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A flamboyant and visionary figure in international fashion, Gianni Versace left a lasting mark on his era through a bold aesthetic in which glamour, sensuality, and baroque opulence converge. Beginning June 5 and throughout the summer of 2026, Paris—capital of global fashion—will host at the Musée Maillol the first major French retrospective devoted to the designer since 1986.

There’s not much we know about this country, and no surprises why – North Korea is one of the most closed-off dictatorships in the world. Photographer Stephan Gladieu travelled there five times to take a series of portraits. Duly authorised to enter this nation of absolute control, accompanied everywhere he went, he recreated a framework for freedom with his mobile photography studio, playing with backgrounds and the codes of propaganda.

A fascinating journey into the world of trompe-l'oeil art in Korea, from scholarly libraries to dreamlike realms. Whether royal, academic, or museum-based, the library remains a treasure trove of knowledge and escapism. In late 18th-century Korea, in the Joseon Kingdom, King Jeongjo (r.

The exhibition Playground invites children to touch, climb, run and imagine in an otherworldly landscape by the artist Sonia Kazovsky. Installed in K20’s largest exhibition hall, this site-specific artwork approaches play as an artistic, sensory, and relational experience. In Playground, children and their caregivers can wear transformative props and costumes, roll down a vast desert hill, gather around a bonfire, and swing on an upturned street light.

What functions can a chair have? Would children rather move, rock and play than sit still? Seen from a child’s perspective – do they even need a chair? The exhibition Mini furniture: chairs for children at the MK&G invites visitors to playfully explore these questions as they examine and try out different seating options, always with children in mind.

Damien Ajavon (they/them) is the ninth artist to take part in the Fund for Young Design artist-in-residency programme of the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen. As a resident in the Fashion and Textiles department, Ajavon immersed themself in the collection of the MK&G for six months to develop new works. The results of their residency will be presented from 29 May to 30 August 2026 in the solo exhibition Threads of becoming: shifting matter and form in translation at the museum.

If the Seychelles already feels remote, Desroches takes that feeling and stretches it until it almost aches. From Mahé, there is just one flight a day. You board, you lift off, and very quickly there is nothing but ocean in every direction. Just water. Then, without much warning, a thin runway appears. You land, the engine cuts, and the silence feels different. There is no sense that anything exists beyond the edge of what you can see. You do not think about remoteness here. You feel it.

In the vast, sun-drenched landscapes of South Sudan, fashion is not merely a seasonal whim or a commercial trend. It is a profound, wearable archive of history, social hierarchy, and ancestral spirituality. While the global fashion industry often looks toward Milan or Paris for inspiration, one of the world’s most sophisticated sartorial languages has been thriving for centuries along the banks of the White Nile.

We all move, eventually. Sometimes because the world pushes us out—through war, poverty, or fear. Other times, we go willingly, out of hunger for something different. And once we take that first step, whether it is across a border or just out of our comfort zone, something changes. We might not return as the same version of ourselves. For me, the dream to travel did not come from a travel blog or a brochure. It came from my father. Growing up, I remember how he used to say, “You have to see the world.

Have you ever stood beneath a sky completely free of light pollution? I'm 39. I've travelled the world. And I can count on one hand the times I've truly seen it: on safari in Kenya, on a yacht off the coast of Italy, and in the mountains of Pai in Northern Thailand. That’s it. So in over 14,000 nights I have only ever seen the night sky clearly a handful of times. It stops you. It humbles you. And it makes you realise something important: every single person on Earth deserves to see that sky.