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“My clients—musicians, performers, dancers—are very inspiring to me,” says designer Leana Zuñiga. For Spring 2012, she determined to wrinkle the Electric Feathers a bit this season, per her customers’ requests. “They inquired for lamé—it’s just extra fun anyway, [for] human who want to be aesthetic but not tailored.”

She replied their shriek, joining a touch of glamour apt her frock-focused Electric Feathers line. Zuñiga looked to light-catching lamé because inspiration, spinning the disco fabric into jumpsuits, caftans, clothes, and trousers-call it eveningwear because a desert princess. While she cited disparate elements of disco, eighties mores, and Grecian draping, the designer’s influences are afterward rooted in melody and her work as a costumer for assorted stage acts.

Since abandon princesses (and chic urbanites) likewise absence handbags, Zuñiga has supplied them with multifunctional, reversible ones. Of the quilted bags, she said, “For voyaging it’s functional, [even] for a pillow aboard the Jitney!”
-Nina Stotler

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Tommy Hilfiger recently celebrated his brand’s 25th annual, and he’s signal the cause with one appeal to his 25-year-old customers—the ones who made Hilfiger a must-buy during his nineties glory days, while you couldn’t turn above MTV without penetrating a pair of baggy Tommy pants alternatively one oversized rugby shirt. The get ready staples of the last decade aren’t going anywhere, of way, yet they’re now connected along the new, younger-skewing TOMMY line, an that’s fair gotten its first conception mart, on New York’s Bleecker Street, a second in White Plains, and several more above the access in the U.S. and Canada.

The space’s decor is eclectic, with loads of taxidermy and a bicycle-gear chandelier. The clothes, also, follows its offbeat example, to join a little irony to the tried-and-true prepster equation. A classic turtleneck pairs with sequined peppery shorts and neon tights, or, on the boys’ side, a spectacle-print cardigan is shown with anguished jeans and a bow tie. The TOMMY set may grow up to their nation union memberships and blue blazers one day, of course. But until then, Hilfiger’s got a faux-leopard trapper cap ($44) and sour yellow henley ($49) with their name on it.

TOMMY is immediately available by 375 Bleecker St., NYC, www.tommyhilfiger.com.
—Brittany Adams