W Department

Curated, Not Stocked

A considered selection of designer clothing presented alongside ancient and contemporary art, challenging the distinction between art, craft, and design, between gallery and boutique.

Recent Obsessions

The Library

Recent musings, suggestions, pictures, stories… just stuff we generally like and want to share.

Rick Owens SS27 Stone runway crossing the reflecting pool at the Palais de Tokyo through fountain mist

Stone, With an Open Heart

At the Palais de Tokyo, Rick Owens’s SS27 women’s collection holds elegant stoicism, release, and resistance to intolerance together in a world of rigid forms, weightless tulle, and fountain mist.

An illuminated black blade sign reading ANN DEMEULEMEESTER, mounted beside the black-framed glass of the new Paris store at the Palais Royal.

From Ghost Ranch to the Palais Royal

Notes from the opening of the new Ann Demeulemeester store on the Palais Royal in Paris, and why an Antwerp house made sense at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico.

Several pairs of black shoes gathered on a white leather chair: padded leather thong sandals, a lace-up boot, and low suede sneakers.

the Wardrobe as a collection

How to build a wardrobe the way a collection is built: slowly, with intention, each piece earning its place. On 3sixteen, Studio Nicholson, and patience.

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