We work with leftover textile waste from production factories, mostly cotton or rayon, and layer it onto the bag. It has an organic feel-like we just dragged it out of the swamp. Onsite, you'll find a rooftop wine bar and an all-day cafe on the ground floor. Visit the new spot dressed in something poetic like, say, Sleeping With Jacques' velvet two-piece crop top and midiskirt in jet black.

Hu dwells on the sorrowful aspects of modern life with a resilient beauty. Presented in a dance performance choreographed and directed by Zhihao, her new lineup is one of her spriteliest and most whimsical yet. In the summer, I'm often clad in '50s vintage day-dresses-think Betty Draper-esque nipped waists and full skirts. The curves of Cristobal Balenciaga and the Golden Goose Sneakers mid-century photography of Irving Penn and Richard Avedon that captured them are obvious influences on the sculptural skirt volumes of his strapless and racer-back party dresses, but equally, he credits the pink frock Carrie Bradshaw famously faints in at Lincoln Center in Sex and the City.

In the past year, Hudson's fashion choices have been both chic and impossible to predict. She sets her shoulder-grazing lengths in hot rollers for '40s-style pin curls and, in place of a full face of makeup, relies on a swipe of hyper-pigmented long-lasting red lipstick, like MAC's Ruby Woo or Maybelline's Red Revival.