Changing Hands: When it comes to ownership, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis’ former childhood home has a glittery lineage.

The ten-bedroom, nine-bathroom East Hampton property — which incorporates a guest cottage, a caretaker’s house and a pool house — is alleged to have been purchased by the designer and former Council of Fashion Designers of America president Tom Ford. Named “Lasata” for the Native American term meaning “place of peace,” the 7-acre spread was listed in May for $55 million and is alleged to have sold for $52 million.

In-built 1917, the estate’s first owners were the previous first lady’s paternal grandparents, John Vernou Bouvier Jr. and Maude Sergeant Bouvier. The couple owned it from the ’20s until the ’50s. Situated two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean at 121 Further Lane, the address is prime real estate within the competitive and high-stakes Hamptons landscape.

The Los Angeles-based film producer David Zander reportedly sold the estate to Ford and swung quite a flip. It was only five years ago that Zander, who heads up the high-powered production company MJZ, bought the manse from designer Reed Krakoff for $38 million, in line with an industry source.

Zander then enlisted the skills of interior decorator Pierre Yovanovitch to renovate the manse and tapped Louis Benech to create a latest garden. With a heated pool and impeccable grounds, there may be loads of room for Ford, his young son and friends to lounge around.

Bouvier summered within the East Hampton estate as a toddler. That leafy and salt-aired setting had been where the young Jacqueline Bouvier began riding horses and developed a love for the ocean. As a bride-to-be, nonetheless, she announced her engagement to then Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy at his family’s Cape Cod summer home — not hers.

Ford will probably be amid such well-heeled neighbors as Jerry Seinfeld, Carl Icahn and Lorne Michaels.

Ford couldn’t be reached immediately Monday night. Media requests to the Corcoran Group’s Eileen O’Neill, considered one of the agents on the listing, weren’t immediately returned Monday night. Sotheby’s International Realty’s Frank Newbold, who reportedly represented the client, didn’t respond immediately to a request for comment. — ROSEMARY FEITELBERG

Designing With Purpose: Awards events could be a dime a dozen depending on which organization is doling them out. However the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s annual design awards carry more might than most.

The Upper East Side museum announced the 2023 roster of recipients, several of whom are using progressive design to attempt to create societal change. Now in its twenty fourth yr, the National Design Awards are meant to focus on how design enriches on a regular basis life.

The winners in 10 categories will probably be saluted at a gala on the Cooper Hewitt on Oct. 5. Consistent with its commitment to improving accessibility, the museum will offer free admission during its annual National Design week, which is slated for Oct. 2 to eight. As in years past, there can even be special programming, workshops and panel discussions to reel in additional visitors. Those that make the trek can try “A Dark, A Light, A Vivid: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes,” an exhibition a couple of textiles designer, whose cross-disciplinary influence can still be seen today.

Twenty years after he launched his signature label, Naeem Khan will probably be saluted for the Fashion Design award. Born in India, the Recent York-based designer is committed to craft and tradition as evidenced by his elaborately embroidered eveningwear. He still relies on artisans within the family-owned factory in India that his grandfather first opened many years ago. Khan, who shows during Recent York Fashion Week, has dressed such notables as former first lady Michelle Obama.

Even together with his commitment to age-old techniques, he incorporates an undercurrent of modernism in his designs, a sensibility that stemmed from his first job within the U.S. — a stint at Halston.

This yr’s Design Visionary award winner is Seymour Chwast, Push Pin Studios’ founding partner, who has been pushing the boundaries of graphic design for the reason that ’50s and continues to conjure up latest frontiers in design and typography.

The Communications award is earmarked for creative director Arem Duplessis, who has done work for Apple, the Recent York Times Magazine and Condé Nast’s GQ. There, he led the event of the typeface Gotham, which was subsequently utilized in President Barack Obama’s campaigns, Coca-Cola advertisements and “Saturday Night Live.”

In one other sign of the importance of messaging, Clement Mok will probably be celebrated for Digital Design for his progressive design of digital products, environments, systems, experiences and services. As a designer, software publisher and developer, creator and patent holder, Mok has worked for CBS and Apple (including helping to make Macs more user-friendly). He then went on to start out Studio Archetype, CMCD and NetObjects.

The museum will honor Beatriz Lozano because the Emerging Designer for her typography that melds the physical and digital world. As an immigrant rights activist, she understands the facility of visual communication through graphic design, and strives to make use of graphic design to create social change and improve access to resources and knowledge.

Social change can also be at the inspiration of this yr’s Architecture honoree nArchitects. In 1999, Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang began the corporate to deal with pressing issues through socially engaging work, as in using public spaces and buildings to bring together different communities. The firm created Recent York City’s first micro-unit apartment constructing, Carmel Place, in 2016. It also worked on the Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center to draw the subsequent generation of environmental stewards.

As designers and corporations in all fields explore latest avenues to cut back carbon emissions, the Climate Motion award goes to Biocement Tiles by Biomason. The 11-year-old company goals to cut back CO2 emissions generated by global cement manufacturing, which accounts for about 8 percent of worldwide CO2 emissions.

Consistent with his field of experience, Landscape Design winner Kongjian Yu can also be all about environmentalism. A farmer’s son who trained on the Harvard Graduate School of Design, he began the Peking University College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and Turenscape, a firm that develops landscapes that combat flooding and repair ecological damage

The Cooper Hewitt will hand over the Product Design award to Atlason, a firm that has worked with L’Oréal, the Museum of Modern Art, Ikea, DWR, Heller, Our Place, Microsoft, Stella Artois and Johnson & Johnson. This yr’s Interior Design award will go to The Archers, which was founded by Richard Petit and Stephen Hunt. — R.F.

Staying Put: Harvey Kanter will remain on the helm of Destination XL Group for an additional two years.

The president and chief executive officer of the Canton, Massachusetts-based men’s big and tall retailer on Tuesday entered into an amended employment agreement that may extend his tenure until mid-August of 2026. Kanter has held the position since April 1, 2019, and in addition serves on the corporate’s board of directors.

“We’re extremely pleased that Harvey has agreed to proceed to steer our company into at the very least mid-August 2026,” said Lionel Conacher, chairman of the board of DXL. “The corporate has launched into a long-range growth plan, and we expect that the success which the corporate has achieved since navigating the pandemic will probably be only a stepping stone to even greater levels of success. With Harvey’s proven track record of making shareholder value, we stay up for his continued successful leadership.”

Kanter added that he sees “a variety of ‘blue sky’ ahead and with our efforts to realize our long-term growth goals, I feel the positive results will probably be transformative.”

In the primary quarter, the corporate reported its ninth consecutive quarter of comparable-store sales growth. Within the period, comps inched up 0.6 percent over the primary fiscal quarter of 2022. Net income, nonetheless, fell to $7 million from $13.4 million per diluted share and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization dropped to $12.6 million from $17.3 million within the prior yr. Total sales were $125.4 million, as in comparison with $127.7 million in the primary quarter of fiscal 2022. 

On the time of the reporting in May, Kanter attributed the difficult quarter to “broader macro headwinds which have impacted consumer spending.” He added on an earnings call that day that because of this of the first-quarter results, comp sales for the complete yr at the moment are expected to be closer to the lower end of that range and net income and adjusted EBITDA margin are all projected to are available in on the lower end of its previously announced guidance.

Before joining Destination XL, Kanter had been president, CEO and chairman of Blue Nile and over the course of his profession was also with Moosejaw Mountaineering, Backcountry Travel, Michaels Stores and Eddie Bauer. — JEAN E. PALMIERI

CanU Exhibition: A latest exhibition in Shanghai takes a have a look at sustainable beauty and the historical value of old clothes.

Titled “Sustainable Mei,” or “Sustainable Beauty,” it’s initiated by CanU, a Shanghai-based fashion sustainability platform launched by Dan Cui, an industry veteran and former GQ China fashion director.

In its second iteration, the exhibition expanded in size and scope with greater than 100 pieces that explore the emotional multitudes of old clothes by examining archival pieces from distinguished figures in China’s fashion and cultural scene.

“This exhibition is about emotions we associate with old clothes,” said Cui. “We realized that the items exhibited here, from writers to economists to governmental officials, is a truthful documentation of China’s socio-economic development within the last 30 years.”

Pieces reminiscent of economist Jiamin Zhu’s hat purchased using foreign exchange certificates, acclaimed author Yucheng Jin’s Versace shirt, artist Honghong Wu’s archival “dynamite” dress that her husband, the artist Cai Guo-qiang designed in collaboration Issey Miyake, offered anecdotal proof of China’s rapid development.

Chinese celebrities, including Fan Bingbing, Zhou Xun, Dong Jie, Chen Kun, Chris Lee, Liu Wen, Wan Baobao also contributed pieces to the show.

Greater than 20 fashion designers reminiscent of Marine Serre, Pronounce, Oude Waag, Sankuanz, Samuel Guì Yang, Caroline Hu and 8on8 created upcycled pieces using deadstock fabric or waste for the exhibition.

Dedicated spaces for Dior, Burberry and Balenciaga, the exhibition’s primary fashion sponsor, feature archival pieces that takes a have a look at the “micro-history” of the posh maisons.

As a supporting brand partner, Louis Vuitton collaborated with an area artist to repurpose its trunk props used in the course of the CIIE fair as gallery stools for the show.

The exhibition, which runs through Sunday, is positioned at Modern Art Museum Shanghai and is open to the general public. — DENNI HU