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Saturday, November 14

Updated 7:02am PT

Brian Sugar

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Liu Jo's Fall 2027 collection reads as a bet that pattern and tailoring occupy the same mood without apology. Color is back, and it's not hiding behind "clean" anymore, a mood that's already landed with readers clicking through high jewelry's shift toward '70s warmth and earthy tones. Restraint has stopped selling.

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Liu Jo Fall 2027 Ready-to-Wear

Liu Jo's fall show signals that European mid-luxury is betting the cycle has turned, that customers who fled to basics are ready for pattern and color again, scale at last.

Vogue
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    High Jewelry Is Warming Up With '70s-Style Designs and Earthy Tones

    High jewelry is trading restraint for warmth, swapping pale stones for citrine and mandarin garnet, a shift that suggests wealth has stopped performing coolness and started performing comfort.

    Robb Report
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    Dua Lipa Matches Her Fleece Puffer to Her Chanel for a Day of High-Low Dressing

    Dua Lipa's cobalt fleece-to-Chanel move is not high-low dressing, it is a refusal to grade her own taste, which is precisely what makes the move read as confident instead of mannered.

    Harper's Bazaar
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    'Ebenezer' Marks Johnny Depp's Box Office Return With Modest $20 Million Opening

    Johnny Depp's $20 million opening is not a comeback, it is a floor, what remains when a name still moves tickets but the machinery that made him has moved on.

    The Wrap
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    How the Biopic 'Being Heumann' Pulls Off Two Revolutions

    "Being Heumann" casts disabled actors as protagonists rather than inspiration, which is not revolution, it is correction, but the fact that it still reads as radical says everything about where film wants to go.

    Rolling Stone
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Sugar Rush is the daily commerce + culture brief from Sugar Capital, a seed-stage venture firm investing at the intersection of consumer, commerce, and culture.

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