MANIFESTO

#63

CHANGE OF SPACE

EXHIBITION

The joy of photography

2024.07.11

Photographed over the span of thirteen years, Jamie Hawkesworth’s series The British Isles documents the entirety of the places, architecture, and inhabitants of his homeland.

CULTURE

LET'S PLAY AGAIN

2024.07.05

PLAY is a collaborative work that combines the perspectives of three participants—a photographer, a performer, and a stylist—who merge to generate new and unexpected forms of the body in motion. Liberated from fixed roles, these forms evolve page after page.

NEWS

PRADA CHOOSES ETERNITY

2024.07.02

Chains are reinvented in unprecedented thicknesses, weights, and combinations in the new jewelry of the Prada Fine Jewelry Eternal Gold collection: entirely sustainable, integrating responsible materials and practices with traditional manufacturing techniques.

HAUTE COUTURE

Dior's Olympian Couture

2024.06.25

Among the spaces of the Musée Rodin in Paris, the audience witnesses a parade of peplos and drapery in the name of Dior. A reference not only visual but also conceptual to classical statuary.

Hermès

Les formes de la couleur

2024.06.25

The new Hermès high jewellery collection designed by Pierre Hardy evokes the power of light. Bold shapes and full colours come together in a daring spirit.

SS25

Hermès brings lightness

2024.06.24

Inside the Palais d’Iéna, an Art Deco jewel designed by architect Auguste Perret for the 1937 Universal Exhibition, the Hermès boys celebrate the beginning of summer with nubuck calfskin shirts and cotton piqué tank tops.

COLLECTION

ARCHIVAL RENAISSANCE

2024.06.22

Kim Jones’s new collection is a captivating ode to savoir-faire. Rounded volumes, sculptural knitwear, and playful accessories redefine menswear.

FASHION

A LIFE IN FASHION

2024.06.21

The new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London explores forty years of fashion and activism.

CULTURE

How Directors Dress

2024.06.20

How Directors Dress uses clothing to tell exciting new stories about directors, their lives, their movies, and the times in which they were made.

FASHION

BLOWING IN THE WIND

2024.06.21

The Homme Plissé Issey Miyake show titled Up, Up, and Away draws inspiration from the wind and aims for the perfect synthesis by creating garments and coats with free and airy silhouettes.

CARSTEN HÖLLER

Ever Höller, Höller Ever

Carsten Höller allowed space for creativity by being portrayed in Stockholm, within the spaces of his provocative restaurant Brutalisten, and recounting his enormous approach to the art of experimentation and his fantastic practice evolved over the course of the experience.

Carsten Höller allowed space for creativity by being portrayed in Stockholm, within the spaces of his provocative restaurant Brutalisten, and recounting his enormous approach to the art of experimentation and his fantastic practice evolved over the course of the experience.

Photography JOHN SCARISBRICK

Interview HANS ULRICH OBRIST

IN CONVERSATION WITH

DIANE KRUGER

2024.02.19

On the occasion of MUSE 63, Diane Kruger interprets the SS24 collection by Saint Laurent. Her verve perfectly encapsulates the brand’s cinematic vision, seamlessly blending with the essence of Parisian elegance.

BARBARA KRUGER

A Visual Statement

2024.02.19

Barbara Kruger has developed an iconic visual language that often draws from advertising techniques and aesthetics, as well as other media. Since the 1970s, her artworks have continuously explored complex intersections of power, gender, class, consumerism, and capital. Her first solo institutional show in London is on view at the Serpentine; on this occasion, MUSE explores its intricate artistic mechanisms.

FROM THE MAGAZINE

KUDZANAI-VIOLET HWAMI

2024.02.19

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s practice is a profound exploration of identity, memory, and the intricate interplay between the past and the present. Her paintings express a compelling ambiguity, continually probing the boundaries of images and visual cultures in their representation of identity. Hwami’s creative journey embodies a complex weave of personal encounters and influences, migration, and cultural amalgamation.

MUSE TALK

KYLE STAVER

2024.02.19

Kyle Staver tells Bill Powers about how she undertakes her artistic practice, infused with deep meanings borrowed from the fantastical world of mythology. Perseverance and humor intricately characterize her work.

TRAVEL

EVERYTHING IS DARK, SOFT, WARM, WHITE

2024.02.21

The soul of Val Senales reveals itself through the words of Paul Grüner, guardian of a tradition passed down through generations in his family’s hospitality. Among the secrets of the Certosa and Ólafur Elíasson’s observatory-machine, the larch trees around the farmhouse at Infanglhof mingle with the scent of milk and hay.

COLLECTION

Gucci pursues freedom

2024.06.18

In the new Gucci SS25 collection, presented within the walls of Spazio Cuore – Triennale Milano, tropical prints and utility details blend with the surf theme. Soft silhouettes play between vivid chromatic turbulences and the precision of the cut.

RUNWAY

Fendi honors
its legacy

2024.06.16

The Fendi SS25 collection is the epitome of contemporary menswear: long shirts with silk ties are worn under summer jackets, and asymmetric cuts unbutton along the shoulder to create airy modularity.

SIMONA KUST

THE PLACE

2024.02.19

Lee Mary Manning photographs the story of a young New Yorker immersed in modern life, amid everyday scenes and encounters in the world of fashion, art, and design.

CHANEL

ETHEREAL

2024.02.19

Muse Alix Bouthors through the gaze of Iñigo Awewave interprets the CHANEL SS24 Collection, an ode to freedom and movement.

COLLECTION

LOUIS VUITTON GOES DIPLOMATIC

2024.06.19

On the roof of the Maison de l’Unesco, the new Louis Vuitton Men SS25 collection explores multiple subgenres of men’s fashion. Macro and micro visions of color play with the construction and deconstruction of the superficial.