by Jeroslyn JoVonn
February 18, 2026
Deborah Lorenzo, the ex-wife of the late hip-hop mogul Irv Gotti, has introduced she’s closing her luxurious hat model and pivoting to broaden into the homeware house. The New York-based milliner took to Instagram Feb. 17 to announce Frances Gray’s wind-down as she shifts her focus towards increasing into the profitable residence décor market.
“It appears like simply yesterday Frances Gray started with a love of hats and a perception that type ought to be timeless and transformative,” Lorenzo wrote. “What began as one artistic imaginative and prescient grew right into a vibrant group I’ll at all times cherish.”
The video captured Lorenzo admiring a show of her signature hats and revisiting an early function on the Frances Gray model, a Caribbean-inspired line she created in honor of her Jamaican great-grandmother, which drew purchasers akin to Beyoncé and Julia Stiles.
The clip then shifts to Lorenzo reviewing material swatches with a companion, teasing the upcoming launch of her new residence décor enterprise, Frances Gray Residence.
“Frances Gray has at all times been about greater than hats; it’s about confidence and embracing your true self. Each design carried your tales with it,” Lorenzo wrote in her caption.
She went on to announce her upcoming residence décor debut, emphasizing that she plans to hold the identical objective and keenness that outlined her Frances Gray hat model into this new chapter.
“As this chapter closes, a brand new one begins,” Lorenzo wrote. “We’re moving into the house market, bringing the identical objective and keenness to items to your residing areas. We hope you’ll be part of us on this subsequent journey, creating homeware as fashionable and distinctive as you’re.”
The model is encouraging supporters to go to its New York showroom and to look ahead to upcoming bulletins about an in-studio hat sale forward of its transition into a brand new market.
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