Month: March 2019

THE MET’S SUNDAY BEST: Last-minute museum-goers still have 10 days to catch the record-breaking “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Fifth Avenue location and The Met Cloisters. With 1.3 million visitors at the Upper East Side museum and nearly 200,000 at The Met Cloisters — and counting — the show is the most-visited one for The Met’s Costume Institute. Spanning 60,000 square feet and 25 galleries, the…

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Dr. Precious Moloi Motsepe is partnering with Global Citizen, which aims to end extreme poverty by 2030. Through the Motsepe Foundation, where she serves as co-founder and chief executive officer, the doctor, fashion entrepreneur and philanthropist will help support the South African edition of Global Citizens Festival, which will celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday. She will get on stage this weekend at the New York edition of the festival, which will feature performers from Janet…

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AROUND THE FIRE: Gus Van Sant jumped up from his seat to photograph Australian model Jordan Barrett while they were both waiting for the Rick Owens show to start. “It’s crazy, you look just like a friend of mine from the Seventies,” said the director, snapping away with his iPhone. “I’ve been wanting to meet him for such a long time,” said Barrett, who is working on an eyewear and apparel line with Chrome Hearts.…

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GARDEN PARTY: The garden at Apicius, the Michelin-starred restaurant in a former hôtel particulier near the Champs Elysées, was the scene of an intimate cocktail party organized by ANDAM on Wednesday night. The crowd blended industry players, such as Chanel’s president of fashion Bruno Pavlovsky and Chloé chief executive officer Geffroy de la Bourdonnaye, and designers. Guests enjoyed wine selected from the restaurant’s famed cellar in the candlelight. Nathalie Dufour, founder of the fashion prize,…

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A Bathing Ape turned into a speedy beast in Tokyo on Friday when the Japanese streetwear brand revealed its latest crossover collaboration with Formula One. It has put the BAPE logo on a racing car and displayed it in the luxury shopping complex of Omotesando Hills. A more extensive product collaboration is in the pipeline. While fashion brands have inked partnerships with Formula One teams in the past, with tie-ups including Tommy Hilfiger and Mercedes-AMG Petronas…

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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Alhambra jewelry collection, Van Cleef & Arpels will bring its interactive installation to South Coast Plaza from Oct. 4 to 14. First unveiled in London and Tokyo, the 1,000-square-foot structure will be located in the shopping center’s Jewel Court. Inspired by the shape of the clover motif and based on the collection’s theme of luck, the installation comprises four connected rooms, each telling a different part of the…

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GOOD SPORTS: Nike was in good company for its Paris presentation celebrating its female athletes, with in attendance a number of football athletes and the eight track and field stars who walked in the Off-White show on Thursday, including Vashti Cunningham, Cecilia Yeung, Sam Kerr and Yuki Nagasato. Joining the sports brand at the event on Friday, a nod to the upcoming Women’s World Cup 2019 in Paris next June, were three new collaborators: former…

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PARIS — Guests kept an eye on their brand new Ikea x Virgil Abloh rugs, propped up against the edge of the dance floor at the Nuits Fauves, a club located on the ground level of the Cité de la Mode. Part of the designer’s collaboration with Swedish retailer Ikea was available to purchase at an exclusive pop-up store on Friday evening, a full year before the official launch of the “Markerad” collection. The “Blue,” “Grey,” “Keep…

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STRANGE ENCOUNTERS: The leading ladies sitting front row at Elie Saab may have been dolled up for the occasion, but their latest acting jobs are of a more alien kind. Roxanne Mesquida said she had lots of fun shooting the Steven Soderbergh-produced series “Now Apocalypse,” due out in April. “It’s about aliens.…I play an astro-biological theorist who is French and not very nice and very promiscuous,” said the actress, in town for her next movie…

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YOU CAN DANCE: Audience participation is not usually part of the deal when you go to the ballet, but the opening gala of the season at the Paris Opera set out to shake up traditions. Guests were invited to join the Paris Opera Ballet on stage at the ornate Palais Garnier, where they were led by dancers to perform a waltz. In their colorful evening dresses, the untrained participants stood out from the sea of…

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