In September 2018, a brand-new flagship store will open in New York City to showcase Sabah’s unique Turkish slipper.
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Wallpapers with a whimsical, hand-drawn feel
“Everything is a canvas,” says Carly Kuhn, a fashion artist whose colorful doodles and basic contour drawings have appeared in posters, publications, and, most recently, an outdoor mural in downtown Los Angeles’ Row retail area. “I admire how my work can take on a new personality when it’s placed in a new environment.” Kuhn attributes her former work as a television producer and aspiring sketch comedy for her passion of improvisation and people-watching. In her spare time, she’d “create little moments on the page” — the wobble of a turtleneck, a pair of fine brogues, a woman’s dress pattern — and post them to her Instagram account, The Cartorialist, along with a mood board of influences like vintage beauty advertisements and the storybook character Eloise. Kuhn’s big break came in 2014, when a chance repost by Sarah Jessica Parker went viral and led to partnerships with Prada and Oscar de la Renta. This month, she launches The Cartelier, an interior design business, with a wallpaper line including delicate shoes, occasional chairs, scarlet lips, cocktail glasses, and palms rendered in lovely, hand-drawn imperfection; textiles will be added later this year. “The concept is that I’ve come in and doodled on your walls,” Kuhn says. thecartelier.com, starting at $90 per yard.
While apprenticing under Rocco Ciccarelli, the famous Queens tailor who fashioned Thom Browne’s first shrunken set over two decades ago, designer and editor Ash Owens saw that wearing a suit tailored to one’s physique and preferences had a certain power. They didn’t completely appreciate the garment’s potential to pull forth profoundly felt selfhoods until Owens’ own coming-of-gender. “Suiting was such a transforming experience for me,” they say. “It helped me to feel confident in myself — and to stand up for myself.” Owens’ new clothing brand, Suited Atelier, aims to make the personalized experience more accessible and affordable. In addition to boxy cropped button-downs and painstakingly handmade sets, which Owens has crafted privately for clients since 2019 (including renowned house DJ Honey Dijon), the brand allows customers to customize any of its preset, seasonless suits by selecting details such as button location and sleeve length. Limited-edition colours and traceable textiles are available: A sleek maroon kilt may be worn over trousers or alone, while one chalky gray pinstriped outfit is made from recycled wool spun by an Italian factory. Owens also thinks that removing binary size would allow for more open discussions about fit, shape, and, ultimately, emotion. They remark, “I want to understand more about how people desire to feel in their clothes.” Suitedatelier.com has suits starting at $1,498.
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A Spot to Wear Turkish Slippers
Since starting the firm over a decade ago after living in Istanbul, Mickey Ashmore of the footwear, leather goods, and accessories brand Sabah has been fine-tuning and extending his bright twists on traditional Turkish slippers. Now, in one of NoHo’s old brick Bleecker Street buildings, he’s bringing that feeling of experimentation to a New York flagship, Sabah House. In a lovely room equipped with imported old Turkish rugs, a mosaic-tiled bar, and plenty of warm oak shelving and benches created by a family of Cape Cod woodworkers, he’ll offer his own shoes, board games, and other items (including those by chosen artisans and collaborators). Ashmore, who enjoys hosting guests and friends, hopes to foster a sense of community at the boutique by providing visitors with tea, wine, or just a space to unwind while trying on traditional leather slippers or one of the many planned collaborations. The most recent, which will be available in May, is footwear created in collaboration with textile artist Laris Alara Kilimci of Istanbul’s LAR Studio, with her geometric forms and vibrant colors shaping the uppers. Though many of Sabah’s products are still made in Turkey, Ashmore has extended its manufacturing to El Paso, Texas, and will be able to fill this gap with even more limited-edition pairs. sabah.am
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Surrealism’s Magical Roots: An Exhibition
Peggy Guggenheim, the renowned art patron, set out to buy one piece every day at the onset of World War II, many of them by Surrealist painters such as René Magritte and Max Ernst (whom she went on to marry). Her collection serves as the foundation for a new Surrealism exhibition at her eponymous museum in Venice, where co-curator Graina Subelyt’s years of study into the major artists’ fascination with magic and the occult led to the show’s distinctive viewpoint. . Mystical figures and symbols appear in iconic paintings such as Victor Brauner’s “The Philosopher’s Stone” (1940) and Salvador Dal’s “Uranium and Atomica Melancholica Idyll” (1945), as well as an eerie portrait of Ernst as a shaman with a split tail by Leonora Carrington, who studied witchcraft; relevant sources and projects, such as the original 1948 edition of Kurt Seligmann’s history of the occ The exhibition, which is the first of its sort on a major scale, is the latest example of Surrealism’s powerful return throughout the cultural arena, from Schiaparelli’s autumn 2022 catwalk to a famous Met exhibition that has just landed at the Tate Modern in London. . Interest in the movement, like it did a century ago, is a reasonable response to an unstable times. “Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity” is on exhibit at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, guggenheim-venice.it, through September 26. .
The Jardin des Plantes has traditionally been a popular destination for visitors to Paris, but the surrounding area offers a surprisingly small number of high-quality hotels. With the launch of the 44-room Hôtel Orphée, the seventh property from Orso, the Parisian hotel collection founded by husband-and-wife team Louis and Anouk Solanet, that changed. For Orphée, the pair enlisted Eloise Bosredon, the French designer-architect behind the Levantine pastry business Maison Aleph and Kinasé, a Japanese sake boutique, to bring on new creative talent for each property and let their dreams run wild. “We appreciated that Eloise hadn’t worked on a lot of hotel projects and wasn’t bound by the limits that come with them,” Anouk adds. The property’s 19th-century bones were successfully harmonized with a propensity for modernity by Bosredon: Art Deco forms on headboards and hallway carpets, as well as arched entrances and an earth-tone palette, are prominent, while some rooms have Okoumé wood storage boxes inspired by Le Corbusier’s Cabanon. There isn’t a restaurant on site, but the lower level will soon have attractive alternatives: a hammam on one side and an intimate lounge on the other, both with comfortable sofas, subdued lighting, and a crisp variety of drinks and bar snacks. Hotelorphee.com has rooms starting at roughly $140.
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