At New York Fashion Week, Ilia Beauty Captures Collina Strada’s Sense of Play

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At New York Fashion Week, Ilia Beauty Captures Collina Strada’s Sense of Play

For her FW’25 runway show, Collina Strada founder and creative director Hilary Taymour tapped celebrity makeup artist Dick Page to transpose the current collection’s playful reinterpretation of ornament and decoration into luminous beauty looks. Taymour and Page used the show as an opportunity to test out the soon-to-be-released eye stylus shadow stick from the show’s beauty partner, Ilia. —Jenna Adrian-Diaz

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Andrés Reisinger’s Limited Edition Furniture Collection for Gallery Collectional

Opening February 6, “Winter Collection” at Dubai’s Gallery Collectional platforms the diverse artistic developments of Argentinian artist and designer Andrés Reisinger. This solo exhibition debuts a new limited edition furniture collection from the artist—his first in years—complete with a sofa, armchair, divider, floor lamp, and blanket. It also introduces a series of digital artworks that demonstrate his conceptual prowess.—David Graver

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The St. Regis Aspen Resort Unveils The Snow Lodge Suite

Envisioned by architect and designer Antonio Di Oronzo, founder of the New York and Rome-based firm Bluarch, The Snow Lodge Suite is a contemporary take on the presidential suite concept—swapping staid grandeur for elegant comfortability. In the expansive accommodation, Di Oronzo paired custom furnishings, fabricated in Italy, with collectible design pieces from Hermes, Baccarat, Fornasetti, and more.

He adorned the walls with works by art superstars like Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Ed Ruscha, Alex Katz, and Andy Warhol, as well as the emerging talent Wes Aderhold; all of the art was provided by the galleries Aktion Art and Wynn Fine Art. The Snow Lodge, Aspen’s après-ski sister property to perennial Montauk hot spot The Surf Lodge, imbues their playful undertones into the upscale environs of the St. Regis Aspen Resort—manifesting in the suite almost as a hotel within a hotel.—D.G.

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Twenty Years Later, An Immersion Into Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates

For 16 days in February 2005, 7,503 saffron-colored gates transformed Central Park into a large-scale conceptual art piece by the visionary duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In honor of the 20th anniversary of the landmark installation, aptly named The Gates, The Shed will host an expansive exhibition that brings to life the couple’s story—for this project, which spent roughly 25 years in development, as well as several unrealized ones intended for New York City. Complete with drawings by Christo, scale models, and pieces of the installation itself, the exhibit addresses the magnitude and continued importance of The Gates.

For individuals who did not have the privilege of seeing the fabric of the gates billowing through the park in 2005—an indelible memory for those of us there, as the outspoken saffron color contrasted fresh snowfall—The Shed exhibition is complemented by an augmented reality component within the Bloomberg Connects app. Developed by Dirt Empire and Superbright, the free feature brings The Gates experience to life once more, on smartphone screens, along marked Central Park paths from East 72nd Street and 5th Avenue to Cherry Hill. For those who were there in 2005, it’s an immersive way to revisit an ephemeral piece of art history.—D.G.

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Grace Wales Bonner and Howard University Break Into Print

Grace Wales Bonner’s new print endeavor, Howard Universal, honors Howard University’s cultural and intellectual legacy through archival imagery, student contributions, and reflections from notable alumni. Inspired by the institution’s rich history, the project features collaborations with artists like Laraaji and Bradford Young, alongside reprints of Toni Morrison’s work.—J.A.D.

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A Fantastical East Village Cocktail Bar by Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin

A warm, moody luminescence—one that guests might imagine filled a medieval barroom—casts a spell over Monsieur, the new East Village cocktail bar imagined by filmmaker Baz Luhrmann and his wife, the Oscar Award-winning designer Catherine Martin, alongside Jon Neidich, the founder of Golden Age Hospitality. The eccentric space—punctuated with talismans, candelabras, custom stained-glass inlays, and other arcane curiosities—housed neighborhood gay bar The Boiler Room for nearly 30 years (before it moved a block away). Luhrmann and Martin dressed the interior in bespoke wallpaper and fabrics, but didn’t shake out the historic ghosts; rather, they sought to accent them with gothic flair.—D.G.

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Malin + Goetz’s Rose-Tinged Slow Burn

If tomato was the scent of the summer, then Otto, Malin+Goetz’s take on a “rose with edge,” sets the stage for indoor season. An olfactory prelude to spring, the scent adds a concoction of cardamom, black pepper, and cedarwood to rose petal. Plus, its new 27-oz. supercandle size promises a literal slow burn. —J.A.D.