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This fall, Brit-born Bernard and industrial designer Suzuko Hisata launch Wake Up Dear, a modern design lighting brand. Their marquee product line, ODO, consists of striking, one-of-a-kind chandeliers made from birch plywood and hand-wrapped with woven thread in geometric patterns.

Of his legendary style sense, Rich’s fashion director Sol Kent once wryly observed to Atlanta Constitution columnist Celestine Sibley, “There’s nothing so unchic as a woman who looks too new.” Kent’s genius at merging the new with the traditional and his eye for discovering future classics will be on dazzling display at tonight’s tribute to his career, “Be Divine: A Tribute to Fashionata” at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Midtown. The evening benefiting the Breman also serves as a social set finale for the museum’s six month-long “Return to Rich’s: The Story Behind the Store” retrospective set to close on May 27.

Luisa Hammett began her lifestyle blog Peaches to Pearls while getting her master’s degree in nutrition at Georgia State University. Four years later, she’s a clinical nutritionist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and still runs her site and Instagram account, where she has more than 30,000 followers.

Three decades ago at her downtown Atlanta loft, Georgia artist Janet "Gogo" Ferguson first unveiled the nature-inspired pieces for what would become an internationally acclaimed, multi-million dollar jewelry business. As a descendant of Thomas Carnegie who bought Georgia's Cumberland Island in the late 19th century, the granddaughter of Lucy Ferguson spent much of her childhood growing up on coastal Georgia. Today as a year-round resident on Cumberland, Ferguson operates her Gogo Jewelry business and an artist studio there.

In the world of Atlanta fashion, there are young designers fresh out of schools like SCAD, and there are shoppers. What there isn’t: infrastructure for designers to produce collections, meaning local talent takes off to the garment districts of New York and L.A.

Even the most jaded media folks couldn’t resist snapping a few selfies in front of the iconic rock outfits unveiled Monday night during a press preview party for the Treasures of the Hard Rock exhibition at the downtown restaurant and rock club’s Velvet Underground space. There were moments during the three-hour cocktail party when you couldn’t even get near TLC singer/rapper/lyricist Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes’ white CrazySexyCool tour outfit for all the pop up amateur photography occurring.

At half past six on Monday evening, there was just one thing missing in the VIP lounge at the 21st annual Jeffrey Fashion Cares private meet-and-greet with Jeffrey Kalinsky at the American Cancer Society building downtown. Clad in blue jogging shorts, the Atlanta and New York retailer was still downstairs, engrossed in a last-minute consult with event chair and bff Lila Hertz as the models did one last run through on the catwalk. But it’s this attention to detail that has made Fashion Cares one of the city’s most anticipated fundraisers of the social season.

With Bastille Day on July 14 (plus the Tour de France July 5 to 27), now’s the time to fete French style. Alliance Française, a cultural and language center, will celebrate July 19.

Every law student knows res ipsa loquitur, Latin for “the thing speaks for itself,” first applied in an 1863 lawsuit in which a barrel fell from a window and hit a passerby. The court ruled in the plaintiff’s favor because the facts were so clear.