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The Gift Shop campaign, shot by Gabriele Galimberti, swiftly earned the ire of the internet, with one image showing a child with the aforementioned teddy bear bag, surrounded by inappropriate accessories, including a chain leash and a dog collar choker.

“We sincerely apologize for any offense our holiday campaign may have caused. Our plush bear bags should not have been featured with children in this campaign. We have immediately removed the campaign from all platforms,” the company wrote in a statement posted to its Instagram Stories on Tuesday.

The campaign initially launched earlier this month to broadcast Balenciaga’s latest objects, claiming that the shoot iterated on Galimberti’s Toy Stories series, which explores “what people collect and receive as gifts.”

Louis Vuitton Dropped a New Campaign With Christiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi

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Louis Vuitton revealed a massive campaign featuring soccer (or football) legends Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, titled “Victory is a State of Mind.”

Arriving just in time for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the campaign, shot by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz, sees the two of the sport’s best players face off against each other in a game of a chess, played atop a Louis Vuitton Damier attaché case. The campaign centers the French luxury label’s longstanding reputation of top-class, travel-trunk craftsmanship.

Aside from honoring Messi and Ronaldo’s unequivocal legacies in soccer, the campaign celebrates the FIFA World Cup. Notably, at the opening ceremony, the FIFA trophy was presented inside a Louis Vuitton case.

Supreme and The North Face Returned With a Second Fall 2022 Collection

Supreme

Supreme and The North Face reunited for a second Fall 2022 collaboration.

This time, the collection is winter-ready with a number of weather-resistant pieces. Among them, there’s the Taped Seam Shell Jacket, which includes a waterproof three-layer nylon shell, and the 800-Fill Half Zip Hooded Pullover, which features water-resistant quilted nylon ripstop. The former silhouette arrives in three colorways, black/grey, black/yellow and one that reimagines New York City’s Time Square in an all-over print, and the latter jacket arrives in the same iterations, with an additional all-black version.

The Supreme x The North Face’s second Fall 2022 collaboration will see a global release, via the streetwear imprint November 25, 11 a.m. EDT in the United States and November 26, 11 a.m. JST in Japan.

The 2023 International Woolmark Prize Finalists Were Announced

The Woolmark Company

The 2023 International Woolmark Prize finalists were announced earlier this week. With a roster that features Robyn Lynch, RHUDE (Rhuigi Villaseñor), Lagos Space Programme, BLUEMARBLE, A. ROEGE HOVE, Paolina Russo, MAXXIJ and MARCO RAMBALDI, this year’s finalists are tasked with create a “letter to, and for, the next generation,” under the larger theme of “Dialogue.”

“This group of finalists represents the next generation of creative game-changers, who all want to design fashion for a better tomorrow,” said The Woolmark Company managing director John Roberts. “As the fashion and textile industry continues to evolve amongst an ever-changing landscape, we hope that our support throughout the International Woolmark Prize will inspire and propel design and business strategies of our eight finalists. I would personally like to congratulate these finalists on behalf of the Australian woolgrowers and also thank the Advisory Council for helping decide our final eight.”

Finalists will have to create six Merino wool looks for their FW22 collection or standalone IWP2023 capsule. The prize includes an award of $60,000 AUD (approx. £33,500 GBP or $40,000 USD), along with mentoring from fashion leaders including Holli Rogers, Chief Brand Officer, Farfetch; Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, Global Fashion Editor-at-Large, Vogue and Stylist; Sara Sozzani Maino, Scouting and Educational Initiatives Advisor Vogue Italia and International Brand Ambassador Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana; Sinéad Burke, Educator and Advocate; Shaway Yeh, Founder YehYehYeh and Group Style Editorial Director Modern Media Group; and Tim Blanks, Editor-at-Large, Business of Fashion.

Palace Revealed Its Full Holiday 2022 Collection

Palace

Following a football-centric capsule with Umbro and a freshly-minted, Clare Shilland-shot Holiday 2022 lookbook, London streetwear imprint Palace returned with a start-to-finish look at everything dropping this upcoming season.

Between the classic Triferg emblem, the Palace “P” and the brand’s italicized moniker, Palace’s signature branding captivates the entire effort. Landing across top options — including jackets, crewnecks, hoodies, knitwear, button-down shirts and T-shirts — and bottoms alike, the Holiday 2022 collection is just as much a celebration of the British label’s streetwear recognition as it is of the cheerful season.

Like previous Palace collections, GORE-TEX plays a key role in jacket constructions for Holiday 2022, while sweatshirts put the label’s classic iconography at the fore. In the lighter top categories, longsleeves riff on Panasonic branding with a VHS emblem reading “Very Heavy Shit,” across a slew of muted tones. In T-shirts, all-over spider web motifs encapsulate several standard logo tees, and number of silhouettes feature an x-ray-style image of human hands above the phrase “Working Together To Connect People.”

Explore the full Holiday 2022 collection, here.

Moncler Revealed a Maya 70 Jacket Designed by Pharrell Williams

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Honoring Moncler’s 70th anniversary, Pharrell Williams has crafted a sleek iteration of the brand’s Maya 70 silhouette, out November 26.

Marking the seventh and final launch in the brand’s Maya 70 Collaborations series, Pharrell transforms the Italian down jacket with his signature, inventive design ethos. To start, the visionary revitalizes the coat with a molded polymeric material, providing the silhouette with a smooth, black surface area; to finish, he dots the entire jacket with miniature, three-dimensional logo branding.

“How do you define the last 70 years? Getting to design the iconic Maya jacket with my own twist was a total honor. I knew from the beginning I wanted it to be all rubber,” says Pharrell, who selected rapper and singer Tobe Nwigwe to wear his design in Moncler’s campaign. “I’m a huge fan of Tobe, and the way he combines music and fashion to make his own unique style. He’s the only person I know that could rock a rubber jacket and make it look even better.”

The Moncler Maya 70 by Pharrell Williams will release at select Moncler stores and on Moncler’s website on November 26. Take a look at the celebratory silhouette above.

This week, many fashion brands looked to the future. Among them, Balenciaga officially left Twitter, reshaping its online presence following Elon Musk‘s acquisition of the tech giant. Estée Lauder acquired Tom Ford in a deal valued at $2.8 billion USD, marking the cosmetics conglomerate’s largest-ever acquisition; and Louis Vuitton revealed plans to turn its Paris headquarters into its first-ever luxury hotel. In the present, however, the Brooklyn Museum opened its Thierry Mugler: Couturissime exhibition, Central Cee starred in Jacquemus‘ Winter 2022 campaign and the highly-anticipated Stüssy x Dries Van Noten collab finally arrived.

Below, Hypebeast has rounded up the top fashion stories of the week so you can stay up to date on trends in the industry.

Balenciaga Left Twitter

Balenciaga

Balenciaga officially left Twitter following Elon Musk‘s acquisition. The Demna-led label’s decision to drop the platform comes after several major companies, including General Motors and Dyson, have suspended their advertising campaigns on Twitter.

Business of Fashion reports that in recent years, fashion brands have relied increasingly less on Twitter for generating digital buzz surrounding new drops and collections. Balenciaga, however, is no stranger to stirring up heated discussions on the platform; most recently, the Kering-owned label has sparked conversations for its $1,790 USD leather trash bags and $950 USD Crocs.

As of now, it remains uncertain whether other high-fashion labels will drop the social media platform, too.

Estée Lauder Acquired Tom Ford for $2.8 Billion USD

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Estée Lauder officially acquired Tom Ford in a deal valued at roughly $2.8 billion USD, marking the cosmetics conglomerate’s largest-ever acquisition.

The acquisition of Tom Ford Brands by Estée Lauder is expected to close in the first half of 2023, depending on the speed of regulatory approvals. Thanks to the sale, Ford has earned the billionaire title, according to Forbes, which estimated that the designer will take $1.1 billion USD in cash from the sale, after taxes. Once the deal is finalized, he will remain as the brand’s “creative visionary” through 2023.

Business of Fashion reported that Tom Ford had been shopping for a possible sale since this summer. Back in August, Estée Lauder was reported to be in talks about buying the brand in a deal that valued the label at $3 billion USD. Notably, Estée Lauder beat out other big luxury parent companies, including Kering, in the sale.

Louis Vuitton Revealed Plans To Turn Its Paris Headquarters Into Its First Luxury Hotel

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Louis Vuitton (PARIS:MC.PA +0.20{515baef3fee8ea94d67a98a2b336e0215adf67d225b0e21a4f5c9b13e8fbd502}) Chairman and CEO Michael Burke has revealed plans to turn the French fashion house’s Paris headquarters into a massive complex that will include the first-ever Louis Vuttion hotel and the brand’s largest global storefront, according to a new interview with WWD.

The colossal transformation began this week, with the launch of a new experiential installation titled “LV Dream.” There, a 20,000-square-foot pop-up houses an exhibition spotlighting the Maison’s top-shelf artist collaborations, a cafe and chocolate shop from Cheval Blanc Paris’ head pastry chef and a gift shop. The temporary space, which is set to remain open for a year, will “most probably” be turned into Louis Vuitton’s largest store, according to Burke. The hotel is expected to occupy another sector of the 400,000-square-foot building within the next five years.

The Brooklyn Museum Opened Its Thierry Mugler: Couturissime Exhibition

The Brooklyn Museum

First shown at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, then in Germany, the Netherlands and France, the traveling Thierry Mugler: Couturissime exhibition has officially landed at its final destination: New York City’s Brooklyn Museum. There, exhibition curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot and the museum’s senior curator of fashion Matthew Yokobosky have adapted the limitless, historical showcase for New York’s fashion crowd, now on view from November 18, 2022, to May 7, 2023.

Spanning haute couture designs and unpublished archives, the exhibition houses more than 100 looks (most of which are on view for the first time) along with accessories, videos, photographs, sketches and fragrances that define Manfred Thierry Mugler‘s unequivocal stamp on fashion. In the Brooklyn Museum’s Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing and Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, the exhibition champions Mugler’s industry-altering portfolio by theme, separating the designer’s interests into rooms dedicated to fantasy, glamour, science fiction, eroticism and the natural world.

“The constant innovations, inventions, and avant-garde architectural silhouettes in the work of Mugler have marked an era,” said Loriot. “His singular style found a place in the history of fashion that still has a powerful influence on today’s generation of couturiers, not only because of its designs but also because of the strong message of inclusivity, diversity, and empowerment in his body of work.”

Tickets for The Brooklyn Museum’s Thierry Mugler: Couturissime exhibition can be reserved on the museum’s website.

The Stüssy x Dries Van Noten Collaboration Arrived

Stüssy X Dries Van Noten

Following teasers from A$AP NAST and a campaign starring Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ Flea, Stüssy and Dries Van Noten‘s hotly-anticipated collaboration has officially hit shelves.

Across the collection, the partnership breeds a slew of designs denoted by Stüssy’s So-Cal style and Dries’ versatile codes. Among them, there are dual-branded tie-dye T-shirts, sweatpants and sweatshirts, along with collared shirts, baggy printed jeans, and a rhinestone smoking blazer and pants. There’s also a number of condition-ready outerwear, as well as a lineup of bomber jackets, crewnecks, loose-fit pants and vests — all of which are constructed from fabrics spanning corduroy to leather.

The collection is now available on the official Stüssy and Dries Van Noten websites, as well as across all Dover Street Market locations. See the full lookbook here.

Daniel Arsham Turned Tiffany & Co.’s Motif Into a $59,000 USD Bronze Eroded Tiffany Padlock

Tiffany & Co.

Daniel Arsham‘s Future Relics are among the most prestigious collector’s items in the art domain; so naturally,  Tiffany & Co. needed to buy into it. Working in tandem, the two created a piece titled Bronze Eroded Tiffany Padlock, under Tiffany’s new “Lock” collection.

Arsham looked into the luxury jewelry label’s archives to create a limited series of 99 sculptures, each of which resembles the artist’s classic crumbling work and the brand’s emblematic blue tone. Inside, there’s a bangle, designed in collaboration with Arsham, that is made from 18k white gold and set with diamonds and tsavorites.

On the project, Arsham said, “It’s very personal to me, but there’s also an element of history in there — a link between generations of craft, between function and design, between craftsmanship and beauty. These are the elements that make Tiffany so unique, the elements that allow it to consistently hone the ‘sweet spot’ between heritage and modernity. I wanted to crete an artwork to celebrate that.”

The collaboration will be available for a whopping $59,000 USD in select Tiffany & Co. stores on December 1.

Central Cee Starred in Jacquemus’ Winter 2022 Campaign

Oliver Hadlee Pearch

24-year-old Londoner Central Cee is a rapper, songwriter, and now, thanks to Jacquemus, fashion’s latest muse. After attending the French label’s FW22 “LE PAPIER” presentation in Arles, France, earlier this year (and publicly appearing in several of the brand’s older designs), the British artist is now the face of Jacquemus’ Winter 2022 campaign, “Neve World.”

In the campaign, shot by Oliver Hadlee Pearch and styled by Imruh Asha, Central Cee flaunts the brand’s coziest sweaters, scarves, balaclavas, gloves, hats and headbands. Under the creative jurisdiction of Simon Porte Jacquemus, the collection operates on a kaleidoscopic color palette, including shades of blue, violet, pink, red, off-white, orange and brown.

Among the range, a fluffy long-sleeve polo boasts a collar with two-button closure, ribbed cuffs and a contrasting hem, while fuzzy cargo pants are cut mid-rise, with patch pockets and a similar two-toned hem. The balaclava, which functions with a visor, features a fitted shape and embroidered iconography on its front. Following suit, a bucket hat encapsulates its wearer in smooth ombré tones with identical logo work.

Indulge in Jacquemus’ “Neve World” Winter 2022 campaign, starring Central Cee, here.

Balenciaga Opened Its Largest U.S. Flagship in Miami

Balenciaga

Balenciaga on Tuesday officially opened its largest United States flagship in Miami’s Design District. The two-story, 786-square-meter space, which previously existed as two separate stores for the brand’s men’s and women’s collections, leans into creative director Demna‘s “Raw Architecture” concept with reevaluated luxury retail codes and structural interior designs.

Inside, Art Deco floors, paying homage to Miami’s distinct design history, are chipped; and spilled enamel pools under benches that are held together with an unusual cactus material. Walls appear corroded, and industrial railings are set as finishes, all in an attempt to challenge the notion of authenticity. There, Balenciaga’s finest offerings — ready-to-wear, shoes, accessories and objects — are deployed in perfect juxtaposition to their backdrop.

Balenciaga’s Miami Design District flagship is now open at the below address. The store is open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Balenciaga Miami Design District
151 NE 41st Street
Miami, Florida 33137
United States