FASHION

Trend: Gilt Trip

Fashion’s got the Midas touch this season.


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It’s captivated conquistadors, Cleopatra and Wild West settlers. We’re talking gold, of course, and that flaxen flair has captured the runway set too. Marchesa’s Georgina Chapman, for one, found her inspiration on a recent sun-kissed cruise down the Nile with her mom. The designer was so impressed, she turned her resort collection into one big gilt-y Egyptian pleasure. “There’s no better way to work through such an obsession than with fashion,” she says.

Tobias Wong light switch, Jaime Hayon lamp and future perfect table, at Future Perfect, Brooklyn; West Elm table, westelm.com; Watts Flute, michelevarian.com; Harry Allen bowl, areaware.com; Bruno Rainaldi light fixture, ylighting.com; Rootstein mannequin, rootstein.com.