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RALPH LAUREN ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF ITS POP-UP COFFEE SHOP FOR PARIS FASHION WEEK

On February 22, Ralph’s Coffee will open on for a limited time on the legendary boulevard SaintGermain, on the ground floor of the Ralph Lauren boutique during Paris Fashion Week. Building on the success of the newly opened locations in New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong, and the iconic Ralph’s Coffee Truck in Rockefeller Center, Ralph’s Coffee will come to Paris for the first time.
The shop …

On February 22, Ralph’s Coffee will open on for a limited time on the legendary boulevard SaintGermain, on the ground floor of the Ralph Lauren boutique during Paris Fashion Week. Building on the success of the newly opened locations in New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong, and the iconic Ralph’s Coffee Truck in Rockefeller Center, Ralph’s Coffee will come to Paris for the first time.
The shop will serve Ralph’s Coffee, Hot Chocolate and a selection of Teas along with some of Ralph Lauren’s favorite sweet treats. Ralph’s brownies, homemade muffins, cookies, caramel popcorn, yogurt parfait as well as Ralph’s signature 5 layer chocolate cake will be available a la carte. Ralph’s special blends—Ralph’s Roast, Decaf, and Espresso—are made from USDA organic coffees and feature organically grown beans from Central and South America and Africa. The beans are roasted and packaged in the US by La Colombe, and the all-natural Swiss Water Process is used to decaffeinate.
The warm and elegant shop features large cozy banquettes, marble topped round tables, antique bistro style chairs and a generously filled counter. The waitstaff will wear Ralph Lauren white Oxford shirts and knit ties in the Ralph’s Coffee signature green, along with denim and butchers’ aprons embroidered with the Ralph’s Coffee logo.
Ralph Lauren is continuing to engage consumers with experiential and unique expressions of the brand through the hospitality portfolio. Ralph’s Coffee represents the timeless American spirit of the brand with a fresh and authentic atmosphere, most recently serving as the backdrop for the Spring 2019 Collection show during New York Fashion Week. Ralph’s Coffee will be open for the duration of Paris Fashion Week, from February 22 to March 5, 2019.

RALPH’S COFFEE SHOP
173 boulevard Saint-Germain 75006 Paris
OPENING HOURS
10:30am – 6:30pm

Paule Ka celebrates its 30th anniversary with a collection of 30 iconic looks created by its founder, Serge Cajfinger.

This is the unforgettable girl. A girl who defines herself by dotted lines, by her choices, her silences, and her distinctive laugh. She is freed by her look, like a statement that’s taken as a declaration. She is young, or nearly so: she’s thirty. First name: Paule. Last name:
Ka. She thinks only of tomorrow, knowing it will be radiant because she decides so, each day, in front of her …

This is the unforgettable girl. A girl who defines herself by dotted lines, by her choices, her silences, and her distinctive laugh. She is freed by her look, like a statement that’s taken as a declaration. She is young, or nearly so: she’s thirty. First name: Paule. Last name:
Ka. She thinks only of tomorrow, knowing it will be radiant because she decides so, each day, in front of her mirror. She craves every hour of her happy, hectic, and elegant life. She likes to dress for her pleasure and others’ happiness. She often repeats the words of
Audrey Hepburn: “Elegance is the only beauty that never fades…”

FROM STUDIO 54 TO CARYATIDES
The 2019 spring-summer collection, designed by its founder and artistic director, Serge Cajfinger, for the 30th anniversary of the fashion house Paule Ka, is an ode to this woman: “inspired by the years when I myself was 30. A hymn to love, sensuality, freedom, and the joy of living. I had a wonderfully good time recreating the festive spirit that reigned at Studio 54 in New York, at the Palace, or at the Bains-Douches in Paris.
I added the graphic style I love from Greece, without forgetting the masculine-feminine theme or the little black dress, a must-have for every wardrobe.” The English photographer Charlotte Wales, who transformed this collection into image, is known for shots both feminine and trendy and that grace the pages of magazines such as Pop, Dazed, and the Parisian and British editions of Vogue. And, to embody this Paule Ka woman and the communicative joy of living is the famous supermodel and Czech actress, Karolina Kurkova.

The anniversary collection is a summary of what has defined the fashion house’s spirit since that day in 1988 when Serge Cajfinger created his own brand of high-end ready-to-wear. He gave it the name of his aunt, Paule, and baptized it Ka in honor of his last name: Cajfinger

CELINE / STORE CONCEPT

A NEW ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN CONCEPT FOR CELINE BOUTIQUES WILL LAUNCH WITH NEW YORK MADISON AVENUE IN FEBRUARY 2019 AND SUBSEQUENTLY IMPLEMENTED WORLDWIDE.
THE SCHEME, DESIGNED BY CREATIVE DIRECTOR HEDI SLIMANE; JUXTAPOSES THE FINEST NATURAL MATERIALS, CRAFTING A BALANCED AND EXPANSIVE SCULPTURAL INTERIOR.
NATURAL STONES ARE AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT OF THE CONCEPT. BASALTINA, A ROMAN LAVA STONE, …

A NEW ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN CONCEPT FOR CELINE BOUTIQUES WILL LAUNCH WITH NEW YORK MADISON AVENUE IN FEBRUARY 2019 AND SUBSEQUENTLY IMPLEMENTED WORLDWIDE.
THE SCHEME, DESIGNED BY CREATIVE DIRECTOR HEDI SLIMANE; JUXTAPOSES THE FINEST NATURAL MATERIALS, CRAFTING A BALANCED AND EXPANSIVE SCULPTURAL INTERIOR.
NATURAL STONES ARE AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT OF THE CONCEPT. BASALTINA, A ROMAN LAVA STONE, IS EMPLOYED FOR FLOORING. A GINGER AND CREAM-VEINED BLACK GRANITE IS USED FOR WALLS AND SHELVING. BIANCO RAFFAELLO MARBLE, GRANDE ANTIQUE MARBLE AND GREY TRAVERTINE ARE ALL ALSO USED IN VARYING COMBINATIONS. THESE MATERIALS ARE COMPLEMENTED WITH THE RECLAIMED OAK, CONCRETE, POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL, BRASS AND GOLD MIRROR TOGETHER IN A REFINED TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BRUTALIST CONTEXT.

SPECIALLY DESIGNED FURNITURE BY SLIMANE PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE DESIGN, WITH SCULPTURAL TYPOLOGIES RESPONDING TO THE ARCHITECTURE. SITE-SPECIFIC ARTWORKS ARE ANOTHER KEY COMPONENT FEATURING CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS SUCH AS JAMES BALMFORTH, JOSE DAVILA, ELAINE CAMERON WEIR AND OSCAR TUAZON.

Dondoks x Bloomingdales

Dondoks will be launching their 3rd collection exclusively in 4 Bloomingdales stores!
The Summer shoe brand will be available in New York , L.A and on their website.
It’s time for some vitamine Sea

LOUIS VUITTON TAÏGARAMA

Paris, March 2019 –Louis Vuitton is launching the new leather goods line Taïgarama. The House’s signature Taïga leather is paired with the Monogram canvas across a range of colourful and wearable styles. Louis Vuitton’s spirit of travel and savoir-faire are
combined with a new “casual” energy that modernises masculine codes.
In a unique blend of relaxed and classic chic, resistant …

Paris, March 2019 –Louis Vuitton is launching the new leather goods line Taïgarama. The House’s signature Taïga leather is paired with the Monogram canvas across a range of colourful and wearable styles. Louis Vuitton’s spirit of travel and savoir-faire are
combined with a new “casual” energy that modernises masculine codes.
In a unique blend of relaxed and classic chic, resistant and sophisticated Taïga leather is combined with the Monogam canvas in a graphic mix of materials.
From bags to accessories, the collection offers a variety of supple, urban, contemporary shapes.
The iconic Keepall and the Discovery Backpack with leather straps create a dialogue with an Outdoor Messenger bag, easy to wear thanks to an adjustable strap, and a mini Bumbag. A Horizon cabin bag,
Discovery zip pouches, compact wallets and flexible cardholders add a final touch to the collection.
An invitation to fully experience summer exoticism, the bright or acidic shades evoke an imaginary voyage to the antipodes. Synonymous with the sun and the promise of adventures, Bahia yellow, Amazon green and Pacific blue can be found alongside Antarctic grey and the famous Eclipse shade in grey and black shadowy tones.
The Taigarama line will be available from 22 March 2019 in Louis Vuitton stores and on louisvuitton.com.
Photography
Chris Rhodes

JW ANDERSON REVEALS SPRING SUMMER 2019 CAMPAIGN

Images and video shot by YOUR PICTURE/OUR FUTURE talent
JW Anderson is proud to release the brand’s Spring Summer 2019 campaign images and video. The campaign was shot by Julie Greve, a UK based photographer and one of the three winners of the JW Anderson YOUR PICTURE/OUR FUTURE competition.
The competition, launched at the beginning of 2018, was an international search for new talent and an …

Images and video shot by YOUR PICTURE/OUR FUTURE talent
JW Anderson is proud to release the brand’s Spring Summer 2019 campaign images and video. The campaign was shot by Julie Greve, a UK based photographer and one of the three winners of the JW Anderson YOUR PICTURE/OUR FUTURE competition.
The competition, launched at the beginning of 2018, was an international search for new talent and an occasion for the brand to further develop the youthful energy, enthusiasm and surprise that are core to JW Anderson. Greve was one of three winners selected from a group of over one-thousand-eight hundred 18-30 year old image-makers. Their initial project was a collaboration between the winners on the JW Anderson Autumn Winter 2018 campaign. The current campaign is the first shot exclusively by Greve.
The campaign goes beyond just images with a short film entitled jagged whispers ASHORE. The film is referenced in certain images from the campaign and live on the JW Anderson website and the entire project was supported by industry leaders including Jonathan Anderson, Benjamin Bruno and M/M Paris who provided their expertise and guidance.
Given the success of the first YOUR PICTURE/OUR FUTURE campaign the brand plans to launch a second search at the end of 2019. The competition will remain international but will receive the support of The Princes Trust, a UK charity founded by Prince Charles and dedicated to helping underprivileged young people thrive by providing opportunities for them to build their skills and confidence.

Russell Westbrook shot by Juergen Teller for Acne Studios SS19 campaign

Basketball superstar Russell Westbrook, one of the most celebrated players of his generation, is the star of the Spring/Summer 2019 campaign for Acne Studios. Shot by acclaimed photographer Juergen Teller, the campaign focuses on denim, with jeans the first garment ever produced by Acne Studios over twenty years ago. Teller travelled to Oklahoma, where Westbrook plays for the Oklahoma City …

Basketball superstar Russell Westbrook, one of the most celebrated players of his generation, is the star of the Spring/Summer 2019 campaign for Acne Studios. Shot by acclaimed photographer Juergen Teller, the campaign focuses on denim, with jeans the first garment ever produced by Acne Studios over twenty years ago. Teller travelled to Oklahoma, where Westbrook plays for the Oklahoma City Thunder, to shoot the campaign.
“Denim is how Acne Studios started, and it still fascinates me. I’ve always wanted to work with Juergen Teller, and so we asked Juergen to photograph our denim on American icon Russell Westbrook,” says Jonny Johansson, Creative Director of Acne Studios.
“I was already a huge fan of Acne Studios, so I was really excited when they asked me to be the face for their new campaign. I really identify with Acne Studios because their aesthetic is very unique, and I like to be unique too,” says Russell Westbrook.
For his first campaign for Acne Studios, Juergen Teller has created a series of images that show Westbrook playing basketball in unexpected Oklahoma locations wearing Acne Studios denim.
In some of the images, it’s as if Westbrook is dribbling the ball towards Teller himself behind the camera.
Among the Acne Studios denim worn by Westbrook in the shoot is the 1996 fit, a style that recreates the first jeans ever created by Acne Studios. After discussing the shoot in depth, Johansson gave Teller full trust to create the images in his own individual style, where much is left to chance. 30 year old Westbrook plays point guard for Oklahoma City Thunder and is an eight-time NBA
All-Star, as well as two-time NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player. He is as idiosyncratic and fearless off the court as on, and is famous for his love of fashion, often expressing himself through his style.
“I was very excited to shoot for Acne Studios. They seem so free and fun and experimental, and you can feel the sense of enthusiasm and excitement that they have. They were completely behind us, and when I have that trust I can open myself and make my best work,” says Juergen Teller.

NET-A-PORTER SS19 CAMPAIGN

Photographer - Annemarieke Van Drimmelen
Models featured - Vanessa Axente and Ellen Rosa
Location - Palm Springs
Hair stylist: Vi Sapyyapy
Make up artist: Maki Ryoke

The new campaign presents the main trends selected by NET-A-PORTER for SS19 season.

Mademoiselle Privé Shanghai

After London in 2015, Seoul in 2017 and Hong Kong in 2018, the “Mademoiselle Privé” exhibition is making a stopover in Shanghai where it will be presented from April 20th to June 2nd 2019 in the West Bund Art Center.
On the door that led into her Creation Studio on the third floor of 31 rue Cambon in Paris, Mademoiselle Chanel had a sign with the words “Mademoiselle Privé”.
This …

After London in 2015, Seoul in 2017 and Hong Kong in 2018, the “Mademoiselle Privé” exhibition is making a stopover in Shanghai where it will be presented from April 20th to June 2nd 2019 in the West Bund Art Center.
On the door that led into her Creation Studio on the third floor of 31 rue Cambon in Paris, Mademoiselle Chanel had a sign with the words “Mademoiselle Privé”.
This title, the ‘open sesame’ of the exhibition, is an invitation to discover the three main creative worlds of CHANEL, from Gabrielle Chanel to Karl Lagerfeld: the Haute Couture reinvented by Karl Lagerfeld, CHANEL N°5 created in 1921, and the High Jewellery with the re-edition of “Bijoux de Diamants”, the unique collection designed by Gabrielle Chanel in 1932.
In a revised concept, “Mademoiselle Privé” revolves around three emblematic addresses, materialising in the exhibition as three houses, each one a dreamlike immersion into the very sources of CHANEL’s creative process: 31 rue Cambon which houses Karl Lagerfeld’s Creation Studio and the Haute Couture ateliers, 18 Place Vendôme dedicated to the High Jewellery, and Grasse, where the perfumer Ernest Beaux and Gabrielle Chanel together created CHANEL N°5 in 1921.
Today, under the impetus of Karl Lagerfeld, CHANEL’s Haute Couture has become a creative laboratory that never ceases to push the limits of the ateliers' savoir-faire, enriching itself with previously unseen gestures and new materials in a quest for beauty expressed through each new collection.
The High Jewellery, whose traditional classicism had been thwarted by Gabrielle Chanel in her proposals of visionary shapes and ways of wearing it in 1932, aims for excellence and modernity by revisiting the themes that have all contributed to building the aesthetic and symbolic repertoire of CHANEL (comet, camellia, wheat sheaf, Coromandel screens).
An olfactive revolution in the history of fragrances, the perfume N°5, a floral aldehyde saw the light of day in the laboratory of Ernest Beaux in Grasse, the centre of French perfumery. Some of the flowers that enter the composition of this abstract and sophisticated jus are still cultivated there today (notably the jasmine and May rose of Grasse) as it continues to be a global success almost a century later.
By exhibiting some of CHANEL’s most extraordinary creations, “Mademoiselle Privé” lifts the veil on the magic of the creative process and the excellence of the savoir-faire of the different luxury métiers.

West Bund Art Center
No.2555 Longteng Ave. Shanghai
11:00am - 8:00pm Monday - Sunday

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MONCLER GENIUS ONE HOUSE, DIFFERENT VOICES

One year after its groundbreaking inception, Moncler Genius keeps evolving, truthful to its motto: one house, different voices.
Change happens in the frame of continuity and this season, the group of designers evolves with the addition of Richard Quinn and Matthew Williams of 1017 ALYX 9SM. Veronica Leoni and Sergio Zambon share the helm of Moncler 1952.
Remo Ruffini conceived Moncler Genius …

One year after its groundbreaking inception, Moncler Genius keeps evolving, truthful to its motto: one house, different voices.
Change happens in the frame of continuity and this season, the group of designers evolves with the addition of Richard Quinn and Matthew Williams of 1017 ALYX 9SM. Veronica Leoni and Sergio Zambon share the helm of Moncler 1952.
Remo Ruffini conceived Moncler Genius as a new communication and business model that acknowledges the diversity of the contemporary customer in the digital era. He affirms “Moncler Genius is an answer to the times, a symposium of creative minds and an inspiring place. Each Genius operates singularly and the sum of the Geniuses interprets the Moncler identity. Different rooms house different visions, all of them shaping the global Moncler message and the Moncler Genius Building contains them all”.
The Geniuses’ visions will be unveiled in Milan on February 20th with an event presenting the Moncler Genius collections from: Pierpaolo Piccioli & Liya Kebede, Sergio Zambon and Veronica Leoni for Moncler 1952, Sandro Mandrino for Moncler Grenoble, Simone Rocha, Craig Green, Matthew Williams of 1017 ALYX 9SM, Richard Quinn, Fragment Hiroshi Fujiwara, Palm Angels Francesco Ragazzi and Poldo Dog Couture.
Moncler Genius is a creative hub promoting the energy that comes from a mix of different cultures: it’s a vision beyond borders of season, age and taste, talking to all generations of customers throughout a product rooted in Moncler’s unique heritage and values. The new luxury turns aspiration into inspiration as it is related to true values. Moncler Genius pursues that, clearly, as it has done since it first engaged with distinctive audiences.
Moncler Genius authentically continues to embrace multiplicity, enhancing it for creators and consumers: it’s a unique project, made of unique products and unique experiences, stemming from a curatorial approach. The focus is on both the variety of the product and the unicity of the client. The sum of the two is the awareness of inclusive luxury.
The Moncler Genius Building is the place where the Moncler spirit becomes an experience.
What makes the project authentic and powerful with a brand new energy is the fact that the product is the core, taking different shapes according to the vision of each creator. Each collection will be released singularly through monthly projects, both physical and digital. Continuity is an asset that lets the project live, breath and expand. Virtual and real, online and offline work in unison. The uniqueness of the creator mirrors the uniqueness of the consumer.
Each Moncler Genius speaks to a cross-section of global customers giving life to a unique community. The Moncler community.
In rewriting the rulebook and putting the consumer first, promoting access as the highest expression of inclusivity, Moncler will open the Moncler Genius Building on 24th February to the general public as well, creating a synergy with the city of Milan, endorsing unexplored metropolitan areas.
Moncler is one house that continues to speak through different voices with an inclusive, unique and artful language.

MONCLER IS CONTINUING TO EXPLORE THE SURROUNDING SPIRIT OF ITS UNIQUENESS