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Gabriela Hearst has landed on the West Coast together with her first Los Angeles store, now open in Beverly Hills.
Hearst collaborated with Foster & Partners and “designer-makers” Benji Gavron and Antoine Dumas on the two,500-square-foot space, one other step within the eight-year-old brand’s forward momentum this 12 months, because the designer stepped away from her role as creative director at Chloé to focus solely on her own business.
Her vision for sustainable luxury fashion resulted in Chloé becoming B-Corp certified, and has led to demand from wholesale partners for exclusive collections, including one which launched last week with Net-a-porter. That capsule has resonated with its “ultra-elevated winter wardrobing offer, which incorporates not only special evening pieces but additionally hero categories comparable...
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Leave it to Angelina Jolie to leap into the style fray with a humanist twist — and an inclusive bent.
Announcing a latest business enterprise called Atelier Jolie, she describes a newfangled sort of fashion house through which consumers play the role of the designer, inviting them to collaborate with tailors, pattern makers and artisans to create unique fashion statements.
“Why simply buy the design of one other person, when you possibly can create yourself?” Jolie asks in a mission statement posted to her personal Instagram page, where she counts 14.3 million followers. She also launched a latest account @atelierjolieofficial.
“We will all collect, appreciate and be influenced by the designs of others. But the very best type of self-expression — and I...
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Imagine a world where issues that plague Black communities aren’t seen only as a “Black problem,” but as an American problem—where executive leaders at top corporations are emotionally and financially invested in repairing institutional inequalities. Imagine a culture by which structural racism is proactively addressed without the impetus of recorded Black trauma. Pharrell Williams goals to bring that world closer to reality with the launch of Mighty Dream, a creative advocacy agency for and by Black and Brown communities.
The Grammy Award-winning producer teamed up with marketing and communications giant Edelman, and its sister agency UEG, to launch the agency. Mighty Dream goals to unravel the challenges facing marginalized communities through social motion campaigns, product development and policy change.
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