In today’s dressed-down world, where the pajama, the sleeping bag, and the SNUGGIE form interchangeable outfit ideas for the street, dressing to a theme can seem like an event for the pages of a book on the GILDED AGE or, say, a horror show of an employee holiday party. There are always exceptions. The dress code requested for the premiere of BLACK PANTHER was “royal,” and attendees showed up with such force as to blow that descriptor out of the water. Regalia indeed. It radiated something harder to convey in today's teetering red-carpet environments: style. Many of the ensembles combined African tradition with an eye for proportion, color, volume, and silhouette, and it was the ease with which attendees wore the clothes that stood out. ROBIN GIVHAN wrote that the "film is stepping into a void with its predominantly black cast... and narrative about futuristic African nobility," and the red carpet was a force of diversity and expressiveness rarely seen at hyped Hollywood events. These are pop optics with the strength of culture behind them. A good moment for entertainment… There had been quiet announcements over the past few years that the house of POIRET was set to be revived under SHINSEGAE department store president CHUNG YOO-KYUNG. Poiret is a tricky label to revive given its lionization in history books and museum collections, its frozen-in-amber odes to SCHEHERAZADE and the BALLETS RUSSES, and its association with a romanticized "east." But I’m all for considering how this could be a promising return. BOF's OSMAN AMED has a great story on how the label is being revived with ANNE CHAPPELLE, a Belgian investor known for her work with ANN DEMEULEMEESTER and HAIDER ACKERMANN, and YIQING YIN, a PARIS-based designer of haute couture. The first showing will take place during PARIS FASHION WEEK. Poiret has made definitive contributions to fashion, and his legacy will remain. I’ll never forget this touching anecdote about Poiret from CECIL BEATON’s “The Glass of Fashion,” relayed to Beaton by Poiret’s nephew MONSIEUR BOGNARD. Broke after his business had closed, Poiret had recently secured a deal designing prints for LIBERTY, for which he’d been compensated 10,000 francs. When the two met for lunch the next day, his nephew remarked that Poiret looked fatigued, to which Poiret replied, “Yes… I am, and little wonder. I have spent the night with Venus!” After the Liberty deal, Poiret promptly went out and spent all 10,000 francs on a new telescope. He’d been up all the previous night, looking at the stars… In brief: Photos of GHANA streetwear style... OFF-WHITE will launch swimwear... HIGHSNOBIETY's zine collab with COCO CAPITÀN.