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Jordan Brand Shoots Its Shot In Paris

Jordan Brand — in collaboration with creative director Youssouf Fofana — presents District 23, a six-week programming series at the renovated Tati Barbès department store geared to educate local and international youth on brand building and basketball as a gateway to creative skills. Tati Barbès is a legendary shop in fashion lore due to the Alaïa 'Tati' collection from S/S 91. Azzedine Alaïa created one of fashion’s first ‘high/low’ collaborations where luxury meets low cost, exchanging an accessories line designed for Tati to gain usage of their ubiquitous vichy check houndstooth so Farida Khelfa and Helena Christensen could sing on his catwalk. Fofana leverages the cultural significance of Tati in the 18th arrondissement as a place where all ethnic backgrounds were, and are, welcome. Jordan Brand partners with Foot Locker to offer Paris youths access to basketball courts, women’s ball courts and a square where hoops, football and chess can be played, all centralised in the 18th. This initiative culminates a hope Youssouf has to amplify access and empowerment opportunities to local kids who can then create new legacies.

CELINE Haute Parfumerie Presents Bath & Body

Hedi Slimane has a limitless ambition against constraints surrounding creative direction. So he built a coherent visual habitat at CELINE. Obviously the aesthetic system, his redefined garment syntax, arrived first. Next, he released his Haute Parfumerie army, a phalanx of scents orchestrated to stimulate notes mapping aromatic memory footprints from parades to night clubbing. Then he shared personal experiences by way of his Olfactory Diary, yet people searching for petty criticisms whine that he never speaks. Lastly came the lifestyle infantry: candles, pets, fitness. The Triomphe insignia glints towards one man for its renewed ubiquity. Now our tireless artistic, creative and image director takes another CELINE victory lap with the announcement of a Bath and Body range that extends the subcategories — and fragrance imprint — of their Haute Parfumerie line. Liquid soaps, body milks and hand creams, each in totemic Slimane black and white, mutate geometric lines and graphic direction from their fragrant forebears. A fully aligned dialogue composes haute beauty time signatures to articulate the CELINE lifestyle message that transmits across your routine performance rhythms from nape to closet to car.

Brett Westfall Takes Dover Street Market Down Under

The Dover Street Market Paris Development think tank keeps creative collabos cooking with a month-long installation at Sorry Thanks I Love You (STILY), a Sydney-based, guerilla retail hybrid space with coffee, art and sound capabilities that connects like-minded values with the new Dover Street Market location in Paris by sheer coincidence. The installation is designed by DSMP cohort, the artist and fashion designer Brett Westfall. Westfall’s work in art and fashion integrate stories of human emotions quite effortlessly. His own hand-painted artworks that attracted the eye of Dover Street founder Rei Kawakubo sixteen years ago, have been passed down to his daughter Moon. At STILY, expect to see Westfall’s trademark strawberries, his coded word for humanity ‘FRESH,’ and Moon’s own rendering called ‘Snoppy,’ which was her emotionally illustrated response to her joy for Snoopy. Mixed media canvas art, wooden planks and bicycles as a roof complete the illustration, a totality of Westfall’s organic instincts for enduring materials and interconnected emotions. Additionally, STILY’s cafe will offer up the matcha-obsessed Westfall a menu to curate his favourite goodies like Tokyo Lamington and Gelato Messina in exclusive flavours. So there! You get food, folks and fun.

The GUESS-ing Games Are Over

We keep telling you, and telling you, about this GUESS JEANS-conceived line launching a sustainably-minded technology called GUESS AIRWASH™. Presented at Pitti Uomo earlier this year, GUESS AIRWASH™ technology creates the visual effects from stone washing, subbing out pumice stones with air and bubbles. The new process reduces water and energy consumption from standard stone washing. While it may sound like fairies are at work with magic wands whisker washing your Guess denim styles, fear not. The process is pure technology developed by Guess’ eco-efficient partner Jeanologia. GUESS AIRWASH™ placed its mouth where its money sits in Amsterdam, where guests were invited to observe the process in real-time. Alright, enough ethical, technologic rambling. Nicolai Marciano conceived this project thoughtfully. So we think you should go buy some of it.

The Art of Dreams Wakes Porsche Up In Provence

The Art of Dreams is a concept from Porsche which invites artists or collectives to create an installation based on the idea of dreams. These art and automotive conversations have been presented at notable events including Milan Design Week and Art Basel Miami since 2021. Now is the time for Provence. The French region is well-known for its own colour codes that reflect the natural beauty of local architecture and art.

Dutch artist Thomas Trum explores their vibrant possibilities with ‘Southern Spins,’ his installation merging dark lavender colours from the electric Porsche Macan 4 with pastoral lavender fields from Provence. Subtle golds with Mediterranean blue-greys from the Provence sky frame Trum’s reinterpretation of colour being fundamental to man and that vivid Porsche machine. Abstract statements bring Porsche and Trum’s ‘Southern Spins’ together when wind gusts suggesting colour gestures choreograph physical movement inspired by car windshield wipers or aerodynamism from a summer breeze. The Art of Dreams then, continues to paint the rhythm of dreams through an iconic automotive blueprint.

LAILA Stages Alaïa and YSL Collections At Your Fingertips

Slowly, surely, your Vogue Runway paywall frustrations are coming to an end. Their dumb monopoly on runway image assets has been offset by our collections page and now by LAILA. Their intrepid collecting and curating of historic fashion designs results in an archive of work presented through LA MUSEUM. This virtual fashion exhibition showcases collections from Yves Saint Laurent, Gianna Versace, Azzedine Alaïa and Madame Grès. It also recalls moments and movements that put fashion in societal contexts. The straightforward mission of LA MUSEUM preserves fashion’s applied artistry and true creativity for public access. Exhibition rooms are separated by themes among a free-flowing architectural space with light sources that shift with day and time. Anyone with a digital device and internet connection can access the museum from any location. Download the LA MUSEUM app here. It really is that simple. Take that, Conde.