The Africa-facing brand Edun, founded by Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson, printed dots on wide cropped pants in blue and red along with line patterns on bright white looks for the spring collection at New York Fashion Week.
Designer Danielle Sherman said backstage after Sunday's show that the collection was Nigeria-inspired. She included large silver pendants in the Tuareg style created by artisan Moussa Albaka to help represent "balance and unity," which also was expressed in the juxtaposition of perfect digitally-created circles mixed with irregular ones in prints.
The brand produced about 92 percent of its previous collection of resort wear in Africa. It was the highest percentage of Edun manufacturing from its plants in Madagascar and Kenya since the company was created in 2005.
Sherman carried the circle motif into large belt buckles for many looks. The dot trims popped in flame red against loose black pants and jackets.
Black leather trimmed a white and gray crop top worn with matching judo-inspired pants.
Shoes, including flats, were created to match the clothes, dots included, in another of the brand's collaborations with Manolo Blahnik.
Among the celebrity guests on Edun's front row were Rihanna, dressed elegantly in white, and Laurie Anderson, the widow of Lou Reed.
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Anything in particular she likes to wear in her down time?
"I'm not stuck on one thing," Shields said. "One day I'll wear a pair of leather pants and a blouse and then one day I'm going to be wearing a corseted dress from the '80s."
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French producers don't oppose mentioning a potential allergy risk on their product, Vidal said, but they are adamantly against the kinds of dire labels that can be found on chemicals used in industrial processes, such as hydrochloric acid or cleaning products.
"There is a risk being linked to a chemical, and can lead to confusion for consumers," said Emilie Zamora, in charge of communication for the PPAM, the union of producers of perfume, aromatic and medicinal plants.
In addition, producers would themselves be responsible for carrying out the chemical analysis. Many are small farmers who couldn't afford the expensive procedure, Vidal said.
Lavender farmers have received support from Raymond Chaillan, a French perfume creator whose nose helped create the scents for Opium, Anaïs Anaïs and Parfum d'Hermes.
"This new directive will foreshadow the death of the plantations of lavender, of hybrid lavender, and the sage from the southeast of France, this agriculture of the dry mountains," Chaillan wrote in a statement to support lavender producers. "It will further reduce the perfumers' palette, limiting their creativity."