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Artist in Residence
Sahara Longe is a 30 year old British artist who was just profiled in Vogue and is selling work for six figures.
Across delicate to-scale still-lifes as well as breathtaking canvases more than two metres high, Longe takes on established languages of power and makes work which ushers it into new arenas — value and virtue, subject to effortless translation.
She will be showing at Timothy Taylor in NYC in May. We will be there with Noemi! Did I mention she is only thirty years old? Geez!
Couture Shows
The last round of FW24 shows in Paris wrapped up last week with the Couture shows, which traditionally close things down.
Schiaparelli’s show this season drew a lot of attention, as it frequently does, for the faux baby that joined one of the models on the runway. The true to size tot was crafted from and bejeweled in electronics, circuit boards and other digital ephemera that are quickly filling up landfills around the world.
The look was followed by this dystopian e-waste dress and clutch. The pair was thought to be a comment on both environmental degradation, as well as the creeping presence of the digital world on the lives of children.
Dior Men’s took ballet-core to the next level by doing a whole men’s show centered around ballet and ballet flats for men’s.
And Margiela closed things out with a well-received show that “will go down in fashion history” and “leaves other couture shows in its dust.”
Not only that, there was a Margiela x Louboutin collaboration revealed that I am very much looking forward to selling! :) (Also see here on Kylie.)
Something Navy
Mega influencer Arielle Charnas’s personal brand, Something Navy, launched in a flurry of press and IG posts back in 2019. It is now, it seems, on hiatus and being sold for scrap as the current owners scramble to find a buyer for the bankrupt brand.
The WSJ has long piece out, with plenty of detailed reporting including that (1) her real estate investor husband is under investigation for securities fraud (2) Charnas’s business partner Matt Scanlon of Naadam probably lost his entire investment in her company and (3) the ultimate failure of the company seems to be that Charnas herself did not like her own brand, preferring to wear established luxury brands like The Row rather than her own Something Navy.
Launching a brand with a built in audience is supposed to give influencers like Charnas a huge advantage, but you need to be able to convert your followers into customers. And this is not always as easy as it seems.
Delicious TV
Raquel and I started watching The Curse last night, and while we are only two episodes in, we are already hooked.
Streaming on Showtime, it stars Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder and is both completely off-putting, cringe worthy, weird, but also funny and possibly creepy at the same time. It is a very strange brew of different vibes and we can’t really pinpoint how we feel about it yet.
The Curse centers on Whitney and Asher Siegel, a newlywed couple struggling to bring their vision for eco-conscious housing to the small community of Española, New Mexico. Their efforts are complicated when an eccentrically flawed reality TV producer, Dougie, sees opportunity in their story. As the series unfolds, the couple find themselves caught in a mysterious web of ethical and moral gray zones - all while trying to keep their relationship afloat.
It comes highly recommended by both friends and the internet, which has said the final episode is some of the best TV ever.
Links.
Microsoft Teams now supports 3D and VR meetings.
Why rich people don’t cover their windows.
Backcountry skiing is thriving in the Northeast.
Anna Wintour kept her sunglasses on the entire time she was laying off the Pitchfork staff.
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Chris & Raquel