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As we head into the holiday season, several fashion brands are looking to ramp up holiday sales with collaborations. Ralph Lauren is no exception.
For its fall/holiday 2025 collection, Ralph Lauren recently revealed the brand’s collaboration with Indigenous-led clothing label Tópa. Founded by husband-and-wife team, Jocy and Trae Little Sky of Tópa are award-winning performers and designers. Jocy is Dakota and from the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations, and Trae is Oglala Lakota and Stoney Nakoda. Their work is infused with traditional indigenous craftsmanship and design.
“We’ve long admired Ralph Lauren and how the brand brings worlds to life through its designs and storytelling,” said Jocy in a recent fashionnetwork.com article. “This collaboration with Polo Ralph Lauren honors our community, culture and way of life, and we hope it inspires people to be proud of who they are, where they come from and to follow their dreams.”
The Polo Ralph Lauren x Tópa collaboration is offered within the Ralph Lauren fall/holiday 2025 collection. The collaboration centers on modern silhouettes with Native design motifs in an assortment of men’s, women’s and accessories products.
The Polo Ralph Lauren x Tópa collaboration is the fourth collaboration in Artist in Residence initiative. This initiative collaborates with artisans preserving heritage craft, offering a platform for mutually creative partnerships while amplifying historically underrepresented voices.
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The Met’s Next Exhibit
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute next exhibit was recently announced. “Costume Art” will examine the concept of the body dressed as a fashion retrospective through the ages. This exhibit concept will be carried over the iconic Met Gala in May of 2026.
This new exhibit will examine the juxtaposition of body and clothing over 5,000 years with a focus on Western art. According to dailyfrontrow.com, the new exhibit will be organized into a series of thematic body types including the “Naked Body,” “Classical Body,” “Pregnant Body,” “Aging Body,” “Anatomical Body” and the “Mortal Body.” Almost 200 works will be displayed with 200 garments and accessories.
“Costume Art” will be the first exhibit in the new 12,00-foot galleries. The new Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is named after the founder of the legendary publishing house, Condé Montrose Nast.
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Prada acquires Versace
If you have had your ear to the fashion grindstone, you are very aware of Prada Group acquiring Versace from Capri Holdings. Well, the acquisition is now complete.
Capri Holdings acquired Versace in 2018 for 1.8 billion euros. And now Prada Group has acquired Versace for 1.25 billion euros which makes this acquisition the largest acquisition for the Prada Group in its 112-year history.
Prada Group currently owns Prada, Miu Miu, Church’s, Car Shoe, Versace, Marchesi 1824, and Luna Rossa. Prada is available in more than 70 countries through a network of 620 company-owned stores, its direct e-commerce channel, as well as selected e-tailers and department stores worldwide.
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