CR Runway with amfAR AGAINST COVID-19: FASHION UNITES

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The industry’s most powerful names will come together to bring an uplifting moment for everyone doing their part to stay home and to raise awareness for an important cause. ⁣

Join the second annual CR Runway as Carine Roitfeld and amfAR unite the world through creativity in a first-of-its-kind virtual fashion show event to support COVID-19 research.

This 30-minute streaming event will feature fashion-world celebrities from around the globe. The fashion show will be styled from the wardrobe of each top model by Carine Roitfeld and her team.

For a front row seat, please visit YouTube.com/fashion or stay right here on crrunwayxamfar.org to view the show. We invite you to support by simply staying home and enjoying the show. Join us as we help to end COVID-19.

You can make a difference by supporting the amfAR Fund to Fight Covid-19

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A Note from Carine:

I hope this note finds you safe and well. As you may know, last June I began a dream that I’ve long had: to launch my very own runway show, CR Runway.

We would like to use our runway to create a platform to benefit research on and the fight against COVID-19. This year’s CR Runway will be entirely digital. CR Runway with amfAR Against COVID-19 will debut online on Friday, May 1 as the world’s first fashion show of its kind. With safety as our foremost concern, CR Runway with amfAR Against COVID-19 will be created remotely from all around the world. My team and I will collaborate directly with each talent on everything from fashion to hair, makeup, nails, and choreography direction so that every model can film herself “walking” from the comfort of her own home. These videos will be edited together to form a complete digital runway show which will be streamed on Friday, May 1.

In these times of uncertainty, our support for one another has never been so crucial. We must do what we can to help—not only in material efforts but also with our platforms and through our actions. I’ve always believed in the power of inspiration — it’s one of the founding reasons behind CR Fashion Book— and I know that we can use the runway to really make a difference. I look forward to your participation in CR Runway with amfAR Against COVID-19 and your help in bringing hope and inspiration to the hard-working scientists and others engaged in this fight.

Sincerely,

Carine

Derek Blasberg will host the world’s first virtual fashion show which airs on YouTube this Friday, May 1, 2020 at 1:00 PM Los Angeles / 4:00 PM New York / 9:00 PM London / 10:00 PM Paris. ⁣

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Tom Ford to Dress James Bond In No Time To Die

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It was announced that TOM FORD has dressed James Bond in the upcoming action adventure, No Time To Die. Produced by EON Productions, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, and starring Daniel Craig as the legendary secret agent 007. This is the fourth consecutive time that Ford has dressed Daniel Craig as the iconic character of James Bond.

TOM FORD worked closely with Costume Designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb to provide Made-to-Measure tailored clothing and casual wear including eveningwear, suits, shirts, silk accessories and denim for the James Bond character. TOM FORD menswear is all tailor-made in Italy, and is characterized by its elegant cut, exclusive fabrics and hand-finished details. For the first time TOM FORD is also pleased to have dressed the new female character Nomi, played by Lashana Lynch, with select tailor-made jackets, tops and accessories including TOM FORD eyewear, all hand made in Italy.

Tom Ford, CEO and Creative Director of the eponymous brand, has commented: "I could not be happier to be dressing Daniel Craig as James Bond again in the upcoming film, No Time To Die. James Bond epitomizes the TOM FORD man in his elegance, style and love of luxury. It is an honor to move forward with this iconic character."

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Palm Angels FW20 Menswear

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Palm Angels FW20 Menswear

American culture is a boundless landscape for Francesco Ragazzi.

For the Palm Angels Fall/Winter 2020 collection he continues to find signs, tropes and even clichés to look at and reinterpret. This curiosity makes Palm Angels a truly evolutive endeavor.

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Reese Cooper FW20 Menswear

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For Fall / Winter 2020, designer Reese Cooper asks himself the existential question: “If a tree falls does it make a sound?”

Following on from his award as CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund runner-up, Cooper’s next chapter confirms his core inspirations—vintage Americana fused with the great outdoors and his impressive sustainability goals. The designer embraces an elevated technical approach and combines it with the brand’s sustainable fabrics - such as knitwear made from cotton and recycled paper and a new denim wash technique called Wiser Wash® that utilizes less than one cup of water.


The collection is by far his largest to date and features an array of bespoke fabrics including a waterproof forest scene; embroidered foliage; and custom camouflage—all designed in-house.

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John Elliot FW20 Menswear

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For his Fall/Winter 2020 menswear collection entitled “A Wonderful Yesterday” John Elliott
expands his aesthetic further as he explores a way of life that is different to how we live now, and then makes it relevant to today.

The exploration and introduction of advanced developments in fabric treatments and applications is key - his high-tech leather is stand-out here.

The collection and its fabrications were inspired by a family cabin hidden in California’s northern Sierra Mountains and results in a collection made up of modular pieces spurred by the past and present of this remote spot.

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Off-White FW20 Menswear

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For his Fall/Winter 2020 menswear collection, titled “Tornado Warning,” Virgil Abloh significantly deepens— and anchors—Off-White’s established identity.

Abloh’s sensibilities continue to pull away from the term “streetwear,” but he is not discarding his hand of in-the-know familiarity. In this lineup, the designer pushes the idea wheel forward, layering in singular silhouettes, innovative suiting, and dressier formal and outerwear.


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Off-White FW20 Womenswear

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For his FW 2020 womenswear collection, Virgil Abloh further develops Off-White’s codes with a sense of contemporary realism, beyond the hems of the fashion industry. He looks at the world at large.

To set the pace, Abloh ventured back to the nineties—a definitive sartorial era—by compiling references from then-ubiquitous minimal slip-dresses and bra tops to Hype Williams’s 1998 directorial film debut, Belly. Williams is widely known for his innovative and Zeitgeist-capturing music videos, which blend technology, fashion, and uncompromising individuality; in Belly, keystone late nineties-era hallmarks like red leather Ecko puffers and original-design all-white Range Rovers take centerstage. The view towards a more recent nostalgia hints at a collective comfort regarding what has passed—especially when the future feels so unpredictable.

From there, Abloh used the nineties as a springboard for helping to define what OffWhite will be in the 2020’s. His approach is one of calculated miscellany, mirroring the moment and pushing that moment forward.

Bookending his Fall runway were hybridized, high-volume dresses with Arc’teryx parkas. Myriad trenches came paired with trousers, which were generally long and lean, with breaks at the ankle. Holstein blot motifs walked alongside circular cutout separates; heavy chain elements were worked in as jewelry or dress adornments. Extra-tailored leather blazers featured spray-painted overlays. Houndstooth patterns morphed into psychedelic pools on top-coats and skirts. An angular tulle wing-and-half-dress was worn over camouflage cargo pants. A collaboration with MGM studios led to a Blue Velvet-inspired capsule: a structured, off-the-shoulder dress in the fabric the movie is named for, along with mirror-ball metallic garments that channel Dorothy Vallens’s glitzier ensembles.

Akin to what’s happening in culture greater, we are now living in an era of openness, constant newness, hyper-information, and the pressing need for adaptability: “Reality,” says Abloh, “is the starting point of my type of storytelling.”

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