Looking for a great prom dress under $600?
Alice + Olivia Creative Director Stacey Bendet has found you.
“Women want to dress up, but they also don’t want to spend $10,000 to go to a party,” she told Alexa at her star-studded fashion launch in the Meatpacking District.
“I think what happened is that a lot of the designers who do evenings started pricing things in a place that was too expensive to be true,” explained the designer. “I really try to make our evening wear affordable and there’s a lot of value in all the details.”
The theme of her spring collection is “Imagination Hotel”. “I wanted to transport everyone to another time,” said Bendet, whose favorite hotel in the world is Villa TreVille in Positano, Italy, the clifftop resort overlooking the Amalfi Coast where Madonna celebrated her birthday the 66th with the family and Jennifer Lopez stayed this summer.
“This season’s clothes have a vintage-to-modern fashion, like cinched waists and full skirts,” she continued. “Really elegant, but done in these quirky modern fun prints and embroideries.”
Bendet’s guests, which included Tiffany Haddish, Olivia Culpo and Sophia Culpo, Paris Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Ava Philippe, Brooks Nader, Bijou Phillips and Paris, Kathy and Nicky Hilton, toured the space admiring the fashion, which was presented to the models. posing in elaborate vignettes. Isan Elba DJ’d the bash, incorporating tunes from Paris Hilton’s new album, Bad Bitch Academy, into her mix.
From a striped sequined mini dress and a pink flared cape dress to a romantic yellow maxi with a giant bow at the hip, Bendet let her imagination run wild.
Transgender social media personality and actress Dylan Mulvaney, whose one-woman show F*GHAG premiered this summer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, rocked the brand’s shiny black mini dress with a feather hem and matching gloves . “I feel like it’s a very big Gatsby,” she said.
“I wear Stacey’s stuff so often, to so many events, because it gives off Audrey Hepburn,” the TikTok star said. Audrey is certainly one of my style icons, but lately I’ve gone a little wilder. I feel like Julia Fox lately has been a total icon for me and I also think Dolly Parton if I want to have a little spot.”
In the market for Dolly-worthy themed hot pants?
Bandet has them too.
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