Amy Verner

Too many exhibitions, too little time. With just two days left of shows, most of the fashion circus will be packing up and heading out by mid-week. Yet the city’s museums and galleries abound with excellent art. The once-in-a-lifetime Rothko retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton is nearing the end of its blockbuster run (to be followed in May by Ellsworth Kelly and Matisse) while Madame Grès, Richard Avedon and Iris Van Herpen continue to captivate visitors at the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa…

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There is real time and there is Iris Van Herpen time. In real time, people will spend a few hours absorbed in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs exhibition dedicated to the peerless Dutch designer who has developed singular pathways between haute couture craftsmanship and the fields of science, nature, technology, architecture, art, and dance. Within Van Herpen’s universe, 16 years of creation span several millennia of inspiration and research, from an ancient nautilus to the Large Hadron Collider. O…

Just beyond the illuminated passage where visitors enter La Galerie Dior, there is a photograph of the “We Should All Be Feminists” T-shirt that continues to define Maria Grazia Chiuri’s ethos as creative director of the women’s Dior universe. The assertive statement (from the title of a book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) strikes differently in this image by Brigitte Niedermair, however. Stretched across and bunched upon a wood board, it looks more like an assemblage artwork or makeshift sign tha…

Meet Stone Cloud. The latest bag from Published By, an accessories brand based in Vienna, it’s covered in reflective irregular shapes that seem to float across its surface—at once organic and futuristic—as though an Anish Kapoor sculpture has been sized down to a purse. Such a striking design leads to the question: How is it made? Good thing its creator Christoph Tsetinis will giddily explain to anyone who asks. Since 2020, when he and partner Ruby Wallen started the brand, he has looked to the…

Nails gleaming with gold polish, Manish Arora is carefully applying a sprig of coriander to a generous mound of rice shaped like a heart. Behind him, several pans are simmering with sauces as a blender turns coral lentils into a smooth purée. We are in the kitchen of Desi Road, an Indian restaurant located a stone’s throw from the Pont Neuf, the bridge that doubled as a runway for Pharrell Williams’s Louis Vuitton debut. Arora, the Paris-based fashion designer known for collections lavishly orna…