DOUBLE TIME: Fashion editors and other professionals in Paris on July 2 might find themselves wishing they might be in two places at the identical time: Alaïa and Celine have scheduled off-calendar runway shows only half-hour apart.

It seems logistically unattainable to attend each: Normally shows are scheduled at the least one hour apart during official fashion weeks to permit sufficient time for participants to attend all events.

As reported, the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode published its provisional couture-week calendar on June 5, with 32 houses scheduling fall 2023 runway shows between July 3 and 6.

In concert with that, the federation noted that two houses would show spring 2024 ready-to-wear collections on July 2, with Patou taking a 6 p.m. spot and Alaïa following with an 8 p.m. show time.

The federation doesn’t manage off-calendar shows, nevertheless it had noted the Alaïa event as that home is, like Celine, a member.

The federation declined to comment on Wednesday.

On Monday, Celine sent out a save-the-date for its summer 2024 Celine Homme show, scheduled for July 2 at 8:30 p.m. The brand has yet to speak the venue and declined further comment.

Contacted on Wednesday, a spokesman for Alaïa said that it isn’t in a position to move the time or location of its July 2 show.

It is known the style house, controlled by luxury group Compagnie Financière Richemont, required special permissions for its show venue, which can’t be altered.

Celine, a part of larger luxury rival LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, often presents its collections outside regular fashion weeks.

Paris Fashion Week for the spring 2024 menswear collections is scheduled for June 20 to 25 within the French capital.

Last season Celine presented its menswear collection at Paris nightclub Le Palace almost three weeks after the European men’s shows wound up. In contrast, Celine creative and image director Hedi Slimane had unveiled his fall 2023 women’s collection for Celine on Dec. 8 in Los Angeles, months before official fashion weeks in Recent York, London, Milan and Paris.

Alaïa also has a penchant for operating by itself schedule — and with unusual seasonal nomenclature. The home, helmed by Belgian designer Pieter Mulier, paraded its “summer-fall 2023” collection on Jan. 27 in Antwerp, right after the spring 2023 high fashion collections in Paris.

The gathering to be presented on July 2 is dubbed “winter-spring 2024.” — MILES SOCHA

RECORD BAG SALE: Christie’s broke records on Tuesday with sales of several rare handbags. Results from the auction totaled $4.1 million, making it the highest-valued handbag sale ever staged within the Americas.

“The outcomes show the strength and resilience of the handbags and accessories market,” Rachel Koffsky, Christie’s International head of purses, told WWD. “We saw robust participation from over 30 countries, proving the international appeal of collectible handbags and the growing demand for these precious rarities.”

The Handbags Online: The Recent York Edit sales, curated partially by consignment retailer Rebag, occurred from May 30 to June 12. The best-selling item was a rare Hermès Kellywood 22 crafted with beechwood and barenia leather. Featuring a geometrical design based on an Hermès scarf pattern, the bag fetched $176,400 at auction.

Other highlights included the sale of three crocodile Himalaya bags: a Lady Dior, an Hermès Birkin and an Hermès Kelly. The unique leather pattern is distinguished by its gradient color scheme.

Produced in limited qualities, the Himalaya Kelly and the Himalaya Birkin are considered two of the rarest handbags on the earth. The previous sold for $119,700, while the latter went for $151,200. Meanwhile, the Lady Dior, which incorporates crystal-encrusted hardware, went for $21,420.

Christie’s also auctioned off a Louis Vuitton valise designed by Takashi Murakami. Crafted in 2004, the limited-edition suitcase fetched $21,420. The white Alzer 65 model features Murakami’s trademark Multicolore monogram. Popularized by celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, the now-discontinued pattern was emblematic of 2000s logomania. — HANNAH MALACH

GETTING AWAY: ‘Tis the season for resort capsule collections.

Valentino Escape 2023 made its U.S. debut in L.A. with Saks Fifth Avenue on Tuesday night with a cocktail soiree at a non-public home in Beverly Hills.

The monogrammed collection was displayed on mannequins across the infinity pool, where “The Flash” actress Sasha Calle, “Yellowjackets” star Courtney Eaton, “Prey” star Amber Midthunder and more tip-toed in the home’s platform heels and minidresses while sipping Champagne.

The event was the primary U.S. stop on Valentino’s world tour of activations to have fun the gathering of summer-ready wardrobe staples that reinterpret the archival prints of the style house. This 12 months the brand focused on its Animalier, Panther and Loop patterns to raise vacation looks, resembling billowing caftans, flowy dresses, swimwear, scarves, sunglasses and V Logo heels. 

The brand partnered with Saks on the U.S. release; Valentino Escape is accessible at Saks.com and at Saks Fifth Avenue stores in Recent York; Greenwich, Connecticut; Atlanta; Boca Raton, Florida; and Beverly Hills, where the gathering has taken over the windows and a pop-up space on the primary floor.

On the party, Valentino x Saks branded pool loungers, umbrellas and a lemonade cart set the resort scene. Valentino logo straw fans were also on offer but not needed, since L.A. has yet to hit peak summer weather.

Cocktail chatter was all concerning the Hollywood Writers Guild of America strike and the looming SAG-AFTRA actors strike, which could snag press tour red carpet dressing plans for several major summer releases, including “Barbie.”

Stylist Erica Cloud was still unsure if she’d be traveling with Robert Downey Jr. to advertise “Oppenheimer,” the Chris Nolan-directed film concerning the Manhattan Project.

If the June 30 SAG-AFTRA contract deadline comes and goes with no recent deal, and a strike begins, actors should not expected to give you the chance to advertise their recent movies. — BOOTH MOORE

ANDERSON DOES BLOCH: Tracy Anderson, the fitness guru, has a recent deal for ladies’s activewear with Bloch, a provider of technical dance footwear and apparel.

The Tracy Anderson x Bloch collaboration traces its roots back to the times when Anderson would wear Bloch as a competitive after which skilled dancer. The 2 combined their shared love of dance and movement to create a line of unitards and leotards for workouts.

The eight-piece collection contains a custom line of unitards, leotards and two-piece sets designed to reinforce performance across all ranges of motion. Retail prices range from $50 to $125.

“The collaboration with Bloch is true full-circle moment because dance has at all times been at the guts of my method,” said Anderson, founding father of the Tracy Anderson Method.

“It has been such a beautiful opportunity to work with Tracy Anderson to interpret their unique understanding of body movement into functional and flattering garments,” said David Wilkenfeld, chief executive officer of Bloch, a 90-year-old family business, whose dance shoes have been worn by ballerinas on the Royal Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre, the Bolshoi Ballet and the Australian Ballet, amongst others.

The road is accessible at tracyanderson.com, Tracy Anderson studios worldwide, blochworld.com and Bloch locations in Recent York and London. — LISA LOCKWOOD

POINTS OF PRIDE: In honor of Pride Month, the Finnish design house Marimekko has called upon three LGBTQIA+ visual artists in Recent York, Helsinki and Bangkok to create work for a Marimekko store window.

Brooklyn-based art director and illustrator Shanée Benjamin, Bangkok-based illustrator Juli Baker and Summer and the Helsinki-based visual and textile artist Anna-Karolina Vainio were recruited for commissions. Baker, who earned a fashion degree at Chulalongkorn University, began her artist profession under the nom de plume Juli Baker and Summer in 2015. As a degree of reference to assist get the three artists’ ideas circulating, they got a quote by Marimekko founder Armi Ratia, who wrote in her diary on the age of 14, “There is simply one strength — Love.”

As an official partner of Helsinki Pride since 2018 and a supporter of the Finnish LGBTQIA+ artist community, Marimekko has had similar art window collaborations in Helsinki for the past three years. As well as, the corporate has a convention of inviting artists and creatives from all walks of life to create daring and colourful prints to be able to brighten the lives of individuals.

This 12 months is the primary that the shop window concept was unveiled in Recent York and Bangkok. Earlier this month the Brooklyn-based art director and illustrator Benjamin might be seen working on her creation outside of the brand’s Wooster Street store, while shoppers browsed indoors. To offer them one other taste of her artistry, a few of Benjamin’s personal paintings are on display in the shop this month.

Although Pride Month winds down within the U.S. at the top of this month, Helsinki’s Pride celebration runs through July 2. Finland’s President Tarja Halonen, an advocate for the human rights of sexual and gender minorities, will function this 12 months’s event patron. Vainio’s artistry will probably be on view within the Helsinki store until July 3.

It won’t be long before Marimekko has other reasons to have fun. The Finnish brand will participate in Copenhagen Fashion Week in August, and more plans are within the works for next 12 months in honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the brand’s Unikko (poppy) print. — ROSEMARY FEITELBERG

ZHANG’S PORTFOLIO SALE: It’s Huishan Zhang’s world, nevertheless it wouldn’t be nothing without his women.

The designer has launched his third portfolio initiative, raising money for the Trussell Trust to support the cost-of-living crisis within the U.K.

For any purchases made throughout the month of June, Zhang will donate 20 percent of the sales to the charity.

To assist him raise awareness, he enlisted 12 women for the campaign, including actor, poet and filmmaker Greta Bellamacina; artist and poet Karimah Hassan; actors Anna Brewster and Anna Shaffer, in addition to model and author Nassia Matsa.

On Zhang’s website, each woman has been interviewed about their upcoming projects, mentors of their careers and why they selected their chosen pieces to wear within the shoot.

“This 12 months I even have two movies out. A movie I  shot in Rome with the renowned Italian theater director Riccardo Vannuniccini, which is known as ’Commedia.’  I play a woman who thinks she is a filmmaker, but other people think she is mad and it’s about her friendship with a man she meets in a mental hospital,” said Bellamacina.

“The second film is known as ’Tell That to the Winter Sea,’ which I cowrote, and is directed by the Emmy award-winning director Jaclyn Bethany. I play a woman who’s reunited along with her childhood old flame on the eve of her marriage to another person, and it’s their story. It’s type of a coming of age film, twice over,” she added.

Bellamacina can even be releasing her poetry book, “Who Will Make the Fire,” later this 12 months.

Schaffer revealed that she’s rehearsing for “School Girls, or, the African Mean Girls Play,” which opens next week on the The Lyric theater in Hammersmith, in addition to starring in season three of Netflix’s “The Witcher,” later this month.

Zhang is a movie buff, often musing after the ladies of the silver screen.

His fall 2023 show referenced film noir and Alfred Hitchcock. — HIKMAT MOHAMMED

FUNDING BUDDING MUSICIANS: The hip-hop landscape is alive and well in Canada.

Moose Knuckles and Prism Prize, administered by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, have revealed the three recipients of the Moose Knuckles Heatmakers x Prism Prize Music Video Production Grant. They’re Sean Leon, iaamSaam and Skiifall.

Introduced earlier this 12 months, the production initiative supports the creation of high-quality music video content from the Canadian rap and hip-hop community and offers recording artists the chance to receive as much as 35,000 Canadian dollars in funding.

Leon is a prolific creator with experience within the music industry spanning over a decade who will probably be the “Ambassador” for this round of funding; iaamSaam is a self-taught creative and multidisciplinary audio-visual artist, and Skiifall is a burgeoning force on the worldwide hip-hop scene. All three recipients, who’re awarded the grant as a part of a creative team together with a producer and director, will receive 20,000 Canadian dollars with the Ambassador receiving a further 15,000 Canadian dollars toward their music video project.

The recipients were chosen by a bunch of top music and fashion industry professionals.

“Supporting emerging creatives has been a priority for Moose Knuckles because the start and we’re stoked to be an element of the journey for every of those incredible artists at such a vital time of their careers,” said Carlos Nazario, global artistic director of Moose Knuckles. “It’s especially meaningful to give you the chance to support artists in our home market and we hope it is simply the start of constant to uplift home-grown talent.” — L.L.

SLIPPER STYLE: Furthering its string of collaborations, Brunch, a life-style brand developing footwear with a hotel slipper aesthetic, has teamed with Hirshleifers, the family-run luxury retailer on Long Island, on its latest styles.

Lori Hirshleifer, owner and buyer, together with Marci Hirshleifer Penn, women’s buyer, worked with Brunch to revamp the Brunch “l’Essentiel” silhouette with distinct knit uppers, and an identical blanket in the identical knit fabric. While the Hirshleifers handled the design, Brunch managed the production. Lori and Marci styled each a dress-down look and a dress-up look.

“The Hirshleifers have been family friends of ours in addition to an inspiration for myself growing up. My mother has been shopping there consistently for years,” said Brunch founder Daniel Sitt. “After we were kicking off the partnership, we immediately thought to leaf through archival images of the Hirshleifers family to get a greater understanding of their heritage. We saw an old picture of Lillian Hirshleifer [mother of Lori] with an enormous smile, sporting a patterned knit top. From that photo, we were immediately inspired to check what it means to design knitted footwear.”

In keeping with Joshua Sitt, Daniel’s brother and a partner in Brunch, the co-branded l’Essentiel slipper is designed for comfort, has a footbed made with EVA foam that molds to the foot, and an outsole created from partially recycled EVA often utilized in running sneakers for support and traction. The upper knit pattern was spun in Mexico and created from recycled cotton yarn for softness and sturdiness. The slipper is stain resistant, machine cleanable, priced $122, and sold on Brunch.us, on the Brunch store on Bond Street in Manhattan, and at Hirshleifers within the Americana Manhasset shopping mall.

While Brunch has a spread of products in its portfolio, it’s focused on footwear, specifically slippers, where the agenda is growing. Previously, Brunch has collaborated with Coca-Cola, Jack’s Wife Freda, Setai Hotel Miami and Conca Del Sogno on the Amalfi Coast.

The business model for slippers stems from Daniel’s hotel stays. He would take home the slippers within the room, only to see the product collapse after just a few days’ use. So he got here up with the thought of making durable slippers that may be worn outdoors and still maintain that hotel aesthetic. — DAVID MOIN