After I noticed Mindy Prugnaud out within the Greenwich Village part of Manhattan on a Friday afternoon in February, I used to be compelled to say hey. I simply had to be taught extra about her marvelous coat.
Ms. Prugnaud, 56, had just lately purchased it at an Isaac Mizrahi archive sale, she stated, including that the model’s eponymous designer was a good friend. “Isaac’s trend reveals have been at all times so fabulously stylish within the ’90s,” stated Ms. Prugnaud, an proprietor of Mint Group, a trend firm in Europe that, amongst different issues, oversees shopping for operations for sure American malls. She owns the corporate together with her husband; he was together with her the day we met, and so have been their two daughters.
Along with her coat, Ms. Prugnaud was carrying a printed scarf that she stated had a particular place in her coronary heart. It was from AZ Manufacturing unit, the label that the designer Alber Elbaz based after his time at Lanvin. Mr. Elbaz introduced it in 2021, months earlier than he died of Covid-19.
“I put on this scarf on a regular basis,” she stated. “It’s so joyful, which is so like him. I at all times put on it after I journey. As if he’s nonetheless with me.”
