Is this set to be the summer of love? Sure seems like it, what with Dev Hynes and Amandla Sternberg already breaking out groovy throwback patchwork denim for an impromptu fashion shoot on Instagram this week. Laced up into an ab-baring crop top with her crown of curls picked out, Stenberg resembled a young, soulful Pam Grier in her high-waisted bells, while Hynes channeled the funky cool of Jimi Hendrix in his cropped straight-leg pair. All the singer was missing was his guitar. Rihanna, too, delivered plenty of old-school vibes for her passionate Billboard Music Awards performance, suiting up into a vintage ’80s, Thierry Mugler jade green marabou-trimmed pantsuit and round flip-up sunglasses, and bringing new meaning to power dressing.

For a trip to Houston’s Menil Collection, Beyoncé traded in her custom Givenchy tour looks for a vibrant, magenta Stella Jean wax-print dress that paired perfectly with the splashy William N. Copley exhibition on view. Back on the East Coast, 50 Cent’s look was subtle in comparison when the rapper attended the Preakness horse race in a sleek and expertly tailored gray suit. Instead of a tie, the Get Rich or Die Tryin’ MC accessorized with a gilded chain and matching belt, creating a winning style we’d surely bet on.

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The week was off to a grand start with a dinner in Rome’s Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, hosted by Giancarlo Giammetti and Valentino Garavani. Lauren Santo Domingo captured the opulent scene where guests, seated in gilded chairs, dined alongside the celebrated art collection. Elsewhere in Italy, model Liu Wen, choosing a quieter setting, walked through a stone-lined arched passageway where sunlight beamed in and cast magnificent geometric shadows. Caroline Issa, in Tehran, took in the mirrored ceilings and walls at Golestan Palace—a display of true grandeur. And adding a whimsical touch, Alice Naylor-Leyland matched her Poplin palm-print pajamas to the Beverly Hills Hotel’s famed walls. Other highlights include the eccentric mosaic sculptures of Il Giardino dei Tarocchi, a whitewashed house in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake, and a dreamy pink corner in Kaolack, Senegal. Above, a look at the 11 best interiors of the week.

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“I’m a little nervous about it, but trying to keep it together,” laughed actress Amanda Peet at last night’s Chanel Fine Jewelry dinner at the New York Public Library. The Togetherness star had good reason, as her lobes were dripping with white diamond earrings punctuating her simple black dress. “My stylist saw this dress in Tokyo and was looking for an excuse for me to wear it,” added the actress with a laugh. Peet’s sentiment over her blingy baubles seemed to be echoed among the starlets at last night’s cocktail and dinner, where Girls’s Jemima Kirke thought her diamond Première watch was more suited for her costar and fellow guest. “I feel like Allison Williams should be wearing this and not me!” she exclaimed. However, Williams admitted that she, along with her glam team, had lost 10 minutes of prep time because they were gawking at her own jewels. “When they arrived, a big man arrived probably with a gun, and everything stopped,” said Williams in a minimal shell top and cream leather skirt, adding, “Everyone stopped to go look at the earrings.”

But as guests including Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld, Wendi Murdoch, Alessandra and Jon Neidich, and countless others took in the treasures in the atrium, others including Lauren Santo Domingo and Kate Young mingled with Isabel and Ruben Toledo, Phoebe Tonkin, and more over cocktails. However, the evening was still all about the subtle shimmer. “It’s very comfortable,” said Leelee Sobieski, dressed in a futuristic take on a Chanel suit in silver, on her diamond collar. “I was wearing it earlier, lounging around, lengthening the opportunity to wear it in my bathrobe in my bathroom, and it felt equally great,” she said, chuckling. And as the night progressed, the air filled with warm familiarity as chic young things Indre Rockefeller, Laura de Gunzburg, and Barbara Pierce Bush entered the grandly lit room with dinner tables filled with Chanel favorite camellia flowers, which drew audible gasps from the guests. Nearby, actress Dakota Fanning was sporting a major bracelet and ring combination. “I think I’m pretty lucky to be wearing these pieces tonight,” said the 22-year-old, pawing at her oversize diamond cuff. But with such a vast wardrobe—including quite a few pieces from Chanel—does the actress ever play favorites? “I have a lot of beautiful Chanel bags, and I always wanted a pink one, and I finally got a pink one, and so I was very excited about that.”

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In the run-up to summer, clean lines in silver and white predominate in dresses for evening. When there’s a print, it’s graphic and anchored by a heavy sole, but when the supermodels exit airports or clubs, it’s midriffs out, kimonos on.

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Quite probably there could be few better illustrations of the power of London as magnetic multicultural crossroads than Michael Kors’s store opening on Regents Street last night. “Honestly, I’ve never seen such a diverse mix of people in one area,” said the designer. “There are the ones who come with a car and a driver, and then young girls who walk in—people from everywhere.” Kors’s popularity has spread far and wide from New York, such that teenage girls in Britain and countries way beyond it are crazy about his bags and watches, craving the glow-y, glamorous aura they perceive around his name. The fact that he has now upgraded to a three-story, double-fronted piece of prime real estate, just a short trot from Oxford Circus, justified a celebration of starry proportions—not least because, as Kors noted, “This one is bigger than New York!”

Ruth Rogers of the River Café prepared dinner by the Thames for a celebration that attracted a host of international friends including Jessica Chastain, Gwyneth Paltrow, Solange Knowles, Elle Macpherson, Lauren Santo Domingo, Sabine Getty, Eugenie Niarchos, India Knight, Jasmine Guinness, and Dame Joan Collins. Pre-drinks took place in the gardens during a beautifully clear sunset hour but, by the time the party was over, the skies opened to a deluge. The thunder and lightning lasted well into the night—hopefully not an augury of the outcome of today’s momentous British referendum on whether the country should stay in the European Union. For if the verdict is not—a decision that will drastically limit the thriving openness of London’s welcome to foreigners—who knows how that will affect the attractiveness of the city to companies like Michael Kor’s? Table talk was of little else.

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If there’s one thing Paris isn’t short on during couture, it’s black-tie events. From amfAR to the Vogue Paris Foundation gala, the week has been a whirlwind of resplendent cocktails and dinners. And what better way to close the week than with a grand fete at the Foundation Louis Vuitton? Natalia Vodianova moved her Love Ball to the Frank Gehry–designed complex and played host to a fashionable crew including Kanye West, Riccardo Tisci, and Christian Louboutin.

After a performance from Bolshoi dancers clad in Ulyana Sergeenko costumes, pretty young things such as Bianca Brandolini d’Adda, Eugenie Niarchos, Gaia Repossi, and Lauren Santo Domingo took their seats for the sumptuous dinner. Following the meal was a live auction, presided over by Oliver Barker of Sotheby’s Europe, where guests including Olivia Palermo and Johannes Huebl, Sofía Sanchez de Betak and Alexandre de Betak, and newlyweds Giovanna Battaglia and Oscar Engelbert had the opportunity to snatch up prized artworks curated by Bernard Arnault’s personal advisor. And with all funds benefiting Vodianova’s mission of supporting special needs children, the room was filled with love . . . and style.

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From the haute couture front row to the Serpentine garden, stylish women gave the cold shoulder to safe options. A heady, singular femininity prevailed: fluttery sleeves with folksy prints, quirky shoes with futuristic flourishes, and a balletic mid-calf dress in white cut for a (future) queen.

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According to the humidity index, summer is officially here, meaning it’s time to ditch the sweltering T-shirts in favor of low-dipping dresses and halter tops. Aside from inviting in the breeze, this strategy also reveals one of your most overlooked assets: your back. It’s easy to forget about a bare spine’s allure, but a rearview gaze (and a camera-adept pal) will prove what Instagram’s best stars have known all season long: The next-level selfie is a back-revealing snap.

Less in-your-face than cleavage and more forgiving than a crop top, the bare back is a tasteful hint of skin that everyone can get behind. For Daria Strokous and Frederikke Sofie, their undulating blonde lengths provide an ideal frame for their sculpted shoulders. Paige Reifler and Xiao Wen Ju reached the ultimate state of vacation bliss by giving their spines a day in the sun. Not that you need to be outside to feel the benefits: Melodie Monrose and Riley Montana seem to be plenty at ease baring theirs indoors. From Lauren Santo Domingo’s lumbar-cutout dress to Alessandra Ambrosio’s Brazilian-bombshell silhouette, here’s a look at the best backs on Instagram.

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As temperatures soared this week, many of us sought shelter inside. But, a select few, never the ones to pass up the perfect photo op, braved the heat and ventured outdoors. On vacation in St.-Tropez, a sun-kissed Alessandra Ambrosio rested in the shade atop an open-air bed of patterned pillows. Fanny Bourdette-Donon, on the other hand, chose to relax in the sun, sprawled on a giant inflatable duck in a palm tree–lined pool in Malibu. In Bagno Piero, Alice Naylor-Leyland dined underneath a lush canopy—the canary-color chairs at the table perfectly matching the small blooms overhead—while Pernille Teisbaek peeked out from a bright green and yellow striped hut. It was Katy Perry, though, who took the most memorable ’gram of the week. As Hillary Clinton made history at the DNC, the pop singer, in attendance rocking striped sandals and sparkling nail polish, stood above a royal blue carpet with three perfectly pointed stars cut out. Above, a look at the 11 best design Instagrams of the week.

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Festival-girl style: You may think you’re over it, but this week AlunaGeorge’s Aluna Francis and Rihanna put a new spin on the look, and their take has nothing to do with fringe. Putting the bell-bottoms away, both singers slipped into super-abbreviated denim cutoffs, come-hither bustiers, and major outerwear for their headlining performances. In an oversize denim jacket splashed in camo, Francis and her matching dancers posed it up before taking the stage at the Hard Summer Festival in Los Angeles. Her bright yellow bra top and rolled-up denim shorts perfectly beat the Cali heat. In similar fashion, Rihanna trotted out onto the stage in Toronto at the OVO Fest in over-the-thigh Vetements boots that barely covered her micro booty shorts. The fashion risk taker added a saucy bustier top and an oversize parachute jacket—and brought Drake to his knees.

In a more covered-up move, stylist Stella Greenspan modeled a floor-length red puffer coat despite the steamy weather. Had she pulled the trigger too soon with the styling move? Sure, but perhaps she simply couldn’t wait to model her new fall purchases. Who can blame her? Chef Laila Gohar, though, was still very much feeling her summer wardrobe. Showing off her tan in a linen crop top and wide-leg pants during a recent hang with baker Lexie Smith, she looked ready for the last month of the season.

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As New York Fashion Week comes to a close, there could be no better moment to talk about something other than clothes—and if that helps save the environment, all the better. Tuesday night (in between the Coach 1941 show and Tory Burch’s dinner, to be precise) Lauren and Andrés Santo Domingo opened their Gramercy Park townhouse to support Conservation International, an organization committed to the stabilization, protection, and rehabilitation of our planet’s ecosystems, writ large. If CI’s mission sounds ambitious, that’s because it is. They operate across more than 30 countries, focusing on tropical climates (but serve the glaciers of Mt. Kilimanjaro as well) and fund more than one thousand various projects simultaneously; their work is so far flung that often the only thing the undertakings have in common is a shared global mission. Dr. M. Sanjayan, CI’s immensely well-traveled executive vice president and senior scientist, was on hand to answer questions and regale everyone with adventure stories, too.

In the Santo Domingos’ garden, guests could test out Oculus Rift headsets, which were showing a virtual-reality film called Valen’s Reef, transporting viewers to the waters of the Raja Ampat Islands, site of one of CI’s greatest success stories (the tiny string of islands off Bird’s Head Peninsula in West Papua, is home to more than ten times more species of hard coral than the entire Caribbean). In less than eight short minutes, the film was convincing not only of CI’s potential for impact, but also of the power of virtual-reality storytelling too. “Nature gives us so much,” Dr. Sanjayan later said to a gathered crowd. But knowing his audience, he added, “whether it’s the water you drink or the coconut water you drink.”

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Upstate New York’s Worlds End farm—and its unrivaled, hauntingly antique flora—serves as the perfect foil for a rustic romance draped in the season’s coziest shearling coats.

We grow these for morale,” says Sarah Ryhanen, gently cupping a pale-coral poppy. “They’re bad cutting flowers. They only last a day—but when you see them in the field, they’re so beautiful.” Milkweed blossoms dance overhead as the owner of the beloved Brooklyn florist Saipua continues down the rows of dahlias, black scabiosa, and amethyst Queen Anne’s lace on her 107-acre Worlds End farm in upstate New York. Teaching others to appreciate ephemerality has become a battle cry of sorts for the florist-farmer. “We have people coming into the store all the time asking, ‘How long is this gonna last?’ I want them to have an experience with it.”

Ryhanen and her partner, Eric Famisan, purchased the farm in 2011, but when asked how long they have been here they count in seasons. This isn’t the only sensibility they share with fashion designers, who are increasingly drawing inspiration from the fantasy of vast, untended landscapes and the slow pace of thoughtful living. From Proenza Schouler’s careful craftsmanship to Erdem’s refulgent fil coupé blossoms, the muse is Lauren Santo Domingo meets Laura Ingalls Wilder adrift in the chicest field, through the lens of Terrence Malick.

It’s a countermovement to our age of fast fashion and instant gratification, one that values the time and the patience to see something through from start to finish. To be sure, Ryhanen and Famisan are part of an expanding coterie of urbanites turned farmers—call them yappies, or young agricultural professionals—but what they’re up to here in the Mohawk Valley strikes a chord that echoes through a variety of industries. Flowers supplied by Saipua for events are returned to be composted, making Ryhanen’s arrangements some of the few in the world that are nurtured from seed to mulch. She plans to apply the same philosophy to this year’s flock of 27 Icelandic sheep, named after military call codes (last year’s were Top Gun characters). Their wool, skirted, dyed, and spun by Ryhanen, will be knit into hats by her mother, in nearby Peekskill. “It’s a six-month process. You’d have to charge $10,000 for that hat to make any money, but my goal is to inspire people to think more about where their clothing is coming from. So next time you see a sweater at H&M for $20, you’re like, ‘Oh, that’s acrylic; that’s plastic.’”

Kate Huling, of Marlow Goods, is another exemplar of the farm-to-fashion ethos. Huling purchases the hides of the same grass-fed cows sourced by her restaurateur husband, Andrew Tarlow (Diner, Marlow & Sons, Roman’s), for her line of handsome leather goods. And while Phoebe Philo isn’t personally curing the leather for Céline’s latest Cabas, the designer does acknowledge a pull toward the great outdoors. “It’s about taking her out of urban life and putting her feet on the sand. It’s where I long to be more and more,” Philo explained of her vision for a recent collection. Jamie Hawkesworth’s fall ad campaign for Alexander McQueen is as much a celebration of desolate landscapes as a showcase for the house’s hand-embroidered ensembles. McQueen designer Sarah Burton even took her team to the Shetland islands to meet the knitters and weavers—and sheep—who will be providing the knitwear for upcoming collections.

“When you’re so obsessed with control, you’re not open to happiness,” says Ryhanen, wearing vintage denim and tread-soled farm boots, her favorite hen, Goldie, nestled under her arm like a fragile football. She plucks two yolk-yellow cherry tomatoes from the vine, hands one to me, and pops the other in her mouth like a gum ball. “There was one day last fall,” she says, “where I was dealing with an injured, bloody sheep in the morning and then that evening I was at MoMA debating with some women from Louis Vuitton about whether a peony was white enough for the event I was doing for them. One is not better than the other. The reality is I appreciate that someone cares so much about what color white a peony is. It lends significance to what I do here on the farm.”

We pull carrots for lunch, which are washed, roasted, and tossed in a salad with Russian kale, cucumbers, and coriander seeds. Communal meals are a daily ritual at Worlds End and at Saipua. Today the group discusses the weekend’s elderberry-foraging workshop and that evening’s meteor shower. Our centerpiece is a china pitcher erupting with yellow cosmos, Queen Anne’s lace, and various wildflowers from the garden. Ryhanen encourages everyone on the farm to create spontaneous arrangements. The fact that this one, like the field poppies, might not last through tomorrow’s lunch is of little concern. It’s important to have things just for morale.

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Last evening, the art and fashion world gathered in style to celebrate Frieze London, with a dinner at Mayfair’s favorite private club, 5 Hertford Street. Upstairs, on the top floor, a woman read the tarot cards of various party guests. “She knew things she couldn’t have known!” said the evening’s host, Lauren Santo Domingo, in a glittering Alessandro Michele-designed Gucci dress. Her cohosts, London based art advisors Hugo Nathan and Wentworth Beaumont declined the opportunity, but good fortune, it seemed rained on all who attended—from Santo Domingo’s Moda Operandi colleague Hayley Bloomingdale, celebrating the end of Paris Fashion Week, to Alexander and Mollie Acquavella, whose booth at Frieze Masters featured Lucian Freud, Brice Marden, and Cy Twombly.

After cocktails, guests, who were mingling upstairs, were led one floor down, to a room where the windowsills were lined with dahlias and where each of the tables were named after famous artistic movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, and Pop Art. “Do you think we can take these?” asked one guest of the Salvador Dalí-inspired cocktail napkins.  “I’ve already put mine in my purse!” said another. As the night wore on, the colorful wax candles dripping onto the table, talk ranged from whimsical to political—someone had been at a baby shower with Kate Moss, another guest bemoaned the reality of the impending Brexit. After dessert was served—large, chocolate lobsters, croquembouches made of lipstick red gummy candy—Poppy Delevingne put on her striped-pink fur coat to leave, Caroline Sieber hugged her friends farewell. Espresso martinis were available for those who wanted to keep the night going, as partygoers packed the downstairs of the club. Tomorrow, perhaps, some would make their way to Regent’s Park to see the art on display under the tents, and by Sunday the city would breathe a sigh of quiet satisfaction as another successful Frieze comes to a close.

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On the heels of Fashion Week, designers, editors, and It girls fled to far-flung locales for some much-needed R&R. Tabitha Simmons bid adieu to the Ritz Paris with a shot of a grand, winding carpeted staircase, while Lauren Santo Domingo exchanged the Spring 2017 collections for the Frieze art fair in London. Hosting a dinner at members’ club 5 Hertford Street, the Moda Operandi cofounder added a whimsical touch to the evening’s festivities with Surrealist cocktail napkins and indigo-rimmed water glasses. Veronika Heilbrunner paid a visit to Yves Saint Laurent’s Moroccan hideaway, Le Jardin Majorelle, where yellow flourishes accent cobalt blue walls, while Harley Viera-Newton, dressed in a patterned Dolce & Gabbana number, fit right in with Marrakech’s elaborately tiled walls. Meanwhile, Jeanne Damas took a different approach. Staying local, the Rouje designer cozied up at home where a bursting mélange of flowers, trinkets, and scented candles decked a mantel. Above, a look at the 11 best design Instagrams of the week.

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New York Fashion Week is the alpha dog of the season’s calendar. I remember rushing about like a headless chicken my first year at Vogue, overwhelmed by the street photographers, the September heat (was it not meant to be fall?), the traffic, the sheer number of events—and hitching a ride with a senior Vogue editor who showed me her diary, which made mine seem like a quiet day at the beach. She confided with a big smile that her assistant warned her that morning that her day was “physically impossible” to accomplish.

I still find it overwhelming (we all do), but somehow—maybe it’s New York’s je ne sais quoi—the week just works. Take Marc Jacobs: always a spectacle and the only show that starts sharply on time. Or Michael Kors: the season’s happy pill. I sit there front row with a silly smile while the industry’s fairest beauties strut past—Carolyn Murphy, Jamie Bochert, Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, Taylor Hill. I always love the energy at Proenza Schouler. Those boys have the coolest front row: Dan Colen, Jen Brill, Lauren Santo Domingo, Alexa Chung, Natasha Lyonne, the Traina sisters. And did I mention Rodarte? Who doesn’t love bobbing to the Velvet Underground, surrounded by neon lighting and woodland decor? Thakoon had us near the Brooklyn Bridge on a balmy night, the sun slowly setting, the sparkling city bathed in a golden glow. Magical. Eckhaus Latta staged its show in a park on the Lower East Side on a makeshift runway, casting mostly non-model models, friends, artists, and cool kids. And the Hood By Air show was undeniably a conversation starter, with sharp slogans, an original cast, strange music, a punk attitude, and a voice of its own.

As for nightly pleasures, my standout was an intimate gathering at Adam Lippes’s home. The likes of Hayley Bloomingdale, Sarah Hoover, and Elettra Wiedemann mingled in his exquisitely decorated Greenwich Village apartment. Grilled steaks and veggies were served along two tables dressed in floral porcelain by Costanza Paravicini of Laboratorio Paravicini in Milan. The chicest detail of all: linen napkins embroidered in India and monogrammed by hand by his studio here in New York. No photographers, no crowds—everyone was there for Adam and not to see and be seen.

Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis goes on the ultimate mattress hunt:

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The weather is confusing; the news is nuts. But on the red carpet, a serene yet urgent loveliness rules . . . and this requires a fabulous frock. For her London premiere, Alicia Vikander went ruffled and knowingly homespun. Ruth Negga opted for cloudlike layers of lace. Lauren Santo Domingo kept it columnar in scarlet silk jersey. Soko, also in deep red, was swingy, frilly, and counter-intuitively sexy. And Naomie Harris raised the bar on Hollywood glamour with an embellished tea-length stunner.

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This week, Lauren Santo Domingo matched her Max Mara stripes to a curved velvet couch in Moda Operandi’s new townhouse-cum-boutique off Madison Avenue. Meanwhile, globetrotter Ada Kokosar visited Eero Saarinen’s abandoned space-age-like TWA Terminal at JFK Airport—a neo-futuristic masterpiece that gives new meaning to traveling in style. A decadent carpet lining a winding hallway at the Hotel Ritz in Madrid caught the eye of Gilda Ambrosio, while photographer Lachlan Bailey captured Los Angeles at its best as golden light streamed into the city’s storied Chateau Marmot, casting magnificent geometrical shadows.

’Twas the week to embrace your inner child, too. In London, Yasmin Sewell’s ’gram of a Mira Mikati–theme bouncy castle was fittingly captioned, “Don’t grow up, it’s a trap,” and back in New York, Alexa Chung rang in her 33rd birthday with a host of dinosaur balloons (not to mention a pink cowboy hat and Miu Miu crystal-embellished ballet flats). Now that’s child’s play at its very best. Above, a look at the 11 best design Instagrams of the week.

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