With just hours before the curtain rises at the David H. Koch theater for the New York City Ballet’s Spring Gala tonight, J. Mendel’s Gilles Mendel is busy making the finishing touches on the costumes he’s designed for mater in chief Peter Martins’ new work, titled &#192 La Française. “I have been running back and forth to Lincoln Center with my scissors for two days now,” he told Style.com before heading back to the theater today. “It’s like doing a haircut—just a little more on this side and on that side until it’s perfect.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is flying solo. After two and a half years as the founding fashion director at Lincoln Center, Winston Wolkoff is leaving her post tomorrow to launch her own agency called SWW Creative, which will foster partnerships between the fashion, entertainment, and beauty industries. While helming the fashion division at Lincoln Center, the industry exec was responsible for the relocation of New York Fashion Week from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park.