Crafting Dreams: Louis Vuitton is in Los Angeles presenting “Crafting Dreams,” a group of objects and goods.

Opened on Wednesday and available for visits until May 3, access is by appointment only at a non-public residence.

Visitors can expect Objets Nomades, hard-sided trunks, watches, positive jewelry and one-of-a-kind leather goods. They’ll be on view with showcases of special collaborations by the French house and various creatives throughout the years. There are also opportunities to create personalized pieces with Louis Vuitton artisans.

“Crafting Dreams represents the head of the Maison’s tradition of regional savoir-faire activations, celebrating bespoke items and singular offerings that highlight Louis Vuitton’s legendary craftsmanship and heritage,” notes the home. “Crafting Dreams will reveal a classy choice of pieces from the Maison’s most exclusive métiers. Notably, the Los Angeles presentation will probably be an exclusive opportunity to preview the Cabinet of Curiosities by Marc Newson, which can make its official debut at Milan Design Week later within the month. Available in three colorways, the trunk features 19 modular cubes, with the smallest cubes having a hidden back compartment to store one’s most precious belongings. Hard-sided trunks are the earliest Vuitton product, so working with Newson on the Wonder Trunk is a testament to each the Maison’s heritage and commitment to design innovation.”

Highlights include an Infinity Party Trunk containing a whole Champagne service, adorned with artist Yayoi Kusama’s multicolored signature dots, in addition to a Vanity Mahjong set, released in 2022, and recent Rolling Trunk — each traveling to the U.S. for the primary time. — RYMA CHIKHOUNE

Paris Protests: As hundreds of individuals took to the streets of Paris on the twelfth day of demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms, protesters forced their way into the headquarters of luxury giant LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.

Demonstrators pushed their way into the constructing at 22 Avenue Montaigne in town’s tony eighth arrondissement. Protesters didn’t enter any of the stores on the nearby Avenue des Champs-Élysées.

Videos posted on social media showed dozens of protesters, many wearing CGT union vests, bashing down the glass doors of the constructing while holding red flares and waving flags. They remained within the lobby for about 10 minutes before exiting the constructing.

Protesters are asking for the laws to be withdrawn. Macron used a constitutional loophole to push through the laws last month. The country’s constitutional council will issue its ruling on the reform Friday.

The pension reform bill would raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 years old. The rise in retirement age is supposed to reflect a difference in life expectancy for various generations. When most of France’s current retirees entered the workforce within the Nineteen Eighties, the typical life expectancy was 74. Now the typical life expectancy in France is 82.

The protests comes only a day after the Louis Vuitton, Dior and Givenchy parent company reported revenues rose 17 percent to 21.04 billion euros for the primary quarter of 2023 despite “a geopolitical and economic environment which stays uncertain.”

Chairman and chief executive officer Bernard Arnault is taken into account the richest man on the planet, passing Tesla and Twitter owner Elon Musk, with an estimated net value of $211 billion. He has added $53 billion to his net value over the past 12 months, with soaring sales at his luxury brands.

The French group employs greater than 150,000 people.

A spokesperson for LVMH declined to comment. The CGT Union didn’t reply to requests for comment. — RHONDA RICHFORD

ART AND SOUL: There are a lot of canvases for creative expression: French accessories and clothier Géraldine Guyot and her artist friend Ben Arpéa each used linen in a summer collaboration for her brand Destree.

Guyot faithfully reproduced the checkered motifs, potted flowers and sun-baked colours from Arpéa’s paintings, applying them to column dresses with circular cutouts ringing the waist, and her signature puff-sleeved jackets and band-collared shirts.

“Destree and my work go thoroughly together,” Arpéa remarked at a cocktail party Thursday night on the Galerie Camille Pouyfaucon, where the artist hung several recent large linen canvases, and Guyot displayed her 10-item collection, dropping next week on Destree’s e-store and in its Paris boutique.

It’s plain that the artist and the French entrepreneur, who has parlayed her passion for contemporary and contemporary art into unique hats, handbags, jewelry and apparel, share an affection for geometric shapes, daring color and designs with a sunny, homespun character.

“We thought that for a summer collection his patterns would look amazing,” Guyot enthused.

For the event, Arpéa fashioned quirky clothing racks vaguely paying homage to Memphis design, but wonkier and rough-hewn, washed over with an oil paint and sand mixture.

Guyot also enlisted a 3rd daring creative, Spanish caterer Gabriela Palatchi, higher often known as Gabfoods, to decorate a buffet table that appeared to bring Arpea’s aesthetic to life in cakes and other sweet treats.

Arpéa worked in hospitality and have become a full-time artist in the course of the coronavirus pandemic. He’s now represented by 4 galleries, with Pouyfaucon describing his work as questioning “the century-old motifs and canons of classical landscape and still life, reinterpreted through a up to date artistic language.”

Meanwhile, Guyot is trying to find real estate to open Destree’s next freestanding store, either Stateside or in Asia.

One 12 months ago the Paris-based accessories firm she cofounded with Laetitia Lumbroso welcomed a number of high-profile investors, all female, including such bold-faced names as Beyoncé, Rihanna, Reese Witherspoon, Gisele Bündchen and Gabriela Hearst, together with enterprise capital firm Sequoia Capital China, on the behest of Angelica Cheung.

Handbags — including hero styles just like the Albert — rank as Destree’s biggest product category, and a few have been done up in Arpéa’s colours as a part of the summer capsule. — MILES SOCHA

Diva Devotion: Lights, drama and costume.

Enter “Diva,” a recent exhibition opening in June from the Victoria & Albert Museum celebrating the performers who defined, subverted and embraced the phrase.

From the nineteenth century to today, “Diva” will exhibit the colourful world of the boys and girls who used their platforms to entertain, educate and inform, from the world of pop, including Cher, Elton John and Diana Ross, to opera’s high esteemed singers Maria Callas and Adelina Patti.

“Today the word diva holds a myriad of meanings. At the center of this exhibition is a story of iconic performers who with creativity, courage and ambition have challenged the established order and used their voice and their art to redefine and reclaim the diva,” said Kate Bailey, curator of the exhibition.

The showcase will feature greater than 60 looks with many rare pieces, reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe’s fringed black dress worn in “Some Like It Hot”; a red Christian Dior gown made for Vivien Leigh in “Duel of Angels”; Tina Turner’s Bob Mackie flame dress from 1977; Sandy Powell’s Louis XIV costume with a towering powdered wig and train for John’s fiftieth celebration; and Shirley Bassey’s couture pink gown designed by Julien MacDonald for Glastonbury in 2007.

“I’m delighted that the V&A will probably be displaying my Glastonbury look in DIVA, complete with diamanté wellington boots! It’s wonderful to see the diva celebrated on this exhibition, and to see the V&A reclaiming the title. To me, ‘diva’ is all in regards to the power of the voice and the flexibility to entertain, to succeed against odds, to fight, and break through barrier after barrier: to have your voice heard,” said Bassey in a press release.

The exhibition has been divided into two acts.

Act one will trace the history of divas with a concentrate on the primary opera divas Patti and Jenny Lind, in addition to the primary wave of feminism and silent-screen sirens.

Act two will explore the divas of today and the ladies who’ve reclaimed the title, reminiscent of Aretha Franklin, including how her hit song “Respect” became an anthem for empowerment. In the identical section, there will probably be nods to Rihanna, Dolly Parton, Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald. — HIKMAT MOHAMMED

Hydration Central: Clinique is coming to Coachella.

The wonder brand will unveil a Clinique Hydration House during which festivalgoers can socialize, enjoy product giftings and immersive installations, and attend a pool party with live music by rising DJs Brittany Sky, Tay James and duo Coco and Breezy.

On Day Two of the festival, Clinique will arrive at Day Club Palm Springs, which bills itself “the desert’s favorite pool party series,” to increase the hydration-themed celebration and further highlight the most recent launches inside the brand’s Moisture Surge franchise: The 100H Auto-Replenishing Hydrator, and the Broad Spectrum SPF 28 Sheer Hydrator, which retail for $82 and $48, respectively.

“Clinique has at all times been a multigenerational brand — we’ve all heard the stories of individuals being introduced to the brand by their mother, their grandmother,” said Beth Guastella, senior vice chairman general manager, Clinique North America. “We began pondering specifically about young consumers today, and the way we will show up where they’re in an authentic way.”

The Coachella festivities (which can happen each weekends of the festival) are the primary of many comprising Clinique’s summer-long “Protect Your Glow” campaign, which seeks to emphasise the importance of proper sun care amongst Gen Z. The campaign will include off-campus pool parties on the University of Florida and the University of Arizona, in addition to mobile pop-up trucks in select cities including Latest York, Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago, all featuring giveaways, informational sessions and an interactive “affirmation wall,” with the aim of helping consumers uplift themselves and one another.

“Our ultimate goal is to have consumers experience Clinique otherwise — to have them stop and take notice and say, ‘Wow, that’s Clinique?’” Guastella said. “It’s a chance for people to find — or rediscover — our brand in an entire recent way, while empowering them with the knowledge of methods to combat each day aggressors that impact their skin.” — NOOR LOBAD

Boston Strong: The Boston Marathon has a recent retail sponsor.

Dick’s Sporting Goods and the Boston Athletic Association, organizer of the famed event which will probably be held this 12 months on April 17, have signed a multiyear deal that makes Dick’s the official retail sponsor of all BAA events, starting with Monday’s marathon.

As a part of the deal, Dick’s will even grow to be the presenting sponsor of the Boston Marathon Fan Fest, a three-day festival held upfront of the race.

In celebration of the 127th running of the race, Dick’s unveiled a building-length Sports Change Lives banner with the tagline, Running Changes You, on Boylston Street at the longer term site of a Dick’s House of Sport Boston location.

Situated just a brief distance from the Boston Marathon finish line, the 100,000-square-foot store within the Prudential Center is slated to open in spring 2024. The House of Sport concept features athletic apparel, footwear and equipment for a wide range of sports and outdoor activities together with in-store experiences reminiscent of a climbing wall, batting cages and TrackMan golf simulators.

“We’re honored to affix forces with the Boston Athletic Association to support race participants and spectators,” said Mark Rooks, vice chairman, category marketing and partnerships for Dick’s. “We consider in the facility of sports to alter lives and know that running the Boston Marathon can do exactly that.”

“On the core of the BAA’s mission and vision is promoting healthy lifestyles through sport, especially running,” said Jack Fleming, the organization’s president and chief executive officer. “In partnering with Dick’s Sporting Goods, we look ahead to bringing to life that mission and vision to much more people, especially along the Boston Marathon finish stretch on the Dick’s House of Sport Boston, which could be truly inspirational to so many all year long.”

As a part of the sponsorship agreement, Dick’s will even serve because the retail sponsor for the BAA Half Marathon, 10K and 5K and the businesses will work to develop community engagement initiatives year-round. — JEAN E. PALMIERI

Constructing Up: Tapestry Inc. has named Alan Lau to the board of directors, bringing the overall variety of board members to 11.

Lau became chief business officer for Animoca Brands last July, a gaming company where he oversees and provides support to the corporate’s greater than 340 portfolio firms and leads M&A and business development. Earlier, he was chairman and chief executive officer of Tencent WeSure, a fintech company that he cofounded to supply web insurance to WeChat users. Before that, he was Asia head for McKinsey Digital, supporting each Big Tech firms and sector incumbents to execute their digital strategies.

Before entering the tech space, Lau worked in corporate finance, first at Citibank after which at McKinsey & Co., where he was the Greater China head for the company finance practice, accountable for M&A and deal structuring support.

He also sits on multiple museum boards, including because the vice chair of M+ in Hong Kong and co-chair of the Asia committee at each Tate and The Guggenheim.

“We’re extremely pleased that Alan Lau has agreed to affix our board,” said Joanne Crevoiserat, chief executive officer of Tapestry. “As we proceed to further refine our digital strategy across our portfolio of brands, Alan’s broad experience in engaging consumers across digital channels, leveraging technology and data analytics, in addition to deep knowledge of the essential China market, will probably be invaluable assets.”

Lau said, “I’m excited to be joining the board of directors of Tapestry, a really progressive, brand-led company. I look ahead to supporting the corporate and helping to tell each its digital strategies and global development plans because it continues to drive long-term sustainable growth.” — LISA LOCKWOOD