HAPPY FEET: British luxury footwear brand Malone Souliers is translating its colorful aesthetic to children’s shoes, with the launch of Minismalls, a new line for young, stylish girls, aged three to 10.
The new range will debut with one key style for spring 2017. The brand’s founders, Mary Alice Malone and Roy Luwolt, chose the signature Robyn flat — a pointed-toe, strappy style — and re-created it for bite-sized feet with a rounded toe and a variation of colors and textures, from bright glitter to soft suede and napa leather.
The collection, which goes on sale in February, was made with the same methods and materials as the main women’s line.
“The collection has been designed in direct response to the wishes of our clients whose daughters have long had shoe envy for their mothers’ Malone Souliers, which, due to their impressively evolved tastes, are naturally hard to find in toy stores,” said Malone, the brand’s creative director.

Malone Souliers launches Minismalls. 
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Luwolt, the brand’s managing director, added that a children’s line has always been an “intended phase” and after seven seasons and retail growth, the timing seemed right.
Malone Souliers has been gaining increasing popularity for its lace-up styles and bold use of texture and

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MILAN — Moncler celebrates the Chinese New Year, kicking off Jan. 28, with two Special Edition men’s and women’s designs. With the looks, the company pays homage to the Year of the Rooster, which also happens to be the brand’s logo.
The jackets come in bright red and gold details. A fiery brocade print of a rooster stands out on the women’s model, while it adorns only the back panel of the men’s style. Both jackets are reversible, showing Moncler’s staple down motif.
The pieces will be available in all Moncler boutiques and online starting this month.
As reported in November, Moncler sales in the first nine months of the year in Asia and the Rest of the World grew 27 percent to 216.2 million euros, or $240 million. During a conference call with analysts, chief corporate officer Luciano Santel emphasized Moncler’s strong performance in China, the brand’s second-largest country in the region, “thanks to the strength of the brand and a good response to the fall collection.”
Santel emphasized the company’s focus on the expansion of Moncler’s Hong Kong flagship, “three times bigger and much more visible” and with two main entrances.

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GOING GREEN: Pantone has teamed with Airbnb on a sustainable house in London. The color specialist firm has worked with the online home-stay network to list the newly revamped central London home. Located on 4 Dingley Place, in Clerkenwell, the 2,000-square foot, two-story, loft-style flat will be hosted by Pantone.
The design and the focus of “Outside In” house was on Pantone’s 15-0343 Greenery — the company’s color pick for 2017. The trans-seasonal hue has been described as a “zesty yellow-green shade that evokes the first days of spring, when nature’s greens revive, restore and renew.”
The house was created with a sustainable and nature-driven concept with recyclable materials and decorated with an abundance of plants and trees. The reception area, welcomes guests with lush woodland greenery and includes a dining room that also acts as an indoor greenhouse, filled with sprawling ferns, succulents and cacti. In the bedroom, a landscaped garden structure is lined up against walls and features a wooden trellis at the head of the bed with wall-climbing ivy. The space also includes a cozy, tented nook. Meanwhile, the kitchen contains various herbs and botanical structures along with glasses, mugs and kitchenware — all adorned in the Pantone shade.
Among

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LET IT SNOW: High-level street style — literally and figuratively — came to the sidewalks of Park City, Utah when The Hollywood set descended on the mountain town for the Sundance Film Festival, which kicked off Jan. 19 and wraps up Jan.29.
For Angelenos, it was a chance to break out the puffer parkas, vintage fur, wooly overcoats and snow-proof boots that spend most of the year in storage, along with the winter-appropriate accessories to finish off the look. Those would be cross-body bags, scarves, shawls, gloves and hats. Unlike Coachella, where Millennials spend half the year sourcing the perfect music festival ensemble, most Sundance-goers wear clothes they already own or have stolen from mom’s closet (or whatever designer togs they’re lucky enough to be loaned if they’re an actor). This year, Mother Nature cooperated with the fashion theme, dumping fresh coats of snow over Utah on a daily basis. It might have made it harder to climb steep Main Street in Old Town, but it sure made the wide-brimmed hats, knit caps and beanies useful; ditto the rubber-soled footwear.
Underneath the outerwear, most festival-goers paired colorful sweaters and blouses, high-waisted jeans, cropped pants (all the better for showing off boots). Funnily

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GREEN GAL: The Duchess of Cambridge paid a visit to the East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice in Quidenham, Norwich on Tuesday.
Located near Anmer Hall, her country home in Norfolk, the young royal took in a tour of the facility and met with children who have life-threatening illnesses, and with their families. She also met with charity representatives to discuss updates on the Nook appeal, which she helped launch in 2014. The facility, which opened in 1991, will see a new children’s hospice called “The Nook,” developed on the estate. It will be run by East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices, where the duchess is a royal patron, and already has facilities in Cambridge, Ipswich and Milton, England.
Kate Middleton arrived wearing an emerald-green peplum skirt suit from the Hobbs fall 2015 collection.

The Duchess of Cambridge in Hobbs 
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The Duchess of Cambridge in Hobbs. 
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Last week, she joined the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry at an event to promote mental health at the ICA in London. The young royals met with members of British business, charities and media to discuss their objectives for the year as a part of their work for Heads Together, a campaign that aims to support children and teens battling

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They walked Chanel haute couture this morning and Givenchy menswear last week.

Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski’s pre-fall presentation, held at the Hermès flagship on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, had the feeling of a Sunday brunch.
As cups of coffee and flutes of Champagne were passed around, guests settled on beige banquettes and watched models amble past in leather coats and silk twill dresses to a soundtrack from British band Hot Chip.
The designer kicked off with one of her classically understated creations, a blue-black V-neck dress set off by a silver cabochon belt, but it was worn with a pair of thigh-high boots with compensated soles that gave the look a “Belle de Jour” edge.
The boots came with everything from an overcoat in double-faced merino wool in cherry and Chinese blue, to a poison green calfskin parka with eyelets punched through the pockets. They both had an Eighties feel, as did a green-and-gray knit sweater-and-skirt set.
It felt like Vanhee-Cybulski was starting to show her true colors, after hovering at a reverential distance in her first two years as women’s artistic director of the brand. There were classic Hermès references, like an overstitched coat in the luxury house’s signature burnt-orange, but she also added some quirky touches, like a perfume bottle motif on off-white pajama pants.
As guests

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Natasha Zinko’s combination of countryside chic, sexy black leather and streetwear made for an idiosyncratic yet cute proposition for pre-fall. Inspired by her native Ukraine, Zinko played with sweetheart necklines, smocking and floral cross-stitch motifs – either in beaded embroidery or as a print – as well as plaids and tweeds in a palette marrying shocking pink, bright yellow, purple, khaki and blue with black leather, denim and white cotton.
She styled a black leather bra top over dresses that, were it not for quirky details of cut and corset-like interior panels that added stiffness, would not look out of place on the set of “Little House on the Prairie.” For her more street-inspired designs, she gave wide cropped boyfriend jeans a “double-denim” effect with two waistlines – one high, the other low-hanging, while khaki or purple tweed reveled in outsized pants or a more classic coat lined with a contrasting houndstooth wool, both with white blocky text reading “Here’s my summer cottage, there is my house,” in Russian. It was a reference to an old Soviet song.

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Priscilla Royer wanted to offer something for everyone — whether male or female, classic or cool — in this versatile collection. As such, personalization was the name of the game for the Chanel-owned milliner, with many of the designs created to adapt to a variety of styles, from a classic felt wide-brimmed hat that could be shaped in different ways to a flexible wool bucket hat treated to be water-repellant that regains its form even after being crushed into a handbag or backpack, and could also be squashed into a trilby shape and hold that form.
Royer wanted to focus on cut-and-sew designs this season, rather than the molded felt designs for which the house is better known, and set out to prove it with a variety of cap shapes and styles, from deerstalkers to baseball caps. A reversible tweed beret was gray on one side and brown on the other, complete with cat ears both inside and out.
The fun animal-ear theme, which has drawn a younger crowd to the brand over seasons past, was back in force. It was found on several headbands with teddy bear ears, in lilac-tinged gray tweed or bright purple and black fluffy wool, for example. Vintage-style

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FUNDING FASHION: The British Fashion Council and British Vogue have unveiled the 2017 contenders for the BFC/Vogue Fashion Fund. They are Huishan Zhang, Mother of Pearl, Osman, Palmer Harding, Shrimps, Sophie Hulme and Toogood.
The designers will be evaluated by the fund committee on Feb. 2, at Breather.com in Covent Garden, and the winner will be announced on April 4. As reported, the fund has amended its format this year with the 200,000 pound, or $248,785 at current exchange, prize to be split among three winners. The recipients will receive assistance with business development and mentoring through BFC’s Business Support team.
The shortlisted designers were selected by a panel of judges including Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue and chair of the fund committee; Caroline Rush, chief executive officer of the British Fashion Council, and a mix of retailers, designers, press and creatives.
“All the designers have demonstrated incredible talent and strong business skills,” said Rush. “I believe they all have the potential to become the U.K.’s next global brands, and the new format of the fund will help them achieve that goal.”
Shulman said the funding is specifically designed to help the designers’ businesses in a very targeted way “so that it can

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