Every week, Alexa rounds up New York’s biggest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts, celeb-filled cultural events, and more.
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A celebrity-favorite furniture store opens a New York branch, Lele Sadowgi gets inspired by art, and a beloved British brand goes international.
Over the years, accessories designer Lele Sadowgi has partnered with SJP by Sarah Jessica Parker, J.Crew and Swarovski.
But she says she’s “always made a lot of paintings, drawings, and collages,” so her latest collaboration with New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art seems like a perfect fit.
Sadhughi selected six artists from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection – Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh – to “interpret their masterpieces as wearable three-dimensional art.”
The new collection, unveiled yesterday, includes around 30 pieces, ranging from the designer’s iconic headbands and hair accessories to earrings, belts and bags.
From $55 Lele Sadhugi and Met Store.
Kate Middleton, Margot Robbie and Amal Clooney are just some of the stylish A-listers who have recently worn designs from Me + Em, the popular British brand that just recently came to America.
The brand debuted on Madison Avenue earlier this year, its latest location is a 2,700-square-foot boutique in SoHo, and it has a store opening soon in the Hamptons.
With the motto of “attractive, functional and timeless clothing for the modern woman,” the brand’s colorful, cool and sophisticated clothes, swimwear, shoes, hats and bags are sure to be a hit with New Yorkers.
111 Mercer Street, Me and M
Giovanni Panerai opened his first shop and watchmaking school in Florence, Italy in 1860.
The company went on to supply a range of instruments to the Italian Navy, including diving watches which debuted in the 1930s and 1940s. The brand’s first “civilian market” watch, the Luminor, was introduced in 1993.
Many of Panerai’s styles, including this new Luminor Dieci Giorni, have not deviated too far from the original, but of course, there have been technical improvements, innovations and evolutions in line with fashion trends.
Launched just in time for Father’s Day, this latest model is water resistant to 100 metres and has a 10-day power reserve, which in Italian translates to “10 Giorni”.
It also features a trendy navy blue dial and crocodile leather strap.
Luminor Dieci Giorni clock, $15,200 Panerai
After a lengthy hiatus, Sundays has finally reopened in a much easier-to-find location on the third floor of Hudson Yards, next to Pandora (rather than in a random corner near the restrooms).
Not familiar?
Billed as a “non-toxic nail studio,” Sundays offers manicures and pedicures using vegan, cruelty-free products in a space designed for relaxation.
The new Hudson Yards studio will feature treatment rooms (the company is developing a menu of specialty body and facial treatments) and offer a new red light manicure, which adds 10 minutes of “soothing light therapy” to the drying time.
20 Hudson Yards, 500 W. 33rd St.; Dear Sunday
For many design lovers, no visit to Los Angeles is complete without a stop at Nickey Kehoe.
The store, located on Beverly Boulevard just east of The Grove, opened 16 years ago following the success of Todd Nickey and Amy Kehoe’s design firm (which was named to the AD100 last year).
Over the years, the company has developed an incredibly loyal following on both coasts, and earlier this month it opened a New York branch in a two-story historic brownstone on the same street where Jackson Pollock once lived.
The location is a perfect fit: The two people at the helm of this interior design firm, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, originally met in New York in the ’90s.
Everything in the new space is layered with vintage and new furniture, lighting, textiles and objects, fitting their description as “lovers of simplicity who aren’t afraid of ostentatious.”
49 E. 10th St., Nicky Kehoe
