In the fashion world, few collaborations have created more beauty and magic than that shared between photographer Steven Meisel and the supermodel Linda Evangelista.

The photographs speak for themselves – born of this magical creative collab.
All photos courtesy of Phaidon.

A perfect soccer storm frenzy, with a strong magnetic pull is connecting the dots, putting Able Made, UMBF, and Suzanne’s big heart in the heart of it all.

Suzanne McKenzie, Founder/COO of Able Made, the “Original Off Pitch Soccer Style brand and Founder of the Ucal Breakaway Foundation (UMBF) has earned her rightful spot smack in the middle of the whirlwind of fresh interest in the world’s favorite game – soccer – here in the U.S.

OFF PITCH SOCCER STYLE – TOTALLY ON POINT.

Suddenly, older icons are everywhere. Shortly before dying at 87, writer Joan Didion posed in dark sunglasses for Celine. (The sunglasses sold later in auction for $27,000). Legendary model Carmen Dell’Orefice, who started her career at 15 in 1945, just appeared on the April cover of Vogue Czechoslovakia, photographed by Albert Watson. She is now 91. A few weeks ago Saint Laurent launched a new campaign- “Director’s cut”- with four famous film directors-Abel Ferrara, David Cronenberg, Jim Jarmusch, and Pedro Almodovar-, all in their seventies and eighties, as models of cool and style.

We are living longer and better - and culture is taking notice.

Art at a Time Like This intentionally searches out and shines a light on bold curators and emerging artists showcasing on-line exhibits that address some of the most urgent social issues of the moment: gender equality, climate change, Black Lives Matter, human rights violations, systemic problems within the justice system, the farmer’s revolution in India and the fragility of Democracy in the United States . . . just to mention a few, all created and imagined by a deliberately diverse/international group of artists and curators.

The many angles of Pascal’s story will sound familiar to anyone who, for any reason, has looked to create a life far from home, in a different place, in a different country. Immigration, a word that over a century ago used to have an air of possibility and optimism, has become a politically charged issue and a humanitarian crisis that forces the displacement of millions of people fleeing war, violence, and economic or environmental catastrophe. The fact that Pascal mentioned Pinochet and his parents story in his monologue reveals that, maybe, not even growing up as a regular California kid in California was enough to erase the scars of a forced migration.

A few days ago, Christie’s auctioned around 400 items from the collection of André Leon Talley, the famous Vogue editor at large who passed away in January last year. After stops in Paris and Palm Beach, the items arrived in New York to be exhibited at Christie’s headquarters in Manhattan for a few days during the online sale and before the February 15th live auction. Like bread crumps in the road, many items auctioned in the sale revealed a privileged but complicated life; the life of a fantastic traveler that carried in his Vuitton and Prada bags deep and complex feelings about race, religion and sexuality.

Few people knew about Alvin Baltrop and his work until 2008, when Art Forum published a long article about him. Fashion Designer Joseph Altuzarra read the story and the photographer and his haunting images got his attention.

The Spring 23 men’s shows were a good sign of where things seem to be going; the continuation of the gender fluidity trend, in fashion, that started almost a decade ago, now finally landing a new kind of masculinity. Seeing a man in a flowy candy-colored top (Dries van Noten), a soft shouldered pink suit (Zegna), or a double-breasted cocktail vest without a shirt (Alexander McQueen) or stepping out in strapping bold and playful layers (Thom Browne) suggest today more virile confidence than feminine flirt.

Besides being fashionably chic and irresistible, Lingua Franca has a social and political spirit that is literally stitched into its heart. Under the slogan “Give a Damn!” the company, created by Rachelle Hruska McPherson, has raised over a million dollars for equity awareness and social causes that range from Marriage Equality to Peace for Ukraine.