The BMW 328 Bügelfalte won Best of Show at Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este.
The 2026 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este awarded its coveted Trofeo BMW Group – Best of Show to a rare 1937 BMW 328 “Bügelfalte,” one of the surviving BMW 328 Mille Miglia cars and the only special roadster of its kind built directly in Munich rather than by Touring of Milan. Organized by BMW Group Classic and Villa d’Este, the annual concours gathered roughly 50 historically significant automobiles alongside new concept debuts, including the Vision BMW ALPINA and BMW Motorrad Vision K18, under the theme “Future Needs Heritage.” The event also awarded the public-voted Coppa d’Oro Villa d’Este to a 1963 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster, while reinforcing Villa d’Este’s status alongside Pebble Beach as one of the world’s premier concours events for collectors, designers, restorers, and automotive enthusiasts.
Felix Art Fair co-founder Mills Morán will step away from the gallery he co-founded, Morán Morán, to focus on the fair.
Felix Art Fair co-founder Mills Morán is departing Morán Morán, the Los Angeles gallery he co-founded with his brother Al Morán in 2008 to focus on independent projects including Felix Art Fair and future curatorial ventures. His exit comes as Felix continues to expand its influence within the contemporary art fair landscape through its hotel-based format at the Hollywood Roosevelt, which has become a defining alternative to traditional convention-center fairs since launching in 2019. Morán Morán will continue operating under Al Morán’s leadership with spaces in Los Angeles and Mexico City.
STUDIOS Architecture Paris and Selldorf Architects have won the Louvre renovation competition.
A team led by STUDIOS Architecture Paris, in collaboration with Selldorf Architects and landscape firm BASE, has reportedly won the international competition for the Louvre’s massive “Nouvelle Renaissance” overhaul, a multiyear redevelopment project announced by French President Emmanuel Macron in 2025. The ambitious transformation will include new entrances on the Louvre’s eastern façade, expanded underground visitor and exhibition spaces, major infrastructure upgrades, redesigned public areas, and a dedicated new gallery for the Mona Lisa, addressing long-standing issues related to overcrowding and circulation.
Hong Kong’s M+ and Paris’ Centre Pompidou have planned a new five-year partnership.
Hong Kong’s M+ museum and Paris’ Centre Pompidou have announced a new five-year strategic partnership centered on joint curatorial research, exhibitions, co-commissions, and collection exchanges, marking one of the most significant long-term institutional collaborations between a major Asian museum and a European national cultural institution. Building on a memorandum of understanding first signed in 2024, the agreement will include a series of jointly developed exhibitions beginning in 2027, as well as a major co-curated exhibition presented at both institutions exploring visual culture in France and Greater China through works from the M+ and Centre Pompidou collections. Signed by M+ director Suhanya Raffel and Centre Pompidou president Laurent Le Bon, the partnership arrives as the Pompidou undergoes its major 2025–2030 renovation.
More details have emerged from WHP and G-III’s $925 million acquisition of Marc Jacobs.
LVMH will sell the Marc Jacobs brand to a new joint venture formed by WHP Global and G-III Apparel Group in a deal valued at $925 million, marking the end of nearly three decades of ownership by the French luxury conglomerate. Under the agreement, WHP and G-III will each hold a 50 percent stake in the brand’s intellectual property, with G-III—owner of DKNY and Karl Lagerfeld—taking over global direct-to-consumer, retail, and wholesale operations, while WHP Global will oversee licensing; founder Marc Jacobs will remain creative director. It has been reported that G-III will pick up a 15-year license for the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Western Europe that has 50 years’ worth of automatic renewals.
Today’s attractive distractions:
The Met’s Frida and Diego Rivera opera promises “feminist revenge from beyond the grave.”
John Chamberlain’s former studio now hosts a star-studded interview series.
In London, 200-year-old dining landmark Simpson’s returns to its Edwardian heights.
A $2.5 million belle époque French property is capped with a colorful shingled roof.
