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In Milan, Louis Vuitton Revamps the Iconic Cocoon Chair
Estúdio Campana’s Cocoon returns in a glimmering collaboration with Vuitton and French artist Géraldine Gonzalez. Above: The Estúdio Campana Cocoon Dichroic chair for Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades. In a hidden room at the very back of a Milanese palazzo that can be entered only after one has passed …
In Milan, Louis Vuitton Revamps the Iconic Cocoon Chair Original
2 min read Above: The Estúdio Campana Cocoon Dichroic chair for Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades. In a hidden room at the very back of a Milanese palazzo that can be entered only after one has passed several checkpoints, a glimmering orb is refracting shards of light onto the walls. Outside, on the street, a line stretches down the block. Here, inside the hushed enclave, behind a velvet rope, a small crowd of people gather, murmuring and jotting notes.
How Larry Gagosian Redefined the Gallery
5 min read Above: Richard Serra’s Running Arcs (For John Cage), 1992, is currently on view in one of Larry Gagosian’s Chelsea galleries. The year was 1983. Two jaw-droppingly large slabs of Cor-Ten were dangling almost gingerly from a crane as they approached a gray stucco building in Beverly Hills. Construction, any passerby might have thought.
What Is the Analog Inspiration Behind the Juicy New Colors of the Newest Apple Computer?
2 min read ‘90s nostalgia is trending harder than ever at the moment, and that extends to tech. Back in 1998, Apple founder Steve Jobs and legendary designer Jony Ive introduced the iMac G3 in a sheer turquoise, changing desks everywhere forever. (The original—dubbed Bondi Blue—was soon joined by a series of fruit-inspired colors. Think Strawberry and Lime. Eventually this became Indigo, Ruby, and Sage, and so on.) At the time, Jobs said: "It looks like it's from another planet. A good planet.
What Is the Analog Inspiration Behind the Juicy Colors of Apple’s Newest Computer?
‘90s nostalgia is trending harder than ever at the moment, and that extends to tech. Back in 1998, Apple founder Steve Jobs and legendary designer Jony Ive introduced the iMac G3 in a transparent turquoise, changing desks everywhere forever. (The original—dubbed Bondi Blue—was soon joined by a series of fruit-inspired colors. Think Strawberry and Lime. Eventually this became Indigo, Ruby, and Sage, and so on.) At the time, Jobs said: "It looks like it's from another planet. A good planet.
What Is the Analog Inspiration Behind the Juicy Colors of Apple’s Newest Computer?
The Inspiration Behind Apple’s Juicy New Colors Hearst Owned ‘90s nostalgia is trending harder than ever at the moment, and that extends to tech. Back in 1998, Apple founder Steve Jobs and legendary designer Jony Ive introduced the iMac G3 in a transparent turquoise, changing desks everywhere forever. (The original—dubbed Bondi Blue—was soon joined by a series of fruit-inspired colors. Think Strawberry and Lime.
The Birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr. Reopens This June Original
2 min read Above: Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth home in Atlanta, Georgia. For the first twelve years of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. lived with his extended family in a gracious Queen Anne Victorian house in Atlanta, Georgia's "Sweet Auburn" neighborhood. His mother, Alberta, had grown up in the house, and when she married a minister in her father's church, the newlyweds moved in to the home, which sits set back from the street.
Hermès' Well-Crafted Home Objects Gracefully Juxtapose Old and New Original
4 min read What happens when Hermès makes a three-legged bamboo stool? Well, first, they don’t plan to. Instead, the longtime creative directors of Hermès’s home division, Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry, a French architect and curator respectively, start by thinking about whom they might want to work with. (In this case it was Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza Vieira.) “[His work has] a relationship to the enduring properties of time that felt relevant to Hermès,” Perelman says.
Bruce Weber Captures Sofia Coppola's Los Angeles Office, Cy Twombly’s Rome Residence, and Jil Sander's Hamburg Home Original
3 min read In a world of images that scroll past us in seemingly endless waves of interchangeable pixels, designers Patrick McGrath and Michael Bargo decided to challenge themselves to answer the question: What actually stands the test of time? For the two, who are longtime friends, the answer finally came—in the form of objects they have each lived with.
TO SHOP... PERCHANCE TO DREAM?
Elle Decor US | September 2025 A new Peter Marino-designed Dior flagship predicts the future in store. Delphine Arnault, CEO of Christian Dior Couture, and architect Peter Marino in the new Dior flagship in Manhattan, which his firm designed. The stairwell features a rainbow-hued diorama of archival Dior designs. “It’s always been Peter, since I was a child,” says Delphine Arnault, chairman and CEO of Christian Dior Couture.
New Peter Marino-Designed Dior Flagship Blends Grandeur, Emotion, and Modernity
“It’s always been Peter, since I was a child,” says Delphine Arnault, chairman and CEO of Christian Dior Couture. She is speaking of Peter Marino, the black-biker-leather-clad architect who has almost singlehandedly redefined luxury retail since he began working with the French fashion house decades ago. Arnault was just 10 years old when she first visited 30 Avenue Montaigne, the brand’s Paris flagship, which had been Mr. Dior’s own couture salon.
Inside the New Peter Marino-Designed Dior Flagship
“It’s always been Peter, since I was a child,” says Delphine Arnault, chairman and CEO of Christian Dior Couture. She is speaking of Peter Marino, the black-biker-leather-clad architect who has almost singlehandedly redefined luxury retail since he began working with the French fashion house decades ago. Arnault was just 10 years old when she first visited 30 Avenue Montaigne, the brand’s Paris flagship, which had been Mr. Dior’s own couture salon.
This Coastal New England Garden Was 12 Years in the Making Original
A dozen or so years ago, a couple found a heavily wooded rise along the New England coast. It looked out over the water, with breezes blowing through the oak trees. It was the perfect spot for a house, they thought. But how to stay true to the feeling of being alone in the wilderness while also creating enough space to live, work, and welcome friends and family?
Athena Calderone Is Swapping Her Marble Kitchen For Onyx and Cherry Original
Years ago, a fashion retailer asked Athena Calderone, then known primarily for recipes that were as appealing to the palate as the camera, to host a culinary event. Calderone, the founder of website EyeSwoon, searched uptown and down but couldn’t find a spot in New York that felt just right. “We were trying to find a beautiful kitchen you could host and teach in—and it just didn’t exist,” she says.
Sofia Zevi Is the Gallerist To Watch Right Now
Above: Zevi's Milan gallery staged a multi-artist show during this spring's design week. The love story begins, as so many do, with dinner. It was a spring evening in 2022, and Sofia Zevi—a recent New York transplant to Milan—was at her favorite spot, Il Consolare, on one of her favorite streets. She decided to take advantage of the balmy weather with a stroll over the cobblestones. Suddenly she saw it, an empty space with a sign: FOR RENT.
An Inside Look At Portofino's Favorite Celeb Hideaway, Belmond's Splendido Hotel
Above: The pool at the Splendido is renowned for its setting overlooking the marina. High above the crystalline waters of Portofino, Italy—overlooking a jewel of a harbor so tiny it’s hard to conceive how megayachts bearing the likes of Madonna, Kim Kardashian, and Leonardo DiCaprio can jostle in for a berth—there is a drive that winds even higher up the steep mountainside. It’s so tight that when two cars meet, it often means one must make a choice.
An Inside Look At Portofino's Favorite Celeb Hideaway, Belmond's Splendido Hotel
Above: The pool at the Splendido is renowned for its setting overlooking the marina. High above the crystalline waters of Portofino, Italy—overlooking a jewel of a harbor so tiny it’s hard to conceive how megayachts bearing the likes of Madonna, Kim Kardashian, and Leonardo DiCaprio can jostle in for a berth—there is a drive that winds even higher up the steep mountainside. It’s so tight that when two cars meet, it often means one must make a choice.
An Inside Look At Portofino's Favorite Celeb Hideaway, Belmond's Splendido Hotel
Above: The pool at the Splendido is renowned for its setting overlooking the marina. High above the crystalline waters of Portofino, Italy—overlooking a jewel of a harbor so tiny it’s hard to conceive how megayachts bearing the likes of Madonna, Kim Kardashian, and Leonardo DiCaprio can jostle in for a berth—there is a drive that winds even higher up the steep mountainside. It’s so tight that when two cars meet, it often means one must make a choice.
Pomp and Precision
It was the year 1988. A clean-cut 22-year-old named Tom Browne was standing at the edge of an Olympic-size pool in his black Speedo, contemplating a dive into the frigid water.
Family Style - Viva Espresso
In Miami, coffee reigns supreme. Whenever she is visiting the city where she grew up, Vanessa Granda always makes sure to order a cup, or two. The New York-based photographer, known for her thoughtful fashion editorials and imaginative still-lifes, finds beauty in the everyday, and Cuban coffee is no exception. After all, she learned how to prepare it from her mother—her espresso of choice, Café Bustelo of course.
Family Style - Aglare
Winter 2024 Art Commissions February 14, 2025 8:00 AM There is a private, far away world that artists return to time and time again. Its parameters, molded in childhood and chiseled away in practice. Like the natural landscape, it is always shifting, eroding, and regenerating anew. We can see it, too, eyes closed: a snow capped mountain, an ancient organism, our body, cosmic. Eyes open, gaze fixed, it is a coil on a vine, a statue, light streaming from a window.
The Eternal Present
When I meet Oliver Osborne at Francis Irv on a rainy afternoon in May for coffee, I am immediately struck by the degrees of self-trust he has in his practice. “The history of painting in England does not interest me,” the Edinburgh-born artist replies when I ask him where he draws influence. Osborne is a painter who is always looking elsewhere.
Family Style - Day to Night
Soft light emanates from a miniature table lamp that resembles a tall, polished candle. Both a light source and an art piece, its widened base anchors an angular, see-through lampshade at the top. This portable fixture marks the 10th anniversary of Flos’ first collaboration with Philippe Starck. Named Bon Jour Unplugged, the design reflects the French industrial architect’s signature aesthetic that fuses form and function and combines diverse materials like plastic, aluminum, and chrome.
Take a Trip Out West with Ralph Lauren’s Latest Home Collection
Only one man could swing into the heart of Milan with a confident American swagger: Ralph Lauren. At this most recent design week, that’s exactly what he did. At the Ralph Lauren Palazzo, he showcased the greatest hits of his home collections from over the years (think NYC penthouse to Jamaican retreat to English country estate) alongside a brand new one, Canyon Road. As the name implies, it’s an homage to Lauren’s beloved American West, with ranch-ready motifs throughout.
How the Maga beauty look swept America
When Stephanie Louise, make-up artist and “cosmetic injector” at Houston’s It’s A Secret Med Spa, landed the assignment of styling...
Tyler Mitchell Has Georgia on His Mind
A fter living in New York City for more than a decade, photographer Tyler Mitchell, 29, was not expecting his return to his native Atlanta last year to be an emotional one. After all, in the intervening years, the Museum of Modern Art had acquired his work, American Vogue had commissioned him as its first Black cover photographer and he had created campaigns for LVMH and Kering. He was in Atlanta to install his show at the High Museum of Art, an institution he dubs the MoMA of his hometown.
The Most Fashionable Scaffolding in the World
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Louis Vuitton's Flagship Store Has The Most Fashionable Holiday Season Scaffolding
In a season when most stores vie with each other for the most extraordinary holiday windows, one of the biggest sensations doesn’t have windows at all. A 15-story stack of six Louis Vuitton trunks that has landed at the corner of East 57th Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan dwarfs towers over nearby sights like Rockefeller Center’s 74-foot Christmas tree, Bergdorf Goodman’s beaux-arts eight-story building, Trump Tower’s five-story atrium and Saks Fifth Avenue’s 100-year-old ten-story building.
Frame Started as a Lark. Now It’s Nearing $200 Million in Sales.
One night in 2011, in the dressing room of her Kensington townhouse, Natalie Massenet, the founder of online retailer Net-a-Porter, nervously tried on a pair of jeans. She had sold plenty of them, but this particular pair didn’t look so promising by the standards of the era. They weren’t too skinny, too stiff, dyed or decorated. Just simple, deep bluejeans with a gold button.
Exclusive | Audrey Gelman Is Opening a Hotel
On an unusually hot Monday in early May, Audrey Gelman is perched on a set of steps near her tiny Brooklyn homewares store, the Six Bells, talking about her business. “I can’t really keep anything small for too long,” she says. Her cozy retail space—the rare establishment that can accurately be termed a shoppe—is a celebration of all things country-chic.
Angelina Jolie Gets Honest About Fame
It’s been seven years since Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, the father of her six children. Seven years, she says, of being mostly at home, of thinking, of avoiding work that pulls her away from her family. In that time, Jolie has appeared in only five films, nothing compared to the multiple-premieres-per-year pace she had maintained pretty consistently since playing a punk in 1995’s “Hackers.” “We had to heal,” she says.
Chanel’s Unexpected CEO Is Reinventing the Company
By Elisa Lipsky-Karasz | Photography by Jody Rogac for WSJ. Magazine Aug. 27, 2023 8:00 am ET For more than a century, Paramount Studios in Los Angeles has drawn Hollywood stars—Marlene Dietrich, Elvis Presley and Audrey Hepburn, to name a few. In May, the 65-acre lot took a star turn itself, as the backdrop for a Chanel fashion show.
How Kendall Jenner Wants to Ditch the Nepo Baby Playbook
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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama: A Playfully Chic Collaboration
At 93, Yayoi Kusama has set many records, both official and unofficial, for a renegade artist: the most expensive painting by a living female artist sold at auction ($7.1 million, at the time of sale in 2014, for White No. 28); the highest-grossing female artist at auction ($889 million generated by nearly 8,000 lots); and the longest time spent voluntarily living at a mental-health hospital (since 1977, at a facility in Tokyo).
Jony Ive on Life After Apple
I can always write an awful lot that I can’t draw,” Jony Ive, the mastermind behind Apple’s most revolutionary products, says as he holds up a Space Age–style coffee cup. “If I draw this, it only captures certain attributes.” Ive is sitting in the garden of a Pacific Heights carriage house high in the San Francisco hills, a building he converted into a private studio and occasional crash pad for friends.
Laurene Powell Jobs Is Giving It Her All
Sept. 28, 2022 8:30 am ET Laurene Powell Jobs doesn’t tend to court the limelight. Over the past decade, she’s given only 10 interviews for publication. So why speak now, when there’s hardly a pressing reason for her to take the public stage?
Laurene Powell Jobs Is Giving It Her All
Laurene Powell Jobs doesn’t tend to court the limelight. Over the past decade, she’s given only 10 interviews for publication. So why speak now, when there’s hardly a pressing reason for her to take the public stage?
Laurene Powell Jobs Is Giving It Her All
Sept. 28, 2022 8:30 am ET Laurene Powell Jobs doesn’t tend to court the limelight. Over the past decade, she’s given only 10 interviews for publication. So why speak now, when there’s hardly a pressing reason for her to take the public stage?
The Best Pieces from the Fall Women’s Fashion Collections
This fall, there is something for everyone, whether a coolly cropped jean jacket from Hedi Slimane at Celine or a punked-out leather coat from Dolce & Gabbana with ’80s power shoulders that Cyndi Lauper would have loved. Charmingly cropped hemlines make an appearance with a tweed skirt suit from Chanel—which has come back in force as a day or evening look, complete with matching bag—and with Miu Miu’s sweet ultra-mini that would make library wonks blush if it appeared in the stacks.
A Magical Live-Work Retreat on Long Island
And that’s how Roberts ended up with a home away from her second home. “I walked in, and I had this impulsive [thought]: I’m going to buy this house,” says Roberts of the cedar-sided four-bedroom that sits a few minutes’ drive from her own place and just down the road from the Great South Bay. “It felt really open. It felt really private. And also, I immediately saw a place for a piano.” She bought the house in November 2020.
A Magical Live-Work Retreat on Long Island
Back in March 2020, architect Elizabeth Roberts, 53, suddenly found herself running her Brooklyn-based business from an unheated, uninsulated old barn on her property in Bellport, Long Island, where she, her physician husband and their teenage son had decamped to ride out the pandemic.
Inside Karlie Kloss’s New Life
The photographer Richard Avedon once described models as “a group of underdeveloped, frightened, insecure women, most of whom have been thought ugly as children—too tall and too skinny.” Since that time, much has changed. Models have become business powerhouses and, at the top of the industry, can make tens of millions of dollars a year. What hasn’t changed is that modeling is governed by highly subjective standards. But Karlie Kloss is trying to transform that.
Photos: Virgil Abloh’s Legacy in Fashion
On November 28, the protean American fashion designer Virgil Abloh died at the age of 41. At his line Off-White, established in 2013, he helped usher in a new era of luxe streetwear that was marked by frequent collaborations and sought-after sneaker designs. In 2018, Abloh was appointed creative director of Louis Vuitton menswear, where he challenged the limits of men’s fashion with colorful and creatively accessorized collections that proposed new silhouettes in tailoring.
10 of Karl Lagerfeld’s Most Personal Possessions
Karl Lagerfeld designed his homes the same way he designed his collections: with complete conviction, each time charging off in a totally new direction, creating what fashion stylists call “the full look.” One château was an 18th-century rococo fever dream; a Monaco apartment was a 1980s neon-filled Memphis time capsule; a minimalist Parisian apartment featured sleek, futuristic pieces by Marc Newson and Martin Szekely. One house was used solely for eating meals in, another for working.
Why Marta Ortega Pérez Is the Secret to Zara’s Success
Just a few yards away in this white, open-plan office on the outskirts of La Coruña, a port town in Galicia, Spain’s northwesternmost region, is the same kind of chair and desk, used by her father, Amancio Ortega, a reclusive billionaire whose net worth ranks him among the world’s wealthiest individuals. Ortega is the founder and controlling shareholder of Inditex, the conglomerate that owns seven clothing companies, including Massimo Dutti, Bershka and Zara.
Dasha Zhukova’s New Real Estate Venture, Ray, Makes It Night at the Museum Every Night
The future of museum-going and cultural forays could be down in your own lobby, according to Dasha Zhukova, the arts patron and philanthropist who is launching a new residential real estate development firm in New York. Ray, the name of Zhukova’s new brand, sets out to remedy a blind spot she sees in the residential world: the lack of arts and culture experiences in urban developments.
Amber, Carolyn and Shalom: The Neverending Joy of ’90s Supermodels
One night in Paris in the early ’90s, two teenage girls, one brunette and one blond, perched at an outdoor table at a restaurant in the Marais. It was straight out of a Godard film, with a nearby ballet school whose rehearsals they could glimpse in the mirrors. They swapped stories about their hometowns, where they grew up with strong-willed single moms: places with flat-voweled names—Oshawa, Ontario, and Tulsa, Oklahoma—that rhymed somehow with their own names, Shalom Harlow and Amber Valletta.
Was Punky Brewster’s Soleil Moon Frye the Original Influencer?
Imagine a world with no TikTok, no Instagram, no YouTube, no Twitter, no Facebook. Now imagine that someone even more famous than today’s selfie sensations like Addison Rae, Charli D’Amelio and Emma Chamberlain took about as many photos, videos, tapes and notes as they do. And then, instead of posting a single pic, she locked it all up for more than two decades.
The New Metropolitan Museum of Art Breuer Building - CultureVulture
distinct from the other giants of New York’s cultural landscape—and why does it need to? To some, it smacks of hubristic empire building by an institution that already has a huge footprint.
In a Waist-Up World, $900 Luxe Sweaters Are Zoom Status Symbols
On the night in November when Taylor Swift broke her own record for career American Music Awards, she was not wearing a custom-made gold-sequined bodysuit and gold-and-pink floor-length cape nor a metallic Balmain mini-dress with matching thigh-high boots, as she has for the ceremony in the past. While video-ing in her thanks for Artist of the Year, the “Cardigan” singer was wearing a sweater. A black, cotton-blend, rib-knit, mock-turtleneck sweater, more preschool teacher than pop star.
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