The Las Vegas Sphere

and the rest of PFW & Upcoming Collabs

Clockwise from Top.

The Sphere

When pictures started to pop up for The Sphere, located just off the Las Vegas Strip at the Venetian, I initially thought it was a joke. But it’s very real, and the photos of the shows (U2 has a residency there at the moment) are just amazing looking:

Unfortunately, it was built by James Dolan, one of the least liked people in New York (“broadly reviled” as the NYT puts it), who also owns the New York Knicks:

Sphere is the brainchild of James Dolan, a broadly reviled New York sports and real estate magnate, who spent $2.3 billion bringing the space to life. It looks prescient, a glimpse of what even ordinary architecture might resemble a few decades hence. The entire outside surface is an LED screen — always on, and always changing (though it repeats). Watching it from the windows of a landing airplane, say, or a taxicab the night before this show, you might have seen it as a pumpkin, or a yellow emoji face, or a moist eye, or an ocean with creatures swimming through it.

This is immediately the best live performance space in the world, and it’s just waiting for an act to really explore how to push the unique interior to its maximum potential.

Paris Fashion Week

The September shows are now over, and all of the editors and buyers have returned home. Paris finished with a flurry of shows from the bigger, more established Maisons: Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu, Hermès.

Flat Sandals from Chanel and Hermes:

Oversized outerwear (and flat sandals) from Miu Miu:

And wide belts from Louis Vuitton:

SS24 Collabs

• On x Loewe Cloudtilt

• Junya x Oakley

• CdG x Nike Air Pegasus 2005

• SSENSE XX

• Crocs Cowboy Boots

Links.

Toothpaste as a vacation souvenir.

How to eat at a restaurant with a baby.

Heavier electric cars = more tire dust.

Food companies confront the Ozempic era.

Inside the studio of John Chamberlain.

Chloé’s new creative director.

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Chris & Raquel