Once I saw the suit, we knew we wanted to keep it sleek and sexy, complimentary to his look, Reilly says. Piccioli has been at the maison long enough to know its codes by Golden Goose Outlet heart; he has lived through its glamourous heyday, when Valentino Garavani received guests at his Chateau de Wideville, whose grounds were as perfectly manicured as the high-maintenance crowd that walked them.

The makeup works to support the cinematic tension, says Richardson. At the Musee d'Art Moderne, a retrospective on Josef and Anni Albers boasting her woven reliefs and his seemingly endless color-blocked studies on the square echo in the works of Sheila Hicks who, at 87, is still creating larger-than-life textile cascades and wall-mounted tondi-some of which can be seen at the Frank Elbaz Gallery.

Clearly the question is no longer whether it's possible to make a luxurious, vegan, and environmentally-conscious shoe; it's if the rest of the fashion industry will get on board. I think it's about awareness and education right now, Bhojwani says. Bringing la couture dans les rues might sound like a marketing formula, were it not for Piccioli's authentic belief and determined efforts to make it happen. The idea isn't only metaphorical, he said.

The joys of in-person shopping! Korn considers this bag a milestone in her world of design. I'm ready to evolve, she says. That chain link shoe is very sexy and fierce at the same time, Muaddi says. And then there's the super-high gladiator. Another playful look is the pajama suit embellished with produce baubles they had to do some tight editing on which fruits and vegetables they kept. This adventure began in 1999 when the late Kirsten Kiki Kiser, a Danish model turned architect and gallerist, asked if Lunn could make a frock out of paper.