🪶 Men’s Fashion Week, Paul Poiret & Art Brut! A Week in Paris
A new week, a fresh edit of what to see, do and love in Paris (and the Saint-Ouen Flea Market). Celebrating Paris makers and the strange, new, true & beautiful, forever!
💥Men’s Paris Fashion Week kicks off tomorrow with a packed line-up of shows, pop-ups and parties. The headline event has to be Jonathan Anderson’s debut at Dior on Friday, joined by returns to the Paris men’s schedule – Saint Laurent, Dries Van Noten, Études, and the Londoners Wales Bonner and Craig Green. Marine Serre and US label Bode are also back, the latter fresh off the March opening of its handsome Paris boutique. Newcomer Camper Lab – Camper’s experimental line led by fashion freak Achilles Ion Gabriel – makes its Paris debut on Thu. We’re also watching our friends Jah Jah/ Jah Jah Studio Paris launch at Dover Street Market Paris on Tue, a new pop-up from En Vrac at 23 Rue de Grenelle opens today, and Sakina Msa presents ‘Pure Fashion Day’ on Sunday, when Jacquemus closes the week at the Versailles Orangerie.
🪶Paul Poiret’s extravagant world comes to life at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs through hundreds of pieces – from dresses and accessories to perfumes, décor and parties, spanning the Belle Époque to the Roaring Twenties – exposing a fashion revolutionary whose influence still resonates. Opens Wed.
🎯 Acne Studios opens its first-ever standalone art gallery on Thu. Acne Paper Palais Royal replaces the brand’s former Palais Royal store and launches with a photography show by Dutch artist Paul Kooiker.
🗿The new season at the Grand Palais includes a major showcase of French collector Bruno Decharme’s extraordinary Art Brut collection. Also opening there on Thu: Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Pontus Hulten explores the powerful bond between the artists and the pioneering first director of the Centre Pompidou.
🖤‘Temple of Love’, Paris’s first exhibition dedicated to post-apocalyptic designer Rick Owens – with Owens himself as artistic director – opens Sat at Palais Galliera, tracing his explorations of the ‘subhuman’, ‘inhuman’ and ‘superhuman’, from early LA to now.