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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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”
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”
Cultural Capital in the Age of Cultural Co-Creation Part 3: Performing
This is the third part of a research conducted over the course of a year covering “Cultural Capital in the Age of Cultural Co-Creation” in the luxury industry. This first part covers Performing: Prestige Through Participation. Marketing in luxury today hinges on curated participation. This article analyzes how semiotic fluency, discursive performance, and symbolic filtersContinue reading “Cultural Capital in the Age of Cultural Co-Creation Part 3: Performing”
Friggitello alla Moda
Art x Fashion Edit #43 Massimo Catalani magnifies the simplicity of peppers by painting them monumental. Born in Rome in 1960 and trained as an architect, he spent years designing spaces before turning fully to painting. That background never left him. You can see it in his canvases: the rigor of scale, the geometry ofContinue reading “Friggitello alla Moda”
Hayez’ Kiss
Art x Fashion Edit #42 Francesco Hayez’s The Kiss (1859) is one of those paintings that lures you in with romance, then hits you with politics. Cloaked figures, a shadowy corner, a kiss so urgent it feels stolen: it’s the most iconic image of Italian Romanticism. But behind the tenderness lies a manifesto. Painted at the heightContinue reading “Hayez’ Kiss”
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