Christopher John Rogers for J.Crew, omakase in Dumbo, more NYC events

Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC.It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city. What’s making our luxury list this week? Christopher John Rogers for J.

Crew, Jenny Bird’s pop-up, and Wollman Rink reopens.Christopher John Rogers has created a collection of over three dozen vibrant styles that debuted at select J.Crew stores (and online) last week.The Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native who won the CFDA Emerging Designer Award in 2020, noted “My brand is about providing people with the tools to express themselves through color, through print, through volume…We wanted there to be a lot of print variety in the collection while keeping everything cohesive through a limited color palette.

We have a bold stripe next to embroidered sequins next to giant polka dots, smaller polka dots — it really runs the gamut but it’s all easy to mix and match.” Shop his limited edition offerings, including pieces for kids, at JCrew.com.“I accept my brother’s death but I do not accept his art dying with him,” reads a quote attributed to Marcelo Bengoechea about his brother, the late photographer Fernando Bengoechea.Fernando died in the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami; he was vacationing in Sri Lanka with his partner, Nate Berkus, at the time.

Fernando had devised an innovative technique of weaving two identical Giclee prints, resulting in the same image rendered in a textural style.Marcelo has continued that tradition, cutting and weaving his brother’s images.

An exhibition of those pieces, called “Woven Together: Reflections” is now on display at Cristina Grajales Gallery.It was curated in partnership with acclaimed designer and Fernando’s former partner, Nate Berkus, and is on through January at CristinaGrajales.comThe omakase invasion continues with the opening of Kinjo at 11 Adams Street, the site of a for...