The Verdura and Belperron company is set to return to the Netherlands for the TEFAF Maastricht fair.
The brands made their joint debut at the event last year. This year’s fair will occur from March 10 to 19.
New and vintage jewelry will be displayed, this time focused on the Thirties and Forties eras. Verdura’s lots will particularly home in on the “Out of this World” collection, which focuses on an expanded range of designs created in collaboration with Salvador Dalí.
“This collaboration explored themes of love, loss and faith amidst the atrocity and devastation of World War II,” the company said.
Said Verdura and Belperron president Nico Landrigan: “[The fair] is like walking through a museum for sale and to get to participate in that show is a great honor. It is not just the fair, but who goes to the fair is jaw-dropping — to see who is there. They are not there to see-and-be-seen like some social events. They are there because they don’t want to miss great treasures that have just been discovered or made, they are connoisseurs. It really attracts the great collectors of the world.”

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Led by a strong performance from its flagship Repreve brand of eco-friendly yarns made from recycled materials and other value-added products, Unifi Inc. posted gains in operating income, volume of goods sold and adjusted earnings for the second quarter ended Dec. 25, while net sales dipped slightly.
Operating income increased 4 percent to $9 million for the second quarter from $8.6 million a year earlier. Net sales were $155.2 million for the second quarter compared to $156.3 million for the year-ago period.
Unifi, based in Greensboro, N.C., said strong premium value-added performance in Asia and Brazil mostly offset weaker sales in the domestic market.
Volume, measured by pounds sold, increased by more than 10 percent for the second quarter and first six months of fiscal 2017 compared to the second quarter and first six months of fiscal 2016, driven by the strength of the international premium value-added portfolio.
“We are pleased with another quarter of solid results, as strong performance internationally counterbalanced headwinds in the domestic market, driven by weak retail sales and elevated inventory levels,” said Tom Caudle, president of Unifi. “In the short term, we expect margin pressure in the International Segment due to increased import tariffs on raw materials for our

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Heresy: An opinion or doctrine contrary to dogma. Is it heresy to question the deification of Vetements’ Demna Gvasalia by the fashion and pop-culture faithful? His acolytes are so vast that last season, brands from Juicy Couture to Brioni and Church’s let him have his way with their stuff.
On Tuesday, Gvasalia delivered another interesting Vetements collection, a study of stereotypes. “This season was a bit of an outburst of that kind of fascination with social uniforms and how people dress, dress codes,” he said backstage postshow. “It’s something I always work with, more or less, but then we really decided to emphasize it and to study each look as a separate person, as a character.” To that end, he labeled each player: La Parisienne, Bouncer, Broker, Vagabond, Punk, Pensioner, Secretary, and on through a litany of 36.
Designers have long created characters, but this was different. This was — or felt like — unenhanced reality, his nonmodels genuinely diverse across generations, ethnicities, body types, ages and runway walks. With the exception of the bright green-clad punk with his mile-high spiked tresses and the ghostly bride, most looked not fashion-real, but really-real, as if they’d gotten dressed as they would on any other

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