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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In 1981, at the lowest point of his life, Marvin Gaye quietly disappeared from the American music scene and resurfaced somewhere unexpected: Ostend. Belgian writer Serge Honorez explores this little-known episode when a quiet North Sea city, far from Motown and Los…
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It was in Christian Dior’s own gardens, at the heart of Château de La Colle Noire, that we met Francis Kurkdjian. In Montauroux, among cypress trees, olive groves, and golden light, this Provençal estate, acquired by Dior in 1951, was conceived as…
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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 1986, Antwerp didn’t ask for permission: it changed fashion. There are cities that follow trends, and then there is Antwerp. In 1986, six young designers freshly graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts rented a truck, loaded up their collections…
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In Gstaad, the Gagosian gallery pays tribute to one of the most precise eyes in the history of photography. Sometimes it takes very little to understand a photographer. With Irving Penn, that “very little” becomes almost a philosophy: a cool light,…
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Sanjay Garg does not speak about textiles as product. He speaks about them as politics, anthropology, memory and resistance. Founder of Raw Mango, he has spent nearly two decades rethinking handloom, taste and the sari, not as nostalgia, but as living systems.…
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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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This issue of CITY was born out of tension… the productive kind. Between cities and silences, bodies and images, memory and urgency. In New York, fashion unfolds as movement, with garments shaped by the city’s pace, by desire, by freedom and friction.…
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