Welcome to the Friday Weekly Wrap-Up newsletter, where we explore the intersection of Art, Fashion, and Pop Culture.
Sip the City: Venice’s Canal Café
Would you drink coffee made from the Venice canal? Visitors to the Architecture Biennale are doing just that – literally. The Golden Lion-winning Canal Café by US firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro lets you sip coffee made from canal water (filtered, of course). Perched at the Arsenale, this eco-installation filters lagoon water through a dreamy mini wetland and high-tech kit, turning murky swill into café-worthy brews. Venice never tasted so conceptual.
Nadia Lee Cohen’s Blowouts, Boredom & Babysitting
Nadia Lee Cohen is back, and this time, she’s channelled a ’90s-era babysitter from Essex. In Julie Bullard, her latest persona-led project, Cohen joins forces with the legendary Martin Parr to serve up pure British eccentricity. Think suburban nostalgia, surreal glamour, and everything delightfully in between.
KAWS Gets Minty
KAWS has taken his giant cuddly characters and shrunk them down into herbal inhalers. KAWS:HOLIDAY has reimagined Thailand’s cult-favourite HONG THAI Inhaler into a limited-edition art toy/remedy hybrid. Dizzy? Fatigued? Artistically underwhelmed? One sniff and you’re sorted (well… sort of). Available now – but only in Thailand.
Pop Goes the Bubbly
Dom Pérignon just popped open a whole new chapter. The Champagne house has invited seven global icons to shake things up: Zoë Kravitz, Iggy Pop, Tilda Swinton, Clare Smyth, Takashi Murakami, Anderson Paak, and Alexander Ekman. Together, they’ll each pour their perspective into a new “spiral” of creation, think art, music, food, film, and more.
Purr-fect Timing: Choupette Lagerfeld Stars in Hublot’s Red Watch Tribute”
Hublot’s newest campaign star? None other than Choupette Lagerfeld—yes, that Choupette. Karl’s fluffy fashion heiress is fronting the brand’s iconic red watch in a tribute that’s both purring with nostalgia and papped to perfection. Who needs influencers when you’ve got feline royalty?
