The new week is here and with it comes the chance to delve deep into some fresh culture and fashion. Here’s your latest look at the i-D Guide.
Wear… JW Anderson’s Michael Clark capsule
Hi gay! Jonathan Anderson’s loving ode to the Scottish legend of dance is finally available to buy. From a bumper-15 crossbody (£890) in that signature shade of green to cool caps emblazoned with Clark-adjacent phrases (£140), there’s plenty on offer. Check it out here.
Buy… Assouline’s Mykonos Travel from Home candle
Famed publisher of luxurious coffee table reading Assouline have transformed their famed book series into a transportive collection of candles. Mykonos Muse (£75), for example, carries notes of almond, rhubarb and tonka bean. Buy yours from Selfridges here.
Buy… 100ML
There is something deeply annoying about preparing for a flight and realising that you have to decant your entire skincare routine into a plastic container, ruining the aesthetic of your experience. Well now you don’t have to worry: a new company, 100ML, have worked with companies like Alder, Aesop and Grown Alchemist to create flight-ready sizes of your go-to skin ailments, and have packaged them together in perfect bundles. Easy! Try them here.
Shop at… Bottega Veneta Avenue Montaigne
Granted, if you’re a fashion fan and you’ve found yourself in Paris over the past week, then your attentions have most likely been trained on the shows. While it’s all very well to look at fashion while in the fashion capital, buying it is another entirely. This week, locals and visitors alike received yet another impeccably chic temple de luxe to splurge in — as if there weren’t enough already! — with the re-opening of Bottega Veneta’s Paris flagship on Avenue Montaigne, one of the city’s — and by default the world’s — premier shopping streets. The first to be entirely designed by incumbent creative director Matthieu Blazy, the sprawling space is fitted out in Venetian glass and Italian walnut wood, materials that speak to the ethos of Italian craftsmanship and modernism at the house’s heart. Launching with the complete Winter 23 — as well as a bespoke leather goods customisation service — it’s the perfect stop for a spot of necessary post-fashion week retail therapy.
Watch… Art Workers
As one of the most exclusive niches of the culture industry, the art world has always been a source of intrigue. Seen from afar, one can’t help but wonder what lies beyond the Chablis-fuelled openings and the art-speak-laden panel talks that seem to keep the whole thing going. Art Workers — a mini-series by London-based director Jos Bitelli, which bowed at east London’s Closeup Cinema — gives a wry insight into the BTS minutiae of the art world. The gossip! The hookups! The coconut-filtered coffees!
Listen to… Holly Macve
An indie-folk artist with a few years of industry history, this is a reintroduction moment for Holly Macve. She returns after a break with new music and a new best friend and mentor in Lana Del Rey. After coming across her music, Lana invited Holly to LA, where she stayed in her house working on her new material. The first track, “Beauty Queen”, is part of that promising new body of work from an artist with the potential to do big and beautiful things.
Go to… Marina Abramović at the RA
Legendary Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović this week reveals her new retrospective taking place at the RA in London. For those curious about her practice but who haven’t yet delved into her back catalogue, this might be the ideal introduction. Comprehensive, spanning decades and mediums, it also sees a select group of performers restage Marina’s most historic endurance works. It runs until 1 January 2024 and you can buy your tickets here.
Stay at… One Night Standard
We’ve all been there, right? Swept up in spontaneous party plans in a new city without a place to bed down when you eventually want to turn in; cosy in the company of a new, uhm, friend you’re looking to get to know a bit better, but neither of your respective places is quite right for the occasion. Well, mercifully, the team over at The Standard have come to your rescue, reviving their iconic last-minute booking service, One Night Standard. First launched back in 2015, and since relaunched after a much-mourned hiatus during the pandemic, the custom-designed app enables you to book the lowest night-of rate at a wide selection of The Standard’s global properties at a moment’s notice, facilitating the wilfully spontaneous lifestyle that young, fun, flirty things like us were born to lead. Getting lucky in London or out on the town in New York? One Night Standard’s got you covered. Download the app here.
Eat at… Bob Bob Ricard
There are few places in the capital that embody a brazen spirit of Ab Fab-era glamour quite like Bob Bob Ricard. Kitted out with sumptuous leather booths, the menu conjures a bon vivant decadence that most people assumed faded with the turn of the millennium. Think caviar tasting-menus to whet the appetite, followed by a largely Gallic-inspired offering of soufflés, beef wellingtons, saumon en croute et al. The best part, though? The notorious button found at the wall of each booth, which, when pressed, summons a penguin-suited waiter toute suite with a crisp glass of champagne. A restaurant well worth raising to a glass to – and in!