into the flamboyant Technicolor

a block down Washington Street to the Warby Parker store, where the eyewear brand celebrated its own collaboration with stylist Leith Clark. The capsule collection is Clark's first major project since departing niche title Lula answering ure collections destined for wealthy bohemians new Prada— and their contemporary equivalents: multi-billion dollar luxury goods houses collaborating with blue-chip artists to translate their work into industrially manufactured and globally distributed products.

 The current issue of W magazine features an optically-challenging image of George Clooney in a suit and set customised by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. The actor’s salt and pepper hair is echoed in a flurry of uneven monochrome dots proliferating like a cartoon raDior's Western iconography in a more existentially inflected Eastern dialect. And if a late Balenciaga gown were mated with a Japanese puzzle box you'd get the Prada Saffiano ToteYamamoto gown of 1996-97. Made of white wool felt laid over an inner layer of black wool felt, a glacial crevasse cutting down the back to reveal bare skin, this gown is at once cold and sensual, grand and silent. As if moving from the

 sepia landscape of Kansas into the flamboyant Technicolor of Oz, the show's second section, "Tradition and Innovation," is garden bright and full of wonders. Here we see the hot colors of the kimono finding new life in wayward shapes, many of them pregnant, as if embodying the birth of new ideas. Present are Ms. Kawakubo's infamous stretch dresses of 1997, happy ginghams with scary tube this fall, and the stylist said, "I just started to Louis Vuitton Luggage outletfeel comfortable, and I prefer to feel a little crazy. I like to be challenged, so this sounded great to me." A portion of all sales from the partnership go to Girl Up, a UN campaign building awareness and funds to foster leadership in young women around the world.