They were young, hot, rich, in love and one of the era's most enigmatic and magnetic couples Lenny Kravitz and Vanessa Paradis at a Chanel spring/summer 1995 fashion show.
Invented in 1896 and printed on waterproofed canvas, that motif was, ironically, originally intended to thwart endemic copying of the checkered and striped trunks that had hitherto been its hallmarks. In the ensuing 130 years, that monogram has become probably the most counterfeited logo on the planet - and includes a raft of multiscale, multicolour remixes devised by Vuitton itself, constantly reinventing the LV-pocked canvas afresh.
“The five-year commitment [from Chanel] will strengthen Centre Pompidou's work across access, scholarship, and the preservation of public knowledge, contributing to its long-term stewardship of cultural memory,” says a Chanel statement. The amount given is confidential, a spokesperson adds.
Kozo seems to understand that a car, like a painting, is never merely an object. It is a vessel for mythology. It carries memory, masculinity, class, labor, fantasy, and longing. During Frieze Art Week, the multidisciplinary artist and CART DEPT took that truth and drove it directly into art history with Permanent Impermanence, an exhibition at Free Parking in the West Village.
The trinketification of fashion has officially reached manicures. Now that accessories have their own accessories - purse keychains, phone charms, bows on headphones - plain French tips look a little underdressed in comparison. The celebrity-approved fix? Bling French nails, a sparkly update on the classic manicure featuring rhinestones, crystals, and chrome accents.
Now open, Marcel is the result of a partnership between Sotheby's and design firm Roman and Williams and ushers this historic building into a new era. First built in 1966, the building has long been a focal point for the city's art scene, housing the Whitney Museum for 50 years, and acting as an outpost for The Met and a temporary storage space for the Frick Collection since. A Brutalist marvel, the building's domineering look proved polarizing.
We were accompanied by Vietnamese American filmmaker Nguyen, whose film How to Ride a Bike follows a Vietnamese dad who never learned to ride a bike but, after a failed attempt to teach his son to do so, begins learning in secret, and Amer, the Palestinian American comedian, writer, and director behind on Netflix, whose new project Return to Sender follows a Palestinian stand-up and refugee who experiences progressively senseless immigration restrictions while on a global tour.
Other western arts organizations are also banking on Saudi investments - part of the kingdom's Vision 2030 plan to grow its cultural and tourism industries - including the Centre Pompidou, which entered a €50 million agreement with the kingdom in 2024. “The Met didn't pivot to Saudi Arabia because the lights were going out in New York but because they were being turned on in Riyadh,” says Tess O'Dwyer, a fundraising consultant for nonprofits.
“This partnership formalises a broad framework across four key areas: joint curatorial research, exhibition development and sharing, co-commissions and artwork displays, and collection exchange,” says a project statement.
In 2011, Christian Levett achieved what many avid collectors aspire to do one day and opened his own museum. Located in central Mougins, a medieval town in southern France, the Mougins Museum of Classical Art exhibited the British former investment manager's broad-ranging holdings that span antiquity, Modernism and contemporary art. In a surprising turn of events, the four-storey institution shut its doors in 2023 and was replaced by Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, which burgeoned from Levett's snowballing interest in works-abstraction in particular-by women artists of the Modern and contemporary periods.
Hundreds of people waited through the night from Friday into Saturday and in some cases for several days hoping to buy the Royal Pop timepieces, made in collaboration with the luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet. In France, queues of hundreds of people formed overnight in several cities and a police source said officers had fired teargas to control a 300-strong crowd outside a Swatch shop in the Paris region. A metal shutter and two security gates were damaged in the incident.
For Antoine Maisondieu, the nose behind To Vetiver, Comme des Garçons Parfums ' latest 'pebble' fragrance, the weight was doubled - this was the last completed perfume of Christian Astuguevieille, CDG Parfums' pioneering creative director of three decades, composed in devotion to the material he loved above all others.
The “Ocean Dream,” the standout offer at the auction house's Geneva sale of jewelry, was found in Central Africa in the 1990s. The price easily topped the presale estimate to fetch 7-10 million francs (around $9-13 million). Rahul Kadakia, president of Christie's Asia Pacific, said that an unspecified private client was the buyer, and the stone took about 20 minutes to sell - an indication that interest was high.
Over the course of last summer more than 75,000 swimmers used the three sites - each site is tested daily and opens only if the water quality is high enough for safe swimming. Last year saw several days of closure following heavy rain. The swimming spots also form part of the legacy of Paris' former mayor Anne Hidalgo, and following the election of her Parti Socialiste colleague Emmanuel Gregoire as the new mayor, Paris city hall confirmed that the event will go ahead in 2026.
The unisex perfume, Soie Malaquais, launched by Dries Van Noten in 2022, has been specially packaged in five unique bottles by the Belgian artist Bouke de Vries, on sale at the designer's London and New York stores. The scent, developed by Marie Salamagne after a visit to Van Noten's garden (an impressive one, surrounding an equally impressive château), is a warm mix of chestnut, rose, blackcurrant and cardamom.
Aubusson in the Creuse department is a UNESCO gem, listed for its Intangible Cultural Heritage. With a population barely exceeding 3,000, Aubusson has a global reputation amongst lovers of history, heritage, and needlework. Tapestry production grew here in the 15th century, and the work of Aubusson's skilled craftsmen adorned and insulated the grand rooms of draughty chateaux across Europe.
Gardaí now believe that Emily boarded a flight which arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on Saturday morning, with a missing person poster circulated in France giving this as her last known location. She is last known to have been walking to a bus depot at the airport.
