FACET TIME: Guests at Baccarat’s dinner Monday night in honor of Philippe Starck sat in a pitch black room while waiters — dressed all in black like ninjas with tiny lamps on their foreheads — scurried back and forth, plucking placement cards, adding candles, wine glasses, vases and long-stemmed roses.

Before exiting the room, they rang a small crystal bell with a red pendant clapper to point that the meal was about to begin. When the lights got here up, the likes of Farida Khelfa, Emmanuel Perrotin, Elie Top, Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Charles de Vilmorin gasped in wonder on the sparkling table setting and the ballroom’s Rococo splendor, its chandeliers duplicated to infinity within the mirrors.

Hoisting one among Starck’s newest Baccarat designs, a slender Champagne flute with a pinched rim, Baccarat chief executive officer Maggie Henriquez proposed a toast to Starck’s creative prowess, which has propelled among the French crystal firm’s most successful objects for 20 years.

“The love is there, and absolute respect,” she said. “He is actually a rare person.”

Starck confessed awe for the raw material Baccarat employs, marveling at how sand and fire can produce such a magical substance, cooled by water and willed into shape by expert artisans. “All the identical, there’s poetry in there,” he concluded.

The event was held at Maison Baccarat in Paris, which boasts a monumental staircase under a large, rotating chandelier that results in a museum of crystal creations, including figurines, jewelry, vessels and glassware galore.

As a parting gift, guests were handed a small book of quotes and aphorisms by 18th-century French statesman Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, whose surname has turn out to be a byword for crafty, cynical diplomacy.

Starck named his latest Baccarat collection Talleyrand, the chef of the evening piling crabmeat into the brand new range’s crystal caviar dish, wild strawberries and tiny meringues right into a Champagne coupe. It also features a votive and a jewellery tree. Prices start at 550 euros for a flute and run as much as 4,500 euros for a big vase. — MILES SOCHA

NESTING TIME: Dee Ocleppo and Nest Recent York have teamed up for a limited-edition silk pajama and Balinese Coconut perfume oil collaboration. The gift bundle launches online on Wednesday, and will probably be available online on the Dee Ocleppo and Nest Recent York web sites.

Inspired by Nest Recent York’s bestselling Balinese Coconut Perfume Oil, Ocleppo has designed a limited-edition printed silk pajama to reflect the relaxed spirit of Bali. The latest addition to Nest Recent York’s Perfume Oil collection, Balinese Coconut features the essence of fresh coconuts, combined with notes of tropical tiare blossom and salted musk.

Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger, founding father of Dee Ocleppo, and Laura Slatkin, founding father of Nest Recent York, are longtime close friends.

“Partnering with Laura, who’s such a beautiful friend and completed businesswoman, is an honor. I’m so happy with the brand she has created and having the ability to work together on this collaboration is so special. Our pajamas are ultra comfortable and exquisite so you’ll be able to wear them from day to nighttime. Paired with the Nest Recent York perfume oil, there’s nothing else you wish for an elegant evening in or out,” Ocleppo Hilfiger said.

Slatkin said she’s an enormous fan of the brand that Ocleppo has created and called her “an incredible entrepreneur.”

“I do know Dee is an enormous fan of Nest as she uses their products in all her residences,” Slatkin said. “This exciting collaboration between two close friends was inspired when Dee sent me her luxurious silk lounging pajamas at the exact same time I set her my latest Balinese Coconut Perfume Oil — it’s then that we discovered our creative worlds collided. When two girlfriends collaborate, magic happens.”

The pajamas can be found in sizes XS to XL. The limited-edition gift bundle is priced at $398. — LISA LOCKWOOD

TIFFANY AND MODA: Tiffany & Co. homewares have launched on Moda Operandi as the gathering’s exclusive wholesale partner.

Lauren Santo Domingo, Moda’s cofounder and chief brand officer and Tiffany’s artistic director for the house category, was wanting to bring her spin on Tiffany home goods to the Moda shopper.

The web site is offering a curated number of Santo Domingo’s Tiffany tableware designs to begin, including the Tiffany Berries, Tiffany Wisteria, Tiffany Toile and Tiffany Valse Bleue collections. There’s also a number of sterling silver flatware, and serving pieces, in addition to a wider gift and baby product offering — including blankets, pillows and silver hair combs. Prices range from $85 to $20,000.

“Moda Domus grew out of an absence of elevated pieces for casual dining. The market is now incredibly crowded, but there’s a void in newness in formal dining. I actually have many options for entertaining alfresco, but had so few tremendous silver or porcelain options for my dining room in the town. A lot of the formal dining assortment available today are the very same patterns I selected from when registered for my wedding 15 years ago,” Santo Domingo told WWD of the launch.

Most items will ship from Moda Operandi’s warehouse, while still packaged in Tiffany’s famous blue boxes.

Moda began to dip a toe into the house category in 2015 with select trunk shows. Those efforts ultimately led to the official launch of its in-house Moda Domus homewares label in 2018. Ever since, the location has been focused on offering luxury homewares with a up to date spin to accompany its number of clothes and accessories that reflect the same taste level.

“Moda Operandi is a life-style brand and our assortment reflects the lives of our customer. Adding tremendous jewelry, home, beauty and gifts were natural extensions of our brand and we’ll move into home furnishings and kids’s within the seasons to come back,” Santo Domingo said. — MISTY WHITE SIDELL

MORE THAN TWO: Farfetch and Recent Guards Group’s created brand There Was One, or TWO, has launched a collaboration with Nigerian dressmaker Lisa Folawiyo, available Wednesday on Farfetch.

The collaboration features an eight-piece womenswear capsule and marks the primary partnership for TWO, fusing classic Folawiyo pieces and prints with TWO’s contemporary designs.

The gathering showcases summer designs with a mixture of the signature Ankara fabric and custom prints, including the custom “hearts intertwined” print that originated from Folawiyo’s spring 2017 collection titled, “She wears her heart on his sleeve,” which celebrated the bond between two individuals. The print has been reimagined and incorporated into the capsule collection, adding a touch of romanticism to the design.

Prices range from $140 to $520.

“So thrilled to have collaborated with There Was One on creating this collection,” said Folawiyo, who launched her fashion label, Jewelry by Lisa, now widely referred to as Lisa Folawiyo, in 2015. “That each bit made was a revisit to a most loved Lisa Folawiyo print and to have worked with my favorite fabric, Ankara, the method for me was not only enjoyable, but in addition endearing. The convenience and lightness of the styles and the alternative of prints and colours make for such a sweet summer collection. One which I absolutely love.”

Heavily influenced by her West African and Caribbean heritage, each of Folawiyo’s collections weave together culture, tradition, history and childhood memories of her own African experience. Originally trained as a layer, Folawiyo has a penchant for print, color and embellishment.

It’s been a busy time for Recent Guards Group, which last week had a management shuffle. As reported, the Recent Guards Group founders, chief executive officer Davide De Giglio and executive director and Off-White CEO Andrea Grilli, stepped down from their roles. Stephanie Phair, who was promoted to group president of Farfetch last September, was appointed chair of Recent Guards Group. Farfetch acquired Recent Guards Group in 2019 for $675 million. NGG is home to 11 international brands, which along with There Was One, includes Palm Angels, Heron Preston, Unravel Project and Ambush. Additionally it is the licensee of Off-White. — L.L.