The designer will start February 1 and expand the LVMH-owned label’s offering into menswear, couture and fragrance. PARIS, France — In an announcement that took the fashion industry by surprise, LVMH announced on Sunday that Hedi Slimane is set to join Céline, starting February 1. The designer will take on the title of artistic, creative and image director,…
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Highsnobiety Raises $8.5 Million Venture Round
The influential streetwear site will use the new funding to scale its branded content, e-commerce and events businesses. BERLIN, Germany — Influential streetwear and youth culture title Highsnobiety has raised an $8.5 million Series A round led by London-based venture firm Felix Capital. The terms of the deal were undisclosed. Highsnobiety plans to use the new funding…
Birkenstock Collaborates With Rick Owens
Rick Owens doesn’t shy away from subversion, so in some ways it makes perfect sense that the designer has teamed with Birkenstock, the German footwear brand best known for being fashionably unfashionable. On March 16, Birkenstock’s travelling mobile pop-up space, The Box, will park outside the Rick Owens store on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. To…
H&M Apologises After Using Black Child in ‘Monkey’ Hoodie Ad
The Swedish clothing retailer faced a barrage of criticism for the picture. Hennes & Mauritz AB apologised for an image in which a black child modelled a hoodie with the text “coolest monkey in the jungle” after the Swedish clothing retailer faced a barrage of criticism for the picture. The company said it agreed with…
This Artist Builds High-Tech Robots—Then Has Them Attack Each Other
“I love wasting technology,” Mark Pauline tells me. “I love it when you take something that’s really practical and do something ridiculous with it.” We’re standing in the middle of Marlborough Contemporary, a white cube gallery in New York’s Chelsea district that has suddenly been converted into what appears to be a near-future auto repair shop….
A Mega-Dealer Expands: David Zwirner Plans a New Art Gallery
David Zwirner, who is planning a five-story, $50 million gallery designed by Renzo Piano that is to open in 2020. Credit Vincent Tullo for The New York Times On a cold weekday afternoon on an upper floor of one of his Chelsea galleries, the art dealer David Zwirner pointed out the window at a corner lot on…
Kanye West gave Kim Kardashian 995 Adidas shares for Christmas — here’s why
Kanye West gave his wife, Kim Kardashian West, over $100,000 worth of Adidas stock this year Kanye West gave his wife, Kim Kardashian West, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stocks for Christmas this year, including 995 shares of Adidas, which makes Kanye’s Yeezy shoe line. So while the inclusion of Adidas stock may have been a bit of self…
My Life As a Failed Artist
Decades after giving up the dream for good, an art critic returns to the work he’d devoted his life to, then abandoned — but never really forgot. By Jerry Saltz It pains me to say it, but I am a failed artist. “Pains me” because nothing in my life has given me the boundless psychic bliss…
Chuck Close Is A Giant Of The Art World. He’s Allegedly Also A ‘F**king Pervert.’
Artist Julia Fox was honored to model for Close. Then, she says, he told her, “Your p***y looks delicious.” Every day, thousands of commuters pass by a series of 12 mosaics by famed artist Chuck Close, recently installed in the 86th Street station of New York’s Second Avenue subway line. The murals, each 9 feet tall,…
