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52 BAL HARBOUR PHOTO BY ZACK GARLITOS; COURTESY OSCAR DE LA RENTA; COURTESY ROGER VIVIER BECAUSE IT'S WORTH IT AN EYE FOR STYLE For their latest contribution to eternal chic, Oscar de la Renta creative directors Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia present their second collection with iconic eyewear brand Morgenthal Frederics. Vintage- inspired, universally-flattering and firmly planted in the present, each of six limited-edition frames (see the firetruck red, golden-bridged cat eye Twist 1 below) promise to be as fleeting on shelves as they will be timeless in your wardrobe. Record-breaking sales of paintings for hundreds of millions of dollars make for click-worthy headlines, but how did art become so expensive— and why? Producers Debi Wisch, Jennifer Stockman (above) and Carla Solomon worked with director Nathaniel Kahn to make "The Price of Everything," a film that charts the art market's most jarring rises and falls through the people who create, sell, collect and study it. Marilyn Minter, Larry Poons and Gerhard Richter are among the legendary subjects who offer their opinions on the insanity surrounding the art market. The film also explores whether astronomical pricing benefits or damages the artist behind the work, not to mention the future of art. In theaters in October and on HBO in November. THE SIMPLE LIFE Simple decisions, gorgeous materials: this is modern dressing, as envisioned by Roger Vivier's fall collection, which streamlines a woman's morning without diminishing the pleasure of deciding what to wear. Imagine throwing keys, phone and wallet into the same carry-all for grocery store or gala: a slim black leather belt-bag with a megawatt why-not brooch. Knee-high boots with a pitch- perfect kitten heel are felled in crimson suede—an opulent neutral, if there ever was one.