At the Musée Maillol this summer, a major retrospective revisits the dazzling world of Gianni Versace, designer, provocateur and architect of fashion’s most glamorous decade. Before fashion became content, before designers turned into global celebrities, there was Gianni Versace. The Italian designer…
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The most intimate fashion sale of the decade reveals not just garments, but the mind of one of fashion’s greatest revolutionaries. Fashion loves the word archive. The industry uses it constantly: archival pieces, archival references, archival collections. Entire careers now seem built…
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She didn’t arrive on stage by accident. but by necessity. In the glow of Delhi’s nightlife, Hash Brownie learned how to turn vulnerability into spectacle, fear into confidence, and glamour into a presence. Hash Brownie’s journey as a professional drag queen is…
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A script from Annie Hall, rare fashion pieces, photographs, furniture and private objects: the Bonhams sale reveals Diane Keaton not as a Hollywood icon, but as a meticulous editor of atmospheres. There are actresses whose style belongs to cinema, and then there…
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In Venice, this spring, beauty refuses to behave. In a palace still intact, before its restoration, suspended between past and disappearance, the Fondazione Dries Van Noten opens its doors. The setting: Palazzo Pisani Moretta, resting on the Grand Canal. The gesture: a…
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As My Father’s Shadow opens in French cinemas, director Akinola Davies Jr. reflects on Lagos, absence, and the fragile ties that shape us. Nigerian-British filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. belongs to a generation of directors redefining how stories about Africa are told on screen. Working…
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In Delhi, art does not whisper; it collides, transforms, negotiates with history. At the heart of this restless city, Pristine Contemporary has quickly become one of its most agile platforms. Founded by Arjun Butani and his partner Arjun Sawhney, the gallery moves…
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“Lagos is a mix between… it’s the talking drum competing with a sax solo with a Jimi Hendrix on Acid coming to join the session. At some point. At some point. And all of them finding a spot Where they don’t collide…
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Few Nigerian creatives have bent as many disciplines to their will as Daniel Obasi. A self-taught graphic designer turned stylist, photographer, and filmmaker, he first earned global attention with Fashion Eye Lagos for Louis Vuitton (2022), a book-length visual ode to his city’s layered realities.…
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