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21 Jan

EXCLUSIVE: Alaïa’s Latest NYC Store Is Packed With American Art

A sensation in U.S. for the reason that early Nineteen Eighties, Alaïa is back with a Latest York City store that celebrates the American art and design scene. The sleek, gallery-like boutique at 149 Mercer St. in SoHo displays works by Robert Rauschenberg, Mike Kelley, Jonathan Horowitz and Donald Judd, whose foundation is a stone’s throw away. It opens Saturday amid an accelerated retail push for the Richemont-owned fashion brand, which is gunning to construct direct-to-consumer channels to account for as much as 70 percent of the business over the subsequent three years, in accordance with Myriam Serrano, Alaïa’s chief executive officer. “We wish to construct a detailed relationship with our clients,” the manager said, disclosing details of the Manhattan store exclusively to...
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9 Jan

Paris Museum to Showcase Azzedine Alaïa’s Collection of Vintage

TREASURE TROVE: Palais Galliera is staging one other Azzedine Alaïa retrospective this yr — only this time, it should focus not on his own designs, but on his vast personal collection of high fashion garments. Titled “Azzedine Alaïa, couturier collectionneur” (“Azzedine Alaïa: Couturier, collector,”) the exhibition will run on the Paris City Hall-backed fashion museum from Sept. 27 until Jan. 21, 2024. This follows an Alaïa retrospective held on the museum in 2013 to coincide with its reopening after 4 years of renovations. The show will draw on an archive of 20,000 garments amassed by the late Tunisian designer, said Olivier Saillard, director of the Association Azzedine Alaïa and curator of the exhibition. They include pieces by the likes of Madeleine Vionnet,...
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