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Joezel Yumul is wavering between angel wings and monarch butterfly wings. Angel wings made of masses of white baby’s breath would be more ethereal, but butterfly wings of orange chrysanthemums would be more dramatic especially considering the wings will be attached to a life-sized mannequin in a ruffled gown also entirely made of fresh flowers. “I’m thinking [of] something really a little bit crazy,” the floral designer tells me by phone from his Toronto studio in early March. Crazy because he wants to top his design from last year, when he worked for 48 hours straight, sticking 1,400 individual stems of statice and blue globe thistle into a frame he’d made out of dollar-store pool noodles. The result was a purple-and-white mermaid gown, al
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BAL HARBOUR, Fla., March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Bal Harbour Shops announced today that they will host the worldwide launch of Fleurs de Villes ROSÉ in partnership with Fleurs de Villes to support the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) from March 19th – March 28th.
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Hosted at Bal Harbour Shops iconic outdoor setting, visitors will enjoy this one-of-a-kind installation of 15 fresh floral couture
mannequins inspired by the color pink to showcase incredibly unique design differences. Displayed in an elevated gallery-like setting, Fleurs de Villes ROSÉ will be freely open to the public, and visitors will be able to safely walk through this self-guided exhibit while adhering to social distancing guidelines.