This week, I wanted to write a more personal piece. A bit of a reflection as to where I stand in my relationship with fashion, luxury and branding. Maybe it is something about the zeitgeist. Or maybe I am just growing older. Yet my relationship with fashion has slowly but notably evolved in the pastContinue reading “Fashion, Identity, and the Architecture of Becoming”
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Alaïa chez Dior
At La Galerie Dior, 30 Avenue Montaigne, a quiet tension unfolds, one of contemplation. The new exhibition, dedicated to Azzedine Alaïa’s private collection of Christian Dior garments, is both elegant and conceptually charged. On view are over a hundred looks from the nearly 600-piece archive Alaïa amassed over decades, with a particular focus on Dior’sContinue reading “Alaïa chez Dior”
De La Tour’s light
Art x Fashion Edit #46 There’s something arresting about the stillness of La Diseuse de bonne aventure. Painted around 1630, at the cusp of Baroque theatricality and Caravaggesque realism, Georges de La Tour renders deception with disarming calm. The figures hover in suspended choreography: a young man, lavishly dressed, entranced by a fortune teller’s gaze, whileContinue reading “De La Tour’s light”
Dior Lady Art #10
Ten years ago, Dior initiated what has become one of the quiet revolutions in the interplay between fashion and contemporary art. The Lady Dior bag, already an emblem of French elegance and the Maison’s savoir-faire, was transformed into a canvas for artistic expression. With the launch of Dior Lady Art, the house offered artists fullContinue reading “Dior Lady Art #10”
agnès b. x Le Louvre
When Agnès Troublé, better known as agnès b., first imagined her fashion label in 1975, she did so with an eye not only on clothing but on culture. Her designs have always been more than garments: they are propositions about how to live, how to move, how to see. Hers is a fashion deeply attunedContinue reading “agnès b. x Le Louvre”
Louis Vuitton x Art Basel Paris 2025 Edition
When Louis Vuitton unveiled its latest chapter of the Artycapucines series during Art Basel Paris 2025, the “Artycapucines VII – Louis Vuitton × Takashi Murakami” collection, it did more than drop a limited‑edition bag line. It staged a deliberate interplay between art, luxury, brand legacy and spectacle under the glass roof of the Grand Palais. The collaboration draws on a relationship thatContinue reading “Louis Vuitton x Art Basel Paris 2025 Edition”
Pecis’ Slow Morning
Art x Fashion Edit #45 Hilary Pecis paints in a language of objects: carefully chosen, deliberately placed, yet never sterile. In Breakfast Nook (2021), the domestic sphere becomes a charged site for aesthetic assembly. A vase of carnations and marigolds sits alongside citrus fruit, vintage stationery, and art books stacked like cultural citations. The mise-en-scène evokesContinue reading “Pecis’ Slow Morning”
Il Milano di Armani
In Milan these days, Giorgio Armani’s passing has cast a quiet pall over the city’s fashion consciousness, yet two exhibitions now underscore the power of his absence by submerging his work in stillness. At the Pinacoteca di Brera and at Armani/Silos, the designer’s pieces are presented as interrogative presences. Logos are near‑absent; wall texts areContinue reading “Il Milano di Armani”
Morellet’s Primaries
Art x Fashion Edit #44 There’s something quietly radical about how François Morellet’s Relâche n°4 repositions the act of looking. Composed in 1992 and held by the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the piece draws from a lexicon of grids, neon, lacquered aluminium, and chance, inviting its viewer into a dialogue between rigidity and release. Though the work sitsContinue reading “Morellet’s Primaries”
Made in Italy: Fashion, Identity, and the Cultural Rebirth of a Nation
I just finished watching Made in Italy, and I wholeheartedly recommend it. The series is an immersive, thoughtful journey into the world of 1970s Milanese fashion. And while I remain a Frenchwoman in awe of our own couture Maisons, it’s hard not to be captivated by the bold elegance and cultural ambition that defined this pivotalContinue reading “Made in Italy: Fashion, Identity, and the Cultural Rebirth of a Nation”
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