GYLLENHAAL AND GINORI: Ginori 1735 is rolling out in May its first campaign fronted by an A-list Hollywood actor — Jake Gyllenhaal, whose first photo for the brand was revealed exclusively to WWD.

Gyllenhaal will probably be seen portrayed in a photograph series hinging on the Oriente Italiano collection and lensed by Gray Sorrenti.

In an attractive video filmed on the storied Ginori 1735 manufacturing plant in Sesto Fiorentino that was recently revamped, Gyllenhaal shines the highlight on the brand’s craftsmanship.

Observing the expert artisans creating the attractive porcelain pieces by hand, the actor “is inspired to share his own passions and appreciation,” said the corporate. The video ends with Gyllenhaal preparing a shared meal made with local ingredients.

Gyllenhaal underscored that Ginori 1735 “values each tradition and innovation. Their deep dedication to craft is inspiring. Our partnership goals to specific the importance of slowing down, having fun with life and appreciating the fantastic thing about art. I’m thrilled to be a component of this project and grateful for the wonderful experience of with the ability to film the campaign within the Ginori’s timeless factory, alongside their expert artisans. We had an exquisite time making this.”

Alain Prost, chairman and chief executive officer of Ginori 1735, said the actor is a longtime fan of the brand, and defined him as “an important master of his art, with a powerful personal style,” who “naturally embodies a timeless elegance and sophistication that flawlessly express the right mix between heritage and innovation of our house.”

Gyllenhaal has just been tapped to work with Ruth Negga in “Presumed Innocent,” the upcoming limited series on Apple TV+ and inspired by Scott Turow’s courtroom thriller of the identical title.

Captivated with sailing, the Oscar-nominated actor has also been fronting men’s scent Prada Luna Rossa Ocean, rolled out in August 2021, the brand’s first fragrance launched under license with L’Oréal. Luna Rossa is the name of the Italian sailing team owned by Prada Group CEO Patrizio Bertelli.

Ginori 1735 refers back to the 18th-century origins of the corporate, when the Marquis Carlo Andrea Ginori launched the long run Manifattura di Doccia within the villa of the family estate. Formerly called Richard Ginori, for 285 years its artisans have been producing luxury porcelain tableware and other elements for the house, partnering with artists and luxury brands, most recently for instance with Etro and Buccellati, and artists Luke Edward Hall and Paolo Stella.

Ginori 1735 has been controlled by the Kering Group since 2013 and creates tableware collections, art objects and gifts.

The corporate has a distribution network that features its e-commerce channel, which reaches 31 countries globally; flagships in Florence, Milan and Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, and Paris; select dealers in Italy, and high-end malls and multibrand specialty stores world wide.

During Milan Design Week, the brand introduced furniture in collaboration with Venetian designer Luca Nichetto and the Domus collection of statement pieces — coffee tables, lamps, chairs, poufs and accessories.

Nichetto designed the Domus home collection for Ginori with glassmaker Barovier & Toso and Rubelli fabrics. — LUISA ZARGANI

PLUMBING THE ARCHIVES: In partnership with resale platform Reflaunt, designer brand Altuzarra will launch this summer its own resale offering: Altuzarra Archive.

The launch of Altuzarra Archive represents a big push toward a sustainable and circular business model for the Latest York-based brand, while concurrently giving access to a never-before-sold archival collection. Altuzarra Archive will offer customers the chance to purchase and sell pre-owned clothes and niknaks, in addition to showcase a collection of items from seasons past and one-of-a-kind runway pieces, amongst other items.

The resale platform rewards customers for extending longevity of their items while incentivizing loyalty and retention by giving store credit in return.

“Given the cyclical nature of fashion, it’s meaningful to have the option to increase the life cycle of styles from past collections by respiration recent life into them and giving customers a rare opportunity to buy them,” said creative director Joseph Altuzarra. “Altuzarra’s designs are supposed to last and turn out to be go-to elements in our customer’s wardrobe. Their value extends way beyond a single season, and I’m excited to permit recent customers to rediscover them and magnificence them with current Altuzarra pieces as well.”

Altuzarra Archive will offer a museum-like curation of older seasonal items, whether it’s an exclusive item from the runway or a one-of-a-kind sample. These pieces will only be available through the resale platform. — LISA LOCKWOOD

PUB STOP: British jewelry brand Completedworks is making its own rules in establishing its first shop.

Artistic director Anna Jewsbury collaborated with London-based interior design studio Hollie Bowden on the two-floor space, which serves as an appointments-only store, showroom and office for the brand in a former pub in north Marylebone.

The two,500-square-foot space has been coated in beige paint with hard metalware columns, door handles and a staircase with a glass rail. 

“We intuitively understood what the brand needed was a fastidiously calibrated setting fairly than a very flashy, ‘interior-design’ approach. We focussed on two materials, lime wash and aluminum, that ran through the space,” said Bowden, who had not met Jewsbury before the project.

When Jewsbury was toying with the thought of the renovation, Bowden was the one person she contacted.

“The wraparound lime wash created a wonderfully neutral frame, and with aluminum we explored the several ways the fabric could possibly be manipulated to create sculptural forms and structures — folding it, hammering and welding,” said Bowden.

Jewsbury was operating and dealing from the space while it was under construction. She saw the place come alive steadily while it was being furnished by Byron Pritchard with a settee from Italy and the metal pieces from Ritual Works being installed.

The intention was to create a salon concept, in order that it feels more intimate, a notion that Jewsbury has carried out through the brand since launching in 2013, from the fragile silver and gold jewelry designs to the quirky tackle homeware.

“One function of the event of our recent showroom and workspace was to create an area which we could use to develop and take part in projects that act as catalysts for social engagement, resulting in spatial and political change,” said Jewsbury.

The primary series of projects she’s specializing in is bringing back the dying art of practical work.

“We wish people to spend more time using their hands — to spend more time making, foraging and gardening. We began with a ceramic class within the space alongside going into a neighborhood school to run a category for the kids,” said Jewsbury. — HIKMAT MOHAMMED

SKIMS AT SAKS: Skims launched at Saks Fifth Avenue Wednesday. The partnership brings Skims further into retail.

Skims worked with Willo Perron of Perron-Roettinger to design a dedicated shop contained in the fifth floor of Saks Latest York. The space features Skims signature rounded-edged fixtures, inclusive mannequins and a shapewear wall.

To commemorate the launch, Skims also designed a visible installation on the fundamental floor atrium of Saks Latest York with digital screens displaying a campaign of models wearing Seamless Sculpt shapewear walking across Latest York City’s bustling streets. The campaign was shot and directed by Vanessa Beecroft.

Starting Wednesday, Skims is on the market on Saks.com and within the Saks Fifth Avenue Latest York flagship, with plans to open additional doors across the U.S., including Bal Harbour, Florida; Houston, and Boston, throughout the remainder of the quarter. The product assortment features Skims’ signature collections, including Suits Everybody, Seamless Sculpt and Cotton, alongside Soft Lounge and Boyfriend styles.

“Launching at Saks Fifth Avenue is an exciting move into expanding Skims’ curated retail partnerships. Saks is an iconic fashion institution, and I’m thrilled Skims will now be available to its customers,” said Jens Grede, chief executive officer of Skims, which is co-owned by Kim Kardashian.

Dayna Ziegler, senior vice chairman, general merchandise manager of girls’s contemporary and modern ready-to-wear at Saks, added, “Our customers are all the time searching for the best possible in fashion, and Skims offers an inclusive, revolutionary addition to our ever-growing assortment.”

Along with Saks, Skims can also be available at Nordstrom, Selfridges, SSense, Net-a-porter, Lane Crawford, Holt Renfrew and David Jones. — L.L.

THE ART AT RETAIL: For Nick Mele, the seventh floor of Bergdorf Goodman is feeling loads like home.

The effective art photographer has lent his work to a recent exhibition, “Please Sign In All Guests,” displayed throughout the retailer’s home department. Known for capturing luxe lifestyle and leisure scenes from resort towns like Palm Beach and Newport, the figures inside his photos are elegantly dressed, accessorized (several shots hone in on gem-stacked hands), and surrounded by markers of affluence. The exhibition, Mele’s first in Latest York, expands upon his recent shows in Palm Beach and Dallas with the addition of photographs and private pieces that feature quotes paying homage to his grandmother’s needlepoint pillows.

“The fundamental a part of the show, nevertheless, is filled with whimsical scenes of made up characters in fabulous, excessive settings,” said Mele.

“Although the work features my family, friends and other people I meet along the way in which, the thought is to make the topics a bit anonymous,” Mele said. “Faces are covered with different objects in order that the viewer can put themselves into the image. Often times, the pictures that individuals like essentially the most are those people can relate to and put themselves into those situations.”

The opening reception on Tuesday evening was attended by Bergdorf’s Linda Fargo, Martha Stewart, Gillian Miniter, Celerie Kemble, Eleanora Kennedy and Elyse Newhouse.

“Please Sign In All Guests” will probably be on view through Aug. 23, with prints available for purchase together with home goods curated by Mele. — KRISTEN TAUER

ALL ABOUT WOMEN: Sephora has sponsored a photograph exhibition paired with a movie featuring 2,000 women from greater than 50 countries, which is on display as a part of the Jam Capsule, an immersive cultural experience in Paris.

The event is going down on the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles trade show venue, where the Jam Capsule is hosting a series that also includes immersive experiences about Japan, legacy and the moon.

“Woman,” the exhibit and film, were cocreated by Anastasia Mikova, a Ukrainian-born film director and journalist. While serving as editor in chief of the “Earth From Above” documentaries she began collaborating with the opposite cocreator of “Woman,” French photographer and director Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

Visitors to the exhibit first encounter 11 upright, rectangular screens, which introduce the concept and showcase still images of girls within the movie. They hail from countries as far afield as Vietnam, Bolivia, South Korea, Denmark, the U.S. and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

These photos are wealthy in expression and color, and vary as much as the ladies in them.

Round the corner there’s an unlimited room with scattered benches, so people sit facing all directions, and curvilinear partitions. In the course of the 50-minute film, women’s images are projected onto them in all sizes. Some are still, others moving. Some videos are in the combination — think an American woman in cowboy attire surrounded by horses, or women engaged in native dance in Africa.

“Woman” also blends in women’s thought-provoking testimonials about subjects equivalent to relationships to their appearance; discrimination and violence, including female genital mutilation; motherhood, and power.

The ”Woman” project dovetailed from Mikova and Arthus-Bertrand’s previous film, “Human,” which involved 800 interviews. Mikova noted how much women desired to talk for that, and that when female interviewees felt comfortable enough to confide, there was an important feeling of release.

“Women are able to speak out, so a window must exist for them to be heard,” said Mikova.

It took five years to tug together “Woman,” through which many ladies had told their stories for the primary time and which had a soft launch on March 4, 2020, per week before COVID-19-related lockdowns in France.

Three years later, the Porte de Versailles location allowed for not only one screen, but multiple screens on to which the film could unfurl.

“The partnership with Sephora also seemed very natural,” said Mikova, noting many of the women appearing to be filmed were made up, well-prepared and feeling beautiful for such a very important life event.

The film’s biggest takeaways, she continued, are women’s strength and resilience.

Guillaume Motte, chief executive officer of Sephora, said it took him just seconds to sign on to partner with “Woman.”

“Sephora today — it’s the expression of every [person’s] beauty, and indeed the strength of girls through their beauty,” he said. “Everyone at Sephora is amazingly proud to be related to this beautiful work.”

“Woman,” which runs through May 7, chimes with Sephora’s overarching inclusive and diverse ethos, including its campaign, dubbed “The Unlimited Power of Beauty.” — JENNIFER WEIL

MERCURY’S WORLD: Sotheby’s London Galleries will exhibit a collection of items from rock star Freddie Mercury in an exhibition “Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own,” from Aug. 4 to Sept. 5.

The showcase will then turn right into a series of auctions Sept. 6.

Mercury, the frontman of Queen, was known by the general public for belting power anthems in his flamboyant outfits, but privately, he was an avid collector of clothing, antiques and art, kept in his home in Garden Lodge in Kensington.

For the primary time in 30 years, Mary Austin, Mercury’s ex-girlfriend, who has resided within the Georgian-style villa because the artist’s death, will share his possessions with the general public.

“It was essential to me to do that in a way that I felt Freddie would have loved, and there was nothing he loved greater than an auction,” said Austin. 

“I hope this will probably be a chance to share all the numerous facets of Freddie, each private and non-private, and for the world to grasp more about, and have a good time, his unique and delightful spirit,” she added.

Highlights of the gathering include Mercury’s crown and cloak — modeled after St. Edward’s Crown, which will probably be worn by King Charles III during his upcoming coronation — handwritten lyrics to “We Are the Champions” and “Killer Queen,” in addition to the last piece of artwork that Mercury bought, James Jacques Tissot’s “Variety of Beauty.”

“Freddie Mercury’s sensational life has left us with a wealthy array of artistic moments that also move and astound us, a legacy that, like his music, will continue to exist without end,” said Oliver Barker, chairman of Sotheby’s Europe.

The singer, songwriter, and magnificence icon died on ​​Nov. 24, 1991, on the age of 45. 

He founded the band Queen alongside guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor, and bassist John Deacon. The group achieved international acclaim with tracks like “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Are the Champions,” and “We Will Rock You.” — VIOLET GOLDSTONE

CORONATION MOMENT: The countdown to the coronation celebrations begin.

Burberry, a Royal Warrant holder, or official supplier to the British royal family, has partnered with Highgrove Gardens, the private residence of King Charles and Camilla, Queen Consort, on a limited-edition scarf.

The organic silk print scarf features the architecture of the garden with silver birch and magnolia trees, in addition to birds and dragonflies, wildflowers equivalent to delphinium, yellow rattle, snowdrop, ox-eye daisy, early purple orchids and fritillary.

The collaboration is a token of shared values between Burberry and Highgrove Gardens with an emphasis on the environment, nature and craftsmanship — all of which the king has supported along with his charity The Prince’s Trust.

The headband is on the market to buy from Burberry’s website and global stores, in addition to Highgrove Gardens’ website and stores.

Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September, many British fashion brands and retailers joined the nation in mourning by temporarily shutting stores and postponing scheduled events, including London Fashion Week shows.

Burberry rescheduled its spring 2023 fashion show, which had been scheduled to happen at 1 p.m. on Sept. 17, which could be Riccardo Tisci’s last show for the brand.

Burberry has held a warrant from Queen Elizabeth for trenches and weatherproof clothing because the Fifties. It holds one other warrant from King Charles III for clothing.

Within the wake of the queen’s death, Burberry chief executive officer Jonathan Akeroyd said the late monarch “will without end be remembered with deep admiration, respect and affection by everyone at Burberry. We join the royal family in mourning her loss.”

Greater than 800 firms, in Britain and elsewhere, are Royal Warrant holders, supplying goods and services to the royals. Although these firms would not have to follow royal protocol and pause business, a lot of them made the choice to achieve this. — H.M.