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...Creative Director Jonathan R. Ardrey ’05 wanted to push the envelope, so this year Eleganza is expanding to the Bright Hockey Center, where you and a thousand of your closest friends can watch scantily-clad models and performers do their thing on the elongated runway, while a large projection screen in the background magnifies each person up to twelve times their normal size. With a planning staff of about twenty-five people and over $2,500 spent on lighting alone, Ardrey calls Eleganza a “creative playground for those without a voice...
...NOTEBOOK Runway producer Alexandre de Betak turns his attention to furniture. Plus, the A list, a superstylish vacuum cleaner and Kate Spade's advice books...
Catwalk producer Alexandre de Betak has been dubbed the Fellini of fashion shows for his runway pyrotechnics. The Manhattan-based Frenchman once created an interactive catwalk for Donna Karan (sensors in the runway activated the show's sound track), and he sent trapeze artists floating through the air during a man-made snowstorm for Victoria's Secret...
...into the world of furniture design with the debut of his first collection, on view at the Milan furniture fair from April 14 to May 8. "It was a quite natural continuation of what I do," says Betak, who has no plans to give up his work for the runway. Named for its construction in highly polished, heavy Lucite, Clear de Betak consists of a bookcase ($7,800) and a bench covered in supple black leather ($6,000). Both pieces demonstrate the same mischievous quality as Betak's notorious runway creations. A trichromatic lighting system makes it possible to change...
...Britain in an unsnobbish way. "Then one day," she says, "I thought, No more, I don't want to become part of the furniture." So Crawford moved to New York City and spent two years as vice president of Donna Karan Home, translating DKNY's identity on the runway into products for the bathroom, bedroom, living room and kitchen. These days she is overseeing the launch of the Marks & Spencer Lifestore in Britain. "Ilse sees all that is out there and is able to put it together in a way that makes it reachable and touchable to real people," says...