Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city.
What’s making our luxury list this week? A multi-brand Italian luxury boutique opens on Bond Street, Alex Katz’s new paintings debut at MoMA and Arc’teryx introduces a new collection designed by an indigenous artist.
CIAO BELLA: LuisaViaRoma’s first shop outside Italy opens on Bond Street
Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of LuisaViaRoma. Here’s all you need to know: it’s a multi-brand luxury fashion and home shop stocked with names like Chloé, 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. It spans over 11,000 square feet on two floors, includes private shopping, a “discrete VIP entrance,” and is just a block away from Il Buco, where you can toast your purchases. LuisaViaRoma.com
HISTORY LESSON: Arc’teryx Walk Greatly collection
Arc’teryx has just debuted Walk Greatly, a design platform for indigenous voices. It’s the vision of artist and designer Cole Sparrow-Crawford, from the Musqueam Nation in the Coast Salish territories. The seven-piece collection, inspired by the traditional indigenous practices of fishing, canoeing and harvesting, includes shorts, tees, a hat, jacket, backpack, blanket and shoe designs (some incorporate Coast Salish weaving and ancestral design patterns). The shorts and tees, in particular, evoke “the vibrant, beautiful, and sacred cedar tree and are meant to support canoe pullers as they take to the waters,” noted Sparrow-Crawford. Profits from this collection will support Indigenous Women Outdoors. Available in Arc’teryx stores and at Arc’teryx.com.
BRANCHING OUT: Alex Katz landscapes at the Museum of Modern Art
Alex Katz has clearly 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: Seasons” features landscapes in New York and Lincolnville, Maine, and include four monumental works (one for each season) ranging in size from ten to twenty feet long. “The sensation of color is what I wanted. The sensation of seeing,” said Katz of these works, which are on view through September 8 at MoMA.org
SPIN THE BOTTLE: Parcelle Wine Bar expands to Greenwich Village
Attention Parcelle fans: your favorite wine bar now has a second location, on MacDougal Street, near NYU. This new spot, however, is purposely not a carbon copy of their Chinatown outpost. It’s decorated with vintage Italian, French, and Scandinavian pieces, and has an over 500 bottle selection that “ranges from esoteric natural wines to old and rare Burgundy and Bordeaux.” For those not familiar with Parcelle, a bonus of imbibing here is that they’re also a wine retailer, so you can keep track of what you drank, or want to try, and order it next time or buy it from them online. ParcelleWine.com
STRING THEORY: Suchitra Mattai show at Socrates Sculpture Park
“Suchitra Mattai: We are nomads, we are dreamers” is the artist’s first New York City solo show, drawing upon “themes of identity, migration, and memory.” It’s currently on view at Socrates Sculpture Park, in a lovely spot on the East River waterfront, and features a series of large vibrant sculptures made from vintage saris collected from women of the South Asian diaspora. Mattai also created a series of seven smaller sculptures that are hanging from trees in a grove on the property, as well as a billboard featuring a thirty-foot collage. Through August 25 at SocratesSculpturePark.org
