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Nensi Dojaka launches her first bridal capsule in collaboration with Mytheresa

Nensi Dojaka, an Albanian-born designer, has launched her first bridal capsule collection in collaboration with the luxury online retailer Mytheresa.

The 24-piece collection is available exclusively on Mytheresa's e-commerce website, along with a dedicated editorial story directed by the retailer's chief creative officer Julian Paul.


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Nensi Dojaka's first bridal collection in collaboration with Mytheresa. Image: Mytheresa


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Nensi Dojaka's first bridal collection in collaboration with Mytheresa. Image: Mytheresa


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Nensi Dojaka's first bridal collection in collaboration with Mytheresa. Image: Mytheresa


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AR collections and NFT runways: New York Fashion Week is being dominated by digital fashion

Digital Fashion Week NY expands the reach of metaverse fashion


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Private Policy's digital coat made in collaboration with Zero10. Image: Zero10


This was not the only location where Zero10 could be found. In addition, the tech firm collaborated with Digital Fashion Week NY on a collaboration with five designers to bring five looks into AR. The event took place in conjunction with NYFW, but had no affiliation with the fashion week itself. Instead, it aimed to be an extension of the experience, providing those who were interested with a way to explore the worlds of fashion technology and the metaverse.


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Design by Emily Switzer @hardgrindhard. Image: Digital Fashion Week NY


Among the events that could be attended was a networking and speaker summit, where visitors could hear talks on how to adapt to the future of fashion. An animation screening was also shown, showcasing a variety of phygital fashion, and participants could also participate in AR features, NFT drops, and Metaverse experiences. All of this contributed to a fully online experience in which attendees could explore an immersive space as well as participate in other panel discussions and presentations.





'No animals were harmed,' says Kylie Jenner, whose ultra-realistic lion head caused a stir at Paris

Kylie Jenner arrived at the first show of the season wearing a lifelike lion's head on her shoulder, kicking off couture week in Paris with a roar. Although, some social media users mistook the Schiaparelli mane for a genuine piece of taxidermy, not all animal activists were disturbed.


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Mane event: Kylie Jenner arrived at the Schiaparelli show in Paris wearing a dress with a lifelike lion’s head attached. Photograph: Laurent VU/SIPA/REX/Shutterstock


The Schiaparelli gown, which also walked the runway, was made of "foam, wool, and silk faux fur, and hand painted to look as lifelike as possible," according to the brand's Instagram account.

To be clear, the brand added in all caps: "NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED IN MAKING THIS LOOK."

However, the French fashion house may have made a mistake by choosing the controversial youngest scion of the Kardashian-Jenner clan to debut a gown that is open to interpretation.

Commenters on social media speculated that if anyone could pull off a real lion's head, it would be Jenner. Several Twitter users appeared to have misidentified the head as a genuine taxidermy piece.


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Russian model Irina Shayk walks the runway in the lion dress. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock


Some of the backlash was more nuanced. One comment on Schiaperelli’s Instagram post, which has attracted more than 600 likes, said: “We have to stop showing animals as luxury ‘products’. They may be made from foam but these are endangered species that have historically been killed for their pelts to be turned into garments.”

The fashion house, which has deep ties to the surrealist art movement, was originally established in 1927. Like many luxury fashion brands at the time, the house, under the direction of its founder Elsa Schiaparelli, used exotic furs and animal skins in its original heyday. While outsized animal motifs remained when the brand was revived by Tod’s Group in 2012, the house has subsequently eschewed real fur.

Not all animal rights activists were disturbed by the lion, with the Peta president Ingrid Newkirk praising the look. She told TMZ that the brand’s collection of three-dimensional animal heads was “fabulously innovative” and “may be a statement against trophy hunting, in which lion families are torn apart to satisfy human egotism”.




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