The consciousness-expanding line-work of James Jean aboriginal begin its way into Prada’s apogee 10 years ago — a time, he notes, back such partnerships were appreciably attenuate — in the anatomy of a wallpaper mural installed in the label’s New York store. Shortly thereafter, the Los Angeles-based beheld artisan lent his duke to Prada’s apparent bogie book and again illustrated a bright accomplishments for its accompanying ad campaign, which displayed Technicolor-clothed models in a absurd mural — both of Jean’s apparatus — for spring/summer 2008. “They bent me at the tail-end of my bartering career,” he reflects. “I had been accomplishing a lot of beat and advertising, and I absitively to stop and focus on absolutely claimed stuff” — which he did, for a decade.
Jean had been cerebration about his Prada-versary beforehand this year, back the brand, a approved assistant with accomplished artists, arrive him to architecture prints for its resort 2018 collection. For the occasion, he illustrated a circuitous arena of bunnies and flora on ready-to-wear pieces and handbags (now in stores), and developed comics-inspired cartoon for Prada men’s wear. (Kendrick Lamar wore a Jean-designed T-shirt to the VMAs.) “It’s agrarian to anticipate this all began with a pencil and some bedding of apparent paper,” Jean says. prada.com — HILARY MOSS
Only Greg Chait, whose active cashmere knits for the Elder Statesman may be the compatible for accessible California living, could get abroad with calling his new sleepwear band ‘‘rad.’’ It’s a accustomed addendum for the L.A. brand, which launched in 2007 with blankets and is best accepted for its awe-inspiring sweaters. Included in the accumulating of 18 separates — all fabricated of cashmere and cottony yarn spun at an Italian comminute — are archetypal button-downs with alveolate collars and aerial adverse piping, which can be commutual with analogous pants or shorts, forth with abbreviate nightgowns and a kimono-style robe. As ever, blush plays a defining role — admitting simple ablaze gray and fleet debris authority their own adjoin active grape and blush options. Chait, surprisingly, takes a no-fuss access to sleepwear — he still wears the aforementioned affection scrubs his surgeon ancestor would accompany home, and hopes his own band will be aloof as beloved: ‘‘We appetite them to be commodity you accept consistently and feel acceptable cutting at home, alike if no one sees you.’’ Accessible at the Elder Statesman Winter Boutique in Manhattan through Dec. 31. 159 East 64th Street, N.Y.C 10065. elder-statesman.com — ALINA COHEN
It was a bender with the flu that got art apple adjudicator Liz Swig cerebration about oatmeal. “Doctors appoint it, spas accord it to you, babies eat it,” she says. At the Time for Biscuit berth that Swig’s curated for abutting week’s DesignMiami, the actual atom gets a high-design treatment. Visitors will accept the adventitious to sample appropriate recipes and appearance terra cotta and cast-bronze bowls fabricated by the Brazilian architecture duo Fernando and Humberto Campana. The brothers, who are based in São Paulo and frequently drag circadian abstracts in their carve and furniture, took afflatus from oatmeal’s chapped earthiness. Brass ornaments casting in the shapes of miniature elks, rhinoceroses and added animals beam adjoin the absurd vessels’ bulbous, amoebic forms. The pair’s berth design, meanwhile, appearance a attic and table fabricated of oat-based panels, with board spoons blind from the walls and ceiling. As for the biscuit itself: Bon Appétit editor at ample Christine Muhlke and Marissa Lippert, who founded the West Village-based bistro Nourish Kitchen Table, accept appear up with seven recipes, from candied to savory, which will be accessible at altered times of day. “Here’s Looking at You,” served at midnight, contains collagen crumb (a hopeful dosage of boyhood as the evening’s parties are aloof accepting activity — “You feel appealing with anniversary bite,” says Swig), as able-bodied as Persian blooming raisins and chia berry rose brittle. lizworks.biz — ALINA COHEN
“No amount how abundant amplitude you have, you can consistently actualize a sanctuary,” says Nell Diamond, the architect of the affluence linen purveyor Hill House Home, as she walks through the brand’s aboriginal brick-and-mortar beginning on Bleecker Street. While the 490-square-foot blue-and-white cover is the admeasurement of a New York flat apartment, Diamond managed to transform the above townhouse parlor attic into a downsized adaptation of her dream home. Diamond grew up amidst by acceptable British interiors adapted with her mother’s avant-garde American aftertaste — a bond she brings to the shop, which she reimagined with the advice of the appearance and autogenous artist Martin Brûlé. In the bedroom, a 19th-century exchange chintz with a archetypal Parisian palm-leaf arrangement reflects the brand’s adornment symbols; a Tracey Emin neon-lit artwork hangs on a adjacent wall.
The concrete amplitude additionally brings an befalling to affix with patrons, who are hard-pressed to barter their laptops for a storefront. Diamond affairs to actuate the sales attic with account pop-ups, starting with chichi baggage banker Paravel, as able-bodied as a account book club. Meanwhile, a ancestors heirloom, her father’s oak David Linley desk, replaces the acceptable checkout adverse and hosts bespoke applicant meetings. As Diamond says of bedding: “It’s not like a dress that you’re activity to abrasion once. Linens are commodity that add to your actuality every day.” 395 Bleecker St, New York, hillhousehome.com — ALICIA BRUNKER
At Vanity Projects, a salon with locations in Miami and New York, the specialty is manicures — but that’s breadth the similarities with a adjacency attach atom ends. Museum-caliber video art from artists like Keren Cytter and FlucT is projected on the walls — and audience tend to get their nails covered with precisely-rendered images of Gucci-esque snakes and Fornasetti faces instead of simple coats of red or ballerina pink.
Just in time for Art Basel, Miami’s Vanity Projects has confused to a new, flush alcove in the Architecture District. It’s now in a hub of galleries and affluence boutiques including, appropriately enough, a ample new Gucci abundance abreast the salon’s entrance. “Even admitting it’s a block abroad from YSL, added importantly, it’s a block abroad from the ICA,” said Rita de Alencar Pinto, the salon’s owner, apropos to the Institute of Contemporary Art, which is additionally clearing into a new abiding amplitude in the area. “This is breadth we belong.”
The new amplitude has two areas for video art, curated at the moment by Daata Projects, and a abate ascendancy that shows added annoying agreeable on a 55-inch awning army on the ceiling. (Admittedly, it doubles as the salon’s bathroom.) Art on accommodation from the bounded Bill Brady Gallery additionally hangs on the walls. 151 NE 41st Street, Suite 221, Miami, vanityprojectsmia.com — RACHEL FELDER
An beforehand adaptation of this commodity misstated the blazon of account accustomed by Nourish Kitchen Table. It is a West Village-based cafe, not a meal commitment service.
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