Amy Verner

Next Thursday night in Paris, after the final show on the haute couture schedule has ended, an altogether different show will take place at the Louvre. Jordan Roth will present Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty, a cycle of three live performances in which he uses fashion as a conduit for his impressions of the world’s largest museum.

As of this week, the second phase is complete enough that visitors will now arrive via the main entrance on the refurbished Square Jean Perrin, where allegorical statues adorning a fountain are gleaming white.

An extraordinary pilot program from the Virgil Abloh Foundation, Abloh Air was conceived to give 10 students with creative interests from underrepresented backgrounds in his hometown of Chicago the transformational opportunity to spend nine inspiring days in London and Paris.

Some 12 hours into constructing Notre-Dame from more than 4,300 Lego pieces, I finally arrived at the pinnacle: the soaring spire, or flèche, that became a defining feature of the cathedral in the 1860s, 700 years after the first stones were laid.

An exhibition in Paris dedicated to master milliner Stephen Jones

Discover Stockman, maker of high fashion mannequins

The 2024 LVMH Prize in Paris

The weather in Paris—sunny and warm, with a light breeze—could not have been more perfect for a swim. Until this morning, a dip in the Seine would have seemed unfathomable—but a little before 10 a.m., Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, made good on her pledge to take the plunge ahead of the Summer Olympics.

This was no typical tour of the Louvre. The instructions entailed sneakers, athletic attire, and an arrival time of 7:45 am, earlier than the opening of most boulangeries and well before tens of thousands of visitors typically descend on the world’s largest and most popular museum.
Some of us showed up in sweats, others in full-on gym ’fits. I couldn’t resist wearing a hoodie from the museum’s 2021 collaboration with Uniqlo designed by Peter Saville. No one knew what to expect, only that we h...

Throughout the Centre Pompidou’s permanent galleries, there are rooms entirely dedicated to major modern and contemporary artists: think Joseph Beuys, Victor Vasarely, Giuseppe Penone. And until 23 September 2024, Ronan Bouroullec.
Of course, Bouroullec is as much an industrial designer as a polyvalent artist, a prolific creator whose amorphous ink drawings and decorative ceramic wall structures suggest ongoing explorations of form and function.
Ronan Bouroullec presents 'Resonance' at Centre...

There is real time and there is Iris Van Herpen time. In real time, people will spend a few hours absorbed in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs exhibition dedicated to the peerless Dutch designer who has developed singular pathways between haute couture craftsmanship and the fields of science, nature, technology, architecture, art, and dance. Within Van Herpen’s universe, 16 years of creation span several millennia of inspiration and research, from an ancient nautilus to the Large Hadron Collider...

Amidst the myriad runway shows currently playing out in Paris, there’s only one place where people can go and find Comme des Garçons, Chanel, Marine Serre, Thebe Magugu, Yohji Yamamoto, Coco Chanel and Kevin Germanier plus 10 other visionary designers as a single experience. Sensitively staged by the revered French fashion journalist and author Laurence Benaïm, La traverse des apparences (Bridging Appearances) at the Centre Pompidou proposes captivating fashion juxtapositions throughout the m...

Just beyond the illuminated passage where visitors enter La Galerie Dior, there is a photograph of the “We Should All Be Feminists” T-shirt that continues to define Maria Grazia Chiuri’s ethos as creative director of the women’s Dior universe. The assertive statement (from the title of a book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) strikes differently in this image by Brigitte Niedermair, however. Stretched across and bunched upon a wood board, it looks more like an assemblage artwork or makeshift sign ...