Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion awards, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and popular cultural events in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the best things to see, buy, taste and experience around town.
What makes our luxury list this week? A luxury Italian multi-brand boutique opens on Bond Street, Alex Katzs new paintings debut at MoMA and Arcteryx presents a new collection designed by an indigenous artist.
Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of LuisaViaRoma. Here’s everything you need to know: It’s a multi-brand luxury and home store, stocked with names like Chlo, Maison Margiela, Jil Sander and Lanvin as well as New York designers Gabriela Hearst, Proenza Schouler and Helmut Lang. All under one roof. The original boutique is in Florence, Italy, and their New York City location just opened at 1 Bond Street. Spanning over 11,000 square feet over two floors, it includes private shopping, a discreet VIP entrance, and is just a block away from Il Buco, where you can toast your purchases. LuisaViaRoma.com
Arcteryx has just debuted Walk Greatly, a design platform for Indigenous voices. It is the vision of artist and designer Cole Sparrow-Crawford, of the Musqueam Nation in the Coast Salish territories. The seven-piece collection, inspired by traditional indigenous fishing, canoeing and harvesting practices, includes shorts, jacket, hat, jacket, backpack, blanket and shoe patterns (some include Coast Salish weaving and ancestral design patterns ). The shorts and top, in particular, evoke the living, beautiful and sacred cedar tree and are meant to support canoeists as they take to the water,” said Sparrow-Crawford. Proceeds from this collection will support Women Indigenous Outdoors Available at Arcteryx stores and at Arc’teryx.com.
Alex Katz has obviously been very busy. The renowned painter created over 100 new works in the past two years that are now on display at the Museum of Modern Art in the Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium. “Alex Katz: The Seasons” features landscapes in New York and Lincolnville, Maine, and includes four monumental works (one for each season) ranging in size from ten to twenty feet tall. The color feel is what I wanted. A sense of the first, Katz said of these works, which are on view through Sept. 8 at MoMA.org
Attention Parcelle fans: your favorite wine bar now has a second location, on MacDougal Street, near NYU. This new location, however, is deliberately not a carbon copy of their Chinatown post office. It is decorated with vintage Italian, French and Scandinavian pieces and has a selection of over 500 bottles ranging from esoteric natural wines to old and rare Burgundy and Bordeaux. For those not familiar with Parcelle, a bonus sip here is that they’re also a wine retailer, so you can keep track of what you’ve drunk, or want to try, and order next time or buy it from them online. ParcelleWine.com
“Suchitra Mattai: We Are Nomads, We Are Dreamers” is the artists first solo show in New York City, drawing on themes of identity, migration and memory. It is currently on view at the Socrates Sculpture Park, in a wonderful location on the banks of the East River, and features a series of large living sculptures made from vintage saris collected by women of the South Asian diaspora. Mattai also created a series of seven smaller sculptures that hang from trees in a grove on the property, as well as a 30-meter collage billboard. Through August 25 at SocratesSculpturePark.org
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