Ruffian's Claude Morais and Brian Wolk will launch their lifestyle collection with Anthropologie under the label Mise en Scene tomorrow evening in New York. Although the line features party dresses, cashmere coats, perfumed candles, stemware, and home furnishing, we are most excited to learn the duo has designed a pair of hand-seamed dotted tights—inspired by Ruffian's fall 2009 point d'esprit body stockings—that will retail for $38 at Anthropologie stores nationwide. [Style File, Nitrolicious]
Knitwear designer Marcus Lupfur's most recent capsule collection for Topshop hit shelves this week. The German-born designer began producing small capsule collections for Topshop back in 1999--just a year after he launched his own namesake label, which today sells to the likes of Net-a-Porter and Colette. Lupfur is also currently the creative director of Armand Basi One, a family-owned knitwear brand from Barcelona, Spain. As for his Topshop collection, this week's release includes oversized knits decorated with pineapples, parrots and half-opened mouths. The fine gauge cotton yarn sweaters all retail for $170.
Betsey Johnson's collaboration with Opening Ceremony was announced just a few months back and now images from the range have leaked by way of Dazed Digital. In an interview with Dazed, Johnson speaks about the collection's decided lack of pink as well as how a new VP of merchandising was the one who convinced her to forge this new terrain. The collaboration will land at Opening Ceremony, online and in stores, this fall.
Emerging British designer, Erdem Moralioglu, and Smythson of Bond Street, established 1887, recently revealed a collaboration in the pipeline for holiday. Moralioglu has designed a series of notebooks and diaries for Smythson which feature his fashion sketches and signature floral prints. Above, a first look at the designs.
Gap's Design Edition collection, a collaboration with the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, landed online and in stores today. The participating designers, Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai of Vena Cava, Alexander Wang and Albertus Swanepoel, each designed four to five khaki items for the retailer. Everything in the collection--from Wang's Moto trench to Vena Cava's tribal print dress--retails for well under one hundred dollars.
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