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What do you do when you’re stressed? Do you call a friend, or meditate, maybe go for a walk? If you’re Adria Arjona, the 30-year-old megastar on the rise, you might instead jump out of a plane. If frequent skydiving doesn’t fit your image of an in-de

Technically speaking, fashion is Lizzie Grover Rad’s second act. But if you were to follow the receipts all the way back to the designer’s beginnings, you’d see that the desire to create garments was always there, not only co-mingling with her passio

Bulgari’s latest high jewelry and watch collection, titled “Bulgari Eden The Garden of Wonders,” encompasses more than 140 pieces, 30 of which prominently feature emeralds. The Emerald Glory piece, pictured here, worn either as a striking necklace wi

For Harry Winston’s newest offering, the house looks to awe-inspiring global locations, aptly naming the collection “Majestic Escapes.” Through eight one-of-a-kind suites, shimmering jewels transport the wearer around the world, from Santorini to Fij

Hustle culture: The ding of an email notification warrants an immediate response, and a fourth Zoom meeting often calls for yet another cup of coffee. Though many of our homes now function as both an office and a space to relax, pausing to slip into

In Louis Vuitton’s fourth Artycapucines Collection, the Capucines bag—named after the Rue Neuve-des-Capucines, the Parisian street where Louis Vuitton opened his first store in 1854—becomes the canvas for six artists from around the globe. Kennedy Ya

If fashion is about looking perpetually forward, then it makes sense to go where the future is. That’s why Fendi has teamed up with The Juilliard School once again for its Fendi Vanguard Awards, an annual scholarship given to four Juilliard students

When does an Instagram photo become a work of art? Is a TikTok a short film? Is the metaverse something ‘real’ or worth taking seriously? What’s truly original? Today, our culture is wrestling with these definitions in a way not seen since Warhol’s t

The Male Gaze has been a specter in my life, the haunting discourse surrounding my favorite images throughout art history. I’ve often wondered how to kill a ghost that persistently hovers about, a ubiquitous force that implores me to ask: Is the Male

An online meme can be many things in 2022, but one of its primary and most prevalent forms remains the image macro, a traditional format featuring a captioned picture, often used to express a feeling or reaction. There are evolutions and trends, disc

The artist Mimosa Echard’s work is anchored in the organic, living world. She brings into play—literally—through her own mischievous vision, the issues linked to the mysteries of memory and our own interactions with our environment. Echard is also th

On a Sunday summer afternoon, L’OFFICIEL sat with legendary curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Daniel Birnbaum to discuss the future of art through augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR). Friends since the ‘90s, Obrist and Birnbaum have led critical theo

A visit to Isabelle Albuquerque’s studio overlooking LA’s MacArthur Park feels a bit like an archaeological excavation, with clues to her process and inspirations scattered about. Tacked to the walls are images of the Wicked Witch of the West, Classi

Art history’s downfall may have begun with cleavage—specifically, cleavage from Jennifer Lopez’s green Versace silk chiffon dress at the 42nd Grammy Awards ceremony on February 23, 2000. Desperate to take a peek, droves of fans typed “J.Lo Grammy Dre

For contemporary science, there are no such things as isolated objects: but if everything that exists emerges from a relationship, if nothing is a simple “thing,” what about artworks? Dana-Fiona Armour inoculates her genes to plants, mixes pig skin w

David Hockney famously assured, “Optical devices certainly don’t paint pictures…the use of them diminishes no great artist” while proposing his hotly debated Hockney-Falco thesis. The theory, crafted with physicist Charles M. Falco, uprooted our unde

By the late 1960s, the women’s liberation movement was gaining traction throughout the United States, giving rise to the women’s health movement at the end of the decade. At the moment when activists urged women to take control of their reproductive