Old & New Icons & Seasons – A Week in Paris
Celebrating life in Paris, Paris Makers, and the strange, new, true and beautiful – forever!
💻 Savvy local influencer Ly.as generated serious buzz last fashion week with his ‘watch parties’ at La Caserne. He’s back this season with an expanded program, streaming select Paris Fashion Week shows live at the 2,000-seat Théâtre du Châtelet. Tonight, the season closes with a live screening of the Chanel Autumn–Winter show (6.30-9.30pm, show at 7.30 pm). Free entry – just turn up, and brace for the queue. Secret show and after-event included.
👠 Footwear designer Nina Christen, known for her work at Loewe, Bottega Veneta and Dior, just opened a first flagship for her own-name label on the coveted Rue de la Paix, spitting distance from Place Vendôme. In contrast to the environment’s rarified luxury, the space, designed with artist Azadeh Shladovsky, is stripped back to raw concrete in a radical layout that foregrounds Christen’s handmade shoes (1250€ for a pair of stretch pony mules), while leaving room for future fashion and accessories collections.
🪑 Currently on view at Mitterrand St-Honoré gallery, Centro Fly: Ettore Sottsass & Andy Warhol reactivates the spirit of Mobili Fly, a 1966 Milan exhibition in which Sottsass presented a series of radical furniture for Poltronova – geometric cabinets, wheeled tables and anthropomorphic “robot” storage units that treated furniture less as utility than as characters in space. Here they’re set alongside a handful of Andy Warhol portraits, including a pouting Rikky von Opel, and a magnificent red Liz – revisiting a mid-60s moment when Pop art and domestic objects began to operate as icons.
🧑🏿🎨 And in another look to the past, the Marian Goodman gallery introduces Paris to the work of Barkley L. Hendricks (1944–2017) in a first, posthumous, solo show in Europe. Best known for his vivid oil portraits of stylish Black Americans, the exhibition spans a lifetime of explorations, from intimate photographs and landscapes to his playful, geometry-driven basketball paintings, revealing an artist who never stopped experimenting and never followed trends.
🌸 And finally, just in time for spring, our friends at the potager-restaurant Le Doyenné, just south of Paris, are now open for dinner on Mondays. Their garden is the heart of the kitchen, and seasonal micro-harvests shape the menu, complemented by the finest French game, poultry, dairy and seafood, and paired with natural wines that share the same commitment to care and integrity. Bookings are now open for March, April and May.
Thanks for reading
Kate
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