SHOWnews: Versace Life At Home, Valentino Cat Content, Bad Bunny Gets Off Calvin Klein

Bad Bunny Prints Mad Munny

Bad Bunny ensures nothing comes between Calvin Klein and their successful celebrity campaigns. As reported by Launchmetrics, Calvin’s latest version of pop stars lounging in underwear — featuring the multiple times Grammy-winning recording artist (also part-time WWE superstar) — struck gold to the tune of $8.4 million worth in media impact value in its first 48 hours upon release last week. This metric quantifies segmented sources across media channels to determine who drives big communication. Calvin Klein has been leveraging influential voices to hold popular sway since Brooke implied Shields, not Hyland.

Eponymous Klein, Bad Bunny and fabled Calvin Klein photographer Mario Sorrenti (CK93Obsession | CK17Obsessed) released new imagery with a new campaign film (see below) to restate how thoroughly Calvin Klein underwear knows what to reveal when presenting updated products like its new Icon Cotton Stretch designer skivvies. Calvin Klein underwear secured Mark Wahlberg’s Marky Marks for self-groping. Then they protected Justin Bieber as Lara Stone clambered on top. Hell, they even warmed the Kardashians up as the girls huddled for warmth in a barn. Calvin Klein innovates with high-impact marketing, higher wattage stars and eternally — as Bad Bunny’s pumped presence redacts every basic teenage boy on social media flashing torsos with CK elasticised logo — sexual stimulation.

Jacquemus Slumber Parties On Air France

Launching concurrently with its ‘Le 15 Ans’ renewed classics, Jacquemus boarded Air France to share a loungewear fit with passengers. While we don’t mean this actually happened, it kinda did. Air France celebrated their new La Première ‘chic yet comfortable’ travel experience in tandem with the house of J. When you level up that flight class, Jacquemus has you covered in pyjama sets featuring grosgrain embroidered Jacquemus logos in either v or crewneck styles. Much like still or sparkling, red or blue signature colours are your decision to make.

‘We are proud to partner with Maison Jacquemus and its innovative creativity to design a new loungewear set exclusively available in the La Première suites. Every detail matters in creating a memorable travel experience, and this collaboration strengthens our commitment to enhancing every moment spent in this exceptional cabin.’

— Fabien Pelous, Air France Director of Customer Experience

‘Le Pyjama’ continues the Jacquemus tradition on convivial styles for practical yet fabulous moments in life.

Marine Serre With The Flip Of A Coin

Those closed personality aspects of DC characters Selina Kyle and Harvey Dent, a Nick Knight/Kate Moss fashion film, plus Cristobal Balenciaga’s Basque waist — translated using 80s Mugler sensations in its sharp, angular hips for a fantastically hard-bodied dress worn by Tanya Dziahileva in the excellent Belgian designer Olivier Theyskens final collection for Nina Ricci — along with bedroom boy naivety (and a freaking strobelight) from a Lazoschmidl collection years back came to mind when watching the new Marine Serre fashion film. Since it's a hybrid creation of narrative plot and catwalk moment, this all felt acceptable to share. Hybrids make for thoughtful fashion sometimes. Serre’s film uses noir-ish lighting and David Lynch red to capture the elusiveness of her protagonist called Ghost. A willfully independent gal mulling over the conservative, safe lifestyle. She can’t seem to make heads or tales of either extreme. Ghost’s tension of thought and her um, her-ness, is observed among gossipy models with hot takes. The whole thing ultimately devolves into a soporific soundtrack by Para One featuring Marcelle Bittar, Noah Hanes, Kit Butler and the Marine Serre house favourite, Belgian model Kina Vandevelde. Check it out to draw your own conclusions. I’ve dreamt for you long enough.

Valentino Has A Cat Bag

That’s pretty much it. While the Pavillon des Folies collection juxtaposed electrifying, fragmented segments of Valentino Garavani and creative director Alessandro Michele’s heritage, clung to models’ hands was an expressive porcelain cat. Except that cat is not porcelain.

That cat is in fact nylon. Which means you can clutch ‘Le Chat de la Maison’ with a considered approach one might take with their own house cat. Yes, ‘Le Chat de la Maison’ appears animated. No, ‘Le Chat de la Maison’ is not an expensive toy. Like most cats, avoid dairy and chocolate. And do not try brushing ‘Le Chat de la Maison’ as its stuffy posture affects its tone, a bit of old (painterly porcelain) with a dash of new (a cartoon cat at Valentino!). Don’t bother it unless it bothers you. Follow these rules since only then can you proceed with purchase.

Versace Deep House Classics At Salone De Mobile

Gianni Versace’s homes reflected his extravagant appreciation for beauty and style to provide sensuous interior comfort. Gianni’s villa by Como; that baroque palazzo in Milan; his South Beach Casa Casuarino (with house fabrics resembling Mona Tougaard's undercarriage in the latest, last show by Donatella); all represented boundless enthusiasm for baroque invitations into lush existences. The Versace world of one brother and one sister’s own making is reconsecrated at this year’s Salone del Mobile. In Milan, Versace celebrates three decades of neoclassical design that helped craft a modern language of luxury. The exhibition aims to bring guests into a world where the past frames what could be design’s future via a curated selection of Versace’s Garden of Eden. The Harem chair (introduced in Versace Home 2010 collection) gets revived to show how to live elegantly, much like Sylvester Stallone and Claudia Schiffer helped Richard Avedon and Bruce Weber envision a modern Versace canvas in the 90s. That legacy, unfortunately not the celebrity parts, will be on display as a seamless extension of itself today.

You can discover The Versace Art of Living at the Versace Home Showroom, via Durini11, and the Versace boutique, via Montenapoleone 11.

Kim Mesches Does Bloomingdale's Soho Windows

Multidisciplinary artist and author, the Bushwick-based Kim Mesches, takes over Bloomingdale’s in Soho these next few weeks. The artist, whose sculptures got some shine on Normani and Cardi B’s ‘Wild Side’ cover art, will be staging his hard fluidity, multifunctional artworks in second floor windows at Bloomingdale’s. Worn by Marina Abramovich and Hanne Gaby Odiele, Mesches mixes offcuts from unused prototypes with his grandfather’s illustrations and an oceanic obsession to translate amorphous flux and modularity in ephemeral stillness. Check out Mesches compositions that burst with sexualised human movement in the wild. Paired with denim, Mesches’ works strangely resemble Madonna’s Versace S/S 05 campaign.

Jordan Hemingway Featuring Tricky, Acne Studios and Kappa

Jordan Hemingway has been very, very busy lately. Hemingway’s rapacious approach for video directing pop art, primordial rave and photorealism influences just sticks with architecture this time. Legendary artist and producer Tricky is immersed in Hemingway’s rendition of the Villa Arman in Venice, a sleek synthesis of rectangles, squares and glass. Placing Tricky in a marble universe of charcoal angles does at least offer a contrast between the earnest work of Hemingway and cool surfaces Acne Studios routinely builds out. If engaging with Jordan Hemingway’s projects hasn’t tired you out much, Acne Studios’ neon-tinted collection with Kappa is available right now.