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Armani purchases cult club on Tuscan coast

Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has purchased one of the oldest active clubs in the world: the legendary 'Capannina di Franceschi', in Forte dei Marmi, an exclusive seaside resort on the Tuscan coast. The beach hut was converted into a disco in 1929 and has been a cult destination ever since. From summer 2026, the club is set to continue...

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Louvre Couture exhibition exceeds one million visitors

Over one million people visited the Louvre’s first exhibition dedicated to fashion, Louvre Couture. This marks the second highest attendance in the museum’s history, following the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition in 2019/2020. The museum announced this on Monday. This unprecedented exhibition, which opened on January 24 and closed on Sunday,...

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New book from Federico Marchetti, "The Geek of Chic," set for September release

Federico Marchetti's new book, with a foreword by Giorgio Armani, will be released in English on September 9th. The book, "The Geek of chic: an american dream italian style" (304 pages, 18.99 dollars), is published by the American publisher Post Hill Press. The book is described as an "inspiring story full of successes, mistakes, honesty and...

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Grand Palais to host exhibition dedicated to the work of Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh: The Codes, the first major European exhibition dedicated to the work of Virgil Abloh (1980 - 2021), will be presented at the Grand Palais from September 30 (his birthday) to October 10, 2025. The exhibition will explore nearly two decades of Abloh’s multidisciplinary output through 20,000 archive items. It brings together hundreds...

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Lagerfeld's life as a graphic novel

Those seeking light summer reading may find what they're looking for in Alfons Kaiser's latest project. The fashion critic of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) has now released his 383-page biography of Karl Lagerfeld as a graphic novel. Illustrator and comic author Simon Schwartz has selected key moments from the book, tracing...

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Work begins on 'The Devil Wears Prada 2'

Almost 20 years after the release of the comedy "The Devil Wears Prada", work has begun on the sequel. "The Devil Wears Prada 2 - now in production," 20th Century Studios wrote on Instagram. Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci, stars of the 2006 hit film, shared the post, while Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt are also returning for the new film,...

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Retrospective: Kering celebrates Demna Gvasalia’s fashion creations for Balenciaga

The ‘Balenciaga by Demna’ exhibition was held at Kering. Open until July 9, 2025, it traced Gvasalia’s journey as creative director of Balenciaga, from 2015 to 2025. The cross-shaped installation had a religious feel. It began with a photocopy of the first email exchange between Balenciaga and Gvasalia, in which the brand stated it was not...

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Paris fashion museum sheds light on Rick Owens’ gothic universe

Paris – From Saturday, the Palais Galliera in Paris will shed light on the dark and gothic universe of American designer Rick Owens. This is the first French retrospective of this unique and avant-garde creator, a symbol of underground fashion. Also, for the first time, the Parisian fashion museum held an exhibition in daylight, which is not...

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Exploring the enduring legacy of David Bowie's style

London’s Victoria & Albert museum which hosted the globally acclaimed “David Bowie Is” exhibit in 2013 announced in February that it has acquired more than 80,000 archive items spanning Bowie’s career that will be made open to the public in a custom-built David Bowie Centre for the Study of Performing Arts in 2025. As New York City prepared to...

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Frida Kahlo, The Immersive Biography opens in Brooklyn

“Frida Kahlo, The Immersive Biography” has arrived in Brooklyn. A co-creation between the Frida Kahlo Corporation and Layers of Reality, a Spanish digital arts center, the immersive biographical exhibition spans seven different transformational spaces and includes an award-winning VR experience enabling the visitor to enter the life and work of...

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Iconic 70s model Debbie Dickinson curates fashion and art in Manhattan exhibit

“It truly was by fluke,” says Debbie Dickinson of her entry into the modeling industry in the mid-70s. She had moved to NYC with the goal of becoming an actor, her mind filled with dreams of Broadway, but that all changed when scouts visiting from a Paris model agency spotted her and offered to fly her to France. “The day I landed I worked with...

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Death of American photographer William Klein, at the age of 96

American photographer William Klein, who established itself in fashion photography and urban photography, is died Saturday evening in Paris at the age of 96, announced Monday in a communicated his son Pierre Klein. Passed away "peacefully", William Klein revolutionized photography with his punchy images conveying the feverishness and violence of...