Art + Culture Travis Scott Vocalizes Ardent Support for Black Lives Matter Sep. 15, 2020 In ‘The Face’s cover story, lensed by ‘ASTROWORLD’ photographer David LaChapelle. »
Photography + Film Cate Blanchett Stars in a High Culture Project You Can Watch on Your Phone Sep. 14, 2020 What’s an actor to do during a pandemic? There are Zoom plays, homemade music videos about the trials of love in lockdown, or, if you’re Cate Blanchett, avant-garde video projects exploring the human condition. »
Art + Culture Inside Coco Capitán’s New Exhibition, Inspired by the Sea Sep. 14, 2020 Capitán’s new solo show, her first in London for four years, features photography, painting and found objects, brought together by her long-held fascination for the sea. »
Style + Design An oral history of Gareth Pugh, ‘the Fellini of Fashion’ Sep. 14, 2020 Ahead of the brand’s return this month, Michèle Lamy, Lulu Kennedy, Andrew Bolton and more discuss the living history and legacy of one of London’s most important fashion figures. »
Photography + Film Cate Blanchett takes on multiple personalities in her second art film, directed by Italian artist Marco Brambilla Sep. 11, 2020 The three-minute video in which Blanchett embodies the Greek philosopher Galen's four temperaments debuts today at Michael Fuchs Galerie in Berlin. »
Style + Design Four Generations of Altuzarra Women Pose in the Brand’s Fall 2020 Collection Sep. 11, 2020 In preparing for this year’s soon-to-open Costume Institute exhibit “About Time: Fashion and Duration,” Andrew Bolton continually used the refrain: “Fashion is a mirror of time.” That applies on the broadest cultural scale, of course, but also in small personal histories. For Joseph Altuzarra, a designer of Chinese, French, and American heritage, designing a garment isn’t just about making something in step with right now, but also about expressing stories of life and lineage through fashion. »
Style + Design YSL lands a new ambassador with Lenny Kravitz Sep. 9, 2020 The music legend joins his daughter who was tapped by the brand as a global make-up ambassador in 2017 »
Art + Culture Kehinde Wiley on Protests’ Results: ‘I’m Not Impressed Yet’ Aug. 31, 2020 The artist, riding out the pandemic in Dakar, also talked about torn-down Confederate monuments and where they should go — like in “a hall of horrors.” »
Photography + Film Nicki Minaj Announces Pregnancy with “Virgin Mary” David LaChapelle Shoot Jul. 22, 2020 Nicki Minaj has announced that she is pregnant with her first child. »
Art + Culture François Halard – Modern Spirit, a Stopover in the Mediterranean Jul. 21, 2020 In the rooms of the Hôtel des Arts, the photographer François Halard will allow us to discover his perspective on the architectural and artistic heritage of Toulon. »
Art + Culture Meet Lily Kwong Jul. 7, 2020 Phillips is excited to partner with the biophilic artist on a specially-curated section of landscape photography within our New York Photographs exhibition. »
Style + Design Iris van Herpen Finds Beauty in “Transmotion” for the Fall 2020 Couture Jul. 6, 2020 Fall 2020 marks the first season that couture, the bastion of handicraft, is going digital. Iris van Herpen, who has challenged the métier’s notion of what constitutes a unique garment by creating one-offs using technology, is well-positioned to make use of a digital platform. »
Style + Design From ‘Game of Thrones’ to Digital Couture Jul. 6, 2020 Carice van Houten, the Red Priestess, brings an Iris van Herpen dress to life in a short film. »
The Freedom Garden Initiative Is Giving New Meaning To Victory Gardens Jun. 19, 2020 Like so many small businesses in the wake of COVID-19, Studio Lily Kwong, a landscape design studio founded in 2017 by landscape artist Lily Kwong, postponed its major projects...With new restrictions and the revelation that coronavirus was posing a major threat to food access, Kwong and her team began looking to history for inspiration. »
Art + Culture Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg look to the future in Louvre Abu Dhabi sci-fi podcast Jun. 1, 2020 Louvre Abu Dhabi is inviting us to go thousands of years into the future thanks to an absorbing audio and visual experience created by the Soundwalk Collective group which is known for creating “sonic landscapes”. The piece, We Are Not Alone, begins with the museum architect Jean Nouvel who has recorded a message for future generations. “A narrator then places the audience within the tale’s futuristic world, inviting them to imagine the museum’s surroundings in a galaxy that has survived long after human extinction,” a statement says. »
