A wedding, a rock star, a fashion legend, a master painter and 700 photographs. From the Marais to La Villette, Paris is putting on quite a show this season. Five exhibitions to get off the sofa and cross the Seine. Remember MeSeven…
Leave a CommentCITY MAGAZINE Posts
A heel without a heel, Aurélie Dupont’s pointe shoes, Usain Bolt’s spikes, a shoe imagined by David Lynch for Christian Louboutin… at Printemps Haussmann in Paris, more than 200 pieces tell the story of footwear as an object of desire, power, performance,…
Leave a Comment
Photography, contemporary art, fashion: Milan is making the most of Fashion Week with a wave of new artistic offerings. From William Klein’s electric cities to Charmaine Poh’s digital identities, from Shilpa Gupta’s political art to Viktor&Rolf’s radical silhouettes, four newly opened exhibitions…
Leave a Comment
Forget members’ clubs. From perfect Guinness in Soho to Sunday roasts in Maida Vale, live music in Newington Green and fashion kids drinking in Tottenham, the city’s coolest rooms right now come with pints, carpets and last orders. THE PHENOMENONSoho: The Devonshire…
Leave a Comment
Self-taught, Baltimore-raised and long operating outside fashion’s official system, Menyelek Rose has spent more than a decade cutting clothes apart and finding new forms inside them. As MENYELEK just unveiled The Narrator in Brooklyn, reconstruction becomes both method and story. At 28,…
Comments closed
FASHION LONDON “CHANEL, le19M and The King’s Foundation Métiers d’Art Fellowships Exhibition” The Garrison Chapel — The King’s Foundation Chelsea Barracks, 8 Garrison Square, London SW1W 8BG, United Kingdom September 11–24, 2026 (closed Monday, Sept. 21) “The Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon”…
Leave a Comment
What happens when seventeen years of obsession go under the hammer? As dot COMME prepares to move its vast archive from Melbourne to Paris, 265 pieces from Octavius La Rosa’s extraordinary Comme des Garçons collection are heading to auction in London. CITY…
Leave a Comment
At the Rencontres d’Arles, the exhibition Ghana! Dreaming Independence, 1957–1976 traces the way a newly independent country shaped its identity through images. Its curator, photography historian Damarice Amao, speaks to CITY about a long-term research project spanning official archives, photobooks, banknotes and…
Leave a Comment
There is a moment when a tag stops being vandalism and starts becoming history, not because it has changed, but because the city around it has. This summer, Paris becomes the latest stop for Beyond the Streets, the international exhibition that, after…
Leave a Comment
Fabric offcuts, Moroccan rugs, and an idea that became iconic: from her Paris studio, Calla Haynes has reinvented the babouche as a contemporary object of desire, bringing together craftsmanship, upcycling and slow fashion. Before it became a babouche brand, Calla was a…
Leave a Comment