JAQUIER HONORED: Kering will award this 12 months’s Women in Motion Emerging Talent prize to “Thunder” director Carmen Jaquier.

“I’m very grateful to receive this award, especially from a visionary and provoking director like Ninja Thyberg. Because of Women in Motion, I even have a sense of sorority, which touches me and offers me hope on this desire I even have for reflection, insurrection and transmission. I even have special feelings for all of the people — technicians, producers, screenwriters, actresses and actors — who fiercely committed themselves to my side for my first feature film, ‘Thunder,’” she said.

The Swiss director was chosen by last 12 months’s honoree, Swedish director Thyberg. It’s a Kering tradition for the Emerging Talent Award to be chosen by her predecessor.

“’Thunder’ is an incredibly beautiful, life-affirming and modern film that challenges conventional ideas of sexuality, God, pain and redemption. Carmen Jaquier is 100% loyal to her female protagonist and this film has a really female gaze. It’s a terrific honor to pass on this award to her,” said Thyberg about selecting to pass the consideration on to Jaquier.

Jaquier will take to the stage with Michelle Yeoh, this 12 months’s honoree for the Women in Motion Award, and she is going to receive a 50,000 euro grant earmarked for her next film project.

Jaquier graduated from École Cantonale d’Art in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she studied photography before moving into film. Her student film “Le Tombeau des Filles” won a prize for emerging talent within the Locarno Film Festival. She has directed several short movies since then to wide acclaim and other awards.

Her first feature film, “Thunder,” premiered on the Toronto Film Festival and took home one of the best director award on the Marrakech Film Festival. The story centers on a teen who returns to her village from a convent after learning of her sister’s mysterious death, and the tumult across the reunion along with her childhood friends.

Kering is an official partner of the Cannes Film Festival. Its Women in Motion program was founded in 2015 and has grown to a series of talks specializing in female filmmakers, actresses and film executives that takes place in the course of the festival.

The gala awards dinner can be held at Cannes’ Musée de la Castre overlooking the view of the Mediterranean on May 21. Kering chairman and chief executive officer François-Henri Pinault will present each awards alongside Cannes Film Festival president Iris Knobloch and general delegate Thierry Frémaux. — RHONDA RICHFORD

NILI’S NIGHT: “Welcome to the City of Angels,” Karla Welch told Nili Lotan.

Welch was tapped to cohost Nili Lotan’s dinner at Gigi’s in Los Angeles on Thursday night alongside the brand founder.

“Nili and I met six or seven years ago, perhaps eight,” explained Welch. “We were on a panel together talking concerning the modern woman’s wardrobe. I principally sat there and was so in awe of Nili. I called my husband after, and I used to be like, ‘I met the best woman on the planet.’”

The Israeli-born designer, who founded the namesake Recent York-based label in 2003, was on the town to have a good time the brand’s twentieth anniversary, in addition to open her first West Coast store on the identical block — buzzy Sycamore Avenue. Positioned at 927 North Sycamore Avenue, the 1,242-square-foot boutique carries women’s and men’s ready-to-wear, handbags and small leather goods. The shop was designed in collaboration with Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis of Objects of Common Interest (who previously worked on the brand’s Palm Beach and Meatpacking locations) to create a “minimal, serene and introspective” space.

For Lotan, opening in L.A. — her second-largest market after Recent York — was “a longtime vision come true.” She shared her excitement with the gang, which included Welch’s celebrity clients like Olivia Wilde, in addition to Michelle Monaghan, Adwoa Aboah, Zoe Lister-Jones, Stephen Galloway, Luke Gilford, Whitney Port, Clara McGregor, Nick Wooster, Nikolai Haas and Djuna Bel.

From the beginning Lotan’s aim has been to create timeless pieces for today’s woman (and now man), focused on tailored suiting, silk dresses, denim and accessories like calfskin belts and bags. Working in earth tones, with wealthy pops of color, the well-crafted collections are filled with easy-to-wear staples.

Moving to Recent York in 1980, after graduating from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Tel Aviv, Lotan led design teams at Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne and Nautica before branching out on her own. Her first launch was a six-piece capsule with three pants — including the bestselling Cropped Military Pant — two jackets and a skirt.

Welch said learning about Lotan’s design process was “just eye opening,” referencing Lotan’s DNA of providing luxury and functionality of an on a regular basis uniform.

“You possibly can see it across the room,” Welch said of guests, all wearing Nili Lotan.

Cocktail hour had prolonged by then, and the bunch was ready to sit down for the meal — taking off with shellfish towers, steak tartares and gem salads, paired with wine and vodka martinis.

“Now let’s eat!” exclaimed Lotan. — RYMA CHIKHOUNE

NEW LOOK: Prada is all set for summer.

Prada has reopened its East Hampton, Recent York, store at 2 Newtown Lane with a recent design. The shop opened for the season on Friday.

The shop’s decor, designed by the Prada team, features an ivory and vivid blue striped carpet and partitions with the identical motif. A white neon sign illuminates the surfaces, providing a recent interpretation of the long-lasting Prada triangle logo, while large wood wall etageres and tables exhibit and highlight the merchandise.

The shop originally opened last July, the primary time the Italian luxury brand had opened a store within the Hamptons. The unique design featured ivory and green stripes and a green neon sign, interpreting the Prada logo. — LISA LOCKWOOD

FIRST SUN: Massimo Alba has partnered with Garrett Leight California Optical, or GLCO, for its first eyewear collaboration ever.

In sync with the understated luxury and casual elegance of the independent fashion brand launched by the namesake designer in 2006, the capsule collection hinges on a single, sober style crafted in acetate and defined by a double bridge.

Inspired by a classic Seventies frame owned by Alba himself, the sunglass design is obtainable within the three colorways Brera, Sole and Luce, indicating shades in black, green and burnt red, respectively. An optical version can even be available exclusively at GLCO’s units.

Every bit is embellished with a small golden clover engraved on the temple, along with the GLCO trademark, in addition to the names of the 2 corporations and the Made in America lettering.

Styles include a cleansing cloth that mirrors certainly one of the Italian brand’s most iconic handkerchiefs and reads: “To have someone understand your mind is a distinct sort of intimacy.” Within the words of the designer himself, the handkerchief “is a sentimental, forgotten accessory used to dry your brow, tears, hands, and, for many who wear glasses like me, to wash the lenses.”

Retailing for 505 euros each, the Massimo Alba x GLCO styles will officially launch on Thursday at each corporations’ physical stores and e-commerce platforms. 

While Massimo Alba has six stores throughout Italy, GLCO — which was founded in Venice Beach in 2010 — has seven flagships across San Francisco; Manhattan and Brooklyn, Recent York; Austin, Texas, and Toronto, along with two locations in Los Angeles. The GLCO eyewear collections are also distributed in greater than 25 countries at chosen optical shops, department shops and fashion boutiques. — SANDRA SALIBIAN

DALLAS WINNERS: Perseverance was the evening’s theme on the twenty seventh annual Rising Star Awards presented by Fashion Group International of Dallas on Wednesday evening at Galleria Dallas.

All five winners, who were chosen through a poll of the chapter’s members, faced the added stress of starting their businesses shortly before or in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s a challenge, but here we’re — we made it through,” said Elizabeth Hooper, whose abstract brass jewelry plated in silver and gold won the Accessories award. “Being an entrepreneur is tough, but in the event you like it, it’s definitely price it.”

Tajikistan native Munisa Khuramova clinched the Fashion Design prize for Munelle de Vie, her brand of bias-cut dresses and separates fabricated from silk charmeuse and other natural textiles.

“I’m from a rustic where basic human rights are denied,” she said, adding that fashion “helps women connect with our higher selves.”

The prize for Retail went to Stephen Swetish because the creator of M.K.T., which displays rotating groups of Texas fashion, accessories, home furnishings and food items in 6,000 square feet at West Village in Dallas.

Makeup artist Tina Adams-Mason of About Face Pros won the Beauty category and Dexter James won the inaugural Fashion Styling award.

“This is actually a celebration of local talent,” said Nerissa Von Helpenstill, regional director of FGI Dallas and director of sales experience of Neiman Marcus at NorthPark Center.

FGI Dallas plans to honor Christian Siriano, Nina Garcia and others at its Night of Stars gala on Nov. 10. Proceeds profit scholarships for fashion design and merchandising students. — HOLLY HABER