This is the second part in a series of three commentaries about color, fashion and society I read Roland Barthes’ The Fashion System a few years ago and I still remember the weird, almost comic shock: a book about fashion that contains zero images. It’s a relief and a provocation. Barthes makes you confront the fact that fashionContinue reading “Part II: Fashion, Barthes’ System x Pastoureau’s Colors”
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Part I: Color, Pastoureau’s eyes
This is the first part in a series of three commentaries about color, fashion and society I’m reading Michel Pastoureau and having the slightly embarrassing sensation of discovering something that was always in front of me. I love fashion. I wear color. I can talk for hours about a silhouette or the cut of aContinue reading “Part I: Color, Pastoureau’s eyes”
Bye 2025, hi 2026
I don’t want to perform a neat retrospective of 2025. Not because it lacked achievements, it didn’t, but because achievement alone does not tell the truth of a year. From the outside, my year looked dramatic. It was. There were visible ruptures, sharp turns, moments that did not hide themselves politely. I did things. IContinue reading “Bye 2025, hi 2026”
Reflections on Art x Luxury
In recent years, the once-prolific partnerships between luxury houses and contemporary artists have grown notably scarce. Where the early 2010s were saturated with high-profile collaborations: Louis Vuitton with Yayoi Kusama, Dior with KAWS, or Supreme with a rotating cadre of blue-chip names, the current luxury landscape feels more introspective, more restrained. The absence of theseContinue reading “Reflections on Art x Luxury”
Arnaud Lapierre’s Party
Art x Fashion Edit #4 There is a unique geometry to the close of a year, one that bends time not in a straight line, but in ripples, reflections, and recursions. In the Hôtel de la Marine, Arnaud Lapierre’s RÉSONANCE installation renders this phenomenon tactile: a topography of mirrored and golden convex surfaces that fragment, distort, andContinue reading “Arnaud Lapierre’s Party”
Fashion, Identity, and the Architecture of Becoming
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”
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”
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