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House of McQueen and PROVOCATEUR | Two Coast-to-Coast Experiences Bring Lee Alexander McQueen Back to Life

Lee Alexander McQueen was never content with a runway. He wanted resurrection. Theater. Transgression. A slit in the fabric of fashion where lore could leak out. This fall, nearly fifteen years after his passing, the ghost of McQueen storms back into focus and struts across coasts. With House of McQueen, an Off-Broadway performance in New York, and PROVOCATEUR, a multi-sensory labyrinth in Los Angeles–the late British designer’s life is exhumed. This rare, two-part immersion offers a visceral en...
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Airbnb | Beyond the Stay

Let’s set the scene: You’ve just booked a villa in Oaxaca. Instead of googling restaurants or scanning sites for “authentic” things to do, your Airbnb app recommends a mezcal tasting with a third-generation distiller, a horseback ride through sacred Incan trails with a cultural anthropologist, and a private dinner cooked in your kitchen by a Michelin-starred chef. This is the kind of trip Airbnb is trying to engineer. With its 2025 summer roll out, Airbnb has officially left the building–or at l...
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Odell Beckham Jr. | FRI&NDS Photo Diary

Long celebrated for his electrifying presence in professional football, Odell Beckham Jr.’s impact stretches far beyond the gridiron. He opened the year in full swing breaking the internet with MAC's "I Only Wear MAC” campaign, then rolled straight into Super Bowl weekend with the debut of his new creative endeavor: FRI&NDS. Now, with the next chapter of FRI&NDS quietly loading, Beckham stands at the cultural inflection point. He’s more than an athlete. He’s a curator of energy, a style oracle,...
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Mary Lou’s | Palm Beach After Dark

You’re walking past a bait and tackle shop in West Palm Beach. The air smells vaguely of salt and citrus. A seagull squawks. A palm tree sways. And then someone winks at you and slips you a time-traveling, martini-soaked secret. You’ve just found Mary Lou’s. A lounge so lavishly unhinged it feels like Truman Capote and a Miami witch designed it during Mercury retrograde.From the outside, it’s charmingly unassuming but on the inside it’s an opulent fever dream—where Slim Aarons meets a surrealist...
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New Taipei City Art Museum | Building for Participation, Not Preservation

The New Taipei City Art Museum (NTCAM), which opened its doors to the public on April 25, is more than just a striking addition to Taiwan’s cultural landscape—it’s a reimagining of what a museum can be. Rooted in local memory and open to global conversations, NTCAM was shaped through years of field research, community collaboration, and international advisory partnerships. Located in Yingge District along the riverside textures that inspired its design, the museum invites collective learning, cr...
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Taylor Napier | Threads of Hope

Before the sword is raised, before the spell is cast–there’s always a choice: strength or softness. What if a hero chose both? Having taken The Wheel of Time fandom by storm with his portrayal of Maksim, actor Taylor Napier has become a beloved figure in the world of high fantasy television. The Prime Video epic–adapted from Robert Jordan’s cult-followed novels—has captured audiences with its sprawling mythology, rich character dynamics, and emotional stakes. Napier’s easygoing, grounded perform...
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IWC Schaffhausen | A Fast Track Between Cinema and Speed

If FORMULA 1 is the sport of speed, style and swagger, then Miami is its natural habitat. And on the eve of the Miami Grand Prix, IWC Schaffhausen lit the fuse with a rooftop rendezvous that was part movie premiere, part paddock reverie and all adrenaline. Fabel, Wynwood’s open-air oasis built for cocktails and calculated collisions, sizzled with Miami heat and just enough cinematic tension to hint at a plot twist. The mission? To celebrate the highly anticipated upcoming F1 movie. With a little...
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Robert Landau's 'Art Deco Los Angeles' | A City Etched in Geometry and Glamour

Los Angeles feels forever suspended in its own mythology. The past shimmers like a mirage just behind the glass of a storefront or the curve of a marquee. In Art Deco Los Angeles, photographer Robert Landau and architectural historian Alan Hess capture that mirage with reverence, precision, and panache. This newly released volume, published by Angel City Press in collaboration with the Los Angeles Public Library, arrives in poetic sync to honor the centennial of the 1925 Paris exhibition that fi...
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LA Opera | Ainadamar: A Flamenco-Driven Opera of Martyrdom and Memory

Presented by LA Opera, Ainadamar summons the myth and martyrdom of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca through flamenco expression, wartime scars, and the lingering ache of remembrance. Concluding it's run at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Conductor Lina González-Granados led the charge, breathing life into Osvaldo Golijov’s Grammy-winning score–a molten fusion of classical orchestration and Andalusian rhythm–paired with a libretto that burns as poignantly as it sings. Ana María Martínez commands...
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Los Angeles Ballet | 2025 Gala at the Beverly Wilshire

The Beverly Wilshire glittered like a glass slipper at midnight as the Los Angeles Ballet swept guests into its annual gala–this year, a Cinderella Fairytale Ball spun from tulle, crystal and orchestral charm. Beneath grand chandeliers and soft harp melodies, the evening shimmered with costumed characters and a spellbinding preview of Edwaard Liang’s Cinderella, performed by LAB dancers ahead of the full production’s June debut at the Dolby Theatre. Hosted by Golden Globe-nominated actress Jenni...
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Jeff Consoletti | PRIDE 2025

When it comes to crafting experiences that leave a lasting imprint, few do it with as much heart, hustle, and spirit as Jeff Consoletti. As the founder of JJLA and the creative force behind OUTLOUD Music Festival, Jeff has spent the last sixteen years building more than shows; he’s built spaces where identity, artistry, and community collide—where queer joy isn’t just celebrated, it’s amplified. What began with grit and ambition in a West Hollywood apartment has grown into some of the biggest, b...
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Bottega Veneta | Dreamweaving

Not all icons announce themselves. Some slip in quietly, and remain with an omnipresence akin to memory. Where past and present collapse into sensation, where the texture of something once held becomes more vivid than anything ever spoken—it is in this liminal space that Bottega Veneta’s Intrecciato belongs.First introduced in 1975, Bottega Veneta’s now-iconic weave was less a design than a recalibration—a subtle, subversive shift in the rhythm of craft. Instead of conforming to the orthogonal g...
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Carlita | fabric presents Carlita

Turkish-Italian DJ, producer, and creative powerhouse Carlita steps into the spotlight once again with the release of fabric presents Carlita, the latest installment of fabric Records’ acclaimed mix series. Out now across digital platforms, CD, and double vinyl, the 13-track compilation cements Carlita’s rising status in global dance music, pairing her distinctive sound with her sharp curatorial instincts. Revered veterans like Butch, Alex Metric, and Paco Osuna share space alongside underground...
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Louis Vuitton | Carry Your Legacy

True glamour is unmistakable: personal, fearless, yours. Forget blending in. Louis Vuitton’s expanded Mon Monogram service hands you the paintbrush, inviting you to design your own legend through iconic silhouettes, reimagined by your hand, your eye, your story.From the moment Louis Vuitton first stitched its name into the spirit of travel, customization was never just an option — it was a calling. In the era of steamships and grand tours, trunks weren’t merely containers; they were extensions o...
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Rachel Jones | Dark-Pivot

There’s a kind of hum that lives inside Rachel Jones’s paintings—the low frequency of something raw, unspoken, and vibrating just beneath the surface. In Dark-Pivot, her first solo show in Los Angeles and debut with Regen Projects, that hum becomes a full-bodied swell. The London-based artist has arrived not with a whisper, but with a visual exhale—six large-scale works and several smaller companions that seduce, confront, and crackle with a kind of chaotic intimacy. On view through May 10th, th...
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Tiffany & Co. | Descending into the Deep

There are places only the imagination can touch—vast, flickering kingdoms where light bends, time slows, and beauty takes on strange and sacred forms. With their latest Blue Book collection, Sea of Wonder, Tiffany & Co. dares to chart those unseen ocean waters. Designed by Nathalie Verdeille, Chief Artistic Officer of Jewelry and High Jewelry, the collection drifts from figurative to abstract, drawing on the legacy of Jean Schlumberger’s fantastical designs. What surfaces is not just jewelry, bu...
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Awol Erizku | Black Identity, Cultural Symbols, and Radical Memory

In two striking exhibitions currently on view in Los Angeles–Moon, Turn the Flames…Gently Gently Away at Sean Kelly (May 16 - July 3, 2025) and Awol Erizku: X at CAAM (March 26–September 7, 2025)–Awol Erizku delivers a layered meditation on Black identity, cultural symbolism, and radical memory. Across photography, neon, sculpture, and sound, Erizku positions himself as both archivist and alchemist, reworking inherited iconography with deliberate provocation and spiritual weight. He doesn’t aim...
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2025 Young Collectors Council Party | Where Art Meets Algorithm

The 2025 Young Collectors Council Party transformed the Guggenheim  into a sensory playground celebrating Korean artist Ayoung Kim, the newly minted winner of the LG Guggenheim Award. The moment marked a historic first for Kim–who’s trained in motion graphics and conjures worlds out of AI, VR, and simulation–and a dazzling third year for the Guggenheim’s art-meets-tech initiative.The night started with a chic dinner inside the Wright Restaurant, where YCC co-chairs, LG executives, and curator ro...
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TAG Heuer | Turning up the Heat on Grand Prix Weekend

Miami never met a spectacle it didn't embrace–and during Grand Prix weekend, the city shifts into overdrive. Engines echo through the streets, fashion statements take center stage, and energy pulses from the paddock to the Palm Court.At the heart of the 2025 Miami Grand Prix, TAG Heuer reaffirmed its role not just as Official Timekeeper of Formula 1, but as a brand that turns timekeeping into art. The Swiss watchmaker kicked off its multi-day celebration with two striking unveilings: the glowing...