How To Walk In Heels
Topic: FASHION NEWS

 

How to walk in heels

 

 

 

 

 

I've come a long way in the shoe department. Here are a few hard-won tips I've picked up for walking— gracefully and comfortably— in heels.

Size matters.

As any woman with some fashion sense will tell you, there is no legitimate middle ground for heels. It’s either flats or real heels — anything below 3 inches is considered cheating. Heels up to 4 inches are very comfortable to walk in as long as the shoe is carefully designed; 4.5-inch heels are manageable by literally everyone if you’ve had enough practice, and a 1-inch platform can help keep you safe in 5.5-inch heels. Heels higher than that? We'll pass.

Your height doesn't.

If you feel like it, you can wear heels even if you’re tall. And no, you don’t have to wear heels if you’re petite. Heels aren’t about looking taller — they’re about looking fierce. I am tallish at 5’5’’ and I wear high heels all the time. At 6’1’’ sometimes I’m the tallest person in the room. Do I feel like Gandalf summoning the Hobbits? Sometimes. It is still worth it.

Fit really matters.

Every self-respecting woman has a trusted calzolaio, or shoe repairer, who will competently file your heels to suit them specifically to your feet. Don't skimp on maintenance, either.

 

Design is key.

This is oh-so-important. While you can get away with poorly designed flats (rubber ballet flats attached to a tween magazine for $1 extra? I don’t see why not!), you definitely want to avoid cheap heels. They will give you blisters and make your feet hurt, yes, but more important in the long run they could affect your posture and damage the bones in the soles of your feet. Before you pick up any pair of high heels, try the shoes on in the late afternoon when your feet are a bit swollen. How do they feel? Are your feet yowling like a baby fox caught in a trap? Not okay.

Know when to name-drop.

Here are a few of my favorite Italian shoe brands in terms of comfort. It doesn’t hurt that they make incredibly beautiful shoes, either. My go-to response, which is only a bitof a lie, is that heels are as comfortable as slippers. It’s almost true in case of  Sergio Rossi’s  stunning Cachet pumps. The Milanese fashion brand makes some of the best shoes around.Salvatore Ferragamo’s feminine creations have the sort of subdued elegance and grown-up charm that girls start finding quite appealing when they feel they’re becoming more of una signora—“a lady.” No-nonsense Fratelli Rossetti shoes are the way to go when you plan to wear heels for a prolonged amount of time: They are sturdy and perfectly designed with a marked Milanese elegance. Luciano Padovan’s creations, on the other hand, are more blatantly sexy — even what would be a mid-heel office pump gets a touch of the stripper-heel treatment with the Milanese designer.

Walk, don't run.

There are really no shortcuts here — the only way to learn to walk in heels is to do it a lot, practicing first with easier shoes. The basics: Don’t walk on eggshells; do not tiptoe; step the heel first, then the tip of the foot. The more surface the shoe has, the easier it is — you might want to start with tight-fitting ankle boots (bonus point: pretty!).

Pick your battles.

High heels can be good for the soul, but they’re not particularly good for your body. Choose when to wear them wisely. In Italy, you’re expected to wear them by day to formal functions such as weddings and battesimi or christenings — we have many of them here — and by night whenever you’re attending a special occasion. What makes an occasion special? Sometimes it’s just the wearing of the heels themselves.

 

Making Beauty From Deep Sadness
Topic: ART NEWS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Making Beauty From Deep Sadness

 

 

 

 This week, Americans everywhere will pause to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the Sept.11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

In Rosemead, city officials unveiled a sculpture memorializing the nearly 3,000 people who died that day.

The sculpture consists of an iron beam pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center held up by two stainless steel hands.

"That steel beam represents the American spirit," Rosemead Mayor Steven Ly said. "Even though it suffered a lot of damage that day, it's still there and still strong."

The hands holding it up are constructed from 2,976 individually crafted stainless steel doves - each representing a victim of the attacks.

Artist Heath Satow said he spent nearly five months laboring over the hands, providing him ample time to reflect on the lives lost that day.

"What I hadn't expected going into this was what a toll it was going to take mentally," Satow said. "I was dealing with death and loss 2,976 times."

Though the city has been raising money and anticipating the memorial for years, of the five members of the City Council, only two have seen the sculpture in person - Bill Alarcon and Sandra Armenta.

Armenta said the sculpture was a reminder that the nation will never forget those who lost their lives in the attacks.

"I tell you it was breathtaking - it was so emotional," she said. "The two hands, for me, holding up the steel beam just proved...we will always rise above that."

The sculpture has already been placed in its home near city hall, where it is being kept under wraps until its official unveiling.

Councilwoman Maggie Clark, said it will remind people of the importance of staying vigilant.

"My feeling is we need to do it so we don't ever forget," she said.

"I want to wait until the day," she said. "To me, I think its an honor to have that memorial in the city of Rosemead. It allows us to honor...the many who lost their lives."

The $60,000 memorial has been built entirely through donations.

Some see doves. Others are certain they are looking at hawks. Still others are convinced the small figures they're seeing represent angels.

That's a good thing, says the sculptor who has created a memorial to victims of Sept. 11 . Nearly 3,000 of the stainless-steel figures are welded together to create a pair of giant hands lifting a twisted steel beam from New York's World Trade Center.

"I didn't want to be too specific. I want the viewer to bring their own ideas to it," artist Heath Satow says of the 4 1/2 -inch symbols that represent victims of the 2001 attacks.

Satow spent five months in his downtown Los Angeles studio bending and welding the bird-shaped figures together to form the two hands that hold the rusting, 10-foot section of I-beam.

The reaction of those who have seen the artwork is generally the same, Satow said.

"You get the 'Wow, that's neat,' when people first see it," he said. "Then you get the 'Whoa' when they get close enough to see that it's made of thousands of birds."

Rosemead officials commissioned the sculpture, called "Reflect," two years ago when Satow was operating out of a workshop in nearby Alhambra.

Satow chose the I-beam from a catalog of World Trade Center artifacts maintained by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Rosemead parks director David Montgomery Scott arranged for the Port Authority to release the 500-pound beam to the city.

Satow said he came up with four potential sculpture designs, which were narrowed down to two and voted on in mid-2010 by Rosemead residents. They overwhelmingly chose the design with the two hands, said city spokeswoman Aileen Flores.

Flores is one of several city officials who have seen the finished sculpture at Satow's Santa Fe Avenue studio. "It's better than I could imagine, absolutely beautiful," she said.

City Councilwoman Sandra Armenta, who has also seen it, said the artwork suggests "in a breathtaking, emotional way" that Americans will rise above whatever befalls their country.

The $60,000 art project was financed with donations and money raised by events including spaghetti dinners and food booths at the city's concerts in the park, 5K runs and the sale of memorial bricks, Armenta said.

Satow, 41, said each of the bird-like figures was cut from 1/8-inch steel by automated lasers and then polished, bent and welded by hand. "It's the most labor-intensive piece I've ever done," he said.

"It was really heavy creating each bird, knowing that it represented a real person. It was taking a toll — I was getting really depressed working on it."

When the piece was unveiled, Kevin Danni, who was on the 55th floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center when the second hijacked plane crashed into it.

"We were in the stairwell, evacuating. I'd been on the 61st floor at a training session with Morgan Stanley. We were slowly heading down the stairs. Luckily, it was an orderly evacuation. It took us probably 45 minutes to get out," said Danni, 31, an investment advisor from Pasadena.

About 12 minutes after he left the tower, it collapsed as he looked on in horror from several blocks away. He ran to escape the wall of dust and debris that followed.

"My whole 300-member training class survived. I got a second chance at life. It's a gift," he said.

Danni has also had an advance peek at Satow's sculpture. "It's incredible — a great tribute to people who lost their lives," he said.

And he knows what the tiny figures that form the sculpture are. "They're doves. There are 2,977 doves there," he said.

 

 

Little Rock Premieres at Passage Theatre
Topic: ART NEWS

Little Rock

 

Written and directed by Rajendra Ramoon 

Maharaj

 

Premieres at Passage Theatre

 

 

 

 

Passage Theatre Company in association with Rebel Theatrical Management, LLC will present Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj’s new play with music, Little Rock at the Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton, NJ on October 2-26, 2014. 

 

Told in music and memory, Little Rock is the courageous story of the nine black students who fought for integration at Little Rock Central High School in 1957.  The story hurtles from present to past, tragedy to triumph. They never planned to be change agents, and they didn’t consider themselves heroes. They just wanted to go to school.

 

“I cannot imagine a better story to tell in Trenton. Trenton actually has a community member living amongst us who was one of the students from the original group who started out for school that first day in 1957. Delois Harris, wife of The Reverend Harris of Galilee Baptist Church, was pointed out to me my first season at Passage 18 years ago,” remembers June Ballinger, Passage’s Artistic Director. “What set the course for the stand the Little Rock students took was a law that had been in existence for over 10 years but was being ignored - Hedgepeth and Williams vs. Board of Education, Trenton, NJ.  The 1944 NJ Supreme Court case was brought to the court by two mothers, Gladys Hedgepeth and Berline Williams, who sued the Trenton Board of Education over racial discrimination against their children…and won.  It was a precursor to the Brown vs. Brown decision that prohibited racial segregation of school systems throughout the United States. But Little Rock Arkansas in 1957, regardless of federal law, did not adhere.” 

 

Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj will direct the production which features a cast of nine actors hailing from New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia. He started Rebel Theater Company in 2003 in New York City, and is currently Producing Artistic Director of that company. Maharaj has made an imprint as a director of very diverse, social and political theater about American history. He has directed regionally, including "The Wiz" and many other plays at Arkansas Rep. He directed George C. Wolfe’s “ A Colored Museum” in New Jersey at the Crossroads Theater. He is the former Associate Artistic Director of Syracuse Stage and Lark Play Development Center and has held artistic residencies with The Public Theatre, Freedom Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Kennedy Center, Crossroads Theatre, Lark Play Development Center, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, and Amas Musical Theatre.

 

When asked why this story needs to be told now, director Rajendra Maharaj states, “I think that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And if you look at our country today, from Sanford, Florida to Ferguson, Missouri, the need for racial equality and tolerance is vital as it was during the Civil Rights Movement. Education is, and will always be, the key to opportunity, access, happiness, and freedom in the United States of America. And Little Rock illuminates that through the eyes of nine children whose simple desire to go to school and follow the law, changed the trajectory of our country forever. Little Rock, at its heart, reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Thoreau, “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you imagined.”

 

Rebel Theatrical Management, LLC is a New York City-based commercial theater production company specializing in live theatrical performances that illuminate the life, lifestyle and life experiences of under-represented communities.

 

 Passage Theatre Company is committed to creating and producing socially relevant new plays and community-devised arts programming that transforms the lives of individuals and community.    

 

 

 

PRODUCTION DETAILS

Dates

October 2-26

 

Performances, Times and Tickets

Thursday-Saturday @ 8pm; Sunday @ 3pm
Tickets $30-$35 (student and senior rates available)

Tickets may be purchased on line at www.passagetheatre.org or calling 609-392-0766 between 11am and 5pm.

 

Where

The Mill Hill Playhouse 205 E. Front Street, Trenton, NJ 08611.  On-street patrolled parking available.

 

Parking and Directions

Please refer to www.passagetheatre.org

 

 

Passage Theatre’s mainstage season is made possible in part by the N.J. State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; The Schubert Foundation; The City of Trenton; WIMG 1300; The Curtis McGraw Foundation; PNC Bank; The Garfield Foundation; The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey; Mary G. Roebling Foundation; The Bunbury Company and many individual donations.

 

 

FREE ADMISSION AT ZIMMERLI MUSEUM FOR EVERYONE
Topic: ART NEWS

 

 

 

Have you heard the news? So that everyone can visit, Zimmerli general admission is now FREE to all! For current exhibitions: http://bit.ly/1rjQYs3

 

 

MAD Beauty unveils collaboration with Kellogg’s
Topic: FASHION NEWS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAD Beauty unveils collaboration with Kellogg’s

 

 

 

 

MAD Beauty has announced an exclusive collaboration with Kellogg’s to create a range of cosmetic related products. The company has named its first selections Decades, where products feature a range of vintage Kellogg’s imagery. Drawing inspiration from fifties vintage and seventies retro, the collection offers a range of beauty products including flavored lip balms, beauty bags, manicure sets and bath essentials. The product range is available next week online at madbeauty.com, ASOS and Topshop with prices ranging from $6.00 to $18.00.

HOWELL FARM’S CORN MAZE
Topic: COMMUNITY INTEREST

HOWELL FARM’S CORN MAZE    OPEN WEEKENDS THROUGH OCT. 26

 

 

 

 

A tall order awaits the challengers of Howell Farm's 2014 corn maze, a 3-acre field of 10-foot stalks and double-depth hedgerows where getting lost is guaranteed, but getting out is not.

 

Inspired by the farm's recent hosting of the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit about the hometown teams that shape our communities, the maze puts a sports twist into the game by making teamwork the key to beating the opponents at hand: time, distance and what maze designers call “cornfusion” -- or, the disorientation caused by being surrounded by 120,000 stalks of corn.

 

The maze features 2½ miles of pathways where 10 puzzle pieces and the answers to 20 sports questions are hidden. When assembled on the maze game board, the pieces form a map of the maze pathways and indicate a way out. Teams are timed as they work to find the hidden clues, and are penalized for each wrong or missing answer. Teams with the best performances have their names posted on the Maze Master’s scoreboard -- an honor bestowed on only a few of the maze's many challengers.

 

"Strategy and teamwork won't give you home field advantage," said maze pathway designer Matt Miller, "but they'll get you out."

 

The Howell Farm Corn Maze is open weekends Sept. 13 through Oct. 26. Admission is $10 for ages 10 and older, $8 for children ages 5-9 and free for children 4 and under. In September, hours of entry are noon to 8 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays.  Beginning in October, the maze is also open Friday evenings from 5 to 8 for Moonlight & Starlight Mazes.

 

School groups can make reservations for daytime visits on Oct. 10 and 17. Private maze events and corporate team-building events are also available by reservation.

 

Howell Living History Farm is a facility of the Mercer County Park Commission. It is located on Valley Road, just off Route 29, two miles south of Lambertville. The maze is located on Valley Road, one mile west of the farm’s historic site. For information about the farm or maze, call 609-737-3299 or visit www.howellfarm.org or www.mercercountyparks.org.  

 

 

TICKET TO THE TENTS: Day 6 Spring 2015 NYFW Trend Report
Topic: FASHION NEWS

TICKET TO THE TENTS: Day 6 Spring 2015 NYFW Trend Report

 

 (Featuring Vivienne Hu, Narcisco Rodriguez, Badgley Mischka, Nolcha Fashion Week, Diesel Black Gold, Jenny Packham, Naeem Khan, Zang Toi, Pamella Roland, Michael Costello)

 

COLOR
Black and white remained popular for Day 6 of New York Fashion Week. Zang Toi’s celebrated his 25th anniversary as a label with a heavily black and white collection. He also featured deep shades of green, red and purple, which is rather unique for Spring! Ever since Victoria Beckham’s show earlier in the week, we’ve seen more and more designers incorporating darker shades into their collections. Typically these hues are reserved for Fall, but the use of deep shades of blues, greens, & purples further prove the blurred line phenomenon happening between the seasons. Diesel Black and Gold also featured a heavily black, & white collection. Whether they were all black or all white separates or black and white prints. Other designers to incorporate black and white into their Spring collections were Vivienne Hu & Narcisco Rodriguez. Jenny Packham’s collection featured oxblood looks along with pastel yellow, and sky blue looks. The collection combination of pastels with the darker oxblood was pretty cool.  

 

 

 

 

 STYLES

Michael Costello, Badgley Mischka, Naeem Khan, and Zang Toi’s collections were heavy on the evening gown from, as to be expected since they are all magnificent evening wear designers. Not everyone can do evening wear, and it’s really an art in and of itself. Sophie Theallet took lengths to above the need with voluminous A-line skirts. Crop tops are showing their staying power, and even though the crop top is popular, the jumpsuit is here to stay with a vengeance. Almost every designer has featured at least one or more jumpsuits in their collections. Rompers seem to be inexistent, as everyone seems to prefer to the pantsuit edition. Pamella Roland featured a lovely white jumpsuit for her Spring 2015 collection.

 

 

 

 

Hometown Boys Make Good
Topic: COMMUNITY INTEREST

 

Hometown Boys Make Good

 

By Tammy Duffy 

 

 

 

Four graduates of Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts have created their first feature film, Leaving Circadia, which debuted this the summer and is sweeping indie film festival circuit awards. It can be seen on Sept. 12 at the New Jersey Film Festival, where the cast will host a Q&A session.leavingcircadia.com

 

It is said that the 20s are the new teens. So, it’s no surprise that today’s coming-of-age films are populated by characters with college degrees struggling to launch their careers in a sluggish economy while weathering rocky relationships in hopes of emerging as mature adults.

It’s a life that four graduates of Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts know well – so well that they decided to depict it in their first feature film collaboration, Leaving Circadia. The film will be shown at + on September 12. It is a romantic dramedy that follows the misadventures of three tenants of a Brooklyn brownstone apartment building and their superintendent: all on the cusp of 30, striving to balance their dreams with the growing responsibilities of life, love and career.

Evan Mathew Weinstein, Drew Seltzer, Regi Huc and Zack Griffiths graduated from Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2003 and kept in touch as they relocated, always hoping someday to work together. All had experienced some acting success – enough to survive – but none of them had reached the next level.

“In the industry, they say you make your own breaks,” says Seltzer. “We decided to do just that – by collaborating on our first feature-length film and giving ourselves a chance to play great roles.” And the critics have applauded their efforts. When Leaving Circadia premiered at the Emerge Film Festival in Maine, it swept the awards, winning “Best In Festival,” “Best Director” and the “Verizon People’s Choice Award.”

When deciding on the theme, the college friends decided to make the type of film they would want to watch: One about people 10 years after graduation who realize they need to start accepting responsibilities like buying a house, getting married and having children.

Attending Rutgers together gave the friends an advantage over some film teams: They knew how to collaborate creatively and work together to raise the funds. “The theater department at Mason Gross is so small, and we were together for four years,” says Weinstein, who wrote the screenplay and directed the film. “We became family.”

In developing the script, Weinstein concentrated on experiences he and his friends shared and then embellished them. “I wanted to tap into the vibe of people in their late 20s and create characters who are not quite where they thought they’d be in life,” he says. “For my character, ‘Tom,’ the slacker superintendent, I took qualities I don’t enjoy and accentuated them a thousand times.”

Leaving Circadia– which alludes to an individual’s natural wake/sleep cycle – underscores the discord in the characters’ lives. Each character needs to break out of his bad cycles in order to accept adult responsibilities, Seltzer explains.

Though the producers auditioned several actresses for “Collette,” the lead female role, they chose Larisa Polonsky, a 2004 Mason Gross graduate. “I loved the script, and the fact that I would get to work with these talented people made me jump at the part,” says Polonsky, who has a recurring role on Chicago Fire, a drama on NBC about firefighters and paramedics in Chicago. She received the “Best Actress” award for Leaving Circadia at the Long Beach Film Festival in New York.

During Q&A sessions after screenings, the producers discovered that the film – which also casts Mason Gross alumni Erin Cherry and Francesca Day in smaller roles – resonates with every generation. “People in their 70s tell us they can relate,” says Seltzer.

Weinstein is looking forward to showing the film at his alma mater and talking to students. “When I listened to speakers in college, I was interested in the trajectory of their careers because I thought they ‘made it,’” he says. “But I’ve since learned that no one really ‘makes it’ – there’s always the next level to reach.”

 

Ticket to the Tents: Spring 2015 NYFW Trend Report
Topic: FASHION NEWS

Ticket to the Tents: Spring 2015 NYFW Trend Report

 

 (Featuring Trina Turk, Charlotte Ronson, Zimmermann, Nicole Miller, Monique Lhuillier, & Mark & Estel)

 

It’s Day 2 of New York Fashion Week!  The team kicked off the day with Mark & Estel’s Spring 2015 Collection at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

 

 

 

FABRIC
Sometimes less is more as displayed by Mark and Estel. Their collection was solely made out of cotton found in your everyday denim, sweatpants and t-shirts. How do I know? Because during their final walk, Estel Day announced it to us during their closing song performance.

In stark contrast to the cotton-heavy Mark & Estel Collection, Monique Lhuillier, opted for shiny, and metallic finish fabrics such as satin and silk and glittery fabrics for her plethora of gowns and dresses. Zimmermann also favored metallic hues in suiting.

 

 

COLOR

As seen on the Day 1 runways, pastels were again the favored choice amongst designers for day 2. Charlotte Ronson featured peach, pale blue, and pale green hues and Zimmerman featured pale yellows. And while there was a pop of pastels here and there, Trina Turk stood by her claim to fame and design aesthetic of using bold and vibrant colors. It appears that even if pastels are trending, Trina will rebel and stay bold, and who can blame her? The scene during her presentation was fun and flirty and the bold hues added to the playfulness of the collection.

 

 

 

ACCESSORIES
Trina Turk collection’s was not only playful, but it made me think of the 60s, especially with the models wearing wide scarf headbands! The models wore bold, statement necklaces and posed with handbags of all shapes and sizes. Popular in both the Charlotte Ronson and Trina Turk collections were these comfortable looking sandals. Is the gladiator sandal being replaced next season as the it-shoe for Spring? We’ll find out.

 

 

 

PRINTS

Nicole Miller’s collection stood out on Day 2 for having the most prints. Her vision of transporting her wearers to Rio De Janeiro Brazil was creatively conveyed to the audience. The models wore prints that featured birds and palm trees, while carrying luggage. Charlotte Ronson featured a few floral prints, but overall prints were pretty minute throughout the collections with solid colors dominating day 2.

 

 

 

A baby takes the runway at Zana Bayne spring/summer
Topic: FASHION NEWS

A baby takes the runway at Zana Bayne spring/summer

 

 

 

 

 

New York's leather maestro Zana Byne produced a collection that takes a softer edged approach to her traditional themes of strength and femininity.

 

Perhaps the unofficial slogan of Fashion Week: it takes a lot of effort to look effortless. Tthe first look of Zana Bayne’s spring/summer 15 collection, Moonbathers, glided out to Chris Isaak’s haunting Wicked Game at Milk  Studios one could very much appreciate its intricate details. Inspired by the shimmering reflections of moonlight on bodies of water, Moonbathers marks a softer-edge for New York’s first lady of leather, whose meticulously handcrafted leather accessories are subversive, strong, and sexy as hell.

 

 

 

Where last season featured hard-edged, bondage inspired silhouettes with pronounced hardware, this collection sees the evolution of Zana’s leather expertise into an unexpected softness. Laser cuts, perforations, and intricate cut-outs gesture towards lightness, a new take on the themes of strength and femininity for the designer. “For the last collection I used a lot of chain and fringe, but wanted to try something different this season,” said Zana. “There are a few pieces I call the ‘fishnet harness’ looks, which are hundreds upon hundreds of hand-cut, hand-pressed straps. So there’s a lot of love that went into this collection. I love taking one shape and pushing it to the next level, adding a little more embellishment and seeing where I can go from there. But I also love having those more minimal, classic pieces to go back to.”

 

In addition to further developing her leather language, Zana took the same meticulous approach to the pieces’ additional detailing, translating the moonlight motif through crystals: “I had the idea to start working with some Swarovski detailing, especially because of the idea of moons, stars, and reflections on water. I wanted to get a little bit sparkly. The challenge for me was working with a material that’s not leather, something that’s completely different, in the same way that I would work with leather. I do love a good Swarovski sparkle moment!”

 

 

 

 

But it wasn’t only Zana’s leather pieces that brought the collection together. The designer relied on a network of friends and collaborators to contribute to her vision: “This collection was a total labour of love from many different hearts. My dear friend and amazing designer Norisol Ferrari made all of the white shirting and the white dresses, skirts, and headwraps. We’ve worked together in the past, I’ve made some pieces for her, so it’s sort of a natural progression. Chris Habana is a dear friend who I’ve known for years, and we collaborated on the collection’s jewellery, which carries over the moons and stars motif. It was like the perfect touch on top of everything else.”

For a collection capturing the romance of surfers gliding on the water by moonlight, Zana’s post show state-of-mind was all too appropriate: “Now that it’s all over, I feel like I’m floating.”