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Design of the Times
Boca has been privy to special appearances by several noteworthy fashion designers this season. Our Shop Talk team had the pleasure of sitting down with three of them during their local visits to Town Center at Boca Raton. How do you want people to feel when they wear your clothes? Sophisticated, comfortable and always appropriate for the occasion.
Nicole Hanley
NICOLE HANLEY Hanley exhibited her Hanley Mellon Resort Collection at Bloomingdale’s with a trunk show and meet-and-greet. What made you start your own line? While at Ralph Lauren working with the conceptual design team for the Rugby line, I fell in love with the design process. I continued sketching on my own— perhaps obsessively, or more nicely put, passionately—until I could no longer contain myself and finally had the courage to step out on my own.
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Rebecca Minkoff
Do you remember the moment you realized your love for fashion? I have always gravitated toward and made a study of style. I admire style that has a sense of purpose and occasion, with a certain balance in texture, color, juxtaposition and proportion.
REBECCA MINKOFF Fashionistas lined the handbag department of Bloomingdale’s at Town Center for a meet and greet with Minkoff. Boca met with the fashion designer as she underwent hair and makeup preparations for the event. Why is it important for you to hold events and maintain a strong relationship with Bloomingdale’s? They were our first department store to support the brand, and they have done a really great job of embracing our categories. Where does your artistic influence come from? My influence comes a lot from vintage, from hardware and traveling a lot, so I think a lot of it comes from being exposed to different cultures and different places. From the Hanley Mellon 2016 resort collection
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Minkoff handbag
Any secrets you can share about Fashion Week 2016? We are going to be disrupting fashion week (Feb. 11-18 in New York), but I won’t tell you how.
DEREK LAM Lam graced the CUSP section of Neiman Marcus inside Town Center to debut his Spring 2016 collection during an in-store fashion show. Derek Lam
What is the vision behind your clothing? It’s rooted in American style. I’m always trying to be on the edge of [that] style—I want to do something that has a
modern sensibility. I also love the ideas of thoughtful simplicity and purposefulness and real attention to details, all wrapped up in something that’s luxury and fun. What is your favorite type of piece to design? I love designing pants because a lot of women have difficulty finding great-fitting trousers. I understand the point of view is that you can never have long enough legs, so why don’t we make a pant that gives you that flattering look? What do you like most about fashion? I love that it changes, and I love that it reflects very immediately what’s happening in culture. Sometimes, when you’re constantly looking for that inspiration, it can be chaotic because things change so quickly.
Signature Lam look
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