Riley Keough and Chanel, Kors Heads to Dubai, Carl Friedrik Hits Selfridges

CHANEL‘S NEW FACE: Riley Keough is the new face of Chanel.

The star of the popular Amazon Prime series “Daisy Jones and the Six” has been appointed as a house ambassador and will appear in the French fashion house’s spring 2024 campaign, Chanel said Thursday.

The U.S. actress, director and producer was a guest at creative director Virginie Viard’s show in Paris this week, dressed in a swinging cream tweed coat dress accessorized with white two-tone booties and a boxy black quilted handbag. 

Keough has been close to the house for the last decade, wearing Chanel to events including the 2017 Golden Globes ceremony and the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. She attended the brand’s cruise 2023 show in Los Angeles in May, as well as its haute couture display in Paris in July. 

The granddaughter of Elvis Presley is friends with longtime Chanel ambassador Kristen Stewart, after starring together in “The Runaways.” Keough has also appeared in films including “American Honey” and “Mad Max: Fury Road,” as well as series “The Girlfriend Experience” and “The Terminal List.”

“She’s the best thing in everything she’s done,” Stewart was quoted as saying in a profile of Keough in the September issue of Vanity Fair. 

“Because she’s not acting. She’s a solid sender. She’s always being honest, and that’s a vulnerable place to put yourself. And I don’t mean that to belittle any project, but there are some actors that just can’t do anything uninteresting,” she added.

Keough has been nominated for an Emmy award for her performance in “Daisy Jones and the Six,” for which she also recorded an album, and won the Camera D’Or award at the Cannes Film Festival last year for “War Pony,” her directorial debut with Gina Gammell. 

She is a cofounder of production company Felix Culpa, which is behind films and TV series including “Manodrome” and the upcoming “Under the Bridge,” in which she will also star.

Keough joins a roster of faces at Chanel that also includes Margot Robbie, Penélope Cruz, Lily-Rose Depp and Marion Cotillard. 

The luxury brand supported Sofia Coppola’s new film “Priscilla,” which tells the story of Priscilla Presley’s relationship with Elvis Presley. Keough was named the sole custodian of Elvis Presley’s historic home, Graceland, and the family shares of Elvis Presley Enterprises following the death in January of her mother Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis and Priscilla’s only child. — JOELLE DIDERICH

DUBAI BOUND: Michael Kors is bringing his spring 2024 runway show to Dubai on Dec. 12.

This is the first time that Kors will host a complete collection runway show outside of New York. The exclusive presentation will be shown to about 250 guests including top clients, international press, celebrities and influencers. The exact location will be disclosed at a later date.

The show will be livestreamed globally on the brand’s social and digital channels, and will feature looks from the spring 2024 Michael Kors Collection, which was shown in September at Domino Park in Brooklyn, as well as additional looks designed exclusively for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

“I’m looking forward to bringing my collection to Dubai this December,” said Michael Kors. “Since we launched Michael Kors Collection in the region two years ago, there’s been a lot of interest surrounding the collection, and it feels like the perfect moment to build on that excitement with a fashion show. On top of that, the energy of the city is exhilarating. People in Dubai love luxury, fashion and travel. The perfect trifecta,” he said.

Kors has stores in Dubai in the Mall of Emirates and Dubai Mall, and is sold on Ounass, the online destination, in the region.

During his spring 2024 runway show in New York, Kors models showed off resort-ready looks that were a throwback to the ’60s and ’70s heyday of Jackie O, Jane Birkin and the designers’s late mother and fashion inspiration, Joan Kors. Chantilly lace and hand-crochet cotton cashmere caftans, fluid goddess dresses and minidresses, low-slung pants and crop tops, some worn with boyfriend jackets, were almost all paired with flat sandals.

Kors’ spring show came in first place in social engagement during New York Fashion Week, according to ListenFirst, the social analytics firm.

Kors has stores in Dubai in the Mall of Emirates and Dubai Mall, and is sold on Ounass, the online destination, in the region.

The Kors Collection has been getting around. Last March, Kors hosted a two-day extravaganza in China that featured a cocktail party, dinner and a live presentation of the spring 2023 collection, but it was only a small presentation, not a full runway show. — LISA LOCKWOOD

‘SUCCESSION’ POWER: TV sells.

When Logan Roy on HBO’s “Succession” called a Burberry bag “ludicrously capacious,” searches spiked.

The same happened when luggage brand Carl Friedrik was featured on the hit show as well as “The White Lotus.”

The brand has now launched at Selfridges, expanding its roster of stockists that includes Harrods, Harvey Nichols and Matches.

“Selfridges has been at the zenith of the British luxury department store experience for over a century. Being stocked at Selfridges not only validates the excellence and craftsmanship of Carl Friedrik, but also offers exposure to a discerning clientele,” said Niklas Oppermann, cofounder of Carl Friedrik, with his brother Mattis.

“Being featured in ‘Succession’ has opened us up to a whole new segment of customers who share our design and style values,” he added.

The brand’s products have seen 103 percent year-over-year growth as the company eyes expansion in North America, its biggest market, in the next six to 12 months.

At Selfridges, the brand has taken up space in the lower ground floor luggage department, situated next to Horizn and Paravel.

Carl Friedrik’s bestselling products are the Palissy Briefcase, retailing for 575 pounds; The Carry-on Pro at 445 pounds; The Check-in at 465 pounds, and the Palissy Weekend at 695 pounds.

The focus for the brand in 2024 is on “new luggage styles, materials and colors.”

“‘Succession’ was a close-to-perfect fit for us from an aesthetic perspective. We’ve been preaching the values of quiet luxury fashion — high-quality materials, everyday versatility, new-age minimalism etc. — since we launched in 2013, so it was nice to see our brand recognized on the show that really catapulted the look into the public consciousness,” said Niklas, reiterating the brand’s minimal and monochrome design ethos. — HIKMAT MOHAMMED

NEW ROLE: Divya Mathur, former chief merchandising officer at Intermix, has a new gig. She’s been named fashion director at the Revolve Group, the retailer for Millennial and Generation Z consumers. It is a new post.

Mathur, who is based in New York, reports to Michael Mente, co-chief executive officer and director of the Revolve Group.

Prior to joining Intermix in 2020, Mathur was head of buying, women’s apparel at Shopbop for four years. Earlier, she held such roles as senior director of global e-commerce, buying and site merchandising for Michael Kors, head of U.S. merchandising for Yoox, and a buyer for Saks.

Revolve, which was founded in 2003, is based in Cerritos, Calif., and offers apparel, footwear, accessories, beauty and home products from a wide variety of brands. — L.L.

NEXT MILLENNIA: What does Coca-Cola look like in the year 3000? Just ask Yoon Ahn of the brand Ambush.

The brands have partnered on a limited-edition collection of T-shirts and accessories that foresees the future as part of the carbonated soft drink company’s new product, Y3000, a flavor made with the help of artificial intelligence that’s labeled as “Future Flavored” on the bottle.

Ahn’s part has been to create what that looks like when dressed up.

One option is a white T-shirt with a small iridescent image printed that seems to be disintegrating with the Coca-Cola and Ambush under in black writing — the back of the T-shirt features a large iridescent can tab with the words “Taste the Future” printed in bold letters.

A similar design is followed in the sequin T-shirt without the bold letters on the back to invoke an AI feeling in real life with the light bouncing around.

“We had a few jewelry pieces [at Ambush] that were inspired by cans, canned tabs and found objects, about five or six years ago, so when it came to creating this, I just revisited our DNA to tie the knot,” said Ahn in an interview, explaining that’s where the reference for the silver necklace with a Coca-Cola canned tab came from.

The designer stars in a 30-second video for the drink, where she walks into a studio in one of her own spiky designs and interacts with the Y3000 drink that transports her to a city with AI buildings. 

Ahn’s collection will be available beginning Oct. 17 on ambushdesign.com and select Ambush Workshop stores.

The designer is adding the finishing touches to her fall 2024 collection due next January.

“I’m not threatened by it [AI] so much, as it’s just a tool, that you need to be creative as a prompt person when giving direction to it. If you use it right, it can take certain ideas into certain places,” said Ahn, a self-proclaimed futurist. — H.M.

BIGGER POOL: Resortwear brand Oséree, known best for its swimwear made from paillettes, Lurex, and latex, has dived into lingerie, partywear, and accessories in a flurry of feathers, sparkles and lace.

Jannine Vinci, the label’s cofounder with Isabella Cavallin, explained the expansion was a natural response to customer demand.

“We responded to our clients’ styling. Our ladies wear our swimsuits all year round, for example, a one piece with the jeans or a bikini with the blazer on,” she said.

Staying true to its swimwear roots, the brand’s new collection titled The Flirt, features sheer, body-con lace dresses, tops and skirts; mesh bodysuits and blouses lined with a plumage of feathers, and bedazzled jumpsuits and corsets.

“We take most of our inspiration from the ’70s and ’90s and past eras,” said Vinci.

“The allure and the sensuality of iconic women like the supermodels Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer and Yasmeen Ghauri,” she added.

Citing their business as an even split between swim and resortwear, the label’s founders described their best markets as the U.S. and U.K., with stockists including the Webster Hotel in Miami and Harrods in London.

“Our online clients also work very well with us, like Mytheresa and Net-a-porter,” said Cavallin.

The brainchild of Cavallin and Vinci, the label was the result of a friendship the two Italian-born designers developed while living next door to each other during university.

“Both of us grew up by the sea. I come from Sicily, for example, and we spent our childhood in our swimwear. So after our studies and our common passion for the sea, it was natural for us to start a business,” said Vinci. — VIOLET GOLDSTONE