If your stuck for something to do while visiting the film festival in Cannes or headed to the South of France this summer, why not head to Monaco or St.Tropez for a little shopping at one of the K11 Concept Stores. The expertly curated boutiques, featuring designers like Muzungu Sisters, Diane de Maria and Dioniso, first opened in Monte Carlo in 2011 by Sophie Lemaitre and are similar to the kind of chic but youthful upscale boutiques found in New York and London. See K11.mc for additional details.

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Thirty works by Jean-Michel Basquiat are currently on display in a selling exhibition at Sotheby’s New York until June 9. The carefully curated grouping explores the key themes Basquiat grappled with during his career and the variety of media he used to express them. The exhibition opens at a pivotal moment of appreciation for both the artist’s career and market with major museum exhibitions and gallery shows presented and record prices achieved in recent years. See Basquiat.Sothebys.com for additional information.

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Earlier this week the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomed members of the press inside the new Punk: Chaos To Couture exhibition for a preview of what is on show. Images released alongside the preview show carefully styled looks placed amidst a glamorously edgy interior space.

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The PRADA New York Epicenter at 575 Broadway in Manhattan was transformed last night for the opening of a special exhibition of selected costumes designed by Miuccia Prada and costume designer Catherine Martin for Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming film adaptation of The Great Gatsby.  The exhibition opening coincides with the world première of Luhrmann’s film on this evening at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall.

The exhibition titled Catherine Martin and Miuccia Prada Dress Gatsby includes women’s gowns, dresses, hats, shoes and jewelry as well as sketches, production stills, backstage footage and film trailers.  Mannequins displaying looks for each character, video content drawn from the film, behind-the-scenes footage, and, exclusive to the New York Epicenter, a two hundred foot mural depicting a montage drawn from the spectacular party scenes showing Jay Gatsby’s Long Island mansion complete the exhibition. Curated by New York studio 2×4, the exhibition is designed to change for each iteration and reflect the unique characteristics of each location.

The exhibit will be on display May 1 – 12, 2013 at the PRADA New York Epicenter.  The exhibition will then travel and appear at the Prada Tokyo Epicenter store from June 14 – 30 and the IFC Mall in Shanghai mid-July. Continue reading to view full images of the event.

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The opening of the 2013 Costume Institute exhibition is just days away! If you haven’t read all about it already . . .

The Met’s spring 2013 Costume Institute exhibition, PUNK: Chaos to Couture, will examine punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the early 1970s through its continuing influence today. Featuring approximately one hundred designs for men and women, the exhibition will include original punk garments and recent, directional fashion to illustrate how haute couture and ready-to-wear borrow punk’s visual symbols.

Focusing on the relationship between the punk concept of “do-it-yourself” and the couture concept of “made-to-measure,” the seven galleries will be organized around the materials, techniques, and embellishments associated with the anti-establishment style. Themes will include New York and London, which will tell punk’s origin story as a tale of two cities, followed by Clothes for Heroes and four manifestations of the D.I.Y. aesthetic—Hardware, Bricolage, Graffiti and Agitprop, and Destroy.

Presented as an immersive multimedia, multisensory experience, the clothes will be animated with period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques. See MetMuseum.org for additional information.

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Having previously worked as the Interior Design Editor for a prominent homes magazine, decorator Appley Hoare later began her retail business with a market stall in Australia. She dealt antique Australian country furniture before beginning to source similar shabby chic pieces from France, which became the hallmark of her aesthetic. After relocating to London in the 1990s, Appley ended up with a double shop front on the Pimlico Road before to decamping to the stunning cottage in France she renovated with her daughter Zoe.  She is currently in business in London again where her signature eye for French rustic chic flourishes. 9 Langton Street, SW10, London & see AppleyHoare.com for more.

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RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN is a selected body of work by Brendan Lott. The artist and former newsstand owner had an idea to create one collage a day with the magazines that surrounded him. The project spanned for exactly one year, resulting 365 collages. Each collage is an seemingly effortless construction of popular culture, art, design, and fashion. The work is spirited, reflecting Lott’s almost hallucinatory imagination and playful style. The collages are visually rich, provocative, and sensual. These selections focus on the male gender with subjects ranging from artist Ai Weiwei, to comedian David Williams, to a young Stevie Wonder, and others. RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN is curated by Yaoska Davila and will be on view at TENOVERSIX, the popular Melrose Avenue fashion boutique, from April 6 – May 4.

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CHANEL is launching an exhibition in Paris dedicated to the history and influence of the brand’s most iconic fragrance Chanel No.5, which first launched in 1921. Titled No.5 Culture Chanel the exhibition will be held at the Palais de Tokyo and use artworks, photographs and objects from the Chanel archives in order to show how the fragrance is linked to key cultural movements such as Cubism and Surrealism. Pieces by the likes of Picasso and Man Ray are expected to be shown. The exhibition will take place from May 5 until June 5, 2013.

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Pitfield London is a Shoreditch bases concept shop that combines a charming cafe, boutique and art gallery. Offering unique and colourful homewares amidst a charming atmosphere, Pitfield stocks a range of goods from vintage finds to designer wallpapers, gifts, furniture and more. 31-35 Pitfield Street, London, N1 6HB.

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Just One Eye is one of RDuJour.com’s favourite boutiques in Los Angeles, retailing a carefully curated selection of clothing, jewellery, bits of art and home accents. The brainchild of Paola Russo, who previously worked for Ann Demeulemeester and Maxfield, the retail spaces and galleries are located on the ground floor of Howard Hughes’ former headquarters in West Hollywood. This historic art deco building offers a one-of-a-kind setting for pieces of the same distinction by designers like The Row (who launched their collaboration with Damien Hirst here), Newbark, Olympia Le-Tan, Piece d’Anarchive and more. 7000 Romaine St., LA, 888-563-6858. Visit JustOneEye.com for additional information.

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