The fashion and entertainment worlds are collectively mourning the death of Valentino Garavani.
News of Valentino Garavani’s death, which broke during Milan Men’s Fashion Week, prompted an immediate global response across fashion, entertainment, and business. Designers, executives, and cultural figures emphasized his role in shaping modern couture, crediting him with elevating Italian fashion through discipline, craft, and a singular vision of elegance. Many pointed to his lasting influence as both a mentor and a reference point, noting how his work shaped careers, aesthetics, and the structure of the luxury industry itself. Beyond the runway, tributes highlighted his humanity and long partnership with Giancarlo Giammetti, framing his legacy as personal as it was professional.
The National Labor Relations Board has linked Snøhetta’s 2023 layoffs to union-busting.
The National Labor Relations Board has accused Snøhetta of illegally laying off eight employees in 2023 after they supported a unionization effort, arguing the cuts aimed to deter collective action. The complaint cites internal emails that tracked workers’ union positions and messages from managers expressing concern about retaining union supporters, including discussions that followed the failed election. Snøhetta disputes the claims, saying the layoffs stemmed from business pressures that predated the organizing drive, but the case is now moving toward litigation unless the parties reach a settlement.
With their Serpentine Pavilion, Lanza Atelier wants to “bring new Mexican architecture to the table.”
For their 2026 Serpentine Pavilion commission, Mexico City–based Lanza Atelier has revealed a sinuous brick structure that draws on a serpentine garden wall, using its curved geometry to shape movement, gathering, and pause. Installed outside the Serpentine Gallery from June through October, the pavilion splits into a sheltered interior capped with a transparent roof and an outdoor zone edged by a winding brick bench, nodding to both English garden traditions and the gallery’s own brick facade. Founders Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo frame the project as a way to introduce a contemporary Mexican architectural language grounded in craft, material clarity, and social use.
Josh Safdie confirms that the alternate vampire ending to Marty Supreme was very real.
Josh Safdie confirmed that Marty Supreme nearly ended with a literal vampire twist. During a conversation with Sean Baker on The A24 Podcast, Safdie said the scrapped finale followed Marty Mauser into old age before revealing that Kevin O’Leary’s character, Milton Rockwell, never aged and ultimately attacked him. Safdie explained that the idea advanced far enough for the team to begin planning Timothée Chalamet’s aging prosthetics, but A24 ultimately shut it down. O’Leary later corroborated the story, noting that the production even experimented with vampire teeth.
The Met now has one of the largest collective bargaining units of U.S. cultural institutions.
Workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art voted 542 to 172 to unionize with UAW Local 2110, creating one of the largest collective bargaining units at a U.S. cultural institution. The new union will represent staff across roughly fifty departments, including curatorial, conservation, education, and retail roles, adding to two smaller unions already active at the museum and which represent projectionists and security guards, respectively. Organizers sought to cover about a thousand employees, though the final count remains in dispute after the Met challenged the status of roughly one hundred positions. The vote places the Met within a broader wave of post-pandemic unionization across major American museums.
Today’s attractive distractions:
Another week, another bathhouse opens in New York; this one inspired by Japanese saunas.
The fifteen-minute fashion show is, it seems, on its way out.
It’s not just you; everyone seems to have a Substack these days.
When do we think the fashion/sportswear bubble might burst?
