L'art de vivre, primarily from Paris.
The Artist Who Turned Kim Kardashian Into a Living Sculpture Has an Exhibition in Paris
At the Sceners Gallery on the eastern edge of Paris, far from the Metropolitan Museum, where Kim Kardashian arrived at the Met Gala in a metallic orange breastplate with pert breasts and curvaceous hips, there are several examples of the art that inspired her.
The Curator, the Artist, and the Artisans Bringing Morroco to Venice
After a week of springtime rain in Marrakech, the sun had returned on the morning that I paid a visit to the artist Amina Agueznay, whose atelier and archives are located to the north of the city’s bustling core. From the upper terrace of a multi-unit building dripping with fuchsia bougainvillea and surrounded by leaning palms, she waved a small group of us up to meet her.
Thebe Magugu Brings His Afro-Modernist Aesthetic to Cape Town With a Pair of New Openings
Cape Town is a symbolic place for the designer Thebe Magugu. When he was nine years old, he took his first trip by plane from Kimberley in South Africa’s North Cape province to discover the cosmopolitan city with his mother and two uncles. While there, his mom bought him a camera, kickstarting an interest in photography which he would later study along with fashion design and media.
Proof of Concept
Luke and Lucie Meier are a package deal. While the two fashion designers made names for themselves individually, they’ve learned firsthand that collaboration takes them further and faster.
Most Creative Directors Celebrate After One Good Year. Anthony Vaccarello Takes Stock at 10.
After 10 years at the helm of the legendary French maison, the Belgian-Italian creative director sits down to reflect—in an exclusive conversation and shoot with CULTURED—on an industry that has shifted under his feet, and how he's managed to stay one step ahead of it.
Mickalene Thomas’s New Survey at the Grand Palais Is for Lovers
Two years after Mickalene Thomas’s first visit to Paris in 2009, she returned for a residency at Giverny, the well-known home and garden of Claude Monet, where she was deeply drawn to the interior and exterior worlds he created. Now, with her solo exhibition “All About Love,” at the Grand Palais, visitors can experience her own worlds transposed into immersive spaces filled with furniture, stacks of books and Jet magazines, arrangements of potted plants, and still-life vignettes in which ever...
Azzedine Alaïa Was One of the World’s Great Couture Collectors—These Are His Diors
Azzedine Alaïa had a philosophy about preservation. “A dress holds three memories,” he would say. “The memory of the couturier who made it, the atelier that realized it, and the woman who wore it.”
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A Closer Look at the Magnificent Gerhard Richter Show at Fondation Louis Vuitton
We live in a world saturated with images. They can be deeply personal or commoditized, produced and consumed ad infinitum. But for the internationally renowned artist Gerhard Richter, they attest to a monumental career that not only moves through a multitude of genres, but also transmits meaning from each and every surface.
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Decoded: A New Exhibition in Paris Reveals Virgil Abloh’s Design Process and Digs Deep Into His Archive
Not to spoil the surprise, but the very first thing visitors encounter upon arriving to Virgil Abloh: The Codes at the Grand Palais in Paris is a recreation of Colette, which was often considered the most influential store in the world before it closed in 2017. There’s even a miniature white façade, accented with broad windows, signature blue awnings and the double dot logo, that people will pass to reach the wide selection of collectible merch and tchotchkes branded to the max.
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Sofia Coppola nous parle de son livre Chanel Haute Couture : “Il ne faut pas oublier que c’est la photographie qui m’a amenée au cinéma”
Des années avant de devenir réalisatrice de films aussi iconiques que Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Marie-Antoinette ou Priscilla, Sofia Coppola a passé un été en stage chez Chanel, à Paris, grâce à celle qu’elle considère comme “l’une de ses tantes”, l’actrice Carole Bouquet.
Art That Moves: Jordan Roth and Laurence des Cars on Crafting a One-of-a-Kind Performance Piece at the Louvre
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.
The Second Phase of the Grand Palais’s Reopening Is Complete—Here’s What You Can Expect
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.
Collective Recall
A rare sojourn into Sarah Andelman’s subterranean storage recalls lost memories of colette, the original concept shop she fashioned with her mother nearly 30 years ago in Paris
Abloh Air Achieves Liftoff—The Virgil Abloh Foundation Took 10 Chicago Students on an Immersive Trip to London and Paris as Multidisciplinary as the Late Designer Was
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.
On the Tactile Delights of Being an AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego)
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.