worldwide relaunch of the IMG Models’ men’s board, and launched the Sydney office. In 2017, Bart oversaw the opening of the Los Angeles office, which today represents such Hollywood stars as Gal Gadot, Maddie Ziegler, Paris Jackson and Millie Bobby Brown.

WME Fashion’s portfolio includes Art + Commerce, IMG Models, IMG Fashion Events and Properties and The Wall Group, which spans talent representation, brand partnerships, event ownership and production, original content creation and consulting services. — LISA LOCKWOOD

ART FOR THE FLOOR: Two famed British brands, Liberty and The Rug Company, have teamed for the primary time, on Monday debuting a collaborative collection of six rugs inspired by Liberty’s vast fabric archive.

“We knew we desired to work with iconic heritage patterns as a part of the gathering — ‘Ianthe’ and ‘Hera’ seemed perfect designs to launch this exciting collaboration with,” Genevieve Bennett, Liberty’s head of design, told WWD of two of the Liberty x The Rug Company’s collaborative designs. The capsule aimed to pay homage to each brands’ British heritage by incorporating prints from Liberty’s archive, dating back to 1875, and mixing each corporations’ luxe materials with design elements à la the Art Nouveau period and the Aesthetic movement.

“’Ianthe’ was originally designed as a wallpaper border c.1902; it’s one in every of Liberty’s most iconic Art Nouveau designs and has been used on a various number of products in its history to date. We loved the concept of going back to its original form as a border design and really celebrating the elegance and class of a framed rug layout,” Bennett said of the Ianthe Art Nouveau floral border design, which is out there in two colorways — a dusty blue and green Ianthe Jade and icy hued Ianthe Pewter.

‘”Hera’ — originally called ‘Hera Feather’ — is a real design icon. First registered as a woven fabric in 1876, now a Liberty trademark, Hera has appeared on Liberty furnishing fabrics, dress fabrics and scarves for nearly 150 years,” Bennett added. For the capsule, the design was translated into wool and silk with a hand-carving technique.

Additional Liberty x The Rug Company styles include a Japanese-inspired Art Nouveau large-scale floral “Hana” design, available in two silk and wool colorways, and a “Milo” hand-knotted rug boasting an adapted Seventies illustrative wildlife print.

The Liberty x The Rug Company collection is out there from Liberty, The Rug Company showroom and The Rug Company’s e-commerce, with prices starting at $200 per square foot. Along with the “ready-to-go” styles, each design will be customized for each residential and contract spaces and is out there as wall-to-wall carpet in addition to stair runners and will be adapted in size, pile height, color and shape. — EMILY MERCER

CELEBRATING SIMONE: On Thursday night, Nordstrom and Simone Rocha hosted an intimate dinner within the West Village. The event, held at chef Angie Mar’s Les Trois Chevaux, celebrated the designer’s latest installation at Nordstrom’s uptown flagship and their long-standing collaboration.

“After we launched Space, Simone Rocha was one in every of our pillar brands,” said Nordstrom’s Olivia Kim, noting she’s been a fan since Rocha’s very first collection out of Central Saint Martins. “It’s been so incredible to look at her success and watch her proceed to grow,” she added. “There’s something so incredibly beautiful and dark and female, yet sad — it’s the entire spectrum of emotions I’ve found together with her clothes.”

“I’ve been working with Olivia for a very long time; she’s at all times really understood my identity as a designer,” said Rocha. “We began with Space — and now I even have my very own space. [Nordstrom] invited me to come back do an installation and a takeover, and it’s been really fabulous and so they gave me a number of creative freedom.”

The London-based designer was sticking around Recent York for yet another day to launch her menswear collection in her Mercer Street boutique.

Guests — lots of whom wore Simone Rocha for the occasion — included Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast, Miles Greenberg, Precious Okoyomon, Blake Abbie, Laila Gohar and Antwaun Sargent.

Mar’s restaurant, which she opened as an homage to her family, was a fitting location for a dinner celebrating two fashion brands with strong familial foundations.

“Nordstrom was the primary shopping experience that I ever really had with my mom,” said Mar, one other avowed Simone Rocha fan, from the kitchen before dinner. “I even have so many fond memories of going to the flagship in downtown Seattle, having a day out together with her. So for me, it’s home, it’s family — and also you never really recover from your first shopping experience, right?” — KRISTEN TAUER

SPECIAL TEE: As a part of Kenneth Cole’s fortieth anniversary celebration, the corporate is collaborating with Recent York based-artist Faust on a three-piece collection where one hundred pc of net proceeds from the sale of the items might be donated to The Mental Health Coalition.

The Mental Health Coalition works to finish the stigma surrounding mental health by changing the best way people discuss and look after mental illness.

Faust, well-known for his graffiti handstyle, first caught Cole’s attention when the brand’s Bond + Bowery store opened and Cole began to spend more time within the neighborhood. Cole became thinking about Faust’s work, which explores scale and placement to challenge how graffiti is perceived.

Finding an artist who also uses words in an impactful way was a very important aspect of the collaboration.

Kenneth Cole x Faust is a limited-edition Voicewear capsule collection including two T-shirts and one hoodie. In accordance with the corporate, these pieces have been transformed “to be true pieces of art” and have messages dedicated to bringing mental health to the forefront of the conversation.

The unisex collection includes a hoodie with the phrase “Wear Your Voice,” on the front, a nod to Cole’s Voicewear and the indisputable fact that he has at all times used his platform to talk openly about necessary social issues, and “When ‘I’ is Replaced with ‘We’ Even Illness Becomes Wellness” on the back, which is the phrase that Faust featured on a phone booth in the course of the height of COVID-19, which went viral.

One in all the T-shirts bears the identical phrase that’s on the back of the hoodie. The second T-shirt includes a famous line of Cole’s, “Stand for Something or Step Aside.” The Ts retail for $48 and the hoodies are $88. The gathering might be available Monday exclusively on Kennethcole.com and at Temporary by Kenneth Cole on Bond + Bowery in Recent York City. — L.L.

SHOWING SUPPORT: On Friday, luxury platform Olivela launched an exclusive capsule collection featuring designers LaQuan Smith, Mark Cross, Anabela Chan, Jonathan Simkhai, Kinraden, Rixo, Andrea Iyamah, Mercedes Castillo and Studio Amelia to boost funds for women’ education as a part of its “Stand With Her” campaign.

There are 37 one-of-a-kind pieces in the gathering (the designers created anywhere from two to seven pieces), and costs range from $215 to $3,640.

Twenty percent of proceeds from all orders on Olivela.com will support CARE, which helps defeat poverty, save lives and achieve social justice. 4 dollars sends a woman to high school for sooner or later.

The primary “Stand With Her” collection launched on Giving Tuesday in November 2022, with designers Jimmy Choo, Simone Rocha, Roksanda and The Vampire’s Wife. It raised funds for the Girls Opportunity Alliance, an Obama Foundation program.

Olivela’s retail concept drives 20 percent of net proceeds from all purchases, for free of charge to customers or brands, to its nonprofit partners. Last October, Olivela made a $1 million donation to global humanitarian organization Save the Children.

“Equal rights have at all times been at the highest of my agenda,” said Sarah Mullertz, designer and founding father of Kinraden Superb Jewelry. “We now have at Kinraden worked with equal rights for ladies and girls for a few years and are very aware there continues to be a protracted option to go (even here in Scandinavia). So I’m thrilled because the founding father of a woman-driven and women-owned business to launch these exclusive styles with Olivela. It’s more necessary than ever to point out the best way for the subsequent generations. Women’s rights and girls’ rights are human rights.”

To have fun the launch of the “Stand With Her” campaign, Olivela commissioned three style makers — Brittany Xavier, Orion Carloto and Mandy Kelley — to photograph themselves of their favorite pieces.

“I even have been so moved by the response from the Olivela community to the primary ‘Stand With Her’ capsule collection, and I’m excited to bring on board some incredible latest brands to further the efforts and impact our campaign is making. Just last month, I visited Jordan to see first hand the nice work CARE is doing to supply girls an education and provides them hope towards a greater future. It’s this power to drive real change with every purchase that our customers come back to Olivela for. I couldn’t be more excited to see what we will achieve with this latest collection,” said Stacey Boyd, founder and chief executive officer of Olivela. — L.L.