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22 May

Joseph Altuzarra and Nordstrom Boost Seattle Art Museum Supporters’

Joseph Altuzarra headed to Seattle last week to support the annual Seattle Art Museum Supporters “Spring Into Art” event, in collaboration with Nordstrom. Altuzarra was this 12 months’s featured designer, and the May 18 evening concluded with a seated runway presentation of looks from his fall collection following a cocktail reception and tour of the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Guests included Anne Adams, Kat Osler, Sally Wright, Jennifer Roberts, and Lorna Kneeland, together with Nordstrom’s Gigi Ganatra and Ricki De Sole. Altuzarra also hosted a shopping event for SAMS members at Nordstrom’s flagship while on the town for the event. Nordstrom has supported the museum’s fundraising committee since 1985. This 12 months’s Spring Into Art event raised greater than $200,000 with...
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12 Apr

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Shares Details About Upcoming

Knowing that May can’t come soon enough for Karl Lagerfeld fans and Met Gala gawkers alike, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has shared more details about The Costume Institute’s spring exhibition. “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” will bow within the museum’s Tisch Galleries on May 5 and can run through July 16. Because the name suggests, the show will trace the aesthetic and conceptual themes that continually surfaced in his collections from the ’50s up until his death in 2019. Visitors are supposed to get a multidimensional understanding of the late designer’s complex creative process and collaborative relationships with “premières d’atelier,” the seamstresses who realized his creations. Nearly all of the 150 garments that will likely be displayed will likely...
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10 Apr

Borsalino Museum Opens Doors in Its Italian Hometown

HAT-STORY: Borsalino Foundation and the City of Alessandria teamed up for a latest museum, which is able to value the heritage of the historic hatmaker. The exhibition is ready to open to visitors on Wednesday, while the official inauguration will happen a day earlier. The museum will showcase the history of the home ranging from 1857 up until the current day. The museum is split in three fundamental sections: “Antica Casa,” a multimedia installation that traces the fundamental stages within the history of Borsalino, exploring the link with the encircling territory; “Manifattura,” dedicated to the hat production processes, the hat-making techniques of the artisans from Alessandria; and the “Galleria” section, which includes a display of greater than 2,000 hats, organized into eight...
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8 Apr

The Makeup Museum is exploring the sociological history of

For Makeup Museum co-founder Doreen Bloch, the history of cosmetics is ‘central to how humans have evolved’ – here she shares glimpses of its prized treasures and divulges how the sweetness trends of today connect us to the past Taken from the winter 2022 issue of Dazed. You'll be able to buy a duplicate of our latest issue here Doreen Bloch was reading through transcripts of telephone conversations between Jackie Kennedy, then first lady, and dermatologist Dr Erno Laszlo when she became confused. The conversation was almost unintelligible, with each Kennedy and Dr Laszlo using cryptic language, trailing off mid-sentence and making oblique references to unspecified “circumstances”. Unsure of what she had stumbled upon, Bloch consulted with presidential...
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