Byron Lars speaks in Barbie, Hampton Designer Showcase and inventive fashion

The annual Hampton Designer Showcase is known from swing chairs by the pool to perfectly defined dining tables for leaving no place discovered. Jamie Drake and Alexa Hampton are honorary chairs for this year’s event in Southampton, in which the work of 24 leading interior designers will perform.

But for his debut, Byron Lars increased the quota by creating custom clothing for the guest room of Susan Calabria Design. The fashion designer also used fabric from the new Soluna by Susan Calabria Design Label to emphasize the entire effort. Calabria appreciates fine textiles and was previously worked as a design director for respected companies such as Schumacher and Scalamandré. The regular textures, prints, top and open work fabrics agreed in the serious collection of Lars, he said. The curtain fabric was reinterpreted as a cover-up, a graded peasant skirt and other super-armor creations. The clothing was made exclusively for the shop window and is not sold. But it is something that we would consider later for the sale because it turned out to be pretty good, “said Lars.

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The Hampton Designer Showcase will be made accessible to the public from July 20 to August 31 and benefits the Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Some of the collectible Barbie dolls, on which Lars worked with Mattel years ago, are also exhibited in Calabrias Room. The designer said that he had created about 15 collectible barbies. Visitors to the showcase cannot buy them either, but Lars and in Earnest co -founder Sheila Gray are open to the renewal of this offer. In order to sweeten the backdrop in Southampton, there is a selection of chocolate bars with packaging that have barbie-like figures with three-dimensional designs. Gray sells tailor-made chocolate beams via her Sheila Gray collection point. “What we present in this room is a fabulous woman who is on a barbie level,” said Lars.

As for the new Barbie fashionistas -doll with type -1 -diabetes (the Kate Moss’ Model -Daughter Lila created), Lars said: “It was pretty fascinating. But it seemed something that a child could probably imagine. But hey, I love the fact that they actually went, and tied everyone in which ‘Inclusion’ seems.

Also challenging to “lead this business in this crazy new reality in which we are in ourselves,” said Lars that he recently connected to a factory with which he worked with years ago that returned to the USA. He said: “It is something exciting to do something in a nearby factory in which you can fix in real time and not virtually.”

With regard to the future, Lars said: “I am most fascinating of American ingenuity and this good old CAN-DO spirit that we now have to use. After all, we have invented sports swear, and that is the most relevant thing that has happened in the past 100 years. It is how we all live, dress and process, to find out how to find out really and use.

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